Destroying a Dangerous Yellow Jacket Nest With Soapy Water (Safe For Honey Bees & Pets)

A yellow jacket nest in your lawn is not what most folks think it is. That hole the size of a coin is a chimney — the nest itself sits eight to eighteen inches under it, off to one side, in a chamber the wasps dug out themselves. That is why the boiling water fails, why the rock on top fails, and why the can of spray only kills the ones that come out to meet you. This is the whole method, plain: one cup of dish soap to a gallon of warm water, poured down that hole in the dark. About a dollar. No poison in your ground, nothing left behind for a dog to lick or a child to find, and not one honeybee touched — and in the video I show you exactly why soapy water drowns a wasp in two seconds when plain water cannot drown her at all. THE FREE ONE-PAGE SHEET apa-lead.vercel.app/yellow-jackets Print it and tape it inside the shed door. It does not cost you a thing and there is no email to give. On the page: 1. The mix, with the exact measures — and how many gallons for an August nest 2. The hour and the temperature, and why a cool night in early September is the best there is 3. How to find and mark the hole in daylight, from thirty feet 4. The light rule that puts people in hospital, and what to wear so nothing gets in 5. The pour itself, four seconds, step by step 6. What that hole should look like the next morning, and the three reasons it missed 7. Sting care and the warning signs, along the bottom CHAPTERS 0:00 The nest you found with a lawnmower 1:50 That hole is not the nest 2:37 What a dollar of dish soap actually does 3:57 Under the ground: one queen in April 5:45 Why they are worse in September 6:50 Two facts about your skin 7:55 Gasoline, boiling water and plugging: why they fail 10:06 The physics: it is plumbing, not poison 12:28 The method, step by step 18:13 The next morning 19:56 Stings, and the warning signs that matter 21:44 Keeping them out next August 23:33 The whole thing, in order A WORD ON SAFETY Never gasoline. The vapour sits low and finds a spark, and it poisons the ground near your well for years afterward. Never flood a nest that is inside a wall or a soffit — that drives them into the house. And if you already know you react badly to stings, you do not pour this bucket: somebody else pours it. A small number of people are severely allergic. Hives coming up away from the sting, swelling of the lips, tongue or eyelids, a tight chest or noisy breathing, faintness or a thick throat is an emergency — get help immediately. This channel is plain homestead practice, not professional pest control and not medical advice. And if yours is the kind of place where something is always nesting somewhere, there is a fuller guide down on that same page that walks through the whole year, month by month. We do one of these every week. Plain methods, out of the pantry and the general store, the way these things were handled before any of it came in a plastic jug with a warning label.