I Finally Got The Yellow Jacket Nest Sprayed…

Bought a container of perimeter insecticide spray at the discount store for $5 the last time I went on $5 day. I don’t like using non-natural pesticides but for Yellow Jackets and other nasties on the outside of the house I will use it a couple times a year. It was the type that has a battery-operated sprayer. You have to take the battery cover off and turn the batteries around and put the cover back. When you turn it to the “On” position all you have to do is pull a trigger and a long steady stream of spray comes out. It was good enough to spray the ever-growing Yellow-Jacket nest. Some were flying around when I was spraying the perimeter. I came back and stood far enough back that they didn’t get me and quickly got around the corner of the house and left out the side gate.

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Tminus6453 · M

Best thing about yellow jacket spray is that is kills those bastards on contact so they have no chance to come after you

Punches · 46-50, F

@Tminus6453 I think they are on the top five list of most hated creatures.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Tminus6453 there were others flying around not near the nest. But when they go back to their nest they’ll get the poison.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Punches They are aggressive as hell. I got stung not knowing that they had started building a nest underneath the table on my covered patio, right next to the patio door. I had something I was using and bent down to set it back underneath the table and got stung. I was next to the door, got inside and watched the rest swarm the door. I didn’t spray the nest till the next morning, was taking no chances.

Punches · 46-50, F

@cherokeepatti I think people hate wasps with the same emotion that we might hate a bad human.

Me, I delight in seeing or hearing about the little f^ckers getting killed. They just suck.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Punches there are some that are not aggressive at all unless you do something to provoke them. I used to be afraid of honeybees but haven’t been scared of them for about 10 years. They’ll beg to have a refill of sugar water in a drought when there’s nothing else to eat. I was giving them lids full of sugar water at work and one flew into the office (the door was open) and flew up and down my arm to get my attention. I walked outside and saw that the lids of sugar water were gone so I made more and refilled the lids. That’s how smart they are, they know how to communicate when someone cares enough about them to feed them.

Tminus6453 · M

@cherokeepatti All you have to do is go near a yellow jackets nest and they will attack, i was moving irrigation pipe in a field on a farm back in highschool when i must of disturbed a nest and got stung by 3 of them

meggie · F

@cherokeepatti you are a kind woman

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@meggie they were coming inside the shop area (opened garage door) and drinking out of the Coke cans thrown in the trash. I felt sorry for them and wanted to give them something better.