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.
Kill yellow jacket nest in siding.
More yellow jackets will be inside during the night.
Yellow jackets are very aggressive.
This is when yellow jackets hornets and wasps are the least active and most concentrated in the nest.
You will have to be able to find it later in the dark.
However these wasps are difficult to kill effectively especially if you want to avoid being stung.
Removing the yellowjackets from the siding is only way to guarantee their elimination.
First you will have to locate the opening to the nest.
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 build their nests in cavities and crevices such as a wall void beneath eaves under porches and rodent burrows in the ground.
If you have one available consider wearing a mask to protect your face.
Although some types of yellow jackets nest in trees or under eaves others build below ground.
But yellow jackets are aggressive defenders of their nests emerging to attack when threatened.
You may need more than one container of your chosen insecticide to completely saturate.
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.
The key to eliminating a yellow jacket nest in a structure is to get control materials all the way into the nest.
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.
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.
They will sting repeatedly and will put out an attack pheromone that.
Yellow jackets congregate in their nest during the night to escape from cooler outside temperatures.
If you treat during the day many yellow jackets will be out of the nest and will survive the.
Nests treated with aerosols will almost always bounce back.
Kill wasps hornets and yellow jackets in above ground nests with ortho home defense hornet wasp.
Try to pinpoint the opening.
If yellow jackets build a hive near inside your home you will probably need to find a way to eliminate them.
