Often a menace to homeowners’ properties, yellow jackets tend to nest in the ground where they build their colonies. Although ...

Yellow jackets, or predatory social wasps, feed on pests and can be helpful for a garden’s growth. They can make homeowners’ lives miserable, though, especially when they nest within house siding.

Most yellow jacket nests are in the ground or hollow trees, and the old nests just rot away. When the nests are in wall cavities, as in your house, they can be left in place because the old nests aren ...

Yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets ... on the nest’s location. If the wasp nest is near children or pets — playground equipment or a dog house – the insects might feel threatened and amp ...

Small nests house up to 50 wasps ... This is especially true with the presence of yellow jackets, as these wasps tend to make extensive underground nests that tend to go unnoticed until the ...

Check on the eaves and siding of your house, in attics ... That can provoke an attack. Yellow jackets usually construct nests from a papery material chewed from wood fibers.