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dan67

05-14-2005 19:49:42




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may not be the right place but you guys always come thru with good anwser. We are haveing a large outbreck of yellowjackets this year, last year was bad, this is looking worst. Does anybody have away to help with them around the house and barn, the aarosal cans work in close areaas but is there away to spray in bulk? Thanks for any advise




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Joe Evans

05-16-2005 06:04:24




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 Re: YELLOWJACKETS in reply to dan67, 05-14-2005 19:49:42  
Dang, how I hate those little ba$tards!

Looks like some good suggestion below. I'll try them myself.

I think every tractor mfr. should have one gear taller than the standard road gear. I lightly bumped a power pole guy wire while mowing once. Those little farts had a nest tucked up under the plastic guy wire guard. They came pouring out of there, and I swear, I could hear their little bee bugles blaring CHARGE! I snicked my Kubota into whistle gear and mashed the foot throttle to make my escape. The Kubota in 13 MPH tops in 8th gear--felt like I was in the low-hole cog I got blasted so many times by the time I got to the house.

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FarmeralIdaho

05-15-2005 06:13:35




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 Re: YELLOWJACKETS in reply to dan67, 05-14-2005 19:49:42  
Take a 5 gallon bucket, put in 2-3 inches of water, a couple drops of dishwashing soap in the water, hang a piece of raw meat or a strip of fat from the edge of a steak in the center below the top of the bucket and above the water. It will trap lots of yellowjackets, they will eat the meat and when they try to fly away they will hit the side of the bucket and fall in, you might need to clean off the layer of dead bees off of the water or some might be able to climb out of the bucket.

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Dixieland

05-15-2005 07:38:55




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 Re: YELLOWJACKETS in reply to FarmeralIdaho, 05-15-2005 06:13:35  
I love those home remedies...Thanks Farmer!



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Mark - IN.

05-15-2005 05:40:05




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 Re: YELLOWJACKETS in reply to dan67, 05-14-2005 19:49:42  
I don't know how, other than to shoot them with a 12 GA (LOL), or sneak up on them in the middle of the night, but I woke up dreaming that I was being chased by them, so must be your fault for asking while I was dreamin. Thanks a lot. Maybe I can return the favor sometime. LOL.

Mark



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Coldiron

05-14-2005 21:33:13




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 Re: YELLOWJACKETS in reply to dan67, 05-14-2005 19:49:42  
dan67, Try Google.com and run a search on Yellow Jacket Traps. There are a lot of different ones you can make and hang away from your house, barn, sheds etc to draw them away from where you need to be. The forest service put millions in our area last year to kill off Pine Beetles and we are getting their left overs again this year. The traps work, I have twenty of them around the place and we are hardly bothered at all. Or you can spend a bunch of bucks buying stuff to get them. If the nest are around your house or barn knock them down during the night with a Loooong pole and run like heck. I do ! LOL

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txgrn

05-15-2005 05:07:59




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 Re: YELLOWJACKETS in reply to Coldiron, 05-14-2005 21:33:13  
I had some rolls of hay stacked in a barn on shipping skids. Seems a nest of bumble bees settled in and made a home in the inner space of the skids.

Needed the hay so figured I had to run them off. Snuck out one night figuring that was the best time, maybe they'd be roosting like chickens (Ha) and was going to whack them with a pump up sprayer.

Didn't get 10 from them and 2 snuck up behind me and popped me real good. Boy they hurt.

Don't remember now how I got them out, but when I recovered the skid, there was this honeycomb like is in a honey bee hive, but boy were the sections big.

Mark

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Coldiron

05-15-2005 06:59:15




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 Re: YELLOWJACKETS in reply to txgrn, 05-15-2005 05:07:59  
Nothing can run faster than someone with a couple of stingers stuck in them. What amazes me is how fast we can run while swinging our arms in all directions. LOL



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txgrn

05-16-2005 05:35:29




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 Re: YELLOWJACKETS in reply to Coldiron, 05-15-2005 06:59:15  
LMAO. Yeah and in the dark too.

Mark



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Redman

05-14-2005 21:11:23




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 Re: YELLOWJACKETS in reply to dan67, 05-14-2005 19:49:42  
dairy suppy places should carry bulk fly spray,you will need a kicker in it to make it last a while.
we used sygon?(sp) mixed with the flyspray when we had dairy and still have some left so it has been a couple of years now.



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mark

05-15-2005 08:19:26




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 Re: YELLOWJACKETS in reply to Redman, 05-14-2005 21:11:23  
Redman,

where are you located?



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Redman

05-15-2005 09:04:54




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 Re: YELLOWJACKETS in reply to mark, 05-15-2005 08:19:26  
cosmos MN



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mark

05-15-2005 09:27:52




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 Re: YELLOWJACKETS in reply to Redman, 05-15-2005 09:04:54  
Redman,

Reason I asked is I have some neighbors here in Kentucky named Redman, that used to run a dairy, now just into beef cattle. The old man was captured by the Krauts during WW2 and when they found out he was dairy farmer, they put him on a farm milking cows! He said that probably helped save his butt as he had all the milk he could drink, when most prisoners were half starved.



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