Kill Yellow Jacket Nest In Siding

You will have to be able to find it later in the dark.

Kill yellow jacket nest in siding. Yellow jackets are very aggressive. 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. Nests treated with aerosols will almost always bounce back. Although some types of yellow jackets nest in trees or under eaves others build below ground.

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. Removing the yellowjackets from the siding is only way to guarantee their elimination. If you have one available consider wearing a mask to protect your face.

Try to pinpoint the opening. 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. By treating at night you ensure that you kill the most yellow jackets all at once. However these wasps are difficult to kill effectively especially if you want to avoid being stung.

First you will have to locate the opening to the nest. 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. The key to eliminating a yellow jacket nest in a structure is to get control materials all the way into the nest. Spraying the entry point with a liquid wasp spray or other aerosol will kill a lot of yellow jackets but you will not get material into the nest itself.

Yellow jackets build their nests in cavities and crevices such as a wall void beneath eaves under porches and rodent burrows in the ground. Choose an aerosol with a long range jet spray that will allow you to stand back from the nest and still be effective. More yellow jackets will be inside during the night. If yellow jackets build a hive near inside your home you will probably need to find a way to eliminate them.

If you treat during the day many yellow jackets will be out of the nest and will survive the. Wear long sleeves long pants and gloves to protect your body. Yellow jackets congregate in their nest during the night to escape from cooler outside temperatures. But yellow jackets are aggressive defenders of their nests emerging to attack when threatened.

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