Protective Suit Improvised to Remove Nest of Yellowjackets

I had a yellowjacket nest take up residence in a tree by my driveway, and the professional that came to deal with them also used a vacuum cleaner, because he captures the little buggers alive and they get used in antivenom research/production. He wore a protective suit, too, but it was.. well, an actual suit. I obviously didn't watch too closely, but I gathered he just staked out the entrance and sucked them all in as they came and went. Worked like a treat, and I didn't have to spray poison around.

Some endeavor are the soul of industrious seriousness. Others are meant for the entertainment of those involved or observing. It appears that this one was well executed for its primary intention.

I grew up in the country and went up against many yellowjacket nets wearing shorts and a T-shirt. I specialized in catching the entire nest alive in a jar. Takes a special breed of insanity to do it but you can catch a whole nest of yellow jackets with a simple jar. I have been stung by yellowjackets but never while trying to catch them. Now, if you just wanted to kill the nest then take a handful of sevin dust and throw into the nest and get away quickly. That is how took car of large nests in the barn or nests that were in some hard to reach place like inside a cabinet in the tool shop or something like that.

Yellowjackets: 1
Jeans: 0

I salute the man's good old fashioned do-it-yourself attitude. This is why you need to have duct tape around at all times.

Next time, buy a Tyvek auto-painter's suit, a head-sock, and borrow someone's fencing mask.

They also make high-velocity, long-range, shoot 'n' run sprays for this type of thing, inst. of what tequila-man did.

On a related note, there is nothing like seeing a gigantic wasp nest that looks like a beachball-sized DeathStar.