Yellow Jackets??????

I would get an exterminator unless you are willing to take the risk of finding their nest. We had a paper wasp nest in a tree a few years ago. My brother was over and being the risk taker he is, climbed the tree and took it down. It was empty but they are not as bad as regular yellow jackets.

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Hi J.,

Yellow Jackets are incredibly aggressive. My 7 year old daughter and father were playing hide and seek and stumbled over a bed and we ended up at the hospital with 24 stings on my daughter and even more on my elderly Dad. I didn't even realized they were stinging him because he was beating them off of her. By the time I got her to safety, I saw him still fighting them off in the back yard. Fortunately the benadryl that the hospital gave them was all they needed but my daughter (now 19) is still terrified of stinging things.

I agree with Jo...go the exterminator route. They are worth every penny.

God bless!

M.

I am with Jo W. Get an exterminator...What's your safety and the safety of your family worth????

I'd get an exterminator, if you can't block them from their homes. We have a bad hornet problem right by our back door (which is the one we use)...they were living in the steel tube railings on our porch. There were little holes they could get into the tubes through. My husband (bravely? Stupidly?) went out and scotch taped all the holes...they swarmed the holes for about a day, and then they all disappeared.

If it were ME, though...I'd get an exterminator. We just can't afford one.

I just had this problem myself, but it was on our balcony. My husband went to the store and got "Rid Bee Spray" it got rid of all of them and it worked pretty great. It was only $3 too.

A tip though, if you are going to get rid of them yourself, I have heard to wait until nighttime because they are sleeping, and all in there, so you are killing all of them.

They are nasty I have had many run in's with them, and its painful to get stung. Be careful!

Get the money and get a professional. They are really mean and nasty. Don't even mess with them.

You wait until night when they're sluggish and asleep. I've heard you can pour cement down their hole. You can also buy wasp killer. The guy who did ours used some kind of non-chemical stuff that was safer for us and the environment, but not for the wasps, of course! Never try it when they're awake, though! I would Google it, too, and look on YouTube.

I've never dealt with ground-dwelling yellow jackets, but I have done some wasp extermination. I bought a can of special wasp spray, and it killed them dead in mid flight like they were frozen, I've never seen insect spray work like that before. Apparently yellow jackets mark an aggressor (you), and go after you. Be very careful!