I can sympathize with the guy who burned down his house. I had yellow jackets living in the siding of my house. I called Orkin twice they couldn’t get rid of them. Luckily, my neighbor’s brother works in pest control and was able to get rid of them. They are nasty insects.
This year, when it was very quiet, I was hearing a crinkly noise in one room but I couldn’t locate where was the sound. I eventually saw a couple of the buggers (I’ve read that the ones making homes in walls are hornets) entering a space below a window. I sprayed that area every couple of days for about a week and a half and that did it.
My best yeller jacket story, it happened about 3 years ago when a colony had hollowed out a hole under my hedge by the sidewalk. They were buzzing the area and creating a hazard for kids. I grabbed my long distance spray and got in my truck and eased up along the curb, rolled down the window hit em and rolled up super fast. Too far away. Moved up on the curb and did the same thing. Still didn’t reach. Backed up and move all the way to the sidewalk. Rolled down the window, hit em hard, direct hit. Hit the button to roll up my window and I swear my window picked that exact moment to come off the guide and fall down into my door. Dead meat staring at a cloud of hurt, I threw it into reverse and jumped the curb so fast I was airborn. No stings by a miracle.