
When you think of summer months and hot sunny days, for most of us that
brings visions of lying on the beach under the sun, enjoying some food and drinks with friends on the patio, and playing outside after dinner with the kids to take advantage of the longer days. For others though, it
unfortunately brings visions of annoying, buzzing wasps waiting at our front door or crowding around the garbage can, lingering around to exert a nasty sting.
Wasps can be a big problem for some residents in the East York area, and it can be enough to ruin a fun summer
day, or a "stay-cation”. Learning about these buzzing creatures, their lifestyle, and habits
is the first step towards understanding their presence in your home and how to help you decide if you need some serious East York wasp removal.
What To Know About Wasps
Just like humans, wasps have some basic characteristics and lifestyle practices, including where they live, what they eat, and why they are likely even hanging around your house in the first place.
What
do wasps eat?
Wasps are most active during the day, making use of the natural
daylight hours to search for food, feed their young, tend to the queen, and
tend to their nest. Wasps live off bugs and larvae found in plants and crops,
and may also even eat some dead plant matter. Parent wasps will find larvae on
the plants and bring it back to the hive to feed the young, while yellow jackets
will feed on dead insects.
Where
do wasps live?
Wasps live in a hive, building
the nest from wood and paper fibres which they collect from sources such as
trees, logs, fences and cardboard. The wasps bring the fibres to the queen who
digests them with her saliva and jaws to form a paper pulp. She takes this to
the nest site, where worker wasps are able to create the traditional hexagonal
nest.
How
are wasps beneficial?
While it is easy to think of wasps as a nuisance, who are only there to
sting us and cause damage, they are actually beneficial to our gardens, plants
and trees, and as such, need to be respected. Wasps can act as a great addition
to your garden to eliminate unwanted crop-destroying bugs. In addition, they
use the larvae of some unwelcome pests to feed their own young back at the
nest.
Getting Rid Of Wasps
Maybe they do have their benefits and aren’t always just hanging around to try to sting you, but if they hang around enough – or sting too many times – benefits aside, they aren’t welcome! It will probably become very clear, very quickly that getting rid of the wasps is your top priority. Whether you need to get rid of them so you don’t get stung, because they are becoming a nuisance or just to prevent the problem from getting worse, eliminating these pests often comes down to eliminating the wasp’s nest and where they are living.
Once you are able to identify the presence of a nest, it will be much easier to chart an appropriate course of action and decide whether you have a DIY project on your hands or need to call in the professionals.
If the nest is smaller and away from your house and isn’t going to pose any potential risk to the public or local
neighbours, getting rid of the nest by yourself may be a valid option, and you can purchase insecticide from your local hardware store. From there, don the appropriate clothing to carry out the job safely: wear protective goggles and gloves, as well as a hat or hood to cover your head, put on long pants, a long sleeve turtleneck, closed toed shoes, and wrap a scarf around any other areas of your face that are exposed.
Once you are dressed, stand back and spray the nest, as you watch the
wasps fall to the ground. After a few days, if you do not see any more wasps in the area, remove the nest and put it in the compost.
While this may be a success for you, because of the risky nature of wasps (those stings hurt!), it is not really something you should play around with too often, especially if the nest is particularly large, in a public place, or located at home. Furthermore, like many pests, once they move in, they are there to stay. Removing the wasps once doesn’t mean they won’t come back or recreate the nest in a similar spot, especially if you didn’t actually kill them all off the first time. For this reason, it may be best to call your local
exterminator
for wasp control in your East York home.
How An Exterminator Can Help With Wasps
An exterminator is like the
pest killing king or queen. Armed with proper equipment, experienced in dealing with a variety of pest situations, and knowledgeable in different techniques; these guys are the answer to your long-term pest problem.
An exterminator will come into your home and perform an assessment. During this time, he or she will visit the wasp nest and ask you several questions to better understand the
behaviour of the wasps and what type they may be. From there, the wasp exterminator will be able to create a comprehensive plan and protocol to address your particular issue.
Who should I call for an exterminator?
The important thing to consider when you call an exterminator for wasp control in your East York home is that you are working with someone who is committed to you and your particular situation. Every pest issue is unique, requiring its own tailored solution, and generic resolutions just won’t cut it. When you call Power Pest Control, you can be guaranteed this is exactly what you are getting: a personalized plan. We
endeavour to maintain optimal customer care and assistance, high-quality servicing, and a distinguished level of care for the environment. We care about our customers and their pest problems as if they were our own and we are happy to go out of our way to produce pest control services unlike any you have ever seen. What are you waiting for? Call up Power Pest Control and get rid of those wasps!