How much would it cost to remove yellow jackets? I live in an apt. and have 1 colony outside on my porch.?

Question

In your experience, what has it cost you? Extra points if you live in the DFW area and can recommend someone! I knocked down the hive but they remain in a location that is hard to get to w/o getting stung, so please don't tell me to do it myself by knocking them down- Thanks.

I AM LOOKING FOR THE COST.....IN A DOLLAR AMOUNT! THANK YOU!

Answer 1

Shouldn't cost you anything... Call your landlady/landlord.

Answer 2

I live in the Pacific Northwest in the woods west of Seattle. We have paper wasps here which if left to themselves can build HUGE nests with several thousand wasps. I have a 2 story house and when I noticed the nest hanging under the eave on the back corner of the house, the nest was the size of a basketball. Since the color of my house is a dark brown, it almost exactly matched the color of the nest, so it wasn't really obvous under the edge of the roof. I finally heard a buzzing noise during a power outage when it got really quiet. Going outside, it took me a while to locate the nest. The sun was setting and the eaves were in shadow. It took a flashlight to see where it was located. I called a local exterminator/bee keeper the next day. He charged me $165. What he did was wait until just before sunrise, the coldest part of the night when all of the wasps would be in the nest and dormant and then bag the whole nest in plastic taped to the house and underside of the roof, with a garden hose size tube coming down to ground level. He then put dry ice into a container which hooked to the hose. The carbon dioxide given off as the dry ice sublimated went up the tube and into the bag, further cooling the nest and killing the wasps by suffocation. He came back 3 times to add more dry ice during the day. The next morning, he cut down the nest, leaving it in the bag, in case any larvae hatched out. Some days later, we ran into each other at the post office and he told me he has it in a display case in his office as it was the biggest nest he had ever removed.

It was money well spent. There was no way I was going to try to do the job myself with a can of Raid.

Answer 3

You can use the foaming spray for yellow jackets. Do it at night or when the sun goes down since they are less active. Cover the whole area with the foam and leave it alone. The next day spray closer into the crevice where the yellow jackets are hiding to make sure you get it all the way inside....this should take care of the problem. BTW..foam seems to work better than the spray.

Answer 4

Late at night when you know they are all there, just spray them with hornet spray. It shoots up to 25 feet so you don't even have to get that close. Or early in the morning before it warms up. The spray is less than 5 dollars a can. It kills them instantly.

Answer 5

There are commericial sprays that are safe and easy to use.

Wasp killers sprays are not aerosols, they eject in a stong stream that can reach about 20 feet. A safe distance from the nest. Spray at dusk, when the wasps are all in the nest and not active.

It will kill the nest and the wasps will not rebuild there.

Answer 6

How about calling your landlord? That's their responsibility. Otherwise, just buy some wasp and bee spray and spray them from a safe distance, maybe a neighbors porch or a window.

Answer 7

Well, Raid can shoot a stream up to twenty feet. And it's pretty effective. If the colony is in the walls, you'll have to call someone to take care of that.

Answer 8

if your landloard wont do it then the cost of a big can of RAID wasp spray should do.