Spectracide Carpenter Bee and Ground Nesting Yellow Jacket Foaming Aerosol fo...

I picked this up to deal with underground, yellow jackets, and bees around my property and it’s worked well so far. The spray comes out strong, and the long straw makes it easy to reach into cracks and tight spots without getting too close. It sprays out several feet, which I appreciate. I like that it foams up so you can see exactly where you sprayed, and it seems to work quickly. I’ve used it a few times and haven’t had any issues with clogging or leaking. Overall, it does what it’s supposed to and is easy to use.

Perfect for my needs! Had carpenter bees burrowing in my deck and needed them gone fast. Easy to apply - point and spray! Nice thick foam covers the holes. Killed the bees by morning. Only slight disappointment was it was a little messy and got on my hands. Washed them twice and no issues.

This is the ONLY thing that FINALLY killed our Yellowjacket problem! My 12 y/o son and I are both very allergic to ALL bees! And we had thousands of Yellowjackets make a nest in between the wood boards and into the ground behind it, right in our parking area next to our front porch! The bees apparently did this while we were on vacation. I got stung 5 times just trying to get into my car twice!!! I had to try to park back farther after that, and walk in a big circle way around that area just to have to try to get near it anyway to get onto our porch to get in the house. We tried 4 different sprays that said they killed Yellowjackets. NONE of those even affected them!! Every single night, my fiancé sprayed the area in between the the wood where the bees came in and out. That way all the bees were in the nest and would get the poison on them. This spray is GREAT because it also expanded into the wood into the nest itself that was in the ground behind the wood that we couldn’t get to! Every single morning, we seen about 50-80 bees dead on the ground in front of the wood! We had to spray nearly an entire can every night for a week and a half to kill all the bees that were in that HUGE nest!! After there was no more bee activity there, my fiancé sprayed the area with clear flex seal to help reseal over it so that the bees couldn’t get back in there. There are now no more bees there and my son and I can now safely get in and out of my car and I can park back in my parking spot!! NEVER STOP MAKING THIS SPRAY!!!! It saved both mine and my son’s lives…. Along with our Epi-pens! We couldn’t be more pleased with how quickly and effectively this killed the yellow jackets when nothing else would!

It works - I could witness how ground nesting yellowjackets get incapacitated and die when this pesticide is sprayed on them. The efficacy can vary depending on how long and wide the underground tunnel from the surface to the next is. If the tunnel is not straight and shot, even foaming action may not be sufficient to reach the nest. I tried injecting it into the hole in the ground, and after excavation I can see a dozen or two yellowjackets killed by it, but foam did not propagate all the way (it seemed that nothing has changed by the next day) and I still had to dig into the ground to get access to the nest. I am very glad that I got a bee suit ahead of time, as there was a point when a cloud of yellowjackets emerged from the ground when their nest was hit with a shovel. They would kill me without a suit, but in suit they seem to not even notice me. A few of them ended up sitting on the suit but could not sting me. My judgment based on limited experience is that typically, it can be more of an aid to the process of digging rather than a simple to use, single step solution (which probably does not exist). The recommended on the can way of using it is via a straw inserted into the nozzle. This creates an option of injecting foam into the hole. The stream is not strong enough to hit nests in the trees or above your head or from a significant distance, and in any case, spraying the entrance would not eradicate the whole nest. If the nest is large, you probably will be better off sucking them out of the nest with wet vacuum with soapy water to drown them. It is really difficult to completely destroy the next by injecting foam into it because you would need to dig into the access tunnel gradually and get close to the nest to make sure the spray reaches it. Since yellowjackets will not like it, you probably need a bee suit no matter what if you try to get so close to the nest to insert the straw into the hole. If you have a bee suit, well, then you have a very wide scope of options, including just destroying the nest and letting them fly away to find another home. Before you hit the nest with showel or garden hoe, the foam might not reach the nest (or maybe it will if you are lucky, but there is no guarantee), and after you hit the nest, all those yellowjackets are all airborne flying around you and there is nothing to spray on, except the remains of the nest, if anything or anyone is still there. I got one can from amazon and a day later got another one from a local hardware store. In retrospective, it was not even decisive in the outcome, just help, but not a solution. A garden hoe and a bee suit were much more effective. Your case may be different.

this works great on yellow jackets. living in the woods, we often have underground nests. there is an extension straw that easily fits in the sprayer making application easy. the nest fills with foam and kills the bugs

This stuff is less than worthless. I’ve sprayed it into many carpenter bee nests, and in two cases directly onto the carpenter bee as it landed and entered the nest. Kills on contact is a joke. The two bees entered their nests, did whatever it was they wanted to do and just flew away. There’s bound to be a good product for carpenter bees on the market somewhere, but this one isn’t it. I’d save my money if I were you. Update: It has now been four days since I started using this product. Not one carpenter bee has been affected. I’m still looking for an alternative, but, in the interim, I’ve taken to using a fly swat. The score to date is fly swat 8 vs. this spray 0.

It will deter bees for a day then the bees are back at it

I have used this Spectracide Carpenter bee killer product before and it’s fantastic. When ordering from this company, The Cans they sent me must be old. Code BU02215AB. Trying to return them no luck yet. The Cans sent to me: Old or defective. Cans have low propellent, possibly defective aerosol. product does not foam. shook 3 cans for two minutes. Each have Same output. all the same date from 2022.