Anyone else having a bad year for yellow jackets? Wife mowed the yard yesterday and got stung a couple of times on her arm. When I got home, I asked her to show me where it happened in the yard. Found the nest going in beside some old landscape timbers around a flower bed. Got the powdered Sevin out and dumped it on the hole and also got stung on the arm. First nest I have found here in 30 years. No flyers in and out today.
Talked to my cousin who lives about 10 miles away and the guy cutting his grass yesterday, found 8 different yellow jacket nest in his yard. He had a really old bag, about 30 years old, of 50% Sevin and he said it took care of the pests in very short order.
2 weekends ago, we were up at our place in the mountains and I noticed something sticking out the bottom of our breaker box on the service pole. Turns out the yellow jackets had build inside under the cover and was expanding it out the bottom. Couple cans of wasp and hornet spray took care of them. Then I went to put the power cord back into the "hole" in the side of the camper and got covered up with more yellow jackets. Turns out they had built an exposed nest on the bottom of the camper and it was about the size of a cantaloupe. Looked just like a hornets nest but was yellow jackets. Another can of spray and I was able to tear it down and stomp it good. Only got stung on the chest once.
These were the first yellow jacket nest that I have ever seen that were not in the ground. Didn't get a chance to get a pic of the one on the bottom of the camper as I was running away.
Talked to my cousin who lives about 10 miles away and the guy cutting his grass yesterday, found 8 different yellow jacket nest in his yard. He had a really old bag, about 30 years old, of 50% Sevin and he said it took care of the pests in very short order.
2 weekends ago, we were up at our place in the mountains and I noticed something sticking out the bottom of our breaker box on the service pole. Turns out the yellow jackets had build inside under the cover and was expanding it out the bottom. Couple cans of wasp and hornet spray took care of them. Then I went to put the power cord back into the "hole" in the side of the camper and got covered up with more yellow jackets. Turns out they had built an exposed nest on the bottom of the camper and it was about the size of a cantaloupe. Looked just like a hornets nest but was yellow jackets. Another can of spray and I was able to tear it down and stomp it good. Only got stung on the chest once.
These were the first yellow jacket nest that I have ever seen that were not in the ground. Didn't get a chance to get a pic of the one on the bottom of the camper as I was running away.