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.

You will have to be able to find it later in the dark. Many of them like many of us have been waiting a long time to get out of the house. Yellow jackets have built a nest under the siding on my porch. Seriously there s tons of 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. 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. This would also work for a nest in vinyl or shake siding where access to the nest is restricted. First you will have to locate the opening to the nest.

Sprays are especially convenient when dealing with nests that have been built on structures around the. To keep yellow jackets from returning properly seal any entrances or holes through which the pests could enter the siding. Yellow jackets are very aggressive. While wearing protective clothing drill a small hole in the wall as close to the nest as possible.

Try to pinpoint the opening. Applying the pesticide here and now is the best way to ensure that it reaches and impacts as many bees as possible. Immediately spray an entire can of a quick freeze aerosol product designed to kill yellow jackets into the hole. We had to stop using the front door.

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. Apply dust or insecticide at dusk. 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.

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. If you have yellow jackets in the wall the first step is to find the nest.