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Warpy

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4. Yellow jackets in the wall

Reply to woodsprite (Original post)

Mon Jul 17, 2017, 12:31 AM

Jul 2017

and no money for an exterminator. I bought some of that insecticide that shoots 30 feet and followed the instructions to do it at dusk, just as the light faded, and let the entry point have it. Within a week, the wall was quiet and I didn't see any more wasps.

Paper wasps built a nest under an eave outside a second floor window. I just waited until it got super cold, opened the window at dusk, and knocked it down with a broom. Either the frost had killed them or they'd decamped.

I love the desert. These problems are bad only next to the rivers.

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Paper Wasps in our walls [View all] woodsprite Jul 2017 OP

That is what i had i think. Exterminator came and sprayed into the nest. He did not have any applegrove Jul 2017 #1

I'm hoping they can do that and don't want to take the siding off. N/t woodsprite Jul 2017 #2

It was just one or two holes in the eaves in my case. They went in the holes with the spray. applegrove Jul 2017 #3

Yellow jackets in the wall Warpy Jul 2017 #4

A couple years ago we had yellow jackets build a farily large nest inside the shed roof... Rollo Jul 2017 #5

We use moth balls to chase the little critters out Canoe52 Jul 2017 #6