Kill Yellow Jacket Nest With Gasoline

Learn how to kill yellow jackets to eliminate a single yellow jacket or an entire nest.

Kill yellow jacket nest with gasoline.

While yellow jackets are as beneficial to the environment as honeybees they are more aggressive when defending food sources. Yellow jackets and their nest i dug it up after pouring gas in the hole they were in in the ground you don t have to set it on fire just pour about a quart of gasoline down in the hole about 12. Disturb them and they ll sting you. Then wait for the yellow jacket to land seal the jar or bottle and dispose of it safely.

Yellow jackets make underground nests with an entrance hole to the surface. A steady zoom of wasps to and from the nest betrays its presence. Choose an aerosol with a long range jet spray that will allow you to stand back from the nest and still be effective. Follow my instructions as my faithful reader jean recently did and the yellow jackets will be history.

A solution of liquid laundry or dish soap and water is an effective and chemical free way to destroy a nest. When the nest is easily visible a foaming aerosol will both cover the openings and expand into the nest to trap and kill the yellow jackets. The easiest and most environmentally safe way to destroy a yellow jacket nest is to use soap. Use a commercial insecticide or make a homemade solution.

It is a particularly viable way of destroying an inaccessible underground hive as it can flow freely down into an entrance and kill the occupants. To kill a yellow jacket start by putting a small piece of fruit or a sugary drink inside a sealable jar or soda bottle since yellow jackets are attracted to sweets. Boiling water is an excellent way to kill yellow jackets at least under certain circumstances. These treatments are dangerous environmentally irresponsible and illegal.

I can t say if it will harm the daylilies but i can say it didn t harm a small goumi bush a fig tree and few natives. Simply pour the mixture into the ground where the nest is located.