The queen wasp will venture from her winter hibernation location in search of a suitable nesting site in late April/May. Wasps Nests are frequently found in garden hedges, under eaves, in sheds or outbuildings, or in wall cavities and lofts.
Completed nests can hold up to 10,000 wasps and measure more than 30cm in diameter. Most problems are encountered with wasps in August and September when workers have finished the nest building and crave sweet sources of food. It is often that wasp nests are identified at this time of year.
Hornets are the largest of European wasps measuring normally measuring between 3-4cm in length. The Hornet lifecycle follows a very similar pattern to other wasps, but less numbers are found in each nest.
Where nests are still small it is possible to treat the nest using the DIY sprays available from Millennium Pest Control.
During the summer months however the nest rapidly grow and can contain many thousands of wasps all of which can deliver a painful sting. Removal of these nests should not be treated lightly - the wasps become more agressive towards late summer and can swarm around the nest making treatment in enclosed areas such as loft spaces particularly dangerous.
Millennium Pest Control use professional insecticidal contact powder or direct permethrin spray to destroy the nest.
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The problem found in the month of August is Wasps and Ladybirds.
This months alone has seen a large influx in all areas and on a typical day our Pest Controllers can treat an average of seven or eight wasp problems. The main task is to locate their nest as nests can hold up to 20,000 wasps. Nest construction starts in June and will usually reach its maximum in size in September. The Queen mates in the autumn and leaves the nest to hibernate, the rest of the nest dies out and is never used again. Wasps have not yet developed their methods of storing foods over the winter and this is why their colonies only last for one season in high temperature regions. Our company has seen a large rise in Wasp problems across the country in this year alone.
The other species which we have seen a large increase in this season is Ladybirds. Experts believe the main cause of this to be a combination of a warm summer which brought a plentiful supply of aphids, their main food source, and the spread of a foreign variety. The Harlequin Ladybird, which is larger, spottier and more orange than native ladybirds and is usually found in clusters, ladybirds can cause a nuisance by emitting a smelly yellow chemical which stains most surfaces. Yet because these insects are not classified as pests there is no official guidance for how to tackle an infestation and no pestacide with which to kill them, leaving property owners struggling to fight back.
Supplied with free mask and gloves the Rentokill Wasp Killer Powder is ideal for treating wasp nest entrance holes in dry conditions, the powder is best applied when nests are less active i.e. at night or early morning. Contains 0.5% bendiocarb.
Don't treat nests when they are active, if you are allergic to stings or the nest is not easily accessible. Call 0800 0854460 for a quote for our qualified technicians to destroy the nest.
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