Hornets and Yellow Jacket Extermination

Portland OR, Vancouver WA

Not one person likes having Yellow Jackets or Hornets around. But why? There are roughly 12 different types of species of yellow jackets in the Portland Or and Vancouver Wa areas and some are called hornets.

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The Nest

Both yellow jackets and hornet’s nests are the same in structure. It’s a paper nest made of wood fibers.  Unlike the paper wasps nest, the yellow jackets nest has a paper like coating that is brown or gray in color. It sort of resembles a paper-maché ball with an entrance hole at the bottom of it.

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The Cycle of Life

When a yellow jacket queen first starts her nest in the spring, it’s quite small, roughly the size of a  golf ball. Heading into fall, their nests can get very, very large. Most cases the nests get to be about  the size of a basketball with a few thousand yellow jackets inside. Like the paper and mud wasp, at
the end of their life cycle the queen raises new queens and they go off to hibernate for the winter
and the rest of the original nest dies.

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Are They Dangerous?

Yellow jackets are very aggressive and should be left to a professional to take care of. At the first sign of having yellow jackets you should call an exterminator immediately. Like carpenter ants, they have a mandible and can chew through walls with ease. Blocking the hole to their nest does not kill them; instead, they get mad and end up chewing through the walls of your home even faster in a desperate attempt to get out of the nest. Now you have an even angrier swarm of yellow jackets with a direct way into your home from their nest.

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When to Call

Immediately. As soon as yellow jackets or hornets are apparent in your home or on your property we recommend calling an exterminator as soon as you can to stop the problem before it gets worse.

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