Happiness is finding a yellow jacket nest just inches from your front door...

[MrScorpio]

And wiping that motherfucker out single-handedly with nary a problem.

Victory is mine!

[Denninmi]

1. So, how did you do it?

Bug killer, drowning, fire, honey and a skunk?

[MrScorpio]

2. I lucked out, as it was cool this morning and they were lethargic

I knocked down the nest with a stick and came back and hit it with a bucket of soapy water. I took out the stragglers with a broom. After that I crushed the nest.

I was stung by yellow jackets as a child, so I was very careful to not be around when the nest hit the ground.

[pipi_k]

6. I don't like killing living things but

my sorrow doesn't extend to executing yellow jackets and wasps.

I, too, was stung as a child by yellow jackets (once it was whole nest of them and I was covered in stings).

Another particularly vile pest we have in my area are white-faced bees, who make their nests in the ground.

They are, if possible, even more nasty than yellow jackets and wasps.


I co-exist peacefully with honeybees and bumblebees, though.

[Kennah]

12. I tangled with bald faced hornets once. Nasty motherfuckers.

[Denninmi]

3. I haven't been outside yet, but it looks nice.

More my kind of weather.

I want to try the "honey and a skunk" method if I find any of the underground yellow jacket nests this year.

You pour about a cup of honey down the hole and around it at dusk. In the night, wandering animals such as raccoons, skunks, or opossums find it, and will tear apart the nest and eat the wasps. A lot of people say it works.

[MrScorpio]

5. This one was attached to the corner of my living room window

I doubt if honey and skunkin' it would have done me any good.

[bigwillq]

4. Murderer

[cliffordu]

7. I always set the self destruct and nuke it from space.

It's the only way to be sure.

(Ripley, "Aliens&quot

[ohiosmith]

8. Been nice knowing you man! Wait till momma finds out.......

[pinboy3niner]

9. I love the smell of napalm in the morning!

[Riftaxe]

10. Beats my story of deciding to put up gutters on the back porch

and after a few hammer strokes finding out there is a wasp nest hidden under the eaves that does not care for hammering....

haven't run that fast since high school track

[Archae]

11. Every year I read about some idiot who decides to take out a wasp nest...

With a home-made flamethrower, made out of a can of hairspray and a lighter.

You got it, they burn down the house.

(Didn't the Mythbusters make one of those?)

[petronius]

13. Not many people know this, but your yellow-jacket speech was actually the first

draft for the Conan "What is best in life?" scene. It had to be changed because Arnie couldn't pronounce "nary"...