I Have Yellow Jackets In My Siding

You can do this by carefully observing not too close the coming and going of wasps in the area.

I have yellow jackets in my siding.

Many of them like many of us have been waiting a long time to get out of the house. This will give you ample light with which to work but the yellow jackets will be settling in for the night lowering the chances that you will be stung while working with the chemicals. Not all bees are aggressive but if you have yellow jackets you don t want to go near their nest while they are awake. Apply dust or insecticide at dusk.

Sprays are especially convenient when dealing with nests that have been built on structures around the. 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. 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. While wearing protective clothing drill a small hole in the wall as close to the nest as possible.

Additionally most bee colonies are dormant at night and are congregated in the same place. If you have yellow jackets in the wall the first step is to find the nest. We had to stop using the front door. Yellow jackets have built a nest under the siding on my porch.

You will have to be able to find it later in the dark. Seriously there s tons of them. Applying the pesticide here and now is the best way to ensure that it reaches and impacts as many bees as possible. 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.

To keep yellow jackets from returning properly seal any entrances or holes through which the pests could enter the siding. Try to pinpoint the opening. First you will have to locate the opening to the nest. Immediately spray an entire can of a quick freeze aerosol product designed to kill yellow jackets into the hole.

This would also work for a nest in vinyl or shake siding where access to the nest is restricted. Yellow jackets are very aggressive.