How do I get rid of Yellow Jackets?
Yellow Jacket wasps are best left to pest management professionals with proper protective equipment. Yellow Jacket colonies are at their peak during August and September in Western New York containing hundreds to thousands of adult wasps. They are often very aggressive when their colony is approached especially during warmer weather. They can sting aggressively and pose a health threat to sensitive individuals and because of the potential for multiple stings. Buffalo Exterminating receives an average of 50 calls per day during their peak season for yellow jackets alone. We offer service within days for situations such as wasps behind siding.
Yellow Jacket wasps are best left to pest management professionals with proper protective equipment at this time of year. Yellow Jacket colonies are at their peak during August and September in Western New York containing hundreds to thousands of adult wasps. They are often very aggressive when their colony is approached especially during warmer weather. They can sting aggressively and pose a health threat to sensitive individuals and because of the potential for multiple stings.Fumex Exterminating is receiving an average of 50 calls per day right now for yellow jackets alone. We offer service within a few days for situations such as wasps behind siding.
The first hard freeze of the winter will kill them off. Then you can get in there and get rid of the hive. That is, if they’re really yellow jackets. Bees may be something else. Otherwise, I wait for dark, when they’re all at home and spray them with one of those things that you can stand 20 feet away with. But you must destroy the nest, no matter what else you do.
Yellow jackets make their nests in the ground. If these are in the ground then you should wait until after dark, when all of the bees will be back in the nest. Fill a small soda bottle with gasoline and pour it in the hole that they were entering, they will be dead by the next morning. If they are in a hive as you have indicated then they would be wasps or hornets and if this is the case you should get someone to remove them for you.
