How do i get rid to yellow jackets bees beehive?

Question

In the side of my house I have a yellow jackets bees hive and well how do i get rid of it? Myself not a exterminatior.

Answer 1

Home depot sells very affective wasp and hornet spray,,,,,It shoots from 20 feet away,,,and works

Answer 2

HOW I GET RID OF AERIAL NESTS. Spraying often does not help. In the case of yellow jacket nests, most of the insects are inside and will not be contacted by the spray. They will be flying tomorrow! The effects of the spray on other organisms, especially pollinators, may be worse than the mild threat posed by the wasps. I always prefer direct physical removal. The wasps will all be in the nest at night. In a protective suit I carefully approach the nest with a double-thick plastic garbage bag. I quickly clasp the bag around the nest, pull it off its attachment point, and then seal the bag. Sometimes I have to clip off a few branches from the tree to reach the nest. Once in the bag, the nest can be frozen, burned, or buried. If it is small enough to freeze I later remove the larval combs and feed them to my chickens. If I feel I have to spray I use the LEAST BEE-TOXIC spray available and use only according to instructions. Once I remove a wasp nest from a ceiling space or a wall I carefully seal up the point at which the wasps entered so another colony will not form there next year.

HOW I GET RID OF GROUND NESTS. Appropriately protected, I approach the nest at night once I have located the entrance hole. The wasps are easily subject to drowning, so I flood the nest hole with a garden hose. Just to make sure I put a board over the entrance. In time the nest cavity may collapse and the ground will sink a little.

Answer 3

Are they wasps or bees?

They are not the same thing.

http://www.csupomona.edu/~ehs/ftp/NewsletterBee2004.pdf#search='africanized%20honey%20bees'

You may want to check the sites below to see what you are dealing with.

If they are wasps (yellow jackets, mud dabbers, etc) a person could hose them down when they are out of the nest, but they are likely to come back. The spray from the stray for wasps would probably work better.

Wasps? (Do they look like these?)

http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef620.htm

If they are bees, then call an exterminator.
They could be harmless honey bees or Africanized honey bees (killer bees). Africanized honey bees are very aggressive and are now found as far north in the US as the central part of California, Las Vegas Nevada, well check the map link below to see where they are. Do not attempt to remove bees your self!

http://www.stingshield.com/all-us.htm - map link

http://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=11059&page=6 - map link

Bee info: (Do they look like these? Wikipediia's pictures are a bit misleading. The bees appear a bit different in their pictures. There is no obvious differences, they can only be identified through DNA testing.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee

http://www.stingshield.com/lebas.htm

http://www.stingshield.com/nesting_sites.htm

http://bees.ucr.edu/ahb-facts.html

http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/01-02/beeqa062602.html

First - Be Safe!

Answer 4

mix 3/4 water and 1/4 plain dawn dishwashing detergent in a spray bottle. stand back from the nest and spray it and run like heck.or you can throw a rock at the nest and run and come back later to get rid of it. You can also buy wasp and hornet spray which kills on contact

Answer 5

You can get a spray at the store which you can use from a distance of say ten feet away...or throw some gasoline on them and run like hell...both work equally effective.

That crap about it working from 20 feet is just that...crap...you'll use the whole can by the time you get them.

Answer 6

go to walmart or home depot or farm supply store, get a can(looks like a can of raid) of wasp killer. it sprays about 20 feet. enough in can to exterminate about 20 nests. costs about $4.00.

i have 3 barns and 2 equiptment sheds. i kill about 100 wasp nests each year. the 20 ft spray works good. they get on my house, my fence brace posts, my gate posts, everywhere.

sometimes i mix up a cattle fly spray in a pump up sprayer , its cheaper, but since you probably dont have either........go with the can of spray.

Answer 7

i saw this in t.v 'bout month ago . they had to remove siding in bee suits . then poison them . i think as log as you dont care if the nest is there wait till night the colder the better . plug the hole's with any kind of sealant . they die in their but it wont stink or anything . dont pound on the wall when you doing this either

Answer 8

I wish I can help you but I don't know. But I also have a yellow jack bee hive in my bathroom window. So if you find out let me know. Thanks.

Answer 9

quart of boiling water mixed with cup of veg oil . Pour in hole after dark .

Answer 10

You're brave. I'd call the Orkin Man.