I hate these stupid ass motherfuckers. Yellowjackets will leave you alone if you leave them alone, simple as that.
I have a nest of them in my garden currently, they took over a compost bin. I went right up to them and was fucking around with the compost before realizing they were there. They started swarming so I immediately stopped moving, then after a few seconds, slowly took my hand out, waited a few more seconds, then put the lid back on the bin and secured it, then slowly backed away. Didn't get stung at all even though I basically touched some of them and messed with their shelter.
But no these Big Tough Manly Men™ on reddit.com are so scared of them that they will burn them alive, drown them, stomp on them, poison them, etc. Fucking pathetic.
ETA: Read up, libs
so wait are you just not using your compost bin anymore because the yellow jackets did some land reform on it?
I've got three of them so it's nbd. I'm getting more benefit from them hanging around and eating pests (the cabbage worms have been especially bad this year and jackets eat them) than missing one bin's worth of compost for a season.
Also it's still composting even with them living there, just slower because I can't turn it. When they eventually move out or die off I'll still have some good compost. Enriched by the jackets even!
What would you do if you didn't have 3 compost bins?
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:stalin-shining: but fr they're just trash cans with holes drilled
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ah but if you use the same piece of plastic for a really long time it's an incredibly durable material that means you don't have to replace things often. I'm holding on to mine until we run out of oil and they become unreproducible marvels
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yeah of course it depends on the type of plastic when did I imply I didn't think that
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sorry it's very hard to read tone over text
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bruh relax
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Be mildly irritated but not enough to do anything about it
Wait you'd stop composting? That would kill a lot more animals than a few wasps though.
Huh? How would animals die if I stopped using a compost bin?
by throwing food in landfills, which reduces what you can grow from the compost by a little, which increases the amount that is factory farmed just a little.
Oh that makes sense but also wouldn't be a problem then because all winter I put food scraps in a bag in the freezer to compost when everything warms up. Id just do that until getting another bin or the jackets leave.
Neat.
I think sometimes these bugs gotta be removed because kids will try to injure themselves anyway possible, but you also can leave them alone like here.