Yellow Jackets in the Eaves!

 Yesterday I discovered yellow jackets entering my house in a corner
under the eaves. For some reason there is a corner gap/hole plenty big
enough for them to get in. I was just about to climb a ladder when I
looked up and saw them swarming around.   The entrance is probably 12-15
feet above ground level, so no way to get to the hole without a ladder,
and I'm not sure I'd want to be on a ladder next to a bees nest.

Any suggestions for getting rid of these bees?  I'm most concerned about
damage to the house and honey left behind to attract other problems.
Unfortunately that attic isn't really accessible from the inside.

I'm considering using a Wasp & Hornet killer like this
http://www.killsbugsdead.com/fop_w_h_k_pre.asp  but I can't really spray
into the house from the ground.  I've also heard these products could
stain the siding and wood.  I'd also prefer the bugs died outside of the
house than embedded within.

I'd appreciate any help or experience at getting rid of interior nests
high above ground!

  Chris wrote:

Wasp and hornet spray like the one in your link.  Shoots about
20 feet accurately.  And yellow jackets don't make honey.
Only honeybees do that.

--
Robert Allison    
Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX

 

You want too much.  What do you care if they die inside or out?

 Chris writes:


If you're up north in a freezing climate, they'll just die off around frost
season, at which time you seal up the hole(s).  They live off flowers and
starve in the fall when the flowers disappear.  That's why they're getting
so ornery around Labor Day picnic time and going after fruit-scented soft
drinks.  The queen hibernates to survive over the winter and starts a new
colony in the spring.

So simply waiting is very effective.

The petroleum stream in a can is very effective, but it won't get inside
your structure to kill the nest.  They can be nesting quite a ways away
from the entrance, so even tubing in insecticide is not always effective.  

A Raid fumigator would do it nicely if you can cut a hole into the space,
which is a bit challenging if they decide to come after you for breaching
their enclosure.  Those things will kill everything in a good sized room.

 Richard J Kinch writes:


I mean the Raid fumigators will kill all the insects in a large space, not
that the insects will get you!