Visual guide to Bees and Wasps

[Melensdad]

I can totally live without the middle row in this graphic.

Yellow Jackets are the worst. They are like the aggressive drunks who show up at the party.

 

[KitKat2023]

We had yellow jackets build in between the walls and ate their way through our drywall!! I'm always on the lookout for them now outside the house. Oh, and we had an exterminator come to spray inside and out (two guys doing it at the same time) to eliminate the problem. They left the nest saying other bugs would eat it. Then we had a painter come repair the hole and paint over it, and can't tell it was ever there.

I bought some Tempo Dust and a sprayer for the lower parts of the house and it works in one or two days.

 

[Melensdad]

3 or 4 years ago I had a yellow jacket nest under one of my water spigots in the ground.

I didn't realize the nest was in then ground under the spigot. I was washing up outside at that spigot and felt 'electrical shocks' all over my legs. Fortunately while I was being repeatedly stung there was water splashing over my legs so the stings were pretty mild due to the water??? When I realized that I was being stung I hightailed it out of there. Returned with every type of killer I could find in my garage and poisoned & destroyed the burrow/nest.

Probably got stung 6 to 8 times but it, fortunately had little effect, again, I think because there was water running down my legs at the time.

 

[pirate_girl]

The yellow jackets were horrible last year.
I've not had an issue with them this year at all.

 

[m1west]

It’s that time of year here, really bad on the mountain until the temps drop below 50 in the day, they are super aggressive right now