jerseydevil
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Hi, I am wondering if anyone can offer info on yellowjackets. Here is my story. All summer I have been hearing a light scratching/clicking sound while I laid in bed. I thought it was just my fish ( I have an aquarium near my bed) eating at the surface. Well, today after work when I went to feed the fish, I noticed over a hundred yellows swarming (inside) around two windows in the bedroom. So I Went to homedepot to buy some indoor bee spray. When I got home, many of the yellows were dead/dying. I figured it was because of whatever our exterminator sprayed in the spring, however my wife has since informed me that the exterm skipped the upstairs this time because of our newborn daughter. So I don't know what killed them. Anyways, I sprayed the lingering yellows and sucked them all up with my shop vac. In the prosses I noticed a hole in the dormer above the window. The yellows were coming through it into the bed room. I then sprayed into the hole, and stuck the vac up to it, when I did, i learned that the yellows had eaten through the drywall and left just the coat of paint, which was sucked into the vac leaving a baseball sized hole. Inside of this hole was the hive, which i sprayed. I also vacuumed out as much as I could even though it was not that much. By this time no bees were to be seen. I figured the spray did it's job. I then took my stethoscope and listened all around the hive area. I heard some buzzing but I don't know if it was dying bees or ones that were returning to the hive from outside, or if there is a nother part of the hive I did not reach or disturb. Lastly I covered the baseball sized hole with clear plastic and taped it up. MY concerns are, How large is the hive likly to be? I removed a piece about the size of a piece of wonderbread. I also noticed a paper material that looked like the same stuff hornets make. So is it likely that hornets and yellows share the same cavity (not the same hive) in my wall? I can provide further info apon request. I am just hoping to get info asap.
Oh and incase anyone is wondering, I was stung once on the ear at the end of this adventure. I guess i won this battle.
Thanks Again, JD
Oh and incase anyone is wondering, I was stung once on the ear at the end of this adventure. I guess i won this battle.
Thanks Again, JD