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Yellowjackets don’t usually sting when they are looking for food—unless their nest is disturbed by a direct blow or the wasps inside detect vibrations. Mowing the lawn near an underground nest, construction work near a nest in a wall void, or even walking near a nest can provoke an attack by one or more yellowjackets. This is especially true if the nest has been disturbed before.
Yellowjackets can be annoying and intimidating pests at picnics and around the barbecue, especially in late summer. On the positive side, they prey on many other insect pests such as caterpillars and flies.
Before you take steps to get rid of yellowjackets around your house or yard, be sure the problem is yellowjackets! Less aggressive flying insects, such as paper wasps, mud daubers, and honeybees, are often mistaken for yellowjackets.
Most often, paper wasps are mistaken for yellowjackets. Yellowjackets are shorter and rounder than paper wasps. A paper wasp’s body is longer and thinner, with long, dangling legs. Yellowjacket nests are round and are enclosed in a papery shell with a small entrance hole at the bottom. They build their nests in abandoned rodent burrows and other holes in the ground, in attics, in wall voids, and in shrubs and trees. Sometimes they hang their nests from eaves. Paper wasp nests usually hang from eaves or porch ceilings and look like tiny umbrellas filled with six-sided cells.
If you often find several yellowjackets in your home, you may have a nest inside your walls. To protect yourself and your family from getting stung, call your local vector control district or a pest control company for help getting rid of the nest. Look for a pest control company that specializes in less-toxic pest control methods.
The pest control professional should only need to use poison bait if you have very large numbers of yellowjackets.
Keep yellowjackets from building a nest in your house.
Trapping can help control yellowjackets if there aren’t too many. You can find both disposable and reusable traps in home and garden centers.
Trapping can help control yellowjackets if there aren’t too many. You can find both disposable and reusable traps in home and garden centers.
Trapping can help control yellowjackets if there aren’t too many. You can find both disposable and reusable traps in home and garden centers.
If you have a yellowjacket in your house, do NOT make the yellowjacket mad by swatting at it! Wait until it lands on a flat surface, and then place a glass or plastic container over the insect. Slide a stiff piece of paper under the opening of the container and either seal the container and place it in the freezer overnight to kill the yellowjacket, or take the covered container outside and release the insect.
When a yellowjacket comes near:
Yellowjackets can be a problem in May and June, but they are most irritable and aggressive late in the summer. Follow these tips to help prevent stings:
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