When You Find A Yellow Jacket Nest In Your Tree

​Yellow jackets are social wasp species famous for delivering painful stings when agitated. These pests prey on other insects. Usually, a yellow jacket nest is in a tree in the ground cavities. It isn't unusual to see a yellow jacket nest concealed near the roots of a grouping tree growing in your outdoor space.

Identifying a Yellow Jacket Nest in Your Tree

Yellow jackets are around the size of a fly, possessing black and yellow markings. These bugs are frequently mistaken for honeybees. However, yellow jackets are stocky and little instead of round. Several types of yellow jackets choose to build their nests near tree roots. It is vital to know that these bugs actively protect these nests when bothered.

Benefits
Yellow jackets are carnivorous predators that slaughter huge numbers of flies that usually bother veggie gardens and fruit trees. Adult yellow jackets attack bugs like moths, slugs, worms, caterpillars, and spiders.

The preying endeavor can vastly decrease the number of bugs that could be feeding on your garden and landscape plants.

Drawbacks
There are drawbacks to having a yellow jacket nest in your tree. You or a loved one can become ill from a wasp sting allergy. These bugs are very protective of their nests. The vibrations from walking can get the young and queens mad and stinging.

Yellow jackets get highly aggressive as their colonies increase. Therefore, most gardeners have issues with these pests when the colony peaks in autumn or summer. Stinging usually happens at the nesting site. Yellow jackets sting folks who try to slap them away from food sources like bird feeders, pet dishes, and trash cans.

Management
Since yellow jackets don't damage the tree itself. People, therefore, don't bother the nests, letting the yellow jackets diminish the population of harmful insects hanging around your landscape.

If you need to eliminate yellow jackets, tree and stump removal professionals suggest using a pesticide spray to rid your outdoor space of hornets and wasps.

Buy a product that sprays around 20 feet away. This way, you are at a safe distance while spraying right into the nest opening. Read and adhere to the directions carefully. Look at the nest the next day. If needed, reapply the insecticide.

Call Rochester Stump for more information on yellow jacket nests in trees.

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