However these wasps are difficult to kill effectively especially if you want to avoid being stung.
Kill yellow jacket nest in siding.
If you have one available consider wearing a mask to protect your face.
By treating at night you ensure that you kill the most yellow jackets all at once.
You can do this by carefully observing not too close the coming and going of wasps in the area.
Yellow jackets build their nests in cavities and crevices such as a wall void beneath eaves under porches and rodent burrows in the ground.
While you can minimize the risk of being stung by wearing multiple layers of clothing and working to kill them during the night when they are less active and their numbers are more.
Yellow jackets are very aggressive.
Removing the yellowjackets from the siding is only way to guarantee their elimination.
Yellow jackets congregate in their nest during the night to escape from cooler outside temperatures.
You will have to be able to find it later in the dark.
Once you locate the nest whether it is overhead or from ground nesting hornets put on protective clothing such as pants a long sleeve shirt long socks and a hat and prepare for a spray and run.
If you treat during the day many yellow jackets will be out of the nest and will survive the.
Although some types of yellow jackets nest in trees or under eaves others build below ground.
Try to pinpoint the opening.
First you will have to locate the opening to the nest.
But yellow jackets are aggressive defenders of their nests emerging to attack when threatened.
When the nest is easily visible a foaming aerosol will both cover the openings and expand into the nest to trap and kill the yellow jackets.
Wear long sleeves long pants and gloves to protect your body.
Choose an aerosol with a long range jet spray that will allow you to stand back from the nest and still be effective.
The key to eliminating a yellow jacket nest in a structure is to get control materials all the way into the nest.
They will sting repeatedly and will put out an attack pheromone that.
While yellow jackets tend to die out in the colder months freeing us from their constant buzzing threats nests protected by the siding of your home may continue to survive even after the weather is traditionally too cold.
This is when yellow jackets hornets and wasps are the least active and most concentrated in the nest.
If yellow jackets build a hive near inside your home you will probably need to find a way to eliminate them.
Nests treated with aerosols will almost always bounce back.
You may need more than one container of your chosen insecticide to completely saturate.
