Wasp nest identification

Wasp nest identification

Wasps are a horrible threat and a disaster for anyone who likes to use their backyard. In general, that would be everyone. There are a lot of pests that can live on your lawn. Rats, other rodents, and birds that try to snatch food from your hand. Mosquitoes and flies. Even bees. But nothing is so dangerous and threatening, so uncomfortable to be around that you don’t want to go outside, nothing so difficult to deal with, as the wasp. The wasp, especially social wasps like the yellowjacket are a serious threat. Their numbers are in the thousands and their nests are nigh impossible to find. They can swarm a bbq or outdoor dinner and if you have children who like eating ice cream outside then you need to call a professional right away. 

It is best to contact  Wasp Control Oshawa in the Greater Toronto Area to declare your home rat-free as soon as possible!

There are a lot of different wasps and as many different nests. The mud dauber, a non-aggressive wasp that helps your garden and leaves you alone, builds their nests in the mud. If their nest is harmed by an animal or human they will not attack, even if their eggs are killed, they will simply move on to a new location and try to make a new nest and lay new eggs. They will always leave you alone, you would have to swat at them to get them to even think of attacking. This wasp is not something to worry about, if anything they should be welcomed. That, of course, is the end of the kind wasps.

The paper wasp and bald-faced wasps are normally solitary but the bald-faced wasp can also be social and form large nests. The paper wasp builds a small umbrella-like nest with honeycomb-like slots. They lay eggs and hunt insects to feed their larva. The nest is open and at risk of attack so the paper wasp often tries to find somewhere secluded to build the nest, like in your attic. The bald-faced wasps are not aggressive when they are solitary but in a nest, they become a major threat, more so than yellowjackets. If you have a bald-faced wasp nest on your property you need to get rid of it right away. The nest looks like a hornet’s nest with an opening at the bottom instead of at the front. They will attack anyone who comes near the nest so stay away until you can exterminate it. 

Yellow jackets make large nests in the ground that are very hard to find until you run a lawnmower over them and get attacked by a thousand yellow wasps. So if you have this or any other nest on your property you need to call the professionals, wasps are not to be toyed with, they are dangerous and deadly. Call Pest Control Oshawa and leave the work to someone who knows what they are doing.