KILL YELLOW JACKETS NEST (ground bees)WITHOUT POISON OR CHEMICALS...IT ACTUALLY WORKS! 

You forgot about the queen. The queen stays in the hive, she doesn't come out, she stays in there and does nothing buy lay eggs. Those eggs hatch into grubs, and eventually grow into adult wasps. As long as the queen is in there laying eggs, that wasp nest is always going to be a problem. You have to kill her as well. Once that is done, the hive can't exist any more. Bees, wasps and hornets don't come out at night because they can't see in the dark. You can use that to your advantage. Get a soap dispenser meant for garden hoses. Put ordinary dish soap in it. At night when the wasps are in the hive, place the nozzle of the hose as far down in the hive entrance as you can get it. Turn on the hose, not full blast, but fairly strong stream. The water will pick up the soap and flood the hive with soapy water. The wasps will drown and the soapy water will also kill the eggs and larvae. The queen will drown too. You need the soap because the soap breaks down the waxy coating the wasps have on their body that keeps water out of their exoskeleton and spiracles. Insects don't breathe through their face like mammals and reptiles do. They have a series of holes in their abdomen called spiracles. The waxy coating on their bodies makes any water they encounter bead up and roll off like car wax does for cars. But, if you break down that coating, water will get sucked into their spiracles and they drown. The water is also cold and wasps don't like to be cold, they get stiff and can't move. So that, with all the water and soap will help wipe out the hive. Soap dispenser for a garden hose. mobileimages.lowes.com/product/converted/811001/811001014183.jpg

Zapping quickly STOPS when there are too many shorts in the mesh. This swatter is not designed for multiple bugs.

It was during a hot summer month, circa 1980. I lived in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. I don't remember how I discovered it, but there was a yellow jacket nest at the rear of my house, about 15 feet off to the right side. Until this nest was found, I thought all bee-like creatures built nests which hung from, well, something off of the ground. Bottom line? I just didn't begin to have a clue about what to do to eliminate this threat. My intuition was to get a gallon of gasoline and pour it down the hole, but not only was that a potential fire hazard, even if I pulled it off without a glitch, that portion of ground would become a bio-hazard. I didn't think any bug killer spray would work either, plus it was a bio-hazard, too. I waited a few days to do research before taking any action. Then it came to me, a solution which was incredibly simple, super cheap and had zero environmental impact. I call it... MY 3-STEP PLAN: Based on my observation that all bees, hornets and yellow jackets are totally inactive in the darkness and coolness of night. 1. Before doing anything, wait at least an hour after dark to be certain the yellow jackets are in their nest. This can be verified by flashlight inspection. (I checked, and there was zero activity) 2. Gather your 4 largest pots, fill them with water and heat them on the stove until the water is at a rolling boil. 2-A. This really is not a step, but I wore jeans and a long sleeve shirt as an emotional insurance policy and for peace of mind. (turns out, I could have been butt-naked;-) 3. With an assistant shining a flashlight on the ground entrance to the yellow jacket nest, I dumped the largest pot of boiling water down it as fast as I could, continuing with the other pots, repeating the process one more round. RESULTS: There was not a sign of yellow jacket life at any time during my extermination procedure, not the next morning, not a week or even a month later. I now live in Olympia, Washington. About 4 years ago I found a yellow jacket nest at the edge of my front porch, which is almost at ground level. I followed the same plan I used in 1980 with the same results. Hope this helps!

If bitten/stung by any insect wash the bite and the surrounding area with warm soapy water. Wasps use pheromones that they spray into the air and around where they bite to communicate with other wasps and sound the alarm that they are in trouble. The pheromone will stay in the environment for some time, including around the sites of any bites on your skin. Soapy water breaks down the pheromone. I learnt this from the hospital, after being bit by ( what we in Australia call) a European Wasp(also known as a German wasp or German yellow jacket). It made my foot go black and swollen for about a week and felt like someone had burnt me with a match or cigarette lighter.

Watching this while nursing a direct shot to my forehead after I mowed right into the damn hive. Got wasp killer spray and went back out only to come running in with one stinging the shit out of my inner thighs. Now I’m sitting here getting a headache from the gasoline fumes. I need a beer!

Just a heads up, some nests have more than one opening. So you need to be mindful of that.

During day, mark your wasp nest with a small flag. At night use a bucket and screen. Place screen over hole, drop dry ice over top of screen and place bucket upside down trapping the CO². In morning, flip bucket. End of bees.

Fun video. I saw this video last year and tried this method the opposite way. I put the electric fly swatter over a pan of fish guts. Yellow Jackets love fish guts. The result was I only got a few. I discovered how smart they are. They refused to land on the fly swatter even for the food they love best.

I just noticed a hole in my yard just a little bigger than the one you were dealing with but never saw any activity while mowing, until yesterday. Once I saw the little zappers going in and out I got the water hose and started filling the hole up with water while keeping my foot over the hole so none of them could get out. I forgot about the one's who wanted to get in so as I sprayed them with water while keeping mt foot over the hole. I could finish them off while they were on the ground but more and more showed up and once I removed my foot from the hole all hell broke lose. I got to the garage and in the house but one of them got under my shirt and stung me 3 times before I could take him out. I just happened to have some Sting Kill, I saw it used on a Coyote Peterson video once, and it really helped the stinging and burning pain. I also have one of those electric fly zappers so I went back out and covered the hole while trying to hold the button and got stung 3 more times, got out the Sting Kill again. I'm gonna take a piece of window screen and cover the hole when it's dark, put bricks around the edges to keep the screen in place, pour in some Dawn dish soap and add water. That should take care of the Taliban Yellow Jackets. Loved the video, didn't realize killing yellow jackets could be so funny.

I like the electric fly swatter idea, and I may use a modified version of that to protect my peach trees this year. Now something I've been using for the last 25 years is liquid wisk or tide laundry detergent. You use it in any hand sprayer bottle that shoots a solid stream of liquid. I thin it with water," I don't know the ratio", I just make it thin enough that it will just function in my particular spray bottle. This is absolutely deadly to any type of insect I've used it on. It will knock wasps right out of the air. I believe it litterally degreases them to death. It destroys their nests too, makes them inhabitable. And one of the best parts of it, it is dirt cheap compared to most anything else I've tried!

Hope this helps (posting in several vids because you all have been helpful to me) - I wanted a non toxic (as possible) solution to wasps/ yellow jackets. My children have been stung terribly by these things, so it was my turn to deal with it. I found their location through keen observation - just watching insects come and go and found a large concentration of them going into the ground, which was home for them. I was inclined to use gas, but then learned 1litre is enough to poison 1Million litres of ground water. No bueno. So I used regular tap water and four kinds of soaps: dish, a liberal sprinkling of "Comet", 3 dishwashing machine dissolvable pouches and 2 scoops of borax/soap flakes. Suffice to say there was enough bubbles for Africa. I carried a very large bucket of water (half a metal full size trash can worth) to the location, far away from my home. It was heavy going as I am fat. Tip: use a stout stick to help with the digging in of the handle by carrying the stick under the handle. I went at 9pm on late summer night. It was dark out. Using my head flashlight, I located the hole. There were dozens of them still buzzing around the hole. I was dead afraid having been stung by these before. I decided to forgo the funnel, steel wool as some advised. The hole was just far too big. I poured the water and the foam overwhelmed them. I poured about half quickly, then calmed down and poured till it soaked into the hole. Observed for a second, then got chicken and poured more in spurts, until it was all gone. I was shocked at the size of the things guarding the entrance at night. These were easily half as long as my tip of thumb to thumb joint. Not as thick obviously, but seriously large. Yellow jackets on kind of steroids. I saw them all on the surface completely motionless (I read the soap dissolves their wax, filling their spiracles, which drowns them instantly). After all was poured, I waited ten seconds at the hole and saw nothing come out. I was still scared in case there may be workers still coming back to the nest. I got out of there and will go look at it tomorrow/next day and report back if there is interest.

I admire this guys non chemical approach and ingenuity. In the past, after being chased into my house by a swarm and getting stung about 8+ times I wasn't so compassionate. One sting was between the eyes! I have used gas to kill them in the past with mixed results. Now I use about a cup of Malathion (straight up not diluted) down the hole at night while wearing vinyl gloves. I have a 100% success rate with this method. I know this a chemical method but when you see how aggressive Yellow jackets are in real life you want them gone yesterday. I have never experienced anything like that in my life. If I would have been trapped by that nest I probably would have died. No joke...

Gasoline fumes are heavier than air, so when you pour in the entrance to the nest, the fumes go down. This is very important. Stick funnel in hole, pour gasoline from small container into funnel. Toss container aside and kick funnel away. Place shoe sole over hole for 30 seconds or so. Move foot aside, light 'er up. Burns out entire nest. Has never failed to work 100%.

I used the hanging plug-in zapper I already owned to deal with mine. I put it right next to their nest for awhile and killed 100's of them, then put it right on top of their nest. They could still fly in and out around it, but barely, and it annoyed them to they kept attacking it and dying. It's been just over a week now and the hive is significantly less busy than it used to be, I think they're just about out of bodies to throw at it.

I am a hobby bee keeper there is a big difference between Bees & Wasps / Hornets ! My 3 year old grandaughter says fuzzy bees are good and shiny bees are bad . I got started in Beekeeping after getting stung by some Honey Bees and NOT haveing a reaction to them ! You see I am severely allergic to Wasps & Hornets , my next might be my last . In summer I carry a Epy Pen with me at all times . After not haveing a reaction to the honey bees I , and my Dr. did some research and found out that they have different Venom . And yes I kill every Yellow Jacket I can !!!

I had a similar problem where they built a nest through a hole in one of the cinder blocks in my garage. I took a shop-vac and taped an 8-foot long piece of 1" PVC to the end of the vac hose and propped it next to the hole. Got the yellow jackets coming and going. Took a few hours but it was very effective.

Thanks Josh, I went out and bought the AA type after seeing you video. I just put it down without the towel. I caught over 200 in a few hours on both sides of the zapper. I discovered that a thick rubber band can be used to hold the button. So, a clamp is not necessary. Thanks again.

They're wasps, not bees, but anyway, what do I know so long as they DIE!!!!!

Here in the Southern Sierra we call them Meat Bees. And they are incredibly aggressive. I remember as a kid in Ohio, we called them Yellow Jackets and they seemed more interested in Fruit. I watched Meat Bees here strip a Bat down to a Skeleton in a very short time. Some friends operate a Pack Station in Kings Canyon and they lost a Horse to them years ago. Stepped on a Nest and got so many stings it died. It seems like some years they are a lot worse than others. My friends have a very good Restaurant and sometimes the Meat Bees make it practically impossible to eat out on their deck. Fun Video. Cheers.

Best way I found to get rid of yellow jackets. If you know where the nest is. Get a wet/dry shopvac , put a couple inches of water in it with dish detergent. Set the nozzle of the vacuum hose right next to the entrance. Leave it for a few hours and you will have a shopvac full of hornet soup

Neighbor: "What's that smell?" Guy making video: "The smell of...victory."

Ran into a hive 2 weeks ago cutting trees, 18 stings! My wife thought me running and yelling was the funniest thing she has seen in a long time.

Just a FYI. As far as I know, all of the wasp / hornets / yellow jackets (whatever) go back to the nest at night. So I attack them at night when all of them are at the nest. In this way, I do not leave any survivors left to start another nest of colony somewhere else. So using this method, I would put the racket over the entrance before sunup to be sure and get them all.

For rock wall yellowjacket nests (vertical entrances) I've taken out two by stuffing their entry holes with regular water ice. At night, of course. This required me to revisit and refresh with ice more than once, as the yellowjackets will melt the ice by increasing activity (and thus their body heat), but individual yellowjackets will run out of energy before long, and eventually the nests ran out of yellowjackets.

Now I know it was a pair of yellow jackets that stung me several years ago while mowing grass. First one ankle. Then the other. Only time I was ever stung. Came back in evening with gasoline. Fire in the hole! This video was great. Thanks.

We had a yellow jacket nest by our house, the way I got rid of them is waiting till nightfall when they are all in the nest then pour boiling hot water right in the hole. I poured maybe 3 or 4 pitchers of very hot water and that killed the nest….

The best way to find the nests is how the Pit River Natives in northern CA found them. Take tiny pieces of meat and down from a bird. mix tiny pieces together. The bees will fly with the tiny pieces but the down really fouls up the aerodynamics and they fly super slow. You can follow them any time of day back to the nest.

1X4 1/4 ply cardboard, cut to the shape of fly swatter if you can't find the ground hive put a can of cat food under that. they eat meat. use a rubber band on the switch. The only problem is fly swatter are not designed to leave on. they last about a week before the electronics burn out. that is not to bad if you buy them from store that has 30-day warranty. if you can not find the nest cat food, grind up an apple and mix tea spoon of boric acid. that is better than trapping the yellow jacket because the yellow jackets will take it back to the hive and show the others where the poison cat food is it is slower but you will get the queens. It may take a week or two.

Over 20 years ago I used a compact vacuum cleaner that had a long hose. I positioned the end of the hose about 1/2 to 3/4 inch away from the nest and turn it on at dawn and dusk when I was done at the end of the eay I put the body of the compact machine in a chest type freezer in the garage. I caught almost 3/4 gallon of bees. I kept doing that till I saw no more bees.

Somewhere here on YT I watched a video of someone placing a clear jar over a yellow jacket nest. I tried it on a nest at my home a few years ago and it worked. It will not work if the nest has more than 1 entrance. I placed it over the entrance at night after all were home. The jar must be clear. The YJs won't try to dig out around the edge. They will continue to try and fly up towards the clear blue sky, but can't.

They are not "bees" they are WASPS. Like you said insignificant pollinators they are attracted to rotted wood to make paper nest and they eat fresh carrion (dead animals) and/or live insects; usually one or the other. They will sometimes set up a nest near heavily aphid infested plants.

Just get a glass and half fill with Mountain Dew. They drown themselves in hoards to drink it! Works every time!

This is an interesting solution, as it the glass bowl idea. We can't use gasoline as the nest is only about 40' from the shallow well that supplies our water (spring fed). We have no idea about the hydrology of that part of the property, so we don't want to take a chance. 1 qt of gas can pollute 10,000 gal of water.

I also use electronics to kill yellow jackets. The idea came to me decades ago. Just recently I started using the electric fly swatters. But I never have used electronics the way you did in this video. This is a pretty good idea. After 40+ years of studying them, I've discovered how smart they are. Thanks

If these critters are far enough away from the house I leave them “bee”. If they’re close to the house I run a vacuum cleaner for two hours near sunset until dark. I place the vacuum head ( usually the crevice tool) right in the entrance with just enough room for them to get by. They don’t. There is a neat little sound as they disappear into the crevices opening and become stupefied inside the vacuum. One nest netted from 500 to a thousand yellow jackets over three days. (Yes…you may need to run it for two or three evenings.) It was right in my garden 3 feet from the steps to my front door. I tried soapy water, flooding with a garden hose, poison spray, … nothing worked. The vacuum idea I got from watching a professional. That’s what he used. A shop vac and a generator for power. A full body bee suit and he attacked it straight on taking no prisoners. Man we’re those guys angry at him! I used an old filterQueen vacuum. Nice and quiet and ran easily for two hours at a time. It was very fulfilling to sit there on my swinging bench and watch them disappear into that crevice tool….especially when those little buggers got me at least 12 times in my other attempts using the other methods. They’re gone now…two years later…never returned.

My way is to wait till after dark and use a can of expanding form in the hole, works great

Dawn dishwashing liquid and water..... works faster and cheaper.

Josh, When we are being pestered by yellow jackets while eating outdoors, I thought that I would try use a small pool skimmer screen and handle like a butterfly catch net. Once I have one scooped up i will take it straight down to the table top, so it is trapped in the net, then just mist it with some soap and water to finish it off.I will let you know how it works.

We used to either pour gasoline in the hole and light it, or a quarter stick of stumping powder. Worked good.

Couple years ago, I removed some dying bushes that surrounded a tree in my front yard. After removing them, I should’ve filled in the holes more thoroughly because a month later, some yellow jackets made there home there. Rushes to Home Depot and bought several cans of their long distance foam and blasted them from the comfort of my front door. After a few hours I saw the after math of hundreds of dead yellow jackets there. I sprayed again at night to ensure I got the whole nest. Good thing too. My 2 year old daughter likes to stand near the base of the tree and look up to see the various birds in their nest.

Bout 3 pounds of molten aluminum and some sand around the whole. Works 100% of the time. Trick is to pour at night. Plus the aluminum casting makes awesome lawn art after you dig it up.

Great idea! Thanks for the video. One thing; Yellow Jackets are not just stingers and annoying but useful to prey on pests in the garden. One year when we killed 6 nests around the house, the garden pests were flourishing. As long as they don't bother us, we leave the nest alone. Question: can the zaps set the dry grass on fire?

Put polosi on it and cover with I've cream..

Awesome video. Next time maybe wear long sleeves and long pants with boots and gloves when approaching the nest. That looked like a huge one!

"How to find Yellowjacket Nests Without Your Lawn Mower (or your foot)" sounds like a country music album waiting to happen.

Dawn dish detergent in a stream from a sprayer at night works too. Had them in our grill and obviously didn’t want to poison that up. Place a portable light at a 90 angle from you - they will head to the light - so stay in the shadows.

I was fishing on the Raritan and Delaware canal in New Jersey when I stood on a nest I didn't see. I got STANG many times. One had gotten into my ear and began stinging me multiple times. I thought it would never stop. I am more cautious nowadays. 🎣

I uncovered a wasp nest in my compost pile this week. I built it and they moved in uninvited. First time I got eight bad stings on various parts of my body. One even went down my shirt and stung my chest. Next few days I went out every evening at dusk and used foam wasp killer on nest. Now compost is no good for veggie plot I reckon ,only be good for flower beds. First night of shock n' awe seemed to decimate nest. Hundreds of dead wasps at entrances but still some in/out activity. Second blasting used all of can. Thought I'd finished the job off so went to move compost. As soon as I stuck pitch fork in out they came! This time five nasty stings on my left ankle that swelled up the size of golf balls Fearing an allergic reaction we ended up at A&E. Put on antibiotics that seemed to have worked. WASPS ARE NOT NICE! Foam sprays don't do the job! Try an alternative such as in this video!!!!!

best time to address them darn yellowjackets is just after sunset, when kost have returned to the hive.

I get a plug-in Dirt Devil hand held vacuum cleaner with the hose attachment. The kind where the dirt goes through the fan and has a bag on the back. I remove the bag so there is maximum air flow. Place the hose nozzle about an inch from the hole where the bees are coming and going, and turn it on. They come to the hole, get sucked into the hose, and come out the back as a puff of dust when smashed by the blades of the fan. In just a few minutes, you have every one of them gone.

Or you can wait until after dark and fill the nest with a few gallons of boiling water. Works great with fire ants, too. Maybe not as much fun, but safe, non toxic and final.

I don't like to use chemicals myself but always seem to fight the wasps in the spring I have a 1gal pump up spray container that I fill with water and add a big squirt of dish soap to it..any bug that Flys will die when sprayed with this by suffocating ..been using this for years and it works great ..thanks for your posts..

Take a quart bottle of seltzer water or club soda (do not use sweet soda) and turn it upside down and stick it in the hole. The water flows into special constructed drainage chambers the wasps make, but the carbon dioxide rises forcing the regular air out of the nest. If you still see activity the next day repeat in the evening but use two quarts.

A smart fella would tie a length of paracord to the handle to pull the zapper away from the nest so he wouldn't need to go back into the combat zone to retrieve the swatter... I'm just say'n.

Placing it there just before sunrise might be a good idea too- get them on their way out and also prevent them from killing local bees etc.

As a kid my grandpa used to make a napalm like mixture of petrol and styrofoam packing material which would instantly melt in it and make it quite viscous. At night he’d quickly dump a bag of sand around the hole, pour in the mixture and light a half soaked rag attached to a long stick and put it in the hole. It would instantly catch fire and immolate all the hive and burn for a good while after which he’d put the hose down there. Of course this was done on his 25 acres property and wouldn’t be ideal for small lots. Everything had to be set up perfectly because the second he started putting that sand down and walking around they knew something was up. Interesting video here. Neat idea

I just wait a couple of days for the neighborhood skunks to take care of the nest. They make a hole where they dig up the nest itself but, they are very effective.

Social wasps/yellowjackets play a vital ecological role, as predators controlling the numbers of potential pests like greenfly and many caterpillars and protecting our crops and our gardens. But wasps are also now increasingly understood to be valuable pollinators, transferring pollen as they visit flowers to drink nectar.

Use dish soap and water and you spray it down there hole and the dish soap and water clogs up their pore so they can't breathe they breathe through their skin their pores they don't breathe like we do so when you put dish soap on them they died cuz it's Smothers them

I found this to be extremely satisfying to watch especially since I'm extremely allergic to Yellow Jackets. I never let it stop me from enjoying the great outdoors though.

I own 3 acers i keep a little over 1 acer in grass i have found 11 nests in the yard this year one nest in my home. To say i hate yellow Jackets is a understatment. I have been stung multiple times. used many methods to kill them unfortanitly gasoline is the best.. i was thinking of buying a bee suit to cut grass in lol

I just returned from the Exterminator supply shop and the Pro Ant and Roach Tracking Powder is soon to be banned here in Canada. This works great for ground hives that you can't see , wasps track it from the ground entrance into the paper hive. I am getting 2 containers for future battles.

Effective or not, it was amusing to watch them sizzle... LOL

I heard wearing a TapOut shirt and a UFC hat scares the yellow jackets and you won't get stung. Affliction shirts work too, but are not quite as effective

When we used to find them on the farm, we would pour bleach and ammonia into the hole. Cap the top off with a piece of board or plywood and let the chlorine gas do its work. Nothing can live in chloramine gas.

Why not use the expanding foam from the can. Most of the secondary entrances will be near the main one. Find the main one and a couple of the others and fill the holes with the foam. Some will be stuck in the foam but it should expand into the nest and trap the queen.

I found a nest a few weeks ago when mowing. I got stung once then I got even. When the activity was low, I got a piece of 2x4, two big firecrackers, and a propane torch. I carefully dropped the firecrackers in the hole, lit them with the torch, quickly put the 2x4 over the hole and stood on it. No more yellow jackets! The torch provides self defense while placing the firecrackers.

Hi Stoney- Easier way is to fill up a gallon jug with 3 to 1 warm water and sugar. Wait until night and pour it all down the hole. Splash some around the top of hole. Next few days the ants will over run the nest and like magic yellow jackets will be gone.

Another way of getting rid of them (I have found this especially helpful when I could not find the nest) is to buy some ordinary glue traps (for mice or other small vermin - in this case, though not necessary, I found, the larger the pads, the better), put a few morsels of meat on them and wait for the bugs to meet their demise! Also this method is great, because you do not have to come into direct contact with them, yet still being able to proactively fight them and you don’t have to worry about you or your family getting stung as much this way, I got an entire nest in a few days and have not had problems since. Will certainly keep on using this method for wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, and the like. P.S. No method is perfect or without problems and in my case, I did have to be mindful of other surrounding creatures (like dogs, cats, birds, and more), the best advice I can give on this, is to constantly be aware of the state of your traps (check them every so often - whatever makes you feel the most comfortable).

Nice trick. However, shorts and sandles might not be the best idea, but that's just me.

We had 2 nests and they found me before I found them. I've been stung by the red wasps and it hurts for a few minutes, but these little bast**** hurt like a mother!! I covered the holes with a bucket and sealed the edges with dirt and left them for a month or so. No more stinging bast****!!

I always wait until sundown when most come home to roost. I pump cornstarch and seal them in with caulk, glue, & sometimes dirt. The powder keeps them (& ants) from breathing properly. You'll always have a few stragglers, but this looks interesting. I don't mind pollinators, bug I have allergies and wasps are pests, plain and simple. They also have a nastier sting and venom (my experience). I haven't had the pleasure of africanized bees & hope I never do.

Convert one to use lipo batteries. That gotta increase how long it’ll shock

hey man that is a good idea. however a piece of plastic sheeting that is 4mil will do the same thing. 6'×6' is about the rite size. cover the nest entrance with the sheeting, center the sheeting over entrance. seal down all edges. do this when the nest is at rest. usually at nite when it is cooler. let no fresh air get inside the cover in 2 or 3 days the nest will be dead.

That’s got to be an awesome sound while you’re having your morning cup of coffee great job!!! We can all use less ground bees.

Where I can find that electronic thing? Awesome idea we are infected with wasp 🐝 in our apartment complex I just got out of the hospital for the second time this week. I’m highly allergic to the was and maybe bees venom

Can’t wait to try. They got me the other day, 1 outside and 3 chased me in the house and got me again.

3m electric tape also works to wrap around the handle to depress the switch. I say 3m because it's better than that cheap stuff but most any tape will work.

Boiling hot water will also do the trick, Use a one or two gallon pot to boil the water. Then pour directly into the hole.

Oh so that one uses large sized batteries. Ive been using one that plugs into an outlet and recharges just to smack mosquitoes and i dont get more than 10 or 15 skeeters in before the shock only stuns them bc the batteries are too weak to fry them.

I've been dealing with these for decades, literally. You wait till night when they're all on the nest and you can use either the foaming type of wasp & hornet spray or simply dump a half gallon of gasoline into the hole, *DO NOT LIGHT IT ON FIRE* , and I guarantee you you'll never see anything live ever come out of that hole again. Good luck.

Mowing my yard I got stung two different times and couldn’t figure it out till I saw 3/4 inch hole with yellow jackets. For whatever reason my 2 gallon plastic gas can had about a gallon in it so I started to pour it in the hole. To my horror I poured the entire gallon in the hole and never saw any gas or yellow jackets at the surface. How big was that nest???

In addition a peace of black plastic over the hole for a couple of bright sunny days will cook them in their hive .

The end of a weed torch layed at the entrance works well too. Also the best time to do it is after dark.

Thanking you muchly . I'll share with my daughter. She's fighting with ground hornets in her yard!! Keep up the good work!!

Good idea! I have been plagued with these buggers all summer. Every time I go outside I get surrounded. I have to feed cats outside and the wasps act like I'm there for them as well! They go all around me, land on me, etc. I don't like it, lol! They do the same thing when I put out water for cats or water my plants. I've been stung once and believe me, once is enough!! The pain is unbelievable! I've been trying to get my husband to do something and so far, nothing he has done worked ( they were all pretty stupid, like cucumbers 🙄. They made a salad) So, I'm going to have to do it myself..I like this idea!

Cant wait to try this in the spring. Those ground bees will regret stinging me last summer. ZZZZAP!

Ill be doing this tomorrow, I just found a nest by my old shed we didn’t take down yet. I’m all about chemicals and totally blowing them out of the water but this looks fun. One got me so now I’ll give them some pain!

Wasps: "We! Can't! KILL IT!" Other Wasp: "WHY WON'T YOU DIE?!?"

A little gasoline poured down the hole, also work's great!! Don't have to light it, it's toxic all on it's own!!! P.S. do it at sun down or sun rise when the yellow jackets are sleeping.don't need much, an ounce will do!

Just got stings on my feet and legs while mowing the lawn, they chased me to the house and found 2 dead inside my house. They stinged me 12 times simo i m here to find a solution. Lucky that it waa only me and not my youg kids

I have placed a shop vac hose right at the entrance - turn it on and walk away. It sucks them up as they enter and exit the hole. Shoot some wasp spray into the hose at the end and that is that.

How cool. I love knowing that for each little "pop" the life of an evil wasp/hornet/bee just ended.

dangit! someone beat me to doing this!! haha...i've been planning doing this exact thing for over a year! just found a nest in my yard......and thought...maybe i'll google this and see if anyones ever done before! hahaa.....well..you saved me some time....gasoline tonite it is!! but i had been looking forward to doing this and it getting millions of views..haha.....kudos!

I would watch that all day. Well Done

Just tried your fly swatter method, and it worked great. I went cheap and bought one at Harbor Freight and it worked in a day. Great Video! Thanks!

I bought on of these electronic fly swatters and put it on top of the hole. Bees started dying off. The the swatter shorted out. It was dead and most of the bees still alive.

That's pretty cool, but you have a lot of mad bees flying around. I like the shop vac with soapy water in it, then suck em up.

Kerosene and a match. Your way is to much trouble. Wait till dusky dark, pour flammable liquid down hole and light. Easy.

The electric swatter will work, I guarantee it, as long as you also pour gasoline down the hole and light it. Saying "Please" will also work, as long as you also do the gasoline and fire part.