Damn things.

It is getting chilly here, so they are dying and trying to find warmth.

So.........I have about forty or fifty "visitors" each day IN my house.

There is a big nest outside (inaccessible) and they find a way into the house somehow.

I have literally killed several hundred.......one at a time as they fly through the house to hang out at the windows.

Tried some things........honey in a bowl, poison, etc.

Nothing works as good as a flip flop.

I've seen a few yellowjackets but not one honey bee all year. That's of some concern.

Yellowjackets are one of those 'WTF purpose does this bug serve on the earth?' bugs.

Wait till it gets cold and then find the nest and shop-vac the somnah bitchs up. Otherwise a c/o fire extinguisher should chill em out long enough to vac them up. Take the queen and the rest will leave.

I got a pair of ****kickers, no flip-flops.

Dam things got into my place too, they were coming thru small cracks around the top edge of the siding, the built a nest in the open void that is above my wifes closet/entry way/coat closet. I used a clear silicone outside and sealed the entire top seal around the siding, pulled the nest from the void that filled a 55 gallon trash can, 8 aerosol bombs, 12 cans of spray poison, and a terrified wife that woke up to hundreds flying above the bed one morning. They had chewed thru the ceiling into her closet

#5

This is a horrifying scene!

Just another reason to not like Georgia Tech.

I hate those things! You have to find a way to get rid of the nest. killing them 1 at a time is not gonna solve your problem. If you cant get to it yourself call an exterminator.

#5. It could have been worse. This could have been you as you slept.

http://www.tilt23.com/Images/PR-BeeManL.JPG 

#8.......time is on my side.

It is getting colder....as it gets cold, they die.

They are outside all around here throughout the summer.....not much you can do.

I COULD do what my neighbor did and pay $50 a month for an exterminator. But I won't, because it hasn't helped him one bit.

This is their last hurrah.

http://co.el-dorado.ca.us/emd/vectorcontrol/yellowjacket_trap.html 

You can scale up or down as needed. The greedy bastards just can't help themselves, they always take too much food and fall into the water.

Fish always made the best bait for yellow-jackets in the Sierras in the summer in my experience.

Hey, didn't they beat Virginia Tech yesterday?

The Yellowjackets, I mean...

^^^ #2

I agree w/ bloody on this one. I could count on two hands the amt. of honey bees I saw this year. Three years ago they were all over my butterfly bushes out back. Also where the h$ll are all the butterflies this year ? Two years ago when we did my daughters science bug project we would have many dozens of tigers,monarchs,friterlies(spl), and hundreds of those dumb little white ones EACH DAY. I might have seen 20 monarchs and two tigers and about 12 of the white ones ALL SEASON. I think it's all the new pesticides & herbisides they are now using.

I saw a bunch of yellowjackets around the trash cans at a chairity walk because of all the soda cans and friut drink boxes (they love liquid sugar).

Had two bumble nests in my yard then they moved under my transportable basketball net.

Also our cabin used to be bug central for all sorts of bees but hardly any this year.

we had a bee swarm fly into one of our trees here i just let them bee ha!. honey bees don't bother me unless they are attempting to share my home. yellow jackets and wasps eat Caterpillar and other butter fly like animals they feed them to their young soo that could explain your decline in butterflies. i kill them as i find them they are mean bastards

got stung by a yellowjacket in the armpit

DDT

Had a large nest( grey cone shape, paper ) of yellowjackets hanging off an overhang on my house.I was going to wait till it got colder to get rid of them. One day they left the nest, gone. I think they found their way into the crawl space that is between my ceiling and roof. I'll have take a look there once it cools down further.

I had mud wasp for several years, but I didn't see those at all this year. Maybe the yellow jacket and mud wasp can't get along.

20 oz bottle of soda. Leave a little in the bottom. Cut the bottle in half and insert the the end you drink out of into the bottom half (that sounded a bit ghey). It will work just like a minnow trap if you have ever used one of those before. The buzzing of the trapped ones attracts more to their untimely sugary grave. Cheap fix too.

Great win by GT this weekend, and the Falcons too.

apparently, their metabolism has slowed to the point where food is not essential........food traps do not work.