There are either bees or yellowjackets flying in and out of the wall of my house. Does it matter which one it is?
Most definitely. If it is yellowjackets, then they have a paper nest inside that is full of larvae and wasps but not much else. If you have the nest exterminated by a professional exterminator (we don’t recommend you attempting to kill off a yellowjacket nest by yourself unless you know what you are doing), then there may be a little smell of decaying insect bodies (maybe 1000 to 3000 wasps and larvae) but overall, the nest can be killed and that should be the end of it. In contrast, if you have honey bees in the wall, the proper procedure is to have the hive exteriminated, then you have to rip out the wall exposing the honey and comb, remove it, repair the wall and then MAKE SURE YOUR PLUG UP THE HOLE AFTER THE COLONY IS REMOVED SO ANOTHER BEE COLONY DOESN’T MOVE IN AGAIN. You can’t just kill off a honey bee colony and then ignore it. It could easily have 100 lbs of honey in the walls. Once the bees are dead, there is no way to control the temperature inside the cavity, summer heat wi
