FAQs

Honeybees are pollinators and are very beneficial and often docile and will not cause much trouble if left alone.  The other three are the more troublesome and often aggressive.  They attack and eat bugs in and around your home.  Some consume as much as 1000 bugs a season.  With populations ranging from a couple hundred to 3000 or more, this equates to them killing quite a few bugs per season.

Most wasp/yellow jacket sprays will kill bees/wasps to an extent and have mild chemicals inside them.  Always read the label before applying.  Small nests the size of a softball or smaller on the exterior of the home can be sprayed by an over-the-counter spray and knocked down with a long pole or something that can easily reach the area.  Bees/Wasps traveling inside a home via an opening in the siding or a roofline will require more than an exterior application of pesticide. 

Wasps and yellow jackets often make their home inside wall cavities or rooflines.  These nests vary in size from the size of a softball to the size of a basketball and even larger.  They can contain as little as 100 to as much as 3000 or more wasps/yellow jackets.  Wasps and yellow jackets fiercely protect their nest by hiding it deep in the structure(1-5 feet inside the wall cavity) making sprays and dusts ineffective in most scenarios.  They will also attack any predators (you and I included) that try to invade their space or mess with their nest.  To eliminate these situations, you often need to drill into the siding and inspect the area until you find the nest and apply pesticides directly to the nest.  In some cases, the drywall gets eaten by the yellow jackets and repairs to the drywall may have to be made.  Removing the nest from the structure is the best way to ensure that the problem is completely gone and applying pesticides that last 30 days or more to the exterior to prevent other wasps/yellow jackets from coming back to the nest

Wasps and yellow jackets often make their home inside wall cavities or rooflines.  These nests vary in size from the size of a softball to the size of a basketball and even larger.  They can contain as little as 100 to as much as 3000 or more wasps/yellow jackets.  Wasps and yellow jackets fiercely protect their nest by hiding it deep in the structure(1-5 feet inside the wall cavity) making sprays and dusts ineffective in most scenarios.  They will also attack any predators (you and I included) that try to invade their space or mess with their nest.  To eliminate these situations, you often need to drill into the siding and inspect the area until you find the nest and apply pesticides directly to the nest.  In some cases, the drywall gets eaten by the yellow jackets and repairs to the drywall may have to be made.  Removing the nest from the structure is the best way to ensure that the problem is completely gone and applying pesticides that last 30 days or more to the exterior to prevent other wasps/yellow jackets from coming back to the nest

Often you are gardening or mowing and hit a ground nest.  Sorry, that happened to you, and it hurts.  These are the easiest nests to be rid of.  An application of pesticide dust labeled for bees can be applied at night when the nest is dormant(completely dark outside).  Sneak up on the nest(if they feel vibration they will come out and attack) and apply the dust either in the morning before the nest is active or at night once all of them are inside.  Apply liberal amounts of dust to the hole during these times to ensure each pest gets a healthy dose.  The other method is to take about ½ a cup of gasoline and   Remember gasoline is flammable and it is not necessarily the best method.

A typical application will range from $175 to $250 for an exterior application and exterior nest removal.  A more involved extermination(higher places or removing walls) will be more money and varies greatly.