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every once in a while i find a yellow
jacket or ground wasp nest in my yard
unfortunately the way that i find them
is by getting stung
a few years ago i was stung more than 25
times after i ran my lawnmower over the
opening in the ground
that was an awful situation that i never
want to repeat i try to keep a much
better eye on the ground throughout the
year and look for their little dens
which usually have a small almost
perfectly round hole a little bigger
than a quarter and usually in somewhat
of a bare spot in the yard with this
nest i was much better off i got close
enough to the nest for one of the
soldiers to sting my ankle but i didn't
run over the full nest here's a look at
my swollen ankle the next day anyway
there are several remedies for how to
destroy these nests and i've tried a few
in the past i decided to take a
different approach this time i used my
garden hose to drown the nest this is
kind of a reenactment here but i
basically just waited until dark when
the nest was inactive and quickly pushed
the hose down into the hole as deep as
it would go then turn the water on full
blast for at least 10 minutes i left the
hose in the ground overnight and
throughout the next day after the sun
heated the hose and any water left in it
i blasted the nest a second time with
very hot water this method seemed to
work very well no more yellow jackets if
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