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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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

Not against the use of pesticides.

Just against the unnecessary "preventative" use of them.

So many will use that stuff just to prevent when there really isn't a problem. Especially around apartments and commercial buildings.

The darn stuff does kill other necessary insects and or things like worms.

When you actually have a infestation you must realize the infestation will attempt to either kill or get rid of other other critters. It's not just effecting you.

Infestations are a war against everything by shear numbers.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@DeWayfarer it will kill the ones that are trying to get inside of the house. Have had two crickets in here already and pill bugs in the bathroom already. I haven’t seen any worms inside of the house.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@cherokeepatti just saying...

Infestations are a war against everything by shear numbers.

I have no problems with killing any type of infestation. Even if it's outside.

Was once forced to buy and use commercial insect killer because they literally had ant mounds all over the property. Every six feet there was an ant mound for about an acre all around my place.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@DeWayfarer I hate using insecticides but need to in this case. Otherwise let the bugs have the house and move. We had a huge colony of ants in this neighborhood, sugar ants, they’d come in the house and get into anything with sugar. Got into a jar of honey when the lid wasn’t screwed down…would crawl on my laptop and me when I was sitting using it. The neighbors asked me what they could do about all of the anthills in the yard and I didn’t know. They’d get washed away from rains and then new ones would pop up and it was at least one every square foot front and back yards probably for a good square mile. The only thing that finally got them was a record-setting heat wave combined with a record-setting drought.

Punches · 46-50, F

@cherokeepatti usually wasps are good about staying outdoors. I had some kind of wasp get in my house once and it acted like it was lost. Basically it parked on a light fixture on the ceiling. I sprayed it briefly and it dropped dead.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Punches I had a yellow jacket crawl under the leg of my baggy capri pants when I was working out in the yard this summer. I thought it might be a red ant or another kind of bug because I felt a prickly feeling. I went inside and took my capris off and there laid a yellow jacket, put a trash can over it and killed it later. I don’t know how I didn’t get stung by it. I was pulling weeds and raking around the yard when it got up under my legs.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@cherokeepatti the stuff I eventually got is concentrated. It's only sold commercially. It did get rid of them. Yet I had to use a stronger concentration than recommended.

Didn't have a problem with any ants there after.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@DeWayfarer Orange oil will kill them dead and it doesn’t take but a very light mist sprayed on them. I have an orange oil fragrance spray that I use on the windowsills in my sun room and also have used it in the mailbox when dozens of earwigs were in it . It’ll even kill fire ants if the oil is poured on the anthills.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@cherokeepatti had to kill the queen. Now consider this... There was a queen every six feet as well as six feet under.

No orange oil will kill the queen. Just the ants in top. This stuff the ants themselves will feed to the queen then both eventually will die.

stratosranger · M

@cherokeepatti For ants get Terro. It’s simple syrup and borax. The ants are attracted to the simple syrup and bring it back to the nest. Shortly after they and the queen die. Any larvae that is born afterwards also finds the borax laden simple syrup in the nest and they too die. Colony is now kaput. For indoors place a few drops on paper wherever the ant trails are (and out of reach of pets) and let them feast. Works indoors and out

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@stratosranger I’ve bought and used those little pods that they feed on and they do work. We’re talking about a hundred or more anthills outside. They started rebuilding in the yards 2 or 3 years after that drought. I think the ones that survived did around the little ponds and lakes a few blocks from here and then migrated here.

stratosranger · M

Ahhh. OK. Yeah that would take a whole lot of Terro to rid yourself of all that. @cherokeepatti