Wasps out in nature are not considered a pest, however if you have a wasp’s nest in your house or garden they will grow in size during the Summer months and so you may prefer to get any wasps nests removed. A mature wasp’s nest can house anything from 3,000 – 15,000 wasps, so if you find a wasp’s nest in your shed or loft for example, and want to stop a wasp infestation, then professional wasp pest control may be the best solution.
Initially a wasp’s nest is quite small – about the size of a ping pong ball. Queen wasps have been hibernating over the Winter and emerge in early springtime to start making their nests out of chewed wood. Over the next few weeks the wasp nest will increase in size, and we normally see wasp nests around the size of a basked ball during July and August. By the time Autumn comes some wasp’s nests can be particularly large; sometimes up to a metre across.
The more wasps you have nesting in your home or garden, then the greater the chance of you and your family getting stung. A wasp sting is at best painful and at worst fatal, as they can produce an allergic reaction. Therefore, removing a wasp’s nest before it gets too big is a sensible approach. The more wasps in the nest, the higher the chance of getting stung. However initially wasp nests are very small so can go unnoticed for some time. It’s only when the wasp nest gets bigger that you start getting more wasps in your garden and may notice they are all flying to the same nesting place.
Wasps will nest in lofts and attic spaces, garden sheds, compost heaps, in the ground and in wall cavities – just about any where they can find shelter. They are different to bees in that the nest will die of naturally at the end of the year, and any queen wasps will leave the nest and hibernate nearby until the following spring, when the cycle starts again.
If you want to get rid of a wasps nest then the safest approach is to use wasp pest control services. A reputable pest control company should guarantee their wasp extermination or wasp removal services, so it’s always worth asking beforehand if there is a wasp extermination guarantee.
Most pest control companies will also be able to remove the entire wasps nest if it is accessible. Some wasps nests, such as a wasp nest in a wall cavity, may not be accessible. In this situation removing the wasps nest may not be achievable, but it can still be treated and the wasps exterminated. This will finish the wasps nest and completely removing an empty wasps nest is not always necessary, as new wasps will not take up residence in an empty nest.
