I Have Yellow Jackets In My Siding

Seriously there s tons of them.

I have yellow jackets in my siding.

Apply dust or insecticide at dusk. Yellow jackets are very aggressive. While wearing protective clothing drill a small hole in the wall as close to the nest as possible. 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.

To keep yellow jackets from returning properly seal any entrances or holes through which the pests could enter the siding. 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. Not all bees are aggressive but if you have yellow jackets you don t want to go near their nest while they are awake. If you have yellow jackets in the wall the first step is to find the nest.

Yellow jackets have built a nest under the siding on my porch. 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. Additionally most bee colonies are dormant at night and are congregated in the same place. Spray treatments can be effective individual yellow jacket killers and can help destroy small to medium sized colonies.

Immediately spray an entire can of a quick freeze aerosol product designed to kill yellow jackets into the hole. 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. You will have to be able to find it later in the dark. First you will have to locate the opening to the nest.

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. Sprays are especially convenient when dealing with nests that have been built on structures around the. Try to pinpoint the opening. You can do this by carefully observing not too close the coming and going of wasps in the area.

We had to stop using the front door. This would also work for a nest in vinyl or shake siding where access to the nest is restricted.