We had a nest just into the edge of the woods behind the house. Someone had dumped an old bus bench seat, and the Yellow Jackets had a perfectly dry place with which to come back year after year. Keep in mind this farm sat abandoned for about 20 years, so they had LOTS of time to build.
Couple years back, we got fed up with the hoards of Yellow Jackets and decided to go after the bus seat. I was able to get a chain around it one very cool morning after soaking the nest for an hour or two with our 30's temp well water. Pulled the seat out with a truck and found a Yellow Jacket nest that nightmares are made of!! It was a full 2' long, about 12" wide, and no way of knowing just how many layers there were!
The wasps had been nesting there for so many years that the nest even made it through repeated major floods!
It has been 2 years now and we hardly see any Yellow Jackets anymore. There were still a lot in the Spruce trees over Summer gathering nectar so I know there's still lots more around, but they're quite docile if not near the nest. Those 'workers' only have nectar on their wee-little minds.....thank goodness!
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