 I knew where the inground nest was and I went out after dark to destroy it. There were over a dozen hornets guarding the entrance. I had a gallon of gasoline which I poured on them and into the hole going to their nest.
|  The next day, I went back to make sure I had killed them. There was no activity at the nest site, so I figured the gallon of gasoline did the trick. I started digging into the ground to find the nest.
|  This is the paper covering they built around their nests. It is an amazing structure and houses many, many yellow jackets.
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 I took this picture to try to give a little bit of dimension to the nest. The entire nest is about half the size of a basketball.
|  Here, I peeled away the outer layer of paper. It revealed six tiers of nests. I read the hornets make their nests out of paper or wood they chew.
|  This is after I pulled the six tiers apart. Yellow Jackets were falling all over the place. Thank goodness they were all dead.
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 This picture and the previous one show the intricateness of their nest and how they place their larvae.
|  When I pulled the nest out, yellow jackets fell everywhere. This many again fell outside the hole. They won the battle but I won the war.
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