yellow jacks (wasps)

Might want to try your question here.

I've had both yellow jackets and bumblebees nesting inside the house walls. Both times they were getting in thru a small hole in the cedar siding very close to the bottom of the house, so that when they did make it into the house, it was into the basement.

I also have one section of the garage that has a little alcove with walls and I just found out last week when I went to work on the cedar siding in that area that bumblebees are in between those walls, getting in thru a small hole close to the bottom of the siding.

The funny thing I've personally found with wasps and bees is to learn to look

Cindy

Or, try the alt.consumers.pest-control newsgroup.

If they are really yellow jackets, you probably don't want to find the nest :o) They are a job for an exterminator. They can nest in the ground. Once had them in the space under our fiberglass bath enclosure, which had a fairly large area beneath that wasn't poured when the slab was poured. Bare dirt and they were in the space somewhere. You should be able to watch for traffic and see where they enter/exit from a safe distance. Stepping onto a nest can be rather unpleasant, and I would be cautious. Don't let kids in the area of where they are until you know where it is, or run a mower over where the nest could be located.

Call a professional. I dug into a large nest of yellow jackets one afternoon. Must of got stung over a 100 times before I made it to the nearby pond.

where it is, or run a mower over where the nest could be located.

If you ever get stuck in that situation again, hit the dirt. I discovered that trick as a teenager. I took off running and was so scared I tripped over my own feet and fell down. I didn't get stung.

Once you are on the ground, you can crawl away.

If you look around your house you will find their entrance, through the ground, or wall, problem is when to spray the nest you will have 1000s in your basement mad as hell. I dont know your basement construction, or how many people or pets, but you will have to spray the basement, at the same time. I used a gopher bomb in the basement and hit the nest with ortho sevin , then left for a day, you can do it yourself, but you should get a price and means of attack from a pro, as the summer goes on their numbers wil grow.

Thanks for everyones response. I went to

I have siding and was hoping it wouldn't be in the wall. Unfortunately is was so I'm going to leave this for a professional.

Alan

BTW, just for enquiring minds...Yellow Jack is slang for yellow fever, which cut such awful swathes in the early history of this city (New Orleans.) Spread by mosquitos, which now have gone mod and spread West Nile Fever as well. zemedelec