permaculture

[Linda Shewan <linda.shewan@bryn.com.au>]

We had a sideways entrance to the nest and couldn't get any substance in 
there so tried putting thick clear plastic over the entrance - they just ate 
their way through multiple layers of it and dug another entrance quite away 
further along the retaining wall so I would not think they are so stupid as 
to starve...

But in the end we let them be and lived with them flying through me every 
time I hung the washing. Asked them to watch out for me and appears they did 
as none of the family ever got stung. Next year they left as they only stay 
in a nest for one season.

Next time I will just leave them be unless they are in a particularly 
dangerous spot.

Cheers, Linda


-----Original Message-----
From: Mathew Waehner [mailto:waehner@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, 18 October 2008 5:42 AM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: [permaculture] yellow jackets

Yellowjackets are a predator of other insects and a benefit to the garden,
unless they locate their home where you or others can't avoid it.  If winter
is coming to your area soon, just let them be- they don't overwinter.

I've read that if you put a cake lid, or other transparent dome over the
nest, they will not understand the need to dig their way out and they will
keep bumping against the dome for weeks until they starve.

I've used alcohol to poison them- pour a bottle down and seal off the tunnel
entrance.  Isopropyl is cheap, but ethanol is probably easier for the soil
organisms to metabolize.  I've had mixed luck with this technique, but last
time I tried I added a lit match and it worked like a charm.

Whatever you do, it is safest to approach at night.



On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:07 PM, kenny swain <monkeywrenchsc@yahoo.com>wrote:

> Does anyone know of a non chemical way of getting rid of yellow jackets?
> I'd like to find a way of just discouraging them from inhabiting their
> current nest; but if not, a non toxic extermination method.
> Thanks
>
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