I've had wasps going in the siding of my house for a while, but they haven't bothered me and I'm leery of poisons so I haven't done anything until this past week. An occasional wasp would make its way into the house (I don't see where this is happening), but again they hadn't bothered me and eventually they die after banging against the plate glass window in my living room.
I also have hundreds of wasps buzzing around the star magnolia by my front door (again so far they haven't bothered me). Turns out the wasps are there because of magnolia scale. I got an arborist to come and spray something around the base of the tree which is then taken up by the tree killing the scale. Apparently not doing something about the scale can imperil the magnolia. (This is the current problem also with the wasps around the magnolia at the front door of the Lincoln Library.) The arborist was here three days ago on Thursday. While he was here dealing with the magnolia, the arborist squirted what I think was pyrethrin at the hole in my siding where the wasps were getting in. Maybe this treatment hasn't been given enough time to work, but a decided increase in the number of wasps making it into the house has me concerned. I suppose I could eventually get stung. I've looked at a few videos on youtube, I went to Home Depot and saw some type of yellow jacket trap which didn't immediately acknowledge it was a poison. Also saw a long shelf of many aerosol sprays to get rid of problem. Does anyone have any advice? This is beyond my dealing with on my own. Any recommendations for an . . . erk. . . exterminator?
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