How To Get Rid Of Yellow Jacket / Ground Wasp Nest With ONE STEP!

Safe and easy way to destroy or kill a yellow jacket or ground wasp nest by flooding the nest with water from a garden hose at night.
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[@DiannaAtherton]

I waited until sundown. I placed a old window screen over hole and placed bricks down to keep it in place. Poured dawn in the hole through screen and let the hose water trickle in for around 30 min. Worked

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Great idea with the screen, thanks for sharing!

[@jodilea144]

The screen is a great idea! Thank you for the tip!

[@lahaza6515]

Sounds a lot better than leaving the hose running all night.

[@rainacherienne1010]

Love the screen idea, I’ll try

[@rainacherienne1010]

Or actually I thought of trying a strainer like the one for dumplings, they won’t be ever able to get through

[@susandee8683]

I just treated a nest in my backyard with Dawn soap and water for 10 minutes about an hour after dark. Left the hose in and watered again in the morning. That took care of it for me. I watched many videos and found them all to be so helpful.

[@howtofixitworkshop]

That's great!

[@InnocentlyInsaneCreations]

Thats how fire departments kill the killer bee nests. it clogs there noses, on the top of there body. They cant breath...

[@davesdada11]

I've been stung around 60 times in 3 different occurrences in the past month while out mowing at my new place in the country..I finally found at least one ground nest this past Sunday "after getting stung 20 times on Saturday when I ran over with my mower" used my drone to locate the tunnel and am planning on flooding it late tonight...

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Wow, that's awful. Good luck to you, let me know how it turns out.

[@JCNOAOU]

Did it work?

[@Wishbone420]

Did you get rid of them?

[@betsports9229]

Sadly, it didn't work. He was stung 576 times and died 575 times. The yellow jackets are monitoring KZbin. You have been warned.

[@MrIceCream52]

@yeahmannn😭😭😭 chill out lmaoooooo

[@Rebel9668]

Had one in my yard last week. I just dumped a cup of 5% Sevin dust down the hole at night. 36 hours later I checked and they were all dead. They got it on them leaving and returning to the hole and carry it into the nest killing the queen and the larvae.

[@howtofixitworkshop]

That's a good tip. Thank you for sharing!

[@mctownes2013]

Literally just got stung by two of those petty beasts while cutting grass. Yellow Jackets, count your days!

[@howtofixitworkshop]

That's when they got me too!

[@legendxzek-official]

I just got stung today too, they’re definitely gonna get a surprise coming by tommorow

[@lahaza6515]

I've see these holes all over my yard in the last couple of weeks as spring approaches. That's a crazy amount of water to keep running.

[@Grandmasfavhustler]

He said he only runs the water for ten minutes at a time.

[@Grandmasfavhustler]

His pump would burn out on the hose otherwise

[@RScott413]

Same here, ran over a big one with my lawn tractor and was attacked. I did what you did only to find them escaping out of another location in a retaining wall with railroad ties. It amounted to a 8 foot long nest that had the two exits. I used spectracide on both ends in the evening and ran after soaking them. two days later? no yellowjackets but that first day had them flying everywhere looking for a new place, very aggressive. little bastards

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Little bastards is right!

[@somanynamesilltrythis0180]

Thank you. Last year, my wife and i were in the backyard, i was breaking up some pallets, thats when I learned yellow jackets have underground hives. They were swarming all over me, but not my wife. I got stung over 20 times, mainly under my beard. It hurt, and now they're back! It's getting dark, so im gonna flood them out tonight.

[@howtofixitworkshop]

I feel your pain! Did the flooding work for you?

[@somanynamesilltrythis0180]

@@howtofixitworkshop no unfortunately, the hive is somewhere in our fire pit. I tried flooding it last night, but i didn't have the hose in the right spot. I wish i could just light it on fire, but there's so much overgrown bamboo, im afraid of starting an uncontrolled fire around the house. That's why i was trying to clear out this area, but I cant get the bamboo out without disturbing the hive. Im thinking about buying a bee suit just to be on the safe side.

[@somanynamesilltrythis0180]

@@danielcoy4938 I'll definitely try it. We have 2 separate underground hives now.

[@henryhopper172]

I had a big underground nest between tree roots, with about 50 coming and going all day. I waited til dark and approached with a big flashlight and a small propane tank. I had mounted a brazing nozzle with valve onto the propane. I opened the valve and filled the holes with gas.. As the propane changed states (a pressurized gas to a liquid), the cold liquid killed all of the pests. I left a cover over the holes for a day and checked the next night. It killed them all. Only saw 2 dead ones by each hole. The remainder, and the nest died in the cold, cold ground.

[@thebadgerette69]

They usually have 2 entrances.....cover one and then dump liquid soap down and then the hose. Maybe we should try the Tide Pod challenge with them! 😅

[@LitoGeorge]

Hope this helps (posting in several vids because you all have been helpful to me) - I wanted a non toxic (as possible) solution to wasps/ yellow jackets. My children have been stung terribly by these things, so it was my turn to deal with it. I found their location through keen observation - just watching insects come and go and found a large concentration of them going into the ground, which was home for them. I was inclined to use gas, but then learned 1litre is enough to poison 1Million litres of ground water. No bueno. So I used regular tap water and four kinds of soaps: dish, a liberal sprinkling of "Comet", 3 dishwashing machine dissolvable pouches and 2 scoops of borax/soap flakes. Suffice to say there was enough bubbles for Africa. I carried a very large bucket of water (half a metal full size trash can worth) to the location, far away from my home. It was heavy going as I am fat. Tip: use a stout stick to help with the digging in of the handle by carrying the stick under the handle. I went at 9pm on late summer night. It was dark out. Using my head flashlight, I located the hole. There were dozens of them still buzzing around the hole. I was dead afraid having been stung by these before. I decided to forgo the funnel, steel wool as some advised. The hole was just far too big. I poured the water and the foam overwhelmed them. I poured about half quickly, then calmed down and poured till it soaked into the hole. Observed for a second, then got chicken and poured more in spurts, until it was all gone. I was shocked at the size of the things guarding the entrance at night. These were easily half as long as my tip of thumb to thumb joint. Not as thick obviously, but seriously large. Yellow jackets on kind of steroids. I saw them all on the surface completely motionless (I read the soap dissolves their wax, filling their spiracles, which drowns them instantly). After all was poured, I waited ten seconds at the hole and saw nothing come out. I was still scared in case there may be workers still coming back to the nest. I got out of there and will go look at it tomorrow/next day and report back if there is interest.

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Thanks for sharing, we're interested to get an update!

[@LitoGeorge]

@@howtofixitworkshop my pleasure. The next morning I found activity at the wasp net entrance, though the big boys were dead, and severely diminished in terms of numbers. Not good enough. Last night I went with an acquaintance, and we poured double the amount of the soapy (hot) water concoction in at night time. There were no guards on duty. I poured my large container in slowly, and then he did his. We found several stragglers possibly coming from a second entrance close to the original gaping nest hole and doused those. The soap kills quicker than wasp spray poison I have found - back to back tests within 12hrs of each other. This morning I went to check twice. Before 7am and now at 1030am with sun. There were about 5 wasps in total buzzing around, I sprayed poison onto them and onto the nest entrance quite thickly. Otherwise, quiet and dead still after observing ten minutes. I might go again tonight to just rid the nest of any other wasps near the entrance. Feels way less stressful with about 99% of them eradicated. I am a believe in this method. Less environmentally negative than other methods. With limited water supply (no hose), it requires a few dosings. No big deal. And highly effective.

[@MrGreatness412]

I just use spray foam. Cover the entrance and then stick the straw all the way in and fill it up as much as possible. At 4am before I go to work. So far two nests down. Maximum expansion foam.

[@amyrupp6059]

I tried flooding ours out and to no avail. I didnt leave the hose in overnight though so will try again, doing the same steps you took. Thanks for sharing

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Did it work?

[@FFotosRUs1]

I am allergic to bee sting so just an FYI for you… I keep a big jar of chewable 500 mg vitamin C from Costco on hand. If I ever get stung, I immediately chew two of the 500 mg vitamin C and it will block a lot of the histamine allergic reaction of thebee sting and reduce swelling effect! You may also want to keep some children’s chewable Benadryl on hand if you need it!.

[@dougwigley8072]

Only at night, turn a bottle of 90% rubbing alcohol upside down in the entrance hole. First, very gently place a brick on each side of the hole to support the bottle. If you use a flashlight make sure that it has a RED lens. This is very cheap and effective.

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Thanks for sharing your tips!

[@randygreen007]

Until you kill the queen you will always have this problem. There’s one method I use that does this without fail. I use Seven (now Eight) horticultural pesticide dust and puff it into and around the hole. As the workers land they crawl through it and take it into the nest so the queen can have a snack. Works like a charm.

[@zukosmom3780]

Great idea

[@garyjnj1]

I tried dusting the entrance several times with Sevin powder at dusk. Don't think it is getting them all. Thinking about saturating it with Sevin liquid...

[@lordgargamel4124]

I just did this with dawn this evening. Drownin the squad again tomorrow. Honestly, I like these critters. They are incredible creatures and they take no BS from anyone. Its something to admire. Unfortunately I gotta mow my lawn and i cant have em settin up shop on my house or in my lawn. Go find a tree my foul tempered friends or we go to war.

[@miked3382]

Was hoping for something more instant and painful (for them)

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Haha, I completely understand!

[@MansaNze]

LMAO!!! Yeah, me too! They got me good yesterday while trimming the hedges. I'm consumed with vengence at this point.

[@JohnDrach]

Theres a couple guys on youtube who smolder aluminum then dump it down. :)

[@krecro5047]

Is 10 am on a Sunday, I’m not waiting! Thank you!

[@user-vn3nh3fj8e]

I wouldn't recommend the water as it's not always going to be effective. If there's another entrance which there usually is if the nest is big enough then you will just piss them off and possibly get stung even more. Soapy water especially hot would definitely do the trick. It actually works great on all sorts of incects. I've found that for about $10 at home depot you can buy a powder called sevin dust and it works great. It's meant to be used in your gardens for getting rid of bugs and doesn't even state that it kills bees but I've shot it I to the entrance of basketball sized nest inside walls and it'll kill every single one of them as they carry it back into the nest with them. Just my 2 cents. I'm not an expert at all I've just dealt with my fair share of bees over the years

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Thank you for sharing. I've used Sevin for other insect issues like Japanese beetles and ants but haven't tried it with yellow jackets. I'll keep that in mind

[@bigal25938]

Might work better if you squirt a lot of Dawn dish liquid down the hole before you put the hose in.

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Good tip, just need to be careful not to disturb them and get them active before getting the hose in the ground

[@wicketuma444]

I did the same thing but with kerosene and lit it at night, and some flew out on fire. Never came back.

[@spiritofeverlastingendurance]

Try burning a sage bundle to help the wasps be a tad calmer while working to get rid of the nest in night or early morning. It works!

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Thanks for the tip!

[@vladboy1]

Uh that may work on bees but yellow jacket are just to angry

[@WhoopiCushion]

My problem is there are two holes about 15 feet apart . And we rarely get nests. Every few years maybe. I don’t know if these two holes are connected or not. But I’m worried about flooding one and them coming out the other side

[@crazyjeff100]

I've done the flooding thing and also two M-80s at a different spot.

[@JohnDrach]

You can make some big ones with potassium perchlorate and aluminum powder. Ive also seen a guy on youtube pump some type of propane in there or gas and blow the whole area up lol

[@joeyvanostrand3655]

#1 - Pour an ENTIRE bottle DAWN dish soap down that entrance hole. Be PATIENT. Make sure it gies in and not just burps over the side. #2 - have a 5 gallon bucket of the hottest water you can get right next to you along with your garden hose. Two 5 gallon buckets of scalding hit water is better but not required. Dump that water in to the nest hole. All of it. #3 - run that hose into the entance hole and finish drowning those bastards.

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Great tips! Thank you for sharing!

[@user-zc6of4dl2g]

There is some insecticide in a can with a straw you attach to the spray nozzle. That works like a charm

[@thomasvideoa]

I use boiling water +baking soda+ dish soap. It works perfectly. The most difficult task is to find the underground hive before getting stung.

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Thanks for the tip. How do you pour the boiling water in? Do you use a funnel?

[@thomasvideoa]

@@howtofixitworkshop No, the hole is about 2 inch diameter. It’s pretty easy.

[@davidhazen2394]

Mine had serveral hole entry points that I ahd to blast. Floodihg one tunnel did not get them all.

[@grantp4022]

I have a wasps nest under my "concrete porch." They get in at the very bottom. Not sure how to kill the nest, because the porch is 3 feet high by 5 ft wide. If you try using water, it won't work if their nesting up high under the porch. I did take out a nest very fast with that spray stuff from Home Depot. It sprays about 15 ft and covers the whole nest in foam. In this case the nest was outside and I could see it. Right now, because this nest is under the porch, I think I need a poison powder, that will stick to their legs, and they will drag it into the nest. I hope that will work. I was hoping to use spray foam, but you have to hit the nest.( can't see it) I see one comment here that Sevin Dust from Home Depot works.

[@9ZenMedia]

This is all very interesting, now I’m wondering if putting a hose with nitrogen at a low psi wouldn’t kill them… maybe I’ll experiment with mine.

[@millieatr]

I had yellowjackets harassing me every time i i would use my grill ,,, i soon realized they had nested in a birdhouse 5 ft from my backdoor ,,i went out 10 oclock at night verified with a flashlight that they were yellow jackets and not honey bees Then gave them a healthy dose of Raid ,,,killed every one of them

[@MotoMaddox2]

I’m a 12 year old and I got stung by seven of these guys and I’m looking for revenge

[@medicropper]

I got stung 7 times today walking on a nest. Tonight they will feel my wrath.

[@JohnDrach]

I bet leaving the lawnmower over the hole till it runs out of gas is a fun way to take care of it

[@larryeifler2994]

I had a small ground wasp nest in my yard. I put a few moth balls in and around the entrance. In two days, the wasps were walking around. The stepped on the ones that were on the cement walk and killed the ones in the grass with a pair of plyers. Maybe there were only about 20 wasps and so the nest was finished.

[@douggotley7169]

Gasoline works better. Water just pisses them off

[@howtofixitworkshop]

I used gas once and burned a pretty large patch of grass

[@akbychoice]

@@howtofixitworkshopjust let the gas fumes permeate the nest and deplete the oxygen.

[@unclefester9113]

Not Gasoline. Dawn or any detergent you like. Several tablespoons of soap per gallon. Drench away.

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Ah, that's a good alternative

[@howtofixitworkshop]

I've tried the dish soap method too but didn't have good luck

[@zukosmom3780]

I was bit on ankle 2 times today cutting my grass. My friend thinks they have a nest in the ground. Should I try looking tomorrow?

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Yeah they nest in the ground and can be hard to spot. Be careful and good luck!

[@UnseemlyGenie00]

I got bit twice three days ago mowing my grass on the ankle but not by yellow jackets but these tiny little bees. Hurt like a MF and still had pain for three days and itches 😢. I've been stung by wasps and these little buggers pack a way bigger punch lol. I need to hunt down their nest. My Dad once got stung three times on his face close to his eye mowing the backyard one day.

[@user-zj8xt8es1n]

I used gasoline and next thing I know I was charged for arson

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Oh no! Were you able to get rid of the yellow jackets?

[@cocodream_3785]

Well that’s messed up, but no one wants to get stung.

[@stellarwind1946]

I heard you pour ice down the hole and cover it with a net to freeze them to death.

[@howtofixitworkshop]

That's a good tip, but I would be concerned that they'd pop out when trying to get the ice on there

[@999applegirl999]

I've done this before with dry ice. It definitely works if you do it early in the morning... 4-5am so it's still frozen when they all start to wake up. Just throw it as close to the hole as possible. I can get free dry ice from work as it is used in shipments we receive and is thrown away. I also make sure to dig out the nests in January so they aren't reinhabited. My issue is that I have moles or voles making holes around my yard that are hard to distinguish from bee nests.

[@whiskeytangofoxtrot5939]

Where does the dirt end up, like some create huge cavities but no evidence on the grass??

[@howtofixitworkshop]

I think the little soldiers carry it off and drop the dirt all around the yard

[@jampaqinc.5184]

I was studying the ground wasp nest we have before treating it and definitely could see Yellowjacket’s leaving the ground hive with what I now believe was dirt. Little clumps of it to carry away.

[@stephenabbey6728]

tonights the night, it has to happen it needs to happen.

[@nickizcool20]

I’m currently struggling getting rid of these guys. There in 6 cans of poison spray, gasoline ⛽️ with fire, now I have a burnt lawn patch and angry wasps flying everywhere

[@snoopfurlow1275]

Hydrated lime or Bengal dust would work

[@stephennordlinger365]

Mine are too far from the house to use a hose.

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Maybe a big bucket full of hot water?

[@hankschraderontheshitter5593]

PEST CONTROL TECH HERE: hello everyone i am in the pest control field the best chemical for ANY bees is called Fuse , a 16oz small bottle is about $45 but u only need 1oz with 1 gallon water in sprayer, spray it all in there, DONE

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Thank you for sharing!

[@michaellizotte4586]

watch out for a second hole!!!!!

[@Marc-AndreMenard-Cyr]

Didn't worked for me!

[@zvit]

I poured everything I read online into there for an entire week, every morning and evening, including things I hadn't read about, like gasoline, soap water, garden hose, bleach, ammonia, vinegar, wasp poison, baking soda, baking powder, drano, etc. During the day, they are still flying in and out like nothing happened. I don't know what to do.

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Sounds like you have a mutant species!

[@zvit]

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[@Hawk7886]

At that point I'd be tempted to give up and fill the nest with concrete

[@debbyconnolly7458]

Raid wasp/hornet spray at night

[@JohnDrach]

hook a hose up to your muffler and pipe it in

[@HornetLynx]

Me and my dumb friend sprays it with water, then knocks it down (it worked)

[@gemstone2709]

Didn't work. I have the exact same condition 5 feet from my picnic table. They are all back today and the hose is still in the ground.😬😬

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Blast them again! Hopefully the water in the hose has heated during the day, especially if it's been sunny

[@gemstone2709]

@@howtofixitworkshop I blasted it the next day too but I don't think the water was super hot. My fixer guy blasted it with wasp poison spray the following day and a ton came out and dead now.

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Poison always works too!

[@billinct860]

dish soap and water poured into hole at night will kill them.

[@sksjustice7693]

1/2 a can of Raid wasp and Hornet spray. 1/2 a bottle of Kingsford charcoal lighter fluid. Add lit match into hole. Problem solved.

[@DrGaryGreen]

Didn’t work. Filled the hole for over an hour and never filled up.

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Bummer.. Did you figure out a way that worked for you?

[@snoopfurlow1275]

Bengal dust

[@tieuleortheroux983]

That's one way to make a sink hole😅

[@cmikesmith664]

I was just stung 13 times.

[@howtofixitworkshop]

Oh no! Hope you can get rid of the nest!