Yellow Jackets

[DBALLARD]

Watch out - the Bees are out and ready. I live in NC and I just ran over 3 yellow jackets nests in 2 days (two in the same yard).

[Scraper]

You're telling me! The damn things put me in the hospital emergency room for 3 hours last weekend! Scary as I had never had a reaction before, but I guess 15-20 stings will do it to you.

[cp]

Watch out guys, if you can avoid the nest until after the sun goes down then pour a little 50-1 fuel :angry: then if its the 4th of July you just strike a match, and OH, don't forget to run...LOL:blob2: :blob2:

[Island Lawn]

Yellow jackets are the worst!
The swarm into little holes in the ground. Then you run it over with your mower because you can't see it.
Then all HELL breaks loose.

They have a well earned reputation for defending their home!

You will surprise yourself with how fast you can run, to say the least

BEE BREAK!

You get stung enough, it will cost you the rest of the day. If not your life!

Good Luck out there!

[DBALLARD]

That Gas trick does the job. I used 1 and a half cans of hot-shot wasp killer on one nest and the were still alive. The next night a put a litte gas down the hole - no more bees:)

[Remsen1]

I had a bees' nest in my shed one summer. The bees and I co-existed harmoniously for a dozen weeks. I didn't bother them and they didn't bother me (even though their nest was only inches from my head when I walked in). It was a comfortable yet tentative relationship and I was carefull not to break that trust. Everything was going good until one day, without provocation, several renegade hive members stung me about the head face and neck when I entered the shed. I felt stupid for thinking we could ever coexist. I fixed them though. I came back with a large glass mayonaise jar, then I trapped the nest inside the jar and ceiling, slid the jar around until the nest plopped in (with dozens of angry bees), capped the jar and put it in a nice sunny spot. :D

[mdb landscaping]

i have a bee story. there was an underground nest under a rhodedendren i my yard. so, wait till night and get the gas can out. i had my neighbor move the branch away so i could pour straight into the hole. well, it turned out the branch was a little under the mulch and it lifted the whole nest. only got stung once, but got a good run that day.

[Charles]

I almost hit a nest last week. They were in a shady area and on the next round I saw them near my last tire marks. I get stung just about every year by YJs. Sometimes by hornets, and one time by bumble bees that were coming out of the ground. Good way to ruin your day and make you paranoid for along time.

[Richard Martin]

Not to be nit-picky or anything but Yellow Jackets are not bees. They are a member of the wasp family. They are amoung the most agressive critters I have ever seen though.

The most times I have ever been stung was around 13-14. What I really hate is the itching that comes along after about 2-3 days.

I usually inform the homeowner of the problem and I assure the homeowner that the grass will not be cut in that spot until they are gone.

[linky]

Yea those Yellow Jackets are back. They dont seem to have gotten real aggressive yet-but will very soon. I got so paranoid of them last year my wife said i should buy a bee keepers suit. I still thinking about it lol.

[syzer]

I was blowing some leaves around acinder block and the suckers had a nest in there. I never seen them though they were sworming all around me. Luckily I only got hit once right in the eye brow =(.

[Got Grass?]

When I was younger I was cutting our yard with our rider and tring to get close to the bushes I hit a hive, Jumped off the mower as it went into a small creek, to shallow for me I ran about 500 ft and hosed myself off and took off my shirt. thinking I had them all off me I went inside and thay flew out from my shorts and armpits. Got stung about 38 times. Only had been stung once before that.

Last year a customer asked me if I could trim 3 bushes her husband didnt have time for. Having time I said sure I can do it next week when I come back with the trimmers. Well turns out its not that he didnt have time its that there was a nest in the one bush and thought for some reason I wouldnt get stung. Needless to say I didnt trim the bushes and that was their last year with me.

[ron]

Those darn yellow jackets put me in the ER twice last year,I am highly allergic to bee and wasp stings,I have to carry a kit with me at all times,if only there was a way to wear a full bee keeper suit to be free of these buggers,put hey the weather here in Florida is a killer.......Watch for them bees and wasps.....OUCH.......:eek: :eek: :eek:

[Charles]

Got stung today a couple of times. Was weedeating around some landscape timber and hit a hole of them. Strange thing is that they followed me 50 feet until I was standing in the middle of the road with a weedeater(not knowing they were following me or that I had hit them) and then they started stinging me. Hit in the back and the side and threw down the weedeater and took off. I hate the SOBs

[tpirobert]

Ya mess with Yellow Jackets and they will chase you across state lines till at least one stings you. I have found several nests this season. Only stung once, but I'm very allergic....so I pop a benadryl and sit down a few minutes. Rest of day is spent working half asleep. I carry epipen to inject self if needed and cell phone on belt. I mark nests with a surveyors flag and leave alone.