Last summar/fall, I was absolutely overrun with yellow jackets and had to buy some traps. Caught hundreds of them, but that was just treating the symptoms (could only locate/destroy 1 out of who-knows-how-many hives).
The trick is to catch the queens in the spring, and my reusable trap has caught two so far. That’s two hives I don’t have to worry about this summer.
They’re rough on dry years. A couple years ago I must have found 20 nests, some the hard way. I was almost getting used to getting stung.
Yep. Last summer was super dry (my poor lawn lol), and had way more yellow yackets than I can ever recall. If this summer is dry, too, hoping my preventative actions will help.