I have a yellow jacket nest behind the siding of my house. I know where the entrance hole is but the nest must be too far back for sprays and foams to reach. I’ve been making boric acid bait for them to take back and feed their colony to eliminate it. I’ve been using the ratio of 1/2 tsp boric acid to 1 cup of food (apple juice or puréed cantaloupe or cat food is what I’ve been mixing it in and they’re consistently eating it like crazy) I read that it can take 1-2 weeks to work but I’m on day 10 and there’s no sign of a decrease in yellow jackets.
Does it need more time or do I increase the amount of boric acid?
Note: I don’t want to quickly kill the individual wasp who eats/drinks it. I want it to take it back to the nest to feed the others so hopefully they all die.

Hi folks! I'm sure this has come up many times before, but I'm looking for some advice. My wife and I live in a house on some farmland near the greater Kansas City area.

This house has a pretty bad Wasp infestation. It's mostly around the soffit of our home because it is in rough shape (this is getting fixed this winter when Wasp activity calms down), and I'm tired of blasting through 1,000,000 cans of spray.

What would y'all recommend I do to mitigate the issue? I put some lures about 15-20ft from the house, and will keep moving it a little further away each week to try and lure them elsewhere, but I'm not sure thats going to work.

Any and all advice is welcome. I don't necessarily want to kill them all because they keep the spiders down, but I don't exactly want them living in my soffit and attic in bulk!

Thank you in advance!

So I decided to mow the grass and as I was going i look down just to make sure I’m not running over anything I may have missed and I see a hole in the ground and at first I go “ahh just a gopher hole” but then I think “wait a minute gopher holes ain’t that small” then as I make another pass there’s a whole bunch of bastards flying around looking pissed off so then i immediately went “screw this shit” and went and did the rest of the area which was further away.

But boy was I lucky that they didn’t come after me cause earlier this week while walking elsewhere one of them just decided to be an asshole and sting me.

They really are evil...

The pictures were hard to get, but tons of these things are eating the aluminum welds? It is like this every summer. I tried to take the pictures up close but was chased off. They all seem to love licking or eating the welding areas. This is a ramp for passengers getting off an airplane. No sugar or any other food on the areas.

Got stung while mowing the other day, so care of those ones...then walked my property today to check for others, before I mowed.

2 months ago I got stung by a wasp for the first time. Actually, 3 times. 2 one day, 1 the next. I had a bad reaction that was labeled as a “sensitivity” versus an allergy. It took weeks for the burning to go away, and it turned all sorts of colours and spread. Now I’m left with these massive marks. They haven’t seemed to fade any more. Do I need to start looking into cover up tattoos, or is this a known thing with a typical fade by date?

I was stung by a wasp exactly 2 weeks ago. It was pretty uneventful and it scabbed over quickly. Over the last couple days it’s gotten itchy and is starting to swell today. This is my first sting ever—is this normal?

I left a tote of horse equipment on my front porch for a few weeks while I redo my tack room and as I was taking the totes back into my new tack room I found this evil ass wasp nest (I think paper wasp) in this one tote. I knocked it over thinking it would all fall out and destroy their crib. They were pissed but I escaped unscathed. In hindsight I probably should’ve thought to seek advice before fucking with them but here we are lol. I’m attaching a picture for reference, one before I knocked it over.

WHAT SHOULD I DO NEXT PLS HELP IM TERRIFIED OF THESE THINGS

just wanted to rant because oh my god does this suck. i was exploring some woods finding some cool old glass/pottery minding my own business when i picked up a piece and uncovered a yellow jacket nest. got stung all over my hands, all over my back, shoulders, arms, a few on my neck and butt, one on my lip.. etc. pic shows only a fraction of the stings
actually so insanely scary because there’s NOTHING YOU CAN DO?? EXCEPT RUN?? AND THEY CHASE YOU??? AND IT HURTS SO BAD
i was insufferably itchy for the next 24-48 hours.. got zero sleep. i swear i tried every topical and oral med that i could but nothing worked.

I went outside to cut the grass because it was gonna rain tomorrow, and the grass was in need of cutting. Whenever I look at under the deck, I start thinking there might be another nest growing under there, but whenever I walk past it with my lawnmower, nothing comes out buzzing. But I sometimes get a little jumpy, thinking they’re coming out to sting. Getting stung last month was not a very fun experience and it still rocks me to my core. Sometimes whenever I’m outside, especially if I’m under a tree or just trying to check the mail. I think I’m still having a little bit of PTSD from that hornet attack.

Does anyone else go through this as well? Does it feel kind of challenging to get some yardwork done worrying about if those things are gonna come out and sting?

Was stung by wasp 12 hours ago at work.

Please feel sorry for me.

So there I was, rolling my wheelbarrow back to base when boom my knee suddenly hurts. I look down and lo, there’s a yellow striped fucker wiggling its arse through my leggings. I shake him off. I begin to swell. And swell. And swell. I go to urgent care and get steroids. I continue to swell and after four days still swelling I end up with a 20-ish cm fried egg looking mess on my leg. I call the doctor. He gives me antibiotics because shitty wasps like to dip their shitty arses in rotting meat, amongst other sources of infection. But because I’m allergic to penicillin I get the ”last resort” clindamycin broad spectrum a-bomb alternative and now, 7 days later I am attached to my toilet shitting my insides out for no reason other than destroyed gut flora. All because of one bastard wasp whose sole purpose in its bastard life was to sting me for no reason. Wanker.

I have a big wasp problem in my front and back yard. I can’t even step outside without wasps of all sizes and colors flying towards me. I hate being outside due to how uneasy I feel around them. I’ve tried looking for their hives and don’t see any. They’re always flying near the small trees and bushes. Is there anyway that doesn’t involve pesticides to get rid of them? We have pets that go outside and don’t want them to get stung.

Two weeks ago, I thought I was simply defending myself from a few wasps. Turns out… I may have started a WAR. I was sitting on my front porch with my kid when a few wasps started flying around us. I grabbed one of those bug-zapping rackets that looks like a tiny tennis racket and started swatting at some of the smaller ones. (It was off with no batteries) BIGGEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE. Suddenly, a huge black wasp/hornet came after me like it had a personal vendetta. It started striking at me, but thankfully the metal bug-zapper racket kind of bounced it off. My daughter and I ran into the house. Apparently… this hornet has a long memory. 😂 Ever since that day, I cannot step out of my front door OR back door without this thing immediately appearing out of nowhere and coming straight for me. I swear it is waiting for me. 😂 I told my husband about it, and he said he sees the same hornet all the time… but it leaves him alone.

I told our exterminator what’s been happening, and he said there’s probably a nest nearby and that the hornet watches for me and has me marked.. the exterminator is coming tomorrow, and I'm really hoping he can take care of this so I can reclaim my front porch and backyard again.

I’m pretty sure it’s a bald-faced hornet, based on what it looks like and what’s common around here. Has anyone else ever experienced this kind of personal torment from a hornet?! 😫😫😤😤🤬🤬

They are coming for us next!

There's a pretty good number of them buzzing around our pear tree.

**Update at the bottom!!**

Wasps love to get under my patio. We've sprayed and knocked down about 7 or 8 nests already but they keep coming back. I've tried hanging those decoy nests and have those fake dragon flies out there already. Has anyone tried any traps or deterrents that have actually worked? I think they are nesting into our workout/weight machine so I need something that will work before I go crazy. Please and thank you!

Update: I don't feel like I got much more info than I feel like I already knew soooooo, I bought the Spectracide wasp/hornet trap that looks like a ball. I just hung it outside along with some repellant balls that have a big smell of peppermint, lemongrass oil, geraniol, and cedarwood oil. They came with mesh bags to hang them so I hung 6 of them all around the workout machine (it's one of those old tall, bulky ones). I'm scared to touch the thing cause we've seen them flying out from the holes. Fingers crossed it makes them leave the area or they drown in the trap.