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Originally Posted by NY Annie
yellow jackets are wasps - and they are dangerous. One does not "move" a yellow jacket nest - one waits for all wasps to be in the nest (dusk) and then sprays the crap out of it until all are dead. Wasps have no predators - and serve no purpose - they don't pollenate anything - they kill.
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I hate wasps as much as the next guy. Maybe more, since I do have an allergy to honeybee venom. But they certainly have a purpose, one being a predator of insects. Many of which are harmful to gardens and/or people. So they are beneficial in some aspects.
Realistically, we don't know if these were bumblebees,yellow jackets, or paper wasps. We have paper wasps and bumblebees around my house. I usually end up taking out at least one bumblebee nest a year with delta dust and Demon insecticide. Paper wasps are much easier.