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Beekeeping => Pests and Diseases => Topic started by: jb63 on September 05, 2019, 09:48:45 am

Title: Yellow jackets
Post by: jb63 on September 05, 2019, 09:48:45 am

Last year I used onslaught and cat food for yellow jackets. That is what O.S.U. recomends. This year a friend across the river told me to use fipronil . It's the active ingredient in frontline dog flea medicine . So far I fed two cans of cat food in a cage, laced with 5 drops of fipronil and I have no yellow jackets for the first time ever. I usually loose at least three hives every year to yellow jackets so you can bet I've tried every kind of trap out there. 

Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: iddee on September 05, 2019, 01:59:47 pm

Where do you buy the fipronil?

Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: Mikey N.C. on September 06, 2019, 09:23:25 pm

2x

Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: jb63 on September 09, 2019, 12:25:45 am

Amazon, it's the active ingredient in front line tick and flea med. for dogs. I bought the generic brand for $16.
 

Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: jb63 on September 09, 2019, 12:29:30 am

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41NdcjZi-7L.jpg

Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: Mikey N.C. on September 15, 2019, 02:29:02 pm

Any pics of trap?

Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: jb63 on September 18, 2019, 10:59:31 am

(https://i.ibb.co/QY7ptsZ/15688187264028016272541453909122.jpg) (https://ibb.co/QY7ptsZ)