More dang yellow jackets!!!

When Tucker and Jamie were here visiting  a short time ago, Jamie told Neal that she saw a yellow jacket fly out of the mouth of our wind ornament that hangs on the wall of our patio.  So last night while Neal was planting the planter for Annie I noticed the yellow jackets or hornets (whatever they are) going in and out of the small hole for the mouth.  The ornament does not lay flat against the wall so there is plenty of room in their to build a nest.  Something I would have never thought to look for.  At dusk I sprayed right in the mouth and sure enough the hornets began dropping coming out and dropping to the ground.  Later that evening we took the wind ornament down and sure enough there was a lovely hornets nest!!  If you look closely you can see a hornet sitting on the lip of the mouth.

I glanced over at our other ornament which was the sun and we deicded to carefully take it down and just see if there was anything growing there and sure enough those nasty things had built a nest behind the sun ornament as well.  Believe me they were well sprayed and won't be coming back to either ornament this year.  Every Spring I'm going to have to take them down and spray them good every so often during the summer to keep the hornets from nesting in them.