Getting rid of yellow jackets

I have about 10 of those hanging traps that you put fruit juice in, I put them up as soon as the flying bugs come out in spring. Around the house, patio/pool, garage, and barn areas. The hornets fly up and into the trap to get the sweet stuff and they can't fly back out as the entrance is underneath. Works very well, also catches those annoying flies.

I only started using them religiously last year, but I did note there were not a lot of hornets around like the year before. I'll be hanging them up again this year for sure!

We had an issue before with bumblebees. I normally don't bother their nests, but this one was under our bedroom window inside the wall, and it's too unnerving to see an occasional BB walking across the bedroom floor.....I would have freaked if one was on the bed, I hate having anything crawl on me. The exterminator eliminated them with two 2-week apart sprays of sevin dust and then plugged the hole.

Now, if I could just get rid of the cluster/house flies....

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"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap."

You are so right! This really works! Especially easy if nest are in your house or hard to get places. Throw the Sevin toward the hole at night and they will carry it back into the nests. We have had good results with Sand Hornets. They tend to build nests under sidewalks or rocks.

I agree with airotciv. Don't use gasoline. Gasoline is far more toxic than any pesticide labeled for wasps. The aerosol pyrethrin suggested in the posted website was my 3 decades of professional experience choice for excellent results. I tried the dusts. They do work. As for the traps, now is the time they will catch the queens. After spring the queens are safe and the traps do not eliminate a single nest. If you use the aerosol pyrethrin, you do not need to wait till dark. If you wait till dark, you will still get stung. They work on the exterior of the nest at night. Your flashlight directs them to you. The aerosol pyrethrin will kill the residents of the nest (queen, and larvae) who feed the foraging workers outside the nest. Kill them and the whole nest dies. The workers just take a day or two.

yellow jackets can dwell in the ground, a grill, hottub, closet, wall, soffett, tree, shrub, or just about anywhere

don't use Sevin either, unless you wear a respirator -- read the label