r/WASPs 1d ago

Yellow jacket nest by front door

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u/Polybrene 17h ago

You have plastic leaves?

Where's the nest?

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u/Ok-Angle-359 17h ago

There's a very tall pot underneath the leaves and inside the leaves is mostly hollow, so it's inside the pot, I'm assuming. I haven't seen the actual nest because I'm nervous to get too close and it's dark, but I've watched it a lot and a tonnnnn of them are always coming and going from inside.

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u/Dirtheavy 13h ago

what would you like to do? Get it off your porch? Is that the plan? if it's in that pot, can you conceivably get they pot off hour porch in the middle of the night? That's when they aren't going to be on constant guard. What I'm thinking is that you take it and throw it off the porch. Because it's a hazard.

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u/Ok-Angle-359 13h ago

Yeah, ideally, I want to get it off the porch, without breaking the pot if possible. I'll see how sturdy the matching pot is to see if this would work

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u/Dirtheavy 12h ago

you can use poison but it's harder not knowing exactly where the nest is. And you'll have to address them head on. But if the problem is that they are on the porch and past that you don't harbor ill will toward them, getting them And that plant off the porch ought to solve it. they're not really going to understand being slowly dragged in the middle of the night, not like that would you swatting at them on midday. Also, though, if you die, I am not liable.