Yesterday I discover, hidden in a bush immediately outside my front door, a yellow-jacket beehive that is pretty big, hanging about five feet off the ground but completely invisible from all directions. I had no idea it was there even though I'd been walking past it a bunch of times per day, as well as using the recycling bin directly under the bush. Then yesterday afternoon one of these mafvckas decides to sting me, so now it's game on. Evidently it's busy season for pest control services since only one company, Viking, answered my calls. They quoted me $339 to get rid of it.
Anyone with experience getting rid of these things? A neighbor suggested I go to Home Depot and get a can of bee/wasp spray, but the bush looks like it will block the spray due to the hive's location within the bush. I am also toying with the idea of putting on my thick winter gear (think: Rutgers football game in late November), covering my face and every other body part, smashing it with a rake or some such thing, then diving back in the house.
Neither solution sounds appealing, though I'm leaning towards calling around for more quotes in the hope that someone cutely picks up their phone. Anyone with recs? I'm in the Bedminster/Basking Ridge area. TIA!
Anyone with experience getting rid of these things? A neighbor suggested I go to Home Depot and get a can of bee/wasp spray, but the bush looks like it will block the spray due to the hive's location within the bush. I am also toying with the idea of putting on my thick winter gear (think: Rutgers football game in late November), covering my face and every other body part, smashing it with a rake or some such thing, then diving back in the house.
Neither solution sounds appealing, though I'm leaning towards calling around for more quotes in the hope that someone cutely picks up their phone. Anyone with recs? I'm in the Bedminster/Basking Ridge area. TIA!