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- From: nabil@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Aaron Nabil)
- Newsgroups: or.general
- Subject: Re: Yellow Jackets
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.080934.25478@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 08:09:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Aug19.080934.25478
- References: <1992Aug17.231315.7097@kentrox.uucp> <1992Aug19.052745.29821@leela.cs.orst.edu>
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- nelsonm@leela.cs.orst.edu (Michael Nelson) writes:
- >In <1992Aug17.231315.7097@kentrox.uucp> rolf@kentrox.uucp (Rolf Hahn) writes:
- >>Does anyone have a good remedy to remove an underground nest of
- >>yellow jackets. Yea I suppose I could go at night and dump a whole
- >>lot of insecticide down their hole, but their hole is right near
- >>our vegetable garden and I would like to find a non toxic solution
- >>for their demise. I must have gotten too close to their nest the
- >>other day (about 5 feet away) because I got stung seven times. Is
- >>it because of our mild winter that there seems to be many more this
- >>summer?
- >
- >I would guess that pouring liquid nitrogen down there hole would do
- >a good job of killing the nest with the extreme cold, and probably
- >displacing the oxygen.
-
- I would suggest licencing a 20 curie gamma source from the NRC (very
- reasonably priced, BTW) and burying it next to the nest. It would make all
- of their little hairs fall off and then they would freeze to death in
- the cold night air, and you wouldn't need the liquid nitrogen at all.
-
- My Heliose's Helpful Hints book suggests running a 200kv line from your
- local utility company to opposite ends of your yard and just electrocuting
- them to death. Ha! Talk about silly and impractical, just think of
- how much all that electricity would cost! Better stick with the
- common household stuff like the liquid nitrogen and the PU-239.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- --
- Aaron
- nabil@cse.ogi.edu
-