I Have Yellow Jackets In My Siding

Not all bees are aggressive but if you have yellow jackets you don t want to go near their nest while they are awake.

I have yellow jackets in my siding. Spray treatments can be effective individual yellow jacket killers and can help destroy small to medium sized colonies. Additionally most bee colonies are dormant at night and are congregated in the same place. Yellow jackets are very aggressive. Below i have a description of how i was able to successfully get rid of yellow jackets in the window trim of my house in a single day.

I had a problem with yellow jackets getting in under the aluminum siding above a door on my house so i sat near the nest site occasionally for two days with a st rong shopvac and a long nozzle and caught hundreds of them returning to the nest site. There are a range of yellow jacket pest control options that you can use depending on what methods you are most comfortable with including traps baits sprays and foams. Seriously there s tons of them. Immediately spray an entire can of a quick freeze aerosol product designed to kill yellow jackets into the hole.

To keep yellow jackets from returning properly seal any entrances or holes through which the pests could enter the siding. This would also work for a nest in vinyl or shake siding where access to the nest is restricted. Many of them like many of us have been waiting a long time to get out of the house. Apply dust or insecticide at dusk.

First you will have to locate the opening to the nest. I looked it up and read there are some powders aerosols to spray into the nest but there s a bunch of guards or whatever always sitting outside the entrance and i don t really want to get swarmed by them. You can do this by carefully observing not too close the coming and going of wasps in the area. While wearing protective clothing drill a small hole in the wall as close to the nest as possible.

If you have yellow jackets in the wall the first step is to find the nest. We had to stop using the front door. Try to pinpoint the opening. Typically queens build their paper nests and lay eggs in late spring or early summer.

Yellow jackets have built a nest under the siding on my porch. Sprays are especially convenient when dealing with nests that have been built on structures around the.