Al Bundy wrote:
Richard J Kinch wrote in
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Chris writes:


Any suggestions for getting rid of these bees?

If you're up north in a freezing climate, they'll just die off around
frost season, at which time you seal up the hole(s). They live off
flowers and starve in the fall when the flowers disappear. That's why
they're getting so ornery around Labor Day picnic time and going after
fruit-scented soft drinks. The queen hibernates to survive over the
winter and starts a new colony in the spring.


Where? In the nest in the attic? If that's the case will she croak if all
the exits are blocked in the spring? Covering all the entry points after
the main clan croaks in winter would seem in order.



It will be "Queens" survive the winter. The late offspring will be next
years queens. They will hibernate in any number of protected spaces. I
remember a call where the home owner was having some remodeling on a
garage in the winter and when a wall was opened up hundreds of
hibernating wasps were in the wall. I would say it would be impossible
to make your attic sealed enough to keep out insects, even ones as large
as a wasp.

Lar