The 2009 wasp season is almost upon, what would summer be without our old friends the wasps to irritate us as we enjoy our summer evening barbeques?
The wasp has a biology that 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-wintered queens leave their hibernating sites to find nesting sites which could be in a hole in the ground, a bush or man made structures such as chimneys eaves, lofts and attics, garden sheds etc.
The new queen starts to make her nest with a papery material that she makes by chewing small fragments of wood mixed with saliva; this is called Wasp paper.
She will raise the first few workers by her own efforts and those workers will then continue the building of the nest and feeding the immature Wasps to follow.
Nest construction gets into full swing 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 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 mid-September the newly produced queens mate and leave the nest to hibernate, the rest of the nest dies out and the nest is never reused.
Individuals react differently to being stung by wasps; some are hardly affected, others endure considerable pain and swelling and a few become seriously allergic to being stung, which in some cases results in sudden death due to anaphylactic shock. Control It is adviseable to let a professional Pest Controller deal with a Wasps' nest for the reasons stated above. An insecticide will be used to cover the entrance to the nest. Returning wasps will carry the insecticide into the heart of the nest and within an hour all wasps should be dead.
It is not a good idea to allow a wasps' nest to remain untreated as the resultant 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.
About the Author:
Ken Chadwick B.A.(hons) is a working pest controller and author on pest control issues in the Manchester area of Great Britain Wasps' Nests Destroyed 29.50 and also Stockport Pest Control. If you are an article marketer, click here to submit articles.
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