A family owned pest control company in northern Indiana, specializing in Bed Bugs, Spiders, Ants, Roaches, Fleas, Various Stinging Insects etc. We are hoping to share, educate and represent our day to day activities in pest control!
You left out the part where I’m wearing a bee suit as well. What does a trip to the emergency room cost by the way? I’m not trying to be snarky, either but asking a very practical question.
@@shipleypestsolutions These things are just another variant of yellow jackets. A less aggressive version. Hundreds of people a day deal with nests like this on their own without any problem. My grandmother (who is long gone) grew up during the depression era and their solution for stuff like this was throw some gas on it or in the case of a yellow jacket nest stuff a glass bottle filled with fuel into the entrance. Now we have bottles of spray that will launch product that kills on contact 20 feet. Just go early in the morning when they are all home and not active.
@@JnaathraBald Faced Hornets are not “less aggressive” it’s the exact opposite. Also, hornets do not have a barbed stinger, meaning they can and will sting you repeatedly. Yellow Jackets have a barbed stinger and can normally only sting once. You can not “throw some gas” on a nest like this or you will burn down the pole barn. I’m not the guy/business that scares people into a service. I’m honest and practical and tell people to call us if they need us. If you have a ground nest in the backyard and you wanna go about it the “old way” and it works, that’s great. I’m genuinely happy and fine with that but many people don’t want to or can’t (elderly) and need a professional to take care of it.
@@shipleypestsolutions Bro do you really think we're lighting the gas on fire jfc. www.colonialpest.com/2013/08/13/baldfaced-hornets-are-more-docile-yellowjackets/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CHornet%E2%80%9D%20has%20such%20a%20threatening,always)%20high%20up%20in%20trees.
If you have access to a power washer you can use hot water with some Dawn dish detergent and power wash the little bit that left on the garage door at the end . Than about few days later retreat the area with your spray . Than a week after that repaint the area so you can’t tell anything was ever there .
I've seen photos of multi-colored nests that were made from colored construction paper that people have left out for wasps to chew and make their nests from.
Thats a very fun idea! I could see that being fun for a school/kids to do if a nest was being built near a window, that they could safely watch as it was constructed!
@@shipleypestsolutions It would! If you google "multi-colored wasp nest" you can see the pics. Looks like they are all the same setting and lots of different sites have posted the same pics, but they're out there if you wanna see them. I got stung by a wasp the day before yesterday. I was out blowing off the patio with my blower and apparently some wasps had built a nest under one of the deck chairs. Man, he got me GOOD on the leg! Drew blood even! Good thing I'm not allergic. Swelled up pretty good though and itches like crazy today. Thank goodness for "After Bite". Stuff works great!
You probably about know this, I helped a friend who had a few yellow jacket nests, and I know they are all in at dark, so I took the duster to puff them, the first time I made the mistake of wearing a headlamp, and yep, they came out and flew directly towards the headlamp. The next time, I put a flashlight a few feet to the right of the hole and I came in from the left, worked much better, as a few that came out went to the light. After about 30 minutes, I stuck a drink bottle in the hole, so that any that might come out could not go anywhere, that also worked well, as the hole was a tight fit for a 16oz drink bottle top.
Yes, I learned, just as you did, that they will fly towards any light in a little to no light area. I've see and heard of the "bottle trick" and know it can be effective sometimes as well!
I recently knocked over a bald faced hornet nest by accident and they swarmed but didn't sting me. We then lit the nest on fire and they still did not attack. Any idea why they would be so docile
Not sure what dust you are using, but I've used SEVIN powder for garden pests blown through a pipe into the nest or open spot on the house where they are getting in. Kills everything.
We use Tempo dust but Sevin will work as well. A cheap turkey baster from the dollar store can also function as a cheap and effective way to dust a nest effectively, as well!
I get mine off with a shop vac . I had hornets get in a gap of aluminum siding I took my swimming pool key poke tape the shop vac to it about 6 hours of running the queen finnally came out . empty the vac out when it gets below 44 degrees .
@@shipleypestsolutions we had a nest up on our shed and I was so sure they were yellow jackets but then I noticed I was walking right underneath of the nest and not getting attacked I was like are these really yellow jackets glad I learned what they actually were which was paper wasps
Yellow Jackets and Paper Wasps look very similar and I'm glad to help. I'll continue to try putting out helpful videos and passing on some of my knowledge. Sometimes you can use Google lens to take a picture as well and it will help tell you what it is. Either way, both Yellow Jackets & Paper Wasps can/will sting, so treat either of them with caution.
@@shipleypestsolutions oh most definitely I'm surprised I wasn't stung at all I would walk right under it without knowing it was there then one day all of a sudden I looked up and see the nest like 3-4 inches from my head there could have been multiple times where I could have got stung not knowing it was that close to where I was walking but got lucky I'm almost 100% sure a yellow jacket or multiple yellow jackets would have made me aware they were there 😂
Temp dust was used in this situation (according to our state & federal laws). The dust works by getting on the hornets/wasps/etc. They need to be very clean to fly and will clean themselves to try to fly and move around, in doing so, ingesting the product that will kill them.
Absolutely agree! Truthfully, there are only a select few jobs each year that we may pass on or can't do, due to not getting on ladders or a roof. I am happy to pass that work onto another company to avoid that risk as well.
I would be shocked if this was the "same" queen/colony/nest year after year, due to our freezing temperatures. I did advise to either remove the landscaping timbers or fill that void with a spray foam or something. I know many people in warmer climates (south of us in Indiana) will dig them up but our nests get evacuated around October, due to freezing temperatures.
I use Tempo and have used the others, if not all the others at some point throughout my career. I use it in accordance with our state laws and according to label, of course.
I was helping my friend who had a ground nest of yellow jackets and all I did was dump Don dish soap down and flood it with water I came back the next day and all dead ☠️
Great removal. This video popped up in my feed today, I’ve taken out an in ground yellow jacket nest on my property each week in July. Been stung countless times. Good call on having a backup method to spray into the hive. Going to subscribe to your channel and follow the RU-vid journey. Keep it up!
Greatly appreciate the feedback and glad I can help! I'll try to keep the interesting and informative videos coming and hopefully you can stay safe and don't get stung too many more times!
I’ve been seeing more bees, wasps and stinging type insects in general this summer so far than I ever remember even noticing. And now here lately a few different kinds have been showing up. The all black looking wasps that are a little bit smaller than normal red and brown wasps. They also seem to even flap their wings unlike a regular wasp. Also tons of dragonflies, which I don’t mind as much about those. But there’s also something else I see here lately that’s huge like the dragonfly but it doesn’t seem to be a dragonfly. It almost looks like a hornet/dragonfly hybrid. Any idea what these could be? Great information and video.. subbed 👍
The wasps you are seeing could be a type of parasitic wasp. They hunt spiders and other insects. I bet the dragonfly/hornet thing you are seeing is a “Cicada Killer”. They are harmless to humans but large and intimidating. They’ll hunt cicadas and other large insects, stay fairly low to the ground and live around dry soil. They typically are only around for a few weeks in the middle of summer (most dry time) and then will go away. Appreciate the sub and we’ll keep the information coming!
For time a safety reasons. Around a playground setting like this I want to make sure the nest is taken care of to the best of my ability, therefore dusting and ensuring the larva will also be killed and not hatch to continue on with the nest, is important.
I have a white faced hornets nest on the side of my house about six feet away from a window that is always open this time of years so that the cats can go in and out as they please. Only two of them have actually come into the house as far as i know. One of them died on a kitchen counter, and am not sure why. The other one i thought was dead floating in a bowl filled with water in the sink. I scooped it out with a spoon and noticed it was still alive. I could have just washed it down the sink, but decided to just toss it out the window where it could possibly recover and rejoin the hive. If it has any intelligence it will know that coming in the house is not the safest place to go. That nest has been there for a few weeks, but i just noticed it a couple days ago. I am out there frequently doing yard work and hanging out with the cats. I have never even seen any of the hornets fly anywhere near me. So far, i have been leaving them alone and they have been leaving me and the cats alone. They have been doing their thing which is probably hunting other bugs in my yard and working on their hive. At this point, i am not really sure what i will do about it.
There are a lot of nests that won’t become a danger to humans and can be left alone to just do their natural thing. When they become a danger to humans are when people call us to come take care of the problem.
@@shipleypestsolutions Thank you for the reply. That nest has been there for weeks, but i just noticed it a few days ago. They have never bothered me or my cats outdoors yet. Another one did come in the window and buzzed around the kitchen for a while last night, but probably went back out and returned to the nest.
@@tonyprice2256they might be fine to leave alone for the rest of the season then, if they don’t pose a threat. They will typically abandon their nests as fall sets in and we start to get 40 degree nights, here in Indiana. So, they will most likely behave similarly wherever you might be living.
That is a major benefit of the job for sure. Appreciate you taking the time to comment and I just saw your channel as well. You've have some great stuff also!!
It doesn't always mean that mattress has had bed bugs. Many times the mattress covers are put on to help keep the mattresses clean but if they have a clip, lock or zip tie on them, then they have probably been treated.
That depends on your state and local laws, honestly. We use many synthetic pyrethroid products in our daily treatments but are licensed and abide by the labels and laws. "Safe" is also a difficult word to address broadly.
