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Hornet help
As a guy in the bug business for 20 yrs. Easiest way to get these fellas is at night. In addition, any insecticidal dust poured, squirted or dumped into the hole will do the job. Doesn't take a lot either, maybe an ounce or so. Number one rule is never to be holding the flash light when you do it. Have someone stand a short distance (15-20 feet) away and 90 degrees out from you pointing the light at the hole as you approach. Best trick is to put the dust in a bottle with a spout, like a plastic ketch up bottle. 2 quick squeezes in the hole and they will be gone by morning. The dust stays where you apply it and doesn't leach down in the water table as petroleum product do.
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The soap breaks down their exoskeleton. Works on all hymenoptera class of insects. Works really well with ants which are in the same class of insects. Like the ones you see coming up in the sidewalks or driveways.
However, usually not quick enough to stop people, not in the know, from being stung.
Sureshot from 15ft away does the trick, but typically better results are achieved when done at night when they are all back in the nest.
But, I am the same guy that does them during the day all the time with dust. Of the thousands I have done, I have never had to retreat them. But I am also the same guy that gets the call from others after they have been stung several times or they have sealed the yellow jackets into their house when they plug the holes.
Have some good old bug stories on the stinging insects out there. Even the one running through the yard waving my hands and jumping in the pool...ha ha ha
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I don't have the little fellas here in Michigan. Nor can I say I have tried the soappy water on fire ants. If I were to try it, I would use a 5 gallon bucket of water mixed with a half a bottle of dawn dish soap to see how it works.
I have put put a link below to a website that specifically deals with the fire ants and their control. Hopefully this will help you out with them.
If they make it to Michigan, then I will get to play with them.
http://www.antcolony.org/fire_ants.htm
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Peters,
Take a look at this url and see if this is what you were talking about.
http://www.forestryimages.org/images/768x512/0001018.jpg
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I bet it is this one then. These guys can get big
http://bugguide.net/node/view/28914
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Brokenarrow,
I haven't seen them select one over the other due to gas. It is mostly the luck of the draw where they start their nests.(depends a lot on where the female overwinters) I have seen them in just about every conceivable area possible. I have had sheds that didn't have them for years and then all of the sudden they show up a couple of years in a row. Then disappear again for years.
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