Wasps’ Nests Destroyed In Chorley
Wasps’ Nests Destroyed In Chorley
Wasps’ Nests Destroyed In Chorley – Chorley Pest Control destroy wasps’ nests throughout the area for a fixed fee of £29.50. The fee is fixed for 2009 and we do not charge extra for weekends, evenings or bank holidays.
The annoying wasp season is almost upon us once more, what would summer be without our friends the wasps to pester us as we enjoy our evening barbeques?
The biology of the wasp means they are rarely seen much sooner than July as until then only the queen wasp is in the nest.
In late March or early April the over-wintering queens leave their hibernating sites to seek nesting sites which could be in a hole in the ground, a bush or artificial structures such as air-bricks eaves, lofts and attics, garden sheds etc.
The new queen starts to build her nest with a papery material that she makes by chewing small pieces of wood mixed with saliva; this is known as Wasp paper.
She will raise the first few workers by her own efforts and those workers will then continue the construction of the nest and caring for the immature Wasps to follow.
Nest construction starts in earnest in June and will reach its maximum in size in September, when 5 – 30,000 workers may be in the nest. These workers will forage for food up to 400 metres from the nest. The size of wasp colonies will vary from year to year, the severity of the previous winter is probably the key factor.
In the Autumn the newly produced queens mate and leave the nest to find hibernation sites, the rest of the nest dies out and the nest is never used again.
Individuals react differently to being stung by wasps; some are hardly affected, while others suffer considerable pain and swelling and a few become seriously allergic to being stung, which in severe cases results in sudden death due to anaphylactic shock.
Control
It is adviseable to let a professional Pest Control Officer deal with a Wasps’ nest for the reasons mentioned above. An insecticide will be injected into the entrance to the nest. Returning wasps will carry the insecticide into the centre of the nest and within a short time all wasps should be dead.
It is foolish to allow a wasps’ nest to remain untreated as the immature queens produced by the nest will invariably nest nearby in the following spring resulting in many more nests the following year. For this reason several nests are often found close together in a neighbourhood a locality.
Wasps’ Nests Destroyed In Chorley
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