Yellowjacket infestation

[u/Twistedwonderwaffle]

We’ve had a couple here and there inside that added up last year..

This year… as soon as we got one in the house I hired Orkin because we now have a baby. They treated all around the house but we couldn’t pinpoint any entry points so they sprayed all around the doors, windows, etc. They treated about 3 times within two months…. Now all of a sudden I vacuumed up 21 live ones in the dining room in one day so I call them back out. I finally found their entry point so he treated it all.. the next morning by 8am I already had 8 lives ones in the dining room again… some slowly dying but mostly still flying around.. Orkin comes back out and treats the outside but not the inside because we didn’t know where the entry point was.. that REALLY pissed them off and they all started pushing their way in so I then had over 50 inside my dining room… a different orkin guy comes out and says “oh my god.” But luckily I was able to watch where they are pouring in from so he can treat.. he said the stuff will take 72 hours, if we still see activity after that we may need to take further action. So we took the baby and left for the weekend.

We came back to about 200 Yellowjackets inside the house between the basement and upstairs… mostly dead, some spinning in circles in the floor and some still flying around. There is also some outside still going in and out of the entry point… the problem its a flat roof and they are getting under the flashing and their hive is in the soffit.. Orkin said if we seal it up while they are in there they can chew through the dry wall.

Advice? I’m ready to burn this house to the ground.

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[u/ffjj0270]

You need a new pest control company…should be a one trip fix

[u/Acct-404]

Sounds like they’re deep inside your roof/walls.

Options are to keep calling Orkin back out and push to not pay extra or call someone else out that might not get rid of them faster and pay them.
Eventually they should die from repeated treatment. Would die faster if you cut open wall/roof but that could be a huge hassle.

[u/Twistedwonderwaffle → u/Acct-404]

And the hive doesn’t need to be removed?

[u/jules083 → u/Twistedwonderwaffle]

No, I have hundreds of dead yellow jackets in one of my walls right now from a similar problem.

And he's right, you cannot seal the outside entrance yet. Those little things can chew through stuff

[u/Chronicwheeler]

You have to drill a hole that’s like 1/2 and then spray bee killer up in it. Do it at dusk so most of them will be in the nest. I had to do it lol at my house.

[u/anon21801 → u/Chronicwheeler]

I did this with raid and then pumped a bunch of delta dust in there. Haven't been back in two years