Wasp Nest Removal
In Newcastle, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear and Durham.
Wasps can be very aggressive and there are very few times when a wasp nest should go untreated. Often the first thing a home-owner knows is when they disturb the wasp nest and is stung several times.
When we treat your wasp nest we will be using an insecticidal dust called Ficam-D. It’s active ingredient is a 1% Bendicoarb dust. Occasionally when we treat a wasp nest we may use a fast knock-down insecticide called Insectaban, its active ingredient is 0.23% Permethrin.
We treat wasp nests with extendible poles from ground level whenever possible, they allow us to reach wasp nests as high as 6 metres, sometimes its hard to see the entry into the wasps nest from ground level and we have to use extension ladders to get up close and personal with the wasps.
If you are having problems with wasps in your beer garden or on your patio area we also supply wasp traps that attract and hold wasps.
If you live in Newcastle, Sunderland or Durham, contact us and we will usually call out the same day to remove the wasp nest.
Wasp control in Newcastle, Sunderland, Washington and Durham for £54
Same day call out when required. Our treatment is guaranteed. Call today.
Anatomy and lifecycle of a wasp
Vespula Vulgaris | Vespula Germanica
Mandibles
Antenna head
Several simple eyes
Compound eye
Yellow and black thorax
Slender waist
Jointed legs
Yellow and black striped abdomen
Stinger
Transparent wings
Tarsal claws
As the spring days warm up so does the Queen wasp. She has spent the winter months in hibernation in a safe, dry area, possibly a loft or a shed.
After she emerges she must find a new site for a nest and begin the process of building. She will strip wood from garden furniture, fences and timbers on lofts for her nest with her mandibles. The nest starts as a small inner core called a “petiole”. The queen will build cells around the petiole and lay eggs into them. Whilst the eggs are growing she will continue to build cells. forage and lay eggs. When the first set of eggs have hatched the queen will feed them on insects.
After the eggs have pupated into wasps they take over the expanding the nest by building, caring for the larvae and foraging. Leaving the queen to lay eggs, up to 100 per day.
The nest will quickly grow as the workers gather wood scraped from timber.
The nest size peaks in late summer early autumn when the queen will lay her last eggs, up to 1500 queen eggs and drone eggs. (unfertilized eggs that will grow into males).
These eggs when hatched contain the future queens and males. They will exit the nest and travel to mating areas where they will mate with wasps from different nests. The males having performed their duties will then die off and the mated queen wasps will find somewhere to hibernate overwinter.
