Yes, somebody does! There's a recent thread with this exact problem. Did you know that hornets ate mosquitoes?

Be careful. Unlike bees, yellow jackets are wasps and they're mean boogers.

Karen

Leave them alone and they'll leave you alone.

Only several months til the colony dies.

Yellow jackets are mean, they'll chase you...

We had wasps or hornets making nests in the awnings around my house. I hung yogurt cups with mothballs in them and no more nests. Maybe you could put some cups around your compost? Maybe with caps to keep the rain off.

I recently posted about how yellowjackets attacked me. I learned that come cold weather, only the queen will be left, and that often she leaves the nest to make a new one elsewhere. That's the time to encourage them to leave your compost pile.

Rain2Fall

Thank you, everyone, for helping me. I will just sit and wait until the workers die off, then I will get the compost out of there and start a new pile going.

This is the type of flower I mainly grow in containers, Ipomoea nil (Japanese morning glory / Asagao). I love growing them...so may cultivars, I'll never run out.

Joseph

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Wow, that's beautiful.

Karen

Last year while turning my compost i was attacked by yj bees and had my first moderate-severe allergic reaction to 5 stings. Man i was pretty scared, and that makes it worse, like getting bit by a venomous snake- stay calm?- not easy when your hands and feet feel like they are on FIRE as your tongue and throat start to swell. I broke my no pesticde rule and thru sevin in the hole. It killed them in 24 hrs..The nest was where my 4 little kids play and i needed to deal with the problem asap.. In the fall i dug all contaminated compost out and re-composted it in a tumbler. I now have some epinephrine handy. I also steer clear of yj, honey bees are so much nicer.

Ha! SEVIN!

I'm gonna go get the little buggers. They attacked me and I got 8 stings.

Rain2Fall

Thanks for your comments on my photos of the morning glories I have grown. If you would like to see more, I have listed the link to my photostream on Flickr.com below. If anyone would like to try any of these gems, let me know.

Best regards,

Joseph

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Here is a link that might be useful: Gerris2's flickr photostream

you insisted that i already have an account so i just "changed" my password and am typing the following all over again: i can't store compost inside the house for months hoping that the yellowjackets might eventually leave!