okay so I had a problem here we have
Yellowjackets in the ground and this is
in the yard of an 87 year old woman and
she can't mow or weed whack around her
garden because of these little ground
wasps which are Yellowjackets so I'm
gonna do something different here I
don't normally use pesticides or
insecticides anywhere on my own property
but I had to do something definitive in
this case and I did use pesticide here
now it comes in a powder form this is
the one-pound Delta dust and here's the
jar it is an insecticide but as
insecticides go this is a very low-key
Delta Mathurin point zero five percent
now for those of you you're curious
about what that is that's the same stuff
that's put on many dog and cat flea
collars so it's considered extremely
safe for mammals extremely safe for
people unsafe for things like these
Yellowjackets now what I want to do here
is because they activate when there's
vibration somebody walks by rides a
mower by uses a weed whacker I wanted to
get them boiling out here and I want to
see really what the population is in the
ground as it turns out this is a very
large nest of Yellowjackets now for
those of you don't know Yellowjackets
will come out in groups like this
they'll cling to your pant legs and they
will steam you multiple times while they
hold on and they stay in groups so
Yellowjackets are very annoying and when
it comes to very young people or pets or
in this case an elderly woman they can
be actually dangerous and I can put
someone to shock so we're dusting them
up here with the Delta dust now
throughout this test I used about 50% of
this one-pound container I did not buy
aspirator that some people use I
recommend that you really don't need
that you can just cut the tip off of the
bottle here and puff it right in and I
found that it's gonna give it a nice
long even puff it carries quite a
distance down this hole so I consider it
to be probably the most effective for
circumstances like this now something I
do want you to notice this is not what I
would call a knockdown pesticide so
you're not gonna go up to a nest of
Hornets with this Delta dust and puff it
and expect them to fall out of the sky
and dial around you what they do do is
fly out in every direction these wasps
were flying a hundred feet or more as
they came out of course they flew all
over me I am wearing protective clothing
and I also am wearing a respirator as a
precaution even though the danger levels
are extremely low when it comes to the
risk to people
so again Delta matheran is the active
ingredient Delta dust is the product and
what I'm showing you here is a condensed
five-minute review of what actually took
place over a twenty five minute time
frame what I did notice is the wasps
came flying out and they took off and
flew to nearby trees they flew into
grapevines
they go in every direction so if you're
gonna walk out here without protection
and puff a bunch of Delta dust into a
hole you need to be prepared to get
under cover somewhere you need to have
some protective clothing they are going
to come out now remember I did thump the
ground and I agitated them a little bit
if you just walked up and sprayed the
dust in there I suppose the response
would be much reduced but I like to get
them active because I want those that
are in deep shelter to come out and get
through this dust and get it all over
them and then I want them to carry that
throughout the nest and what we're
finding is out of preservation they come
out and fly away and don't return
now what was curious to the Scouts those
foraging wasps that have been out are
constantly returning they don't seem
affected by the dust at all and they
bomb right into the hole and then
ultimately they're going to die so it's
a slow process now some people say just
get a hose and get some soapy water and
pour it in there
well the way they construct these
underground tunnel systems they're at
multi levels and if the ground is pretty
absorbent which this is it's a garden
area the water that you pour in is going
to miss their primary brood chambers
which is what we really want to get with
the desk so soap and water might be a
temporary fix to knock him down it would
not kill the nest unless you did it
multiple times and of course covered and
buried them until they died this way it
works definitively their neurological
systems here are going to be
knocked out by this Delta matheran and
as of this morning so we're talking
about 18 hours after I did this she does
not see a single wasp going in or out of
this hole so I would say that it worked
extremely well so as a knockdown
immediate killer it is not a success but
as a definitive killer if you have
overnight if you have plenty of time to
work with it and you don't mind that
they are going to fly out while they're
covered in this powder it's a very very
effective and what I consider to be a
very safe pesticide
Delta dust so thanks for watching and I hope you benefitted.
hope you benefited