Yellow Jacket Exterminator

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I've had 3 different hives of these. Two were under ground. And one was under the seat of a garden tractor. The first time I ran into an under ground nest, I was mowing, and thought, just hold the mower over the nest, stupid idea, they chased me up my deep yard and followed me across the street. I came back and used a whole spray can of wasp killer, and this ended that nest. A few years later different area, and again finding them while mowing, I went out and got the can of wasp killer, from 15 feet away I sprayed, and one followed the stream and stung my on my lip. My face swelled up. So I fount that nest ran sideways and the wasp spray was missing most of them. I waited till after dark, and poured a quart of gasoline into the nest, and covered the hole with a rock. That ended their existence. The garden tractor seat was tough as it had a vinyl cover. I was not going to disturb them during the day, so after dark, I punched holes in the vinyl, and used gasoline again to exterminate them.
I wish I could get along with Yellow Jackets, but they are just too mean, I've had to have an Adrenalin shot in the past from a serious reaction. But that was before moving to where I've lived for the past 35 years. It was my parents back yard, and as a kid I got stung just walking by, these were under ground. The next year ran into some walking by a pine tree, and my hand brushed their paper nest, that's when I got stung and my whole body swelled and had serious hives everywhere.
My experience is these are damn aggressive wasps, and are not compatible with sharing the property with.
The European paper wasps are the ones I see up under the building eves. They seem OK if you don't mess with them.