You'd have been better to light it.Had a nest in the garden. One of the strawberry plant holes in the landscape fabric groundcover.
I didn't want to use poison or chemicals in the garden. So I started with various strengths of diluted vinegar poured in the hole. Didn't effect them much.
Made a cool bottle funnel trap and used beer for the bait. Pretty happy to see a couple dozen bees floating, right off the bat. A week later, bees still flying in and out, numbers in the trap about the same.
Said screw it and poured in a few glugs from the gas can. That worked. No flame needed.
Wonder how long and how big of an area might be effected longer term from the gas in the garden?
If you "glugged" in less than a cup of gas, that 5 or 6 ounces has enough **** in it to contaminate over 50,000 gallons of water beyond safe limits. Unless you are okay with ball cancer.
No big deal, usually. But it can be.
There are a lot of chemicals we deal with on a regular basis that really are unfu**withable.