Yellowjackets are an aggressive, defensive, and violent past that has no issues attacking a whole family in a swarm. If they perceive in any way that your family is threatening them they will try to kill you. They will not likely succeed but the results will still be very painful. They tend to be most active in the summer and late fall when the nest has grown very large and the wasps are aware that the end of the warm part of the year is coming quickly. They begin getting much more aggressive in the hopes of protecting their queen who will start a fresh nest next spring.
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These wasps are happy to make their nest anywhere that is dark and protected, their favorite place however is in a dug hole. They can dig the hole themselves, it is time-consuming and makes the nest grow much slower which is why many yellowjacket queens will look for a pre-dug burrow. Wasp made burrows are right at the surface. Only inches below the ground often covered by a bush or shrubs. A rodent hole is much deeper, around 4 feet deep and it is the preference for yellow jackets who can rapidly build a soccer ball-sized nest in the hole. You may not even know they are there until you do some gardening or step on the nest and find a swarm coming to attack you.
The easiest way to find a nest without having to find it by accident and get stung is to follow the wasps. Watch them as they do their work, when they finish they will float up, turn around and return to their nest. You can actually follow them back to their nest and learn the location. With this information, you can then exterminate the nest with ease.
The best way to exterminate a yellowjacket nest is to find it as early as possible and then to plan carefully how you will remove it. You can use insecticide dust or aerosol spray or you can try other methods like hornet freeze. Whichever method you use make sure to do the work late at night when the wasps are in the nest sleeping. You can take out the nest and the whole colony all at once with just a couple cans of insecticide spray.
If you would rather a professional do it you can call Wasp Control. Our trained technicians can kill and remove the nest right away and give you the peace of mind you need to live your life.