Yellow Jackets are brightly-colored pieces of wearing apparel.
Yellowjackets are flying insects.
I wish people would stop putting an unnecessary and incorrect space in
that name.
One of the local High Schools has done exactly the same thing.
73
Don
N8DE
Quoting Jim Nail <james.nail@att.net>:
> Yellow jackets will win the ACC this year! Go Yellow Jackets!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Roger (K8RI)" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
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> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:20:18
> To: TOWERTALK@contesting.com<TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Yellow Jackets
>
>
> A day or so ago I responded in a private e-mail about having the bees
> and Yellow Jackets related to the "Adolph's" and "flying critters thread(s)
>
> I thought this part might be pertinent along with some caveats I didn't
> put in the other reply.
>
> Yellow jackets are something else. They managed to get under the floor
> in our garage. For some strange reason I could walk right through where
> they were coming in and going out without them bothering me, but I saw
> them chase several people right down the driveway.
>
> Last fall, (DO NOT DO THIS IN WARM WEATHER WHEN THEY ARE ACTIVE! ) I
> took several cans of the soft, expandable foam and really filled up the
> cracks, so that even if they did get into the cracks there was nothing
> but foam on the other side. We didn't have a single one this year. I
> pushed the tube on the can as far back in as I could and just let the
> foam go in until it started coming back out. In one place where the
> small hole opened into a cavity under the garage floor, I stuck a small
> piece of Tygon Tubing about 2' to 3' long over the tube on the can of
> foam. I then slide the tube back in as far as I could get it and put in
> a full can of foam. I filled every crack in the concrete floor and
> between the concrete blocks in the foundation.
>
> THE REASON for not doing this in warm weather when they are active is
> thus: I waited until dark when the Yellow Jackets were no longer active
> and then sealed up the holes. The next morning, my wife woke around
> 8:00 to ask me to take a look in the garage. Each of the lights was a
> MASS of Yellow Jackets, The North garage window was covered with
> them...So I carefully eased my self into the garage and slowly walked
> over to the East man door which I slowly opened and then went back into
> the kitchen. None of those very unhappy Yellow Jackets paid any
> attention to me, or it appeared that way. A half hour later the only
> ones left in the garage were the ones hanging on the NW light fixture
> and the North window, which I dispatched with one of those cans of "bee
> killer" that shoots a solid stream close to 20'. I opened up the one
> hole to the outside that night and did no further sealing until fall!
> <:-)) The moral of the story is that if you miss a way out they won't
> and it may not be in a place to your liking. I began to worry they'd
> show up in the basement!
>
> BTW when shooting bees with that "bee killer" ALWAYS have a way out if
> you miss some. A second can for backup can sometimes be handy too. I
> found that out when I tried to get all the ones in the range vent on the
> roof. I used almost two full cans and ended up with a pile of Wasps
> about a foot and a half across and several inches deep. I was getting
> worried toward the end of that second can, but fortunately I ran out of
> bees before I ran out of spray....but it was close! <:-)) Close enough
> to be exciting as I was standing near the top of a tall step ladder at
> the time.
>
> 5 or 6 years ago we had Wasps, boy did we have wasps. I've forgotten
> how many nests I removed but it was well into several digits. They were
> behind the shutters, behind the siding, in the trees, over garage doors.
> While I was in the shop they built one in the top corner of the man door
> on the hinge side and it was already the size of a lemon. When I opened
> the door, the nest went into the space between the door and door jam.
> When I closed the door (not knowing the nest was there) the door
> squashed it. Two of them got me right between the shoulders. It felt
> like I'd been hit with a hammer. Fortunately I had gotten over my
> allergy to them by then. Unfortunately I could not reach between my
> shoulder blades so all I could do with those was let them hurt, but
> there was very little swelling, probably less than normal and it quit
> hurting within an hour or so.
>
> In one day they built one nest bigger than a football over the 16' wide
> garage door on the shop. They also built one behind the siding on the
> South end of the house that was large enough to pop the siding off up by
> the peak. The darn things were even building nests in the doors and side
> view mirrors on the cars. Working on the tower would find them buzzing
> around my head but they didn't go after me. I think they did have a
> home inside the mast above the rotator though. This time all the
> masting has caps welded on to seal them. That way I don't have to *try*
> to paint the inside to prevent rust.
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
>
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