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[nottke1 <nottke1@earthlink.net>]

My procedure for eliminating in-ground yellow-jacket nests is to get a 
wide-mouth gallon jar - after dark spray some hornet spray into the jar, take 
it out to the nest opening and invert the jar over the opening - next morning 
yellow-jackets will fly around inside the jar until they are all dead.  
Once you remove the jar the nest will revive in a day or two due to hatching 
larva in the nest, so I put a teaspoon of detergent in a gallon of tapwater 
and pour it down the hole - that has worked well for me.
Many years a friendly skunk will come by and dig them up before I have to 
take action, but being skunk free so far this year, I have eliminated 6 nests 
in my orchard and front yard.

Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC