Kill Yellow Jacket Nest With Gas

While yellow jacket nests aren t as exotic as some feel free to display the nest.

Kill yellow jacket nest with gas. If for whatever reason you d prefer to keep the nest in its place that s also okay. Disturb them and they ll sting you. It s extremely rare for yellow jackets to re use old nests. Never attempt to destroy an underground yellow jacket nest with gas or other petroleum products.

More yellow jackets will be inside during the night. Just 8 ounces of gas will kill the whole nest of yellow jackets and from my experience is the best thing for them. If you treat during the day many yellow jackets will be out of the nest and will survive the. The dust will prevent future hatch outs.

When the nest is easily visible a foaming aerosol will both cover the openings and expand into the nest to trap and kill the yellow jackets. Yellow jackets build their nests in cavities and crevices such as a wall void beneath eaves under porches and rodent burrows in the ground. Follow my instructions as my faithful reader jean recently did and the yellow jackets will be history. Choose an aerosol with a long range jet spray that will allow you to stand back from the nest and still be effective.

By treating at night you ensure that you kill the most yellow jackets all at once. Some like to hold onto wasp nests captivated by their intricate natural aesthetic. Yellow jackets make underground nests with an entrance hole to the surface. Wait until the aerosol is dry and then dust in the opening with insecticide dusts such as tempo dust.

Pyrethrum forms a gas which will fill the cavity killing the yellow jackets on contact. They also nest between rocks. I can t say if it will harm the daylilies but i can say it didn t harm a small goumi bush a fig tree and few natives. If you have an allergic.

A steady zoom of wasps to and from the nest betrays its presence. Treat the nest with pyrethrum aerosols such as stryker 54 contact aerosol pt 565 or cv 80d.