yellowjackets

[SwampDonkey]

Don't forget the video production folks so we can make a Forestry Forum Maximum Exposure thread.  

[leweee]

Watch it S_D    ....don't giveum any ideas. The Great Outdoor Games will want some of this....loggers ....yellowjackets....fastest logger with the least stings.....sounds like a real crowd pleaser

[Ernie]

If yellow jackets are like the wasps we get here then in the spring, they are looking for protein for the queen.  What we do is take an empty plastic icecream container and cut a few little door into it then we mix Carbaryl and cat food and put a blob inside, put on the lid and nail these to the tops of fence posts, the worker that have over-wintered take the brew back to the queen and kill the lot.  We had a terrible problem a few years back, did the poison thing all around the farm for two years and have been clear of the little buggers for the last five years.

Ernie

[logger]

My friend said he was logging one time and said he was cutting this maple tree with a 036 and the tree was about 2 ft thick, he was comming around the back side and had the saw in the cut cutting and there must have been a nest of hornets in the ground and he was right over top of them and they went all over him.  He said he took off running (with the saw still running in the tree) like you wouldn't believe brushing the bees of off him and hitting the bees off him.  He said he got stung about 10 times.  He come back the next day with bee killer!