Hi, I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. I find a more proactive approach in the spring helps a lot. In early spring, the only yellow jackets you'll see are queens that have newly emerged from their overwintering (at least that's the way it is here in the mountains; in much warmer areas, it's possible for a colony to overwinter). Their first priority is to feed and look for a nest location. Here, this happens in April and early May. By mid-June, they've established their nests and have produced and reared enough brood so that they can remain in the nest. So the time to act is before that happens.

That yellow jacket in the backround at 0:48 was a jerk, he just went and pushed his friends to their deaths! It was hilarious though

Wasps: "Oh no, they are drowning!!"

"Wow, look at this pool littered with the drowned bodies of my siblings. I think I'll have a drink."

great advice. with the loss of honey bees, and trying to stay away from insecticides, i added anise hysop to lure them back to our gardens but what was lured in are seriously aggressive yellow jackets. i got stung 4 times simultaneously (on my chest - with no shirt) last summer; walked up on a nest i didn’t know was there. (certain mumbled profanities are omitted from my post at this point...)

Thank you for this interesting tip. I have used another formula this last Spring (Sardinia-Italy) to catch the queens at their first flight, so to avoid them building more colonies, but the formula attracted also the butterflies and his is no good. I certainly try this one and see if it works here. In fact, in my experience, I found out that insects, which are not at all stupid as someone can think, have indeed different tastes, probably depending on different food they find in different areas of the world. in the rest of Italy they are fond of beer and sugar and this formula attracts them perfectly. In Sardinia it simply does not work because they are fond of spiced red wine. Alas, butterflies seem to like it very much as well. Wretched wasps do love my grapes in the vineyard. I need getting rid of most of them, also because I am planning to start beekeeping and I don't want them around. I will try this formula immediately! Btw the trap I used is called TapTrap and is a very simple but effective one. I will try both traps with same formula to see which works better. Thank you!

"Worst hot tub party ever" -Yellow Jacket

These are vicious little creatures.

Who else wanted that giant hornet to fall in so badly....

"The reason I'm speaking so calmly is because all of my aggression is being exerted through the death's of these flying bullets as they sink into my death-trap. Yes. That's right. Drown. All of you. Tell your insect God that Fred sent you."

I like how they see that the pool is literally full of their dead friends and the wasps go "yeah, looks fine to me!"

0:49 Gangster Wasp came from the right side and knocked 3 wasp in to their death

Way to go brother