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[Doug Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

If you just want to persuade them to go away, remember that if they have 
been there for any length of time they will have eggs and larvae in the 
nest. I don't think those can be moved, so for them what you want means 
death. The adults will likely be hard to persuade. If you really want to 
leave the adults alive, I would spray an above-ground nest moderately 
with water at dusk, dispersed spray, daily for a while. Keep your 
distance. If in the ground, a moderate amount of water, at dusk or 
night, repeated.

However, due to the young, if it was me I would go for decisive, all-out 
war, and try to kill them. There will be lots of others of their kind 
left elsewhere.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada


Jenny Ruth Yasi wrote:
> Anyone know any low or no-toxic methods to vacate a large yellow jack type 
> wasp nest? Thanks!
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> Yasi 
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