Kill Wasps, Wasp Pest Control
Exterminating the source
means eliminating the nest.
Ever been stung by a yellow jacket? It hurts bad. Ever been stung by a wasp? It hurts just as bad. Pyrethrin is the best insecticide to use to exterminate and eliminate wasps. Killing wasps individually is also effective with a fly swatter but does not eliminate the nest.
If you Google the word wasp, the number #1 result is a band I guess followed with the #2 result of Wikipedia and the acronym WASP stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. It is an informal term used in the United States in reference to an ethnic elite of high social status and presumed power. It is used to identify an elite based on upper class, well-educated Protestants in the northeast United States. "WASP" is usually used in disparaging fashion to imply the author's disapproval of the group's excessive power. But here at Consider Them Gone® we focus on pests and the only wasps were plan to tell you about are the stinging flying kind and how to exterminate and eliminate them.
According to Wikipedia, the term wasp is typically defined as any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor ant. Almost every pest insect species has at least one wasp species that preys upon it or parasitizes it, making wasps critically important in natural control of their numbers, or natural bio control. Parasitic wasps are increasingly used in agricultural pest control as they prey mostly on pest insects and have little impact on crops. This means that wasps are typically good for the environment, except when they make their way into our homes. Unlike the yellow jacket, wasps make their nest above ground. The type of nest produced by wasps will depend on the species and environment location. Most social wasps produce paper pulp nests, in attics, soffits, barns or other such sheltered areas with access to the outdoors. Solitary wasps are generally parasitic or predatory and only the latter build nests. While wasps can build nests in the ground like yellow jackets, typically they don't, they usually choose elevated locations.
So what is the difference between social wasps and solitary wasps? Well, it is almost self explanatory. Solitary wasp nests are much more diverse than social wasp nests. Mud daubers (Mud Dobbers) and pollen wasps construct mud nests typically on the side of walls. Potter wasps build vase-like nests from mud, often with multiple compartments called cells. The nests are usually attached to tree branches or against walls. Most other types of predatory wasps burrow into soil or into bushes, and a few do not build nests at all and prefer natural voids. Single eggs are laid in each cell, which is then closed off, so there is no interaction between the larvae and the adults, which is not the case with social wasps.
polistes wasps - mahogany wasps - purple tail wasp
Social wasps nests, such as hornet nests, are built by the queen and reach about the size of a golf ball before sterile female workers take over the nest construction. The queen starts the nest with a single layer or canopy and working outwards until she reaches the edges of the cavity. Beneath the canopy she constructs a stalk to which she can attach several cells; where the initial eggs will be laid. The queen continues to work outwards to the edges of the cavity after which she adds another tier. This process is repeated, adding tiers until enough female workers have been born and matured to take over construction of the nest allowing the queen to focus on wasp reproduction. The size of a nest is a good indicator of approximately how many female workers there are in the colony. Social wasp colonies often have populations exceeding several thousand female workers and at least one queen. Polistes and some related types of paper wasp do not construct their nests in tiers but rather in flat single combs.
