Yellowjackets -- the wasp/hornet

The powder takes a few days as they walk over it and track it into the nest. When I "Sevin" powdered my yellow jacket ground nest, somewhere around day 4 there was zero outside activity. A few days later I got brave and dug, but had a can of wasp & hornet spray ready to go. The nest ended up being about 2' from where I saw them going into the leaves (the hole) and about an inch below dirt. It was ~6" diameter and 3 layers deep. There were several still alive at the bottom, including the queen. The spray took care of that.

 

Here see some pics of a now dormant nest, I kinda knew was being built as I could see the insects gathering the clay mud from a wet hole I'd dug in the backyard a few years ago. The reason I didn't see it for several months while the bugs were working as that best was the seeky devils built it above the garage doors and with the door up, when I was in there it (the nest) was out of site. When I finally pulled down the door while I was inside the garage I looked up and low I beheld the project in all it's working glory. I sheepishly closed the door and went online to see if I could figure out what to do about it. The one bit of advise that I took away from my search was "if you don;t want them to return next spring, just leave it where it is" and luckily in my case that is how it turned out. eeasy peesy ...