(08-15-2023, 08:13 PM)Ninurta Wrote: I agree, whole-heartedly. FUCK yellow jackets, the irascible little bastards! One of my greatest pleasures in life is locating a nest of them, waiting for nightfall, and then sneaking out and then pouring a whole gallon of gasoline down into the nest.
It usually works, but not always. A hive of them built a nest by the edge of a creek bank when I lived in NC, and the spring rains caused a landslide that took half the nest downstream. The half that was left in the creek bank looked to me like it went about 12 feet deep, and was around 7 feet wide.
I think that one would have taken more than a gallon of gas to kill off.
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Jesus, 12 feet, I'd have never guessed they dug that deep. That's a napalm job, I think. Not sure if it's true or not, but apparently if you stomp or squash them, a pheromone is released to alert other yellowjackets that you are an asshole, and need to be stung repeatedly. Thank God I wasn't near a nest apparently, must have been a yellowjacket flying solo.