Yellow jacket 🐝 season
With the warmer weather approaching yellow jacket season is also approaching. This time of year in the months of April and May you will see very large yellow jackets. These are the queens. The queen yellow jacket has come out of hibernation and is looking for a place to create a nest.
Yellow jackets typically make their nest in the ground. They may dig a hole or take over an old gopher or mole hole. Yellow jackets may even Make a nest at the base of a plant or tree. Once June and July come yellow jacket workers start to become prevalent.
Yellow jacket workers are aggressive ones if you go within a few feet of their nest, they will attack you. They swarm outside when they smell food. They are attracted to barbecue or the smell of some protein like in a sandwich. Yellow jackets can be very difficult to deal with and make your yard inhabitable
Yellow Jacket Season
So how do you enjoy your yard and host friends over for food and drinks without attracting yellow jackets?
Hanging up yellow jacket traps that are from the hardware store will not do the trick. Those yellow jacket traps will actually attract the workers that attract that comes inside. This only worsens the problem. What you want to do is have a licensed pest control company do a yellow jacket baiting program.
The difference between yellow jacket and traditional yellow jacket traps is that the bait traps allow the workers to go in and out. They are getting the food that is put in the traps Without knowing they are being exposed to a yellow jacket pesticide. Slowly track this pesticide back to the nest and expose the rest of the workers and nest Including the queen. Once the queen yellow jacket is dead No more yellowjacket larva will be laid. This will decrease the amount of workers. The workers will also die.
If you’re dealing with yellow jackets or have dealt with Yellow jackets in the past and want to avoid it, we can help.
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