Complete Destruction. Dish Soap Vs. Ground Yellow Jacket Nest. Mousetrap Monday

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[ShawnWoodsMousetrapMonday]

Do You Have A Mouse Problem? I invented The World's Greatest Mouse Trap - The Dizzy Dunker
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[joshuakorynta]

Ok at this point Shawn needs to make Wasptrap Wednesday

[edwardnedharvey]

I learned this recently. Two tips: #1 yellow jackets explore the world during the day, but they all come home at night. If you kill the nest during the day, it takes about 1-2 weeks before all the workers die or go away. Until then, they keep coming back and angrily searching for their nest. Wait till sunset, and then do it when they're all home. #2 You don't need a bucket of water. Just pour a couple tablespoons of soap in the hole, and then fill the hole with a garden hose.

[Vantainium]

Remember kids, the Geneva conventions don’t apply to wasps 😊

[scottt]

dish soap and water in a squirt bottle also is effective when the hornets get into the home.

[tpl]

If nothing else, you end up with clean yellow jackets. Lol

[morningstar]

The ones that got away will tell stories of a great flood.

[artmcneill]

Just Dawned on me. Gentle on Baby Ducks. Murderous on Yellow Jackets.

[raymondhoagland]

I've used pure dish washing soap poured in the hole at night time and plugged the hole up and entombed them, works great !!

[Terry]

Dawn uses cleaning birds as a commercial... maybe they should use this for advertising as well 😅

[S.E.C-R]

My mom had an underground yellow jacket nest years ago in one of her flower beds. She called a service to come out and take care of it. They started digging and soon discovered that a shovel wasn’t going to do the trick and they brought in a backhoe, when they were done the nest was bigger than a VW Bug. No joke, it was massive with millions of live yellow jackets they had to deal with. They closed our street down and evacuated us and the surrounding homes for a couple days to neutralize them with some sort of spray. We took pictures but it was way back before digital was a thing and I have no idea what ever became of the photos. I just remember it was massive and scary as hell!!

[RCinginSC]

I've used this method and found it to be very effective especially when applied after dark when they go dormant. Another great video !!!

[johngiles]

I don't know what it is but the underground ones are really aggressive. They'll attack you just for looking in their direction.

[johncmitchell]

I hope viewers don't think they ever have to dig up a nest. lol Depending on how soil perks a second bucketful isn't often needed. Some nests are indeed very difficult to approach. I've slid eaves trough, downspout, or PVC sections to near entrances and flooded them from ten or so feet away without getting stung. btw, I'd have saved a lot of money using just soap vs pyrethrins.

[smithno]

I took out an underground yellowjacket nest with a bottle of ammonia.

[Adwrigh]

Now all we need is a Lantern Fly video lol!

[LongBinh]

I'm surprised it took so little soap to work. When I've done this method I dumped a whole small bottle of Dawn directly into the hole, then hit it with the garden hose with no nozzle.
Worked great.

[brianrobson]

For ground nests, I just wait until a couple of hours after nightfall and dump about a cup of Sevin dust down the entry hole. Within 24 hours, the entire nest has been eradicated every time. No bee suit, no gasoline, no stings.

[anneoreilly]

That’s a nice alternative to the poisonous spray.

[tnekkc]

I tried Dawn and a water hose and dug up the hole. It did not work. The nest was in a mole burrow on a hill in thick brush [Salal]. The yellow jackets kept making a new hole higher on the hill. I kept returning ever night at midnight [no bee keeper suit]. I cut down a lot of bushes and dug up a lot of dirt every night, until I reached the nest up on the hill. The mole tunnel was a path from the original hole, to way up the hill where the nest was. That is why water and Dawn did not work on the original hole.