Yellowjackets are an aggressive species of wasp that is capable of attacking in a swarm. They are capable of stinging repeatedly and can do so until the stinger breaks from pressure. The stinger is filled with venom that causes swelling and burning pain in most people. People who are allergic to a wasp sting are in enormous danger when they are near a wasp nest. Wasps do not care about your well-being, they are ready to attack and kill anything that approaches what they see as their territory.
If you want to get rid of the wasps on your property, contact Wasp Control Oshawa to solve your wasp problem!
The life cycle of the yellow jacket starts at the end of the fall. The previous queen, now producing sterile female workers, produces males and females capable of mating. The females are bright orange signifying that they are new queens. The males mate with them and then die along with the old queen and the sterile workers. The new queens find a place to hibernate for the winter. If you wait till this time of year to deal with wasps you will find it much more expensive and time-consuming than if you had dealt with it in the spring.
When spring comes the new queens leave hibernation and either renew an old nest or make a new pocket nest. They lay eggs and care for them. Hunting insects and building them a nice sealed nest. When they hatch and mature the queen resigns herself to laying eggs and the workers take on all the other work of building up the nest and feeding the larva produced by the queen. By the late summer, the queen stops laying eggs and the worker wasps become aggressive and bored. They search for sweet food, often human food, and will sting far more often than in the spring and early summer. When the fall comes they will die off and the queen will produce new queens and die off herself. This will end the cycle while also starting it anew.
If you have these pests on your property you will need to deal with them. You can try making a homemade wasp trap out of an old clear plastic jug. You just cut a one-inch hole in the top and fill it with rotting fruit and apple cider vinegar. The wasps will get caught in it and suffocate from the fumes. If you want to take care of it for good then you will have to call the professionals at Pest Control Oshawa. Our technicians can kill the nest, remove it, and destroy it along with the queen. They will then leave a residual treatment that will kill off any of the wasps that return to the area to sleep at nightfall.