Yellow Jackets In Attic Space

Yellow jackets typically enter through some hole in your attic or basement.

Yellow jackets in attic space.

Later days of springs and summer are the ideal conditions for yellow jackets to thrive and prosper. Yellow jackets were going in and out of the attic through a gap. This is important because different traps and chemicals are used to banish them that will not be effective on other insects. However you have to make sure it is yellow jackets rather than bees and wasps attacking your home.

The yellow jackets will die off in the winter so if the nest is in an unused space like an attic you could simply wait for their life cycle to end. 3 purchase a quick freeze aerosol product designed to kill yellow jackets. In winter a nest will only survive if it is in a temperature controlled environment like an attic space garage heated shed or a wall void. They can then start a nest in an attic or inside a wall or ceiling void.

Yellow jackets seek comfortable shelters as the winters approach like a garage shed an attic space or any other heated space. Freezing weather kills yellow jackets. When a yellow jacket nest survives the winter the nest continues to grow. Yellowjackets will find an outside opening on a home that lets them into a void space perhaps around the roof line between bricks or around a vent.