[pct-l] re bees and other flying, stinging critters.

[Don Billings]

The nest, if killed off, does not need to be dug out. The ants go in to have some chow and the nest simply 
disintegrates. But using gasoline is dangerous. Better to use a commercial pesticide found in your local
garden nursery.

Don




----- Original Message ----
From: Kea <keahiker at gmail.com>
To: Georgi Heitman <bobbnweav at gmail.com>; Pacific Crest Trail List <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Thu, March 25, 2010 5:01:31 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] re bees and other flying, stinging critters.

Georgi,

>From one who has done it a few times:

At night, carefully creep up on the nest.  Don't take a flashlight.  Pour
some petrol into the hole and cover with a sack.  (Do not light the
petrol).  Escape!  The guards won't like you!  The fumes will quickly kill
them.  Dig out the nest in the morning.  If there are two exits, then both
will need to be covered.

Kea



On 26 March 2010 11:43, Georgi Heitman <bobbnweav at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very true, Don.  What we have in at least two places here at The Hideaway
> at
> Old Station (or maybe it's one underground hive with two 'doors',) seem to
> be wasps or yellowjackets that aren't the
> paper-made-hive-hanging-from-an-eave, porch, etc. type, we have the paper
> hive ones as well.  Neither type likes too much company, but the
> in-the-ground ones will tolerate only a few trips back and forth overhead
> before they come boiling out...plus they give chase, for as long as they
> can
> find their target.  And, they really like pant legs and getting under
> shirts!   Since they've made their home underground, I suppose that even
> tho
> it was under minus 10* every night for roughly two weeks last December,
> they
> might have survived the winter.  If so, anyone with the knowledge or
> courage
> to come remove or eradicate this threat to us, our summer help and hikers
> would be ever so welcome!   Mi casa de arbol es su casa de arbol !!!
> Takers, anyone?
> ;-)
> FireFly
> The Hideaway at Old Station (Shasta Co., CA)
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