What do I do?
I close the door and tell DH to take care of it. (It's in the pre-nup. He handles all things buggy or creepy crawly.)
Aha! DW must have been talking to you before our wedding.
What do I do?
I close the door and tell DH to take care of it. (It's in the pre-nup. He handles all things buggy or creepy crawly.)
Aha! DW must have been talking to you before our wedding.
We had yellow jackets build a nest in the wall cavity of our guest bedroom. They were entering through a gap in the soffit. It sounded like they were chewing on something in the attic space. Last week the pest control company came out and treated from the outside using a residual insecticide. Since we could still hear them and see some flying into the soffit over the weekend they came back today to treat again. The exterminator went into the guest bedroom to treat by poking a hole in the ceiling. Well, the yellow jackets almost ate their way into our house through the drywall and the nest almost fell into the room because the drywall was soft and gave way when he poked the hole in it. He sprayed the nest then used painters tape to seal the ceiling. That should take care of the issue but we now have drywall work to do once we are 1,000% sure their gone.
I saw several YouTube videos of situations like yours. I never want it to get that far-we’d have to move out! The other side of that wall is our family room and we have an open floor plan. I’ve been going around the house listening to the walls with my stethoscope and I’ve heard nothing except occasional wing buzzing on the the wall behind the opening where they go in and out.
I called another company and they said our guy was on track and to be patient. It will probably take more applications of Sevin. I do think the vacuum drastically reduced the number of workers so they same ones go in and out more. This could help them drag more Sevin into kill off fewer remaining yellow jackets.
No activity in since 8/3. I think we won. We’ll seal the opening in awhile. We took down the shop vac and can safely enjoy the garden and the deck. Yay!
Great idea with the vacuum.
All my experiences have been to spray wasp killer onto the nest. Are you absolutely positive they didn't go into the house and build a nest ?
Last year, I had one go in along the dryer vent into a cupboard space. It had perplexed the renters, but a flashlight and I could see it. A double treatment of Menard's wasp killer spray (more like a stream) killed them all. Then I sealed the hole.
Re-reading your post, is this brick on the house or a separate stand alone fireplace ?
Analogy time...
Honeybees are to model T as yellow jackets are to 2023 F1 race car.