Wasps’ Nests Destroyed In Cheshire

Wasps’ Nests Destroyed In Cheshire – Cheshire Pest Control destroy wasps’ nests in Cheshire for a 2010  fixed price of just £32.00 or £44.50 for postcode areas L, CW & CH. We dod not charge extra for nests destroyed at weekends, evenings or bank holidays. Call us on 01565 849212, we can often manage a same day call out at no extra charge and we will not ramp the price up when we get there, it is fixed!

Wasps' Nest Cheshire 2007

The 2009 wasp season is almost upon us once more, what would summer be without our friends the wasps to pester us as we enjoy our summer evening barbeques?

The wasp has a biology that means they are rarely seen before July as until then only the queen wasp is in the nest.

In early spring the over-wintered queens leave their hibernating sites to find nesting sites which could be in a hole in the ground, a bush or artificial structures such as chimneys eaves, lofts and attics, garden sheds etc.

The queen starts to construct her nest with a papery material that she makes by chewing small slivers of wood mixed with saliva; this is known as Wasp paper.

She will raise the first few workers by her own efforts and those workers will then carry on the enlargement of the nest and feeding the immature Wasps to follow.

Nest building gets into full swing in June and will reach its maximum in size in September, when 5 – 30,000 workers may be present. These workers will gather food 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 main factor.

In the Autumn the young queens mate and leave the nest to find hibernation sites, the rest of the nest dies out and the nest is never used again.

Many individuals react differently to being stung by wasps; some are hardly affected, others suffer considerable pain and discomfort and a few become seriously allergic to being stung, which in severe cases results in sudden death due to anaphylactic shock.
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It is always advisable to let a professional Pest Control Officer destroy a Wasps’ nest for the reasons given above. An insecticide will be used to cover the entrance to the nest. Returning wasps will carry the insecticide into the middle of the nest and within an hour all wasps should be dead.

It is foolish to allow a wasps’ nest to remain untreated as the new 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 clustered together in a neighbourhood a locality.

Wasps’ Nests Destroyed In Cheshire

Pest Control Cheshire – Here at Cheshire Pest Control we offer a full range of residential & commercial pest control.

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Cheshire Pest Control offer a rapid, discreet value for money service 7 days per week including wasps’ nests destroyed for just £29.50 unless you live in the post areas L. Ch, or CW in which case it is £39.50 and those prices are fixed by Cheshire Pest Control for 2009 unless specialist access equipment such as a scaffold is needed. Later in the season when the new queens are emerging it may be necessary to carry out additional work such as a fogging treatment to the roof space or attic but that is unlikely to be needed before the new queens start to emerge in mid-September. Until then £29.50 is a fixed price. Pest Control Cheshire also specialise in dealing with infestations of ants in the house and in most cases we can remove the infestation and issue a three year guarantee subject to satisfactory site survey. See our articles on ant infestation for further details (on the right hand side bar of this page). We cannot give costs for this over the phone as we need to see the property. All other pests are dealt with 7 days per week and we can usually provide a same day service for Pest Control in Cheshire although in a busy summer this may vary. If you have ants in the house we recommend dealing with them before June as that commences our busy period and until then we have a discount on our normal prices. Pest Control Cheshire Cheshire Pest Control Free Articles

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How To Kill Wasp Nests (Ken Chadwick)

How To kill Wasp Nests – Although 11 species of true wasp are found in Europe, only two, the Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) and the German Wasp (Vespula germanica) are important as pest species in the U.K. although in recent years the European Wasp (Dolichovespula media)  has made inroads into Britain after arriving on the South Coast in the early 1980s.

All three species over-winter as queens. The Common Wasp usually hibernates in buildings and the German Wasp typically over-wintering under the bark of trees.

In spring the queens leave their hibernating quarters to seek nesting sites which could be in a hole in the ground, a hollow tree or artificial structures such as eaves, lofts and attics, garden sheds etc.

The queen starts to build her nest with a papery material that she makes by chewing small pieces of wood mixed with saliva; this is known as ‘wasp paper’.

She will raise the first few workers by her own efforts and those workers will then commence the enlargement of the nest and caring for the immature wasps to follow.

Nest construction starts in earnest in June and will reach its maximum in size in September when 5 – 30,000 workers may be present. These workers will forage for food 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 determining wasp numbers.

In summer as nest building continues apace the wasp is a gardener’s friend as it enjoys a high protein diet of aphids, grubs and larvae but as summer turns to autumn the wasp turns to feeding on fermenting fruits, in short – alcohol!

It is now as the days shorten that the wasp becomes troublesome and pest controllers across the country are deluged with call-outs.

In the late autumn the nest starts to produce the new queens to continue the cycle into the following year and when the time is ripe the young queens leave the nest and mate before hibernating. The rest of the colony dies and the nest is never used again.

Individuals react differently to being stung by wasps; some are hardly affected, others suffer considerable pain and swelling and a few become seriously allergic which in a very cases each year results in sudden death due to anaphylactic shock.

It is always advisable to let a professional deal with a wasps’ nest. 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 a few hours all wasps will be dead.

It is inadvisable 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 clustered together in a locality.

Ken Chadwick B.A. (Hons) is a Pest Controller and author on pest control issues. For further information please visit http://www.waspgo.co.uk

That concludes this article entitled – How To Kill Wasp Nests