Wasp Control
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Wasp nest removal and destruction
If you see a flow of wasps regularly flying in and out of a hole or one specific area, you've likely a wasp nest there. Get too close to the nest entrance, like we do unwittingly when mowing the lawn or gardening, and sentry wasps will release a pheromone that alerts all available worker wasps, quickly enraging them and calling them all out into attack mode!
A wasp sting is very painful (likened to receiving a shot with a hypodermic needle that's filled with hot acid) and can leave you swollen for a whole week, or worse, in hospital with a severe allergic reaction. Have Antihistamine medication on hand to take after being stung to slightly ease the swelling and pain of a wasp sting.
Wasps can sense body heat, and fear, so it's recommended to get a professional to deal with it. At Beastie Busters, we inject nests under Co2 pressure with insecticide powder, quickly and with minimal fuss, which will kill off a nest within 24 hours. Whether in ground, within a hedge, attached to the structure of a classic car that's been parked up a while, inside your favourite outdoor lounge chair, up on a roof, or under your house, we can deal to any wasp nest.
Most wasp nests will expire at the end of a season at about this size when it gets too cold. Hundreds of wasps strong, this nest was very angry before being neutralised. If they get big enough though, they can generate enough heat to survive winter and will become inter-generational, some exceptional examples growing up to a few metres wide with tens of thousands of wasps!
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Rusty the Chihuahua inspects a defunct wasp nest removed from an underfloor cavity.
Sentry wasps guarding an in-ground nest entrance.
Traps and insecticide spraying
Hanging a few wasp traps filled with wasp lure solution up in problem areas can help reduce wasp numbers, while spraying insecticides on surfaces where they set down or frequent, such as on trees and bushes, can provide repellancy and knockdown.
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Baiting programmes for remote nests
Are there a large number of wasps everywhere, but you don't know where they're coming from? Remote nests can be targeted with Vespex wasp bait in late summer, when nests switch to a protein based diet. Wasps will take the bait back to the nest where the slow-release insecticide will be fed to the queen and the next generation of wasp larvae, killing off the nest quickly and effectively.
