A bit off the renewable energy topic, but I have found another good way to get rid of yellow jacket nests. If you have skunks in the area, just throw a piece of fish scrap or juice from canned tuna or sardines near the nest (at night!) and within a couple of days the skunks will find the nest and destroy it. They love yellow jacket grubs and just have to find the nest. They will dig out the nest and chew it up. Problem solved. I've done this several times with good results.
Brian Teitelbaum AEE Solar From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Oldham Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 1:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Wasps, rats and mice no more this is my gem - Dryer sheets (like Bounce) these hideous things smell God-awful to me and it seems many other lifeforms as well. I wear latex gloves or use my needle nose to touch them! A mouse, rat, wasp and most anything will not get within several feet of these noxious things! I put them in gensets, electrical enclosures, tractors, quads, under the hood of vehicles, battery boxes, washing machines etc. Anywhere you want the devils away from. They seem to last about 3 months. These will save you a fortune in mouse chewed wires and manifold nests when under your hood. A customer recently paid a few $100 for a new wiring harness in his genset due to mice antics. If you have issues that call for a spray approach I recently discovered an effective "safe" natural organic insecticide - EcoSmart. This contains only essential oils of Rosemary, Clove and Peppermint that naturally contain Octopamine that disrupts the central nervous system in invertebrates. You can spray it on eatables and consume the same day as these oils are completely harmless to mammals. I say "safe" because it does get to nearly all invertebrates like Honey bees and lady bugs for example, use carefully. Personally, for these reasons I do not use it around plants. Mostly for ant invasions is my use. I found it at Ace Hardware and I see that Home D. carries it too. For in ground yellow jackets (meat bees to some) at night place a clear glass bowel over the entry and berm up as short as possible a dirt seal around the edge. The hornets will come out and see daylight and do not attempt to dig a new way out and the entire nest will dehydrate after 3-5 days in feeble attempts to fly to the sky. This time of the year I chase queen yellow jackets with one of those fly zapper "tennis rackets" and put them down before they nest. each queen you take out means 15,000-60,000 less hornets in your area! The queens are the 1st out in the season for several weeks and are huge, 2-4x the size of the workers. Please don't dump chem's into the earth! OK, I'm on a roll - a little piece of scotch tape on a mosquito bite will instantly stop the itch for good (unless you scratched the hell out of it 1st). -jeff o >From the Solar, Wind and Hydro powered office of Jeff Oldham/Regenerative >SOLutions ____________________________________________________________ Fast, Secure, NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband. Try it.<http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT2>
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