How to get rid of Cicita killer bees? ?

Question

I need some advice on how to get rid of what is called Cicita killer bees. These are huge bees, bigger then bumbblebees.

We had them under our front proch, now that is spot is killed off, but now there burrowing all over in our from yard! We cant even mow our lawn, becuase there so bad. Our landlord refuses to do anything about them. Our whole yard is ate up in spots ofthese d**n cicita killer bees. Because they borrow under ground too.

Any help would be appreicated.

Answer 1

Ground-digger wasps (GDWs) are very large (slightly larger than a green hornet) passive-aggressive wasps that "build" their nests in dry, unfertilized earth. They are typically large and black-bodied with yellow stripes on their back-end. When fully grown, they measure about one and a half inches (or more) in length with about a one and a quarter-inch wide wing span.

You'll know you've got ground-digger wasp nests in your lawn or garden when you see small granular mounds of dirt piled up anywhere from two-to-five inches in height. At the base of the mound of granular dirt will be a finger-sized hole with a "path" of dirt leading out from it.

The nests will be sporadiacally built throughout your lawn or garden, but will typically be in the dryest areas and/or under longer grass/weeds or under growing flowers. GDWs do not like, but can live in, moist soil.

In the Northeast US, the life-cylce of a ground-digger wasp is about one month beginning in mid-July and ending around mid-to-late August (depending on where you live, their life-cycle may start earlier or later). They go from young adults buzzing about play-attacking with each other, to full-size adults in about two-to-three weeks.

While VERY menacing looking, they are passive stingers---meaning only if VERY threatened will they attack and sting. You'd practically have to start digging into their nests while they're flying about for one to come at you and sting you (so, don't do that!). Otherwise, they tend to buzz about to check you out and to scare you away---AND they probably will the first time you encounter them. Know that they'd rather get on with their business of killing cicadas up in the trees than sting you.

While the method below basically kills the wasps in their nests, I've found no other (safe- for-nearby-pets) way to irradicate them from my own lawn than this method. I still get nests from year-to-year, but only one, maybe two now. The trick is to kill all of them while they're in their nests so their babies will not come back to the same place they were born

Answer 2

spray them with sevin

Answer 3

each female wasp digs a hole to place cicadas in, then lays her egg...you can use any sort of insecticides dust, even flea powder, with rubber gloves place a pinch at the opening of the nest, she will crawl through it and die...the males are the ones that are aggressive flying about the yard, but they have no stinger.  

Answer 4

There are insecticides that you hook up to your garden hose and spray the lawn with. Also a good grub killer might work.