Well, out here, folks just sit on the porch with some beer or something like, and watch the little buggers land. Just before they land, they shoot their balls off with a .22. The yellowjackets can't reproduce, so when the current generation dies that's it.

But I've improved on that. I shoot their stingers off, and then go in and capture them by hand, put 'em in a sack, and put the sack in the trash pickup. Sometimes I can shoot three or four stingers off with one bullet, so to save ammunition.

Dunno if this would work in Maine, though.