It seems we had an infestation of yellow jackets inside the wall of our house.
Jared came downstairs saying that he is hearing some strange scratching noises inside the wall in his bedroom. That he had banged the wall with the flat of his hand and it actually caved in some, though not completely open.
So Shannon went upstairs to take a look. He poked his thumb into the indentation that Jared's hand had made in the wall and the next thing I hear are screams coming from upstairs... that, and cursing! Seems Shannon stuck his thumb into a yellow jacket nest in the wall of Jared's bedroom!
He and Jared immediately came out of Jared's bedroom and quickly closed the door as the bees seemed to be a bit angry, and now had an opening to come inside the house.
Jared and I quickly got on our shoes and went to home depot to get some bee killing spray. When we came home Shannon was bundled up in a hilarious fashion. I wish I had a photo of it but sadly I didn't think of it at the time.
He was completely bundled up in a winter jacket, goggles over his glasses, a winter hat with some kind of plastic wrap covering the rest of his face so he was protected, boots and his black leather fencing gloves to top it off! There wasn't an ounce of flesh left exposed for the yellow jackets to easily get their stingers on.
We handed him the first of three large cans of spray and back up into the fray he went. As he sprayed all the lose bees he yelled out that he needed a hammer to get better access to the nest in the wall so Jared bravely grabbed the hammer and went inside to give to Shannon.
After he emptied the first can we gave him a second one and a flashlight so he could make sure he was saturating the nest inside the wall.
Needless to say, we have some cleaning up to do. Jared had to launder all his clothes and bedding that got sprayed. Jared also kindly vacuumed up the dead bodies littering the floor and has temporarily moved into Alex's room until we clean it all up and repair the wall.
Here are the photos of the aftermath...
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