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Miche Pest Control is a family owned and operated pest control company that provides high quality residential and commercial yellowjacket control services for homes and businesses in Washington DC and the surrounding areas. Our expert yellowjacket exterminators get rid of yellowjackets from homes and businesses fast, and use preventative treatments to keep the yellowjackets from coming back after they've been eliminated. Miche Pest Control has a 4.9 star rating and over 1,000 reviews online - call today or book online!

Yellowjackets In Washington DC

Yellowjackets are aggressive pests that possess a painful sting and bite. You’ll find these bright yellow and black insects in the backyard, at picnics and other outdoor activities. Yellowjacket nests are usually built underground, although some species will construct their nests in hollow logs, trees, attics, between walls, or under eaves of houses. An underground yellowjacket nest is difficult to locate because the entrance is about the size of a nickel. Most yellowjacket workers forage for food within 1,000 feet of their nest -- a distance of three football fields. In the middle of the season -- usually June or July -- yellowjackets are drawn to protein sources, such as hamburgers on the barbecue grill. During the late summer to early fall, they tend to shift their diet to sweets, including soda and juice.

Yellowjackets scavenge for meat and sweet liquids, which brings them into frequent contact with humans. Yellowjacket attacks can be deadly for people who are allergic to their stings. Yellowjackets are more aggressive than other stinging insects such as wasps, hornets, mud daubers or bees. Yellowjackets can both sting and bite - in fact, they will often bite to get a better grip to jab their stinger in. Since they don't lose their stinger, they can sting numerous times, and will do so unprovoked.

Yellowjackets vigorously defend their nests. Swarm attacks can occur when someone accidentally steps in or hits a nest opening. Ground vibrations can also trigger attacks from underground nests -- thus, mowing lawns can be hazardous, especially during the late summer season when colonies are at their largest.

Yellow Jacket Wasps

Yellowjacket or yellow jacket is the common name in North America for certain predatory social wasps. They are known simply as "wasps" in other English-speaking countries. Most of these are black and yellow like the eastern yellowjacket and the aerial yellowjacket; however, some are black and white like the bald-faced hornet. Others may have the abdomen background color red instead of black. They can be identified by their distinctive markings, their occurrence only in colonies, and a characteristic, rapid, side-to-side flight pattern prior to landing. All females are capable of stinging. Yellowjackets are important predators of pest insects.

Yellow Jacket Bees

Although yellowjackets' yellow and black stripes are similar to those of bees, and even though they are both types of stinging insects, yellow jackets are not bees. Rather, yellow jackets are wasps and differ from bees in a number of ways.

The bodies of bees are fuzzier and more rounded in shape, while yellow jackets are noticeably smoother and thinner. Yellow jackets' bodies are narrower between the thorax and abdomen. Unlike bees, which have stingers with pronounced barbs and can sting only once before dying, yellow jackets are equipped with lance-like stingers with much smaller barbs, and are capable of delivering multiple stings without dying.

Yellow jackets also differ from bees in behavior and habits. They are predatory and will consume other insects. Yellow jackets are also scavengers of human food, and can be found swarming around trash cans or picnic sites. Yellow jackets will also feed on nectar, but they depend primarily upon insects, meat and fish for nourishment. Most bee species are significantly less aggressive than yellow jackets, which are territorial and may sting at even the slightest provocation.

Ground Nesting Yellow Jackets

Ground nesting yellow jackets construct paper nests that may contain thousands of larvae and adult workers. These nests are typically located underground in abandoned rodent burrows or in other enclosed spaces such as tree cavities, wall cavities, wood piles, and dense ivy. During the fall, young queens mate and find protected areas (such as fallen logs, tree cavities, cracks in buildings, etc.) where they remain for the duration of the winter. When spring arrives, queens select nesting sites and begin the process of colony initiation (nest construction, deposition of eggs, and hunting for food). Once adult workers emerge, they take over many of the tasks of nest maintenance so that the queen can remain within the safety of the nest and lay eggs. Foraging ground-nesting yellow jacket workers commonly come into contact with people who are eating outdoors and may at times become extremely aggressive. The colony grows throughout the summer and into the fall, and eventually begins production of males and queens. When rain and/or freezing temperatures return, nests typically die out, and newly mated queens find protected areas to overwinter so the process can begin anew in the spring.

Killing Yellow Jackets In The Ground In Washington DC

If you're faced with the need to get rid of yellowjackets in Washington DC and they're nesting in the ground, then it's best to work with an experienced yellow jacket exterminator. Killing yellow jackets in the ground is dangerous, since they are going to be protective of their nest, and each nest, especially by the time they're noticed, can contain thousands of these aggressive wasps. The best way to get rid of them is going to be the safest way to get rid of them, and there is no safer way than trusting the professionals. Our reliable yellowjacket removal methods work fast - contact us today to get started!

Yellow Jacket Removal Near Me In Washington DC

If you're looking for yellow jacket removal near me in Washington DC or the surrounding areas, look no further. Miche Pest Control provides yellow jacket removal services in Washington DC and the surrounding areas. Our team removes yellow jackets as well as their nests, whenever possible, after eliminating the yellowjacket infestation on your property. Don't let the yellow jackets get out of hand; contact us today!

Washington DC

Washington DC, formally known as the District of Columbia, more commonly known as DC, is the official capital of the United States of America. It is located on east side of the Potomac River, bordering Maryland and Virginia. The United States Congress held its first session there in 1800. The city was named after George Washington,  a Founding Father and the first president of the United States. The federal district was named after Columbia, a female personification of our nation. As the seat of the US federal government and several international organizations, DC is an important world political capital. It is one of the most visited cities in the US, with over 24 million visitors in 2019.

The District of Columbia is not a part of any U.S. state. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River near the country's Atlantic Coast. The City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the national capital. In 1801, the land, formerly part of Maryland and Virginia (at the time including the settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria), officially became recognized as the federal district. In 1846, Congress returned to Virginia the portion of Washington DC that had been originally ceded by Virginia, including the cities of Alexandria and Arlington; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the district.

DC is divided into quadrants (NW, NE, SE, and SW), centered on the United States Capitol (aka the Capitol Building or Capitol Hill), with 8 wards, 37 Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, and 127 named neighborhoods. It is the 20th-most populous city in the US. Commuters from the surrounding suburbs in Maryland and Northern Virginia raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington DC's metropolitan area is the country's sixth-largest metropolitan area, and includes portions of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.

Nearby Cities:

Arlington VA (3 miles), Bethesda MD (6 miles), Hyattsville MD (6 miles), Silver Spring MD (6 miles), Alexandria VA (7 miles), Falls Church VA (7 miles), Springfield VA (11 miles), Rockville MD (14 miles), Bowie MD (15 miles), Fairfax VA (15 miles), Laurel MD (17 miles), Upper Marlboro MD (17 miles), Gaithersburg MD (19 miles), Herndon VA (19 miles), Woodbridge VA (21 miles), Columbia MD (23 miles), Ashburn VA (26 miles), Manassas VA (26 miles), Ellicott City MD (28 miles), Annapolis MD (30 miles), Leesburg VA (32 miles), Baltimore MD (35 miles), Frederick MD (40 miles), Fredericksburg VA (48 miles)

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