Late Season Wasps’ Nests in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire – If you have a wasps’ nest we need to make you aware of a potential problem which occurs with late season nests and which you may experience. 

From about early September onwards the nest starts to produce the new queens which will hibernate for the winter and then start to build next year’s nests, an average nest producing up to about 2000 new queens. 

These queens then leave the nest and look for places to hibernate, typically in roof voids and lofts and it is quite common to find hundreds of them at a time on the floor of the loft or void. 

This process has already started and continues until the first cold spell, usually in November although in 2006 we were still destroying nests into December. 

Our operative has destroyed the nest on your property but as some queens will have already left the nest they will have escaped the treatment and may continue to cause you a problem. 

This may result in a continued stream of these wasps falling into the upper rooms of the property or the rooms adjacent to the nest. This can continue throughout the winter. 

This does not mean that we have failed to destroy the nest but merely that these queens had already left it. This problem will almost certainly occur with any nests left beyond the middle of September. 

Where this occurs the only solution is to carry out a “fogging” or “smoke” treatment of the loft or void using an insecticidal generator which will kill the vast majority of these queens. 

Unfortunately this incurs an additional expense which is as follows 

Destroy nest only – £29.50 

Destroy nest and treat loft or void on same visit   – £49.50 

Return visit to treat loft only where nest has already been destroyed  -     £44.50 

If you are currently experiencing wasps entering your property we would strongly suggest treating the loft on the initial visit to save further expense. 

Late Season Wasps’ Nests in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire

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Stockport Pest Prevention

Stockport based Stockport Pest Prevention announce that there will be no increase in their fixed price to destroy wasps’ nests in 2009, in Trafford.

Stockport Pest Prevention will get rid of wasps’ nests for you if you live in or around Trafford, seven days per week for a fixed price of £32.00.

Wasps’ nests can often be destroyed same day, give us a call to check for availability.

It is not advisable to allow a wasps’ nest to remain untreated as in September many thousands of queens will be produced and this may then require additional cost work such as fogging the roof void or loft, but until then we charge £32.00, no add-ons.

If you have more than one wasps’ nest on the same property in Trafford we do not charge extra for the second wasps’ nest and then only £10 each for the third and subsequent nests.

Many council pest controllers in Trafford are charging £52 for the first wasps’ nest and £30 for each subsequent.

To arrange a visit call us :

Cheshire 01565 849212

Lancashire 01772 837727

Manchester 0161 452 3165

Wigan 01942 504096

Trafford 01204 689361

Blackpool 01253 843019

Blackburn 01254 739138

Warrington  01925 670375

Sale & Altrincham 0161 930 8814

Chorley 01257 230637

Stockport Pest Prevention

Stockport Pest Control & Prevention specialise in Pest Control and Pest Prevention of:
Wasps, Bees, Rats, Mice, Bed Bugs, Ants, Wasps, Squirrels, Beetles, Pigeons, Wasps Nests, Birds, Moles, Flies, Starlings, Wasp’s Nests, Spiders, Magpies, Fleas, Bedbugs, Wasps’ Nests, Insects and Rodents in the following areas:

Appley Bridge, Accrington, Adlington, Alderley Edge, Altrincham, Ashton in Makerfield, Astley, Atherton, Bebington, Burscough, Formby, Blackburn, Blackpool, Trafford, Bootle, Boothstown, Bowden, Bramhall, Bury, Chadderton, Stockport, Croston, Stockport Hulme, Cheshire, Chorley, Culcheth, Darwen, Davyhulme, Didsbury, Euxton, Eccles, Eccleston, Farnworth, Flixton, Formby,  Frodsham, Fylde, Garstang, Gatley, Handforth, Stockport, Glazebury, Golborne, Greater Manchester, Hale, Hale Barnes, Harwood, Haydock, Heywood, Horwich, Helsby, Hazel Grove, Irlam, Kearsley, Knutsford, Lancashire, Leigh, Liverpool, Little Lever, Lymm, Manchester, Macclesfield, Middleton, Northenden, Northwich, Oldham, Partington, Preston, Prestwich, Poynton, Radcliffe, Rochdale, St Helens, Sale, Salford, Skelmersdale, Southport, St Helens, Stockport, Standish, Stretford, Swinton, Thameside, Timperley, Tarporley, Trafford, Tyldesley, Urmston, Walkden,Trafford, Weaverham, Wigan, Wilmslow, Woolston, Worsley, Trafford, Weaverham, Wigan, Winsford, Weaverham, Wilmslow, Woolston, Worsley,Westhoughton, Wirral, Birkenhead,Wallasey, Hoylake, Heswall, Winsford, Middlewich, Runcorn, Widnes, Rainhill, Croft, Halewood, Prescott, Huyton

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0161 930 8814

Wasps’ Nests Destroyed £32.00 Manchester, Stockport, Cheadle, Gatley, Didsbury – Manchester Pest Control announce there will be no change in their fixed price of £32.00 to destroy wasps’ nests throughout the Manchester region, Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire, in 2010. We work 7 days per week and do not charge extra at any time, evenings or weekends.

Social wasps

The nests of some social wasps, such as hornets, are first constructed by the queen and reach about the size of a walnut before sterile female workers take over construction. The queen initially starts the nest by making 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; these cells are where the first eggs will be laid. The queen then continues to work outwards to the edges of the cavity after which she adds another tier. This process is repeated, each time adding a new tier until eventually enough female workers have been born and matured to take over construction of the nest leaving the queen to focus on reproduction. For this reason, the size of a nest is generally 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.

Social wasp reproductive cycle (temperate species only)

A young paper wasp queen founding a new colony.

Wasps do not reproduce via mating flights like bees. Instead social wasps reproduce between a fertile queen and male wasp; in some cases queens may be fertilized by the sperm of several males. After successfully mating, the male’s sperm cells are stored in a tightly packed ball inside the queen. The sperm cells are kept stored in a dormant state until they are needed the following spring. At a certain time of the year (often around autumn), the bulk of the wasp colony dies away, leaving only the young mated queens alive. During this time they leave the nest and find a suitable area to hibernate for the winter.

First stage

After emerging from hibernation during early spring, the young queens search for a suitable nesting site. Upon finding an area for their future colony, the queen constructs a basic paper fiber nest roughly the size of a walnut into which she will begin to lay eggs.

Second stage

The sperm that was stored earlier and kept dormant over winter is now used to fertilize the eggs being laid. The storage of sperm inside the female queen allows her to lay a considerable number of fertilized eggs without the need for repeated mating with a male wasp. For this reason a single female queen is capable of building an entire colony from only herself. The queen initially raises the first several sets of wasp eggs until enough sterile female workers exist to maintain the offspring without her assistance. All of the eggs produced at this time are sterile female workers who will begin to construct a more elaborate nest around their queen as they grow in number.

Third stage

European paper wasp (Polistes dominula) with a regurgitated droplet of water

By this time the nest size has expanded considerably and now numbers between several hundred and several thousand wasps. Towards the end of the summer, the queen begins to run out of stored sperm to fertilize more eggs. These eggs develop into fertile males and fertile female queens. The male drones then fly out of the nest and find a mate thus perpetuating the wasp reproductive cycle. In most species of social wasp the young queens mate in the vicinity of their home nest and do not travel like their male counterparts do. The young queens will then leave the colony to hibernate for the winter once the other worker wasps and founder queen have started to die off. After successfully mating with a young queen, the male drones die off as well. Generally, young queens and drones from the same nest do not mate with each other; this ensures more genetic variation within wasp populations, especially considering that all members of the colony are theoretically the direct genetic descendants of the founder queen and a single male drone. In practice, however, colonies can sometimes consist of the offspring of several male drones. Wasp queens generally (but not always) create new nests each year, probably because the weak construction of most nests render them uninhabitable after the winter.

Unlike honey bee queens, wasp queens typically live for only one year. Also queen wasps do not organize their colony or have any raised status and hierarchical power within the social structure. They are more simply the reproductive element of the colony and the initial builder of the nest in those species which construct nests.

Social wasp caste structure

A wasp gathering wood fibers

Not all social wasps have castes that are physically different in size and structure. In many polistine paper wasps and stenogastrines, for example, the castes of females are determined behaviorally, through dominance interactions, rather than having caste predetermined. All female wasps are potentially capable of becoming a colony’s queen and this process is often determined by which female successfully lays eggs first and begins construction of the nest. Evidence suggests that females compete amongst each other by eating the eggs of other rival females. The queen may, in some cases, simply be the female that can eat the largest volume of eggs while ensuring that her own eggs survive (often achieved by laying the most). This process theoretically determines the strongest and most reproductively capable female and selects her as the queen. Once the first eggs have hatched, the subordinate females stop laying eggs and instead forage for the new queen and feed the young; that is, the competition largely ends, with the losers becoming workers, though if the dominant female dies, a new hierarchy may be established with a former “worker” acting as the replacement queen. Polistine nests are considerably smaller than many other social wasp nests, typically housing only around 250 wasps, compared to the several thousand common with yellowjackets, and stenogastrines have the smallest colonies of all, rarely with more than a dozen wasps in a mature colony.

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Destroying Wasps’ Nests In Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire

 The early warm spring has caused the wasps’ nests in Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire and Liverpool to be very early this year.

Harrier Pest Prevention destroy wasps’ nests at a fixed price of just £29.95, seven days per week. 0800 019 8382

Manchester based Harrier Pest Prevention reports treating wasps’ nests in mid-May, a full moth earlier than usual, and the early start means that in 2009 the wasps’ nests will be larger and more numerous than in is usual.

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. Both species overwinter as queens. The Common Wasp usually hibernates in buildings and the German Wasp typically overwintering under the bark of trees.

In spring the overwintering 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 it’s maximum in size in September, when 5 – 10,000 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 the Autumn the young queens mate and leave the nest to hibernate, the rest of the nest dies out 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 to being stung, which in some cases results in sudden death due to anaphylactic shock.

Control

It is always advisable to let a professional Pest Control Officer deal with a Wasp nest for the reasons mentioned 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 a few hours all wasps should 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.

 As a rough guide you should not expect to pay more than £45.00 – £75.00 to have a wasps nest treated unless it is located in an area which is particularly difficult to access.

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0161 930 8814

Trafford based Harrier Pest Prevention announce that there will be no increase in their fixed price to destroy wasps’ nests in 2009, in Trafford.
Harrier Pest Prevention will get rid of wasps’ nests for you if you live in or around Trafford, seven days per week for a fixed price of £29.50.
Wasps’ nests can often be destroyed same day, give us a call to check for availability.
It is not advisable to allow a wasps’ nest to remain untreated as in September many thousands of queens will be produced and this may then require additional cost work such as fogging the roof void or loft, but until then we charge £29.50, no add-ons.
If you have more than one wasps’ nest on the same property in Trafford we do not charge extra for the second wasps’ nest and then only £10 each for the third and subsequent nests.
Many council pest controllers in Trafford are charging £52 for the first wasps’ nest and £30 for each subsequent.
To arrange a visit call us :
Cheshire 01565 849212
Lancashire 01772 837727
Manchester 0161 452 3165
Wigan 01942 504096
Trafford 01204 689361

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Wasps Nests Destroyed £29.50

Wasps Nests Destroyed £29.50 – Harrier Pest Control destroy Wasps Nests’ at a fixed fee of just £29.50 seven days per week in Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire. The fee is fixed except for postcode area L, CH & CW where the charge is £39.50, there is no extra charge for evenings, weekends or bank holidays.

Wasps Nests Destroyed £29.50

The 2009 wasp season is almost with us once again, what would summer be without our old friends the wasps to irritate us as we enjoy our summer barbeques?

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

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

The new queen starts to construct her nest with a papery material that she makes by chewing small slivers 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 commence the enlargement of the nest and caring for 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 present. 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 main factor.

In the early Autumn the immature queens mate and leave the nest to hibernate, the rest of the nest dies out and the nest is never used again.

Many People react differently to being stung by wasps; some are hardly affected, while others suffer considerable pain and swelling and a few become seriously allergic to being stung, which in rare cases results in sudden death due to anaphylactic shock.
Control
It is adviseable to let a professional Pest Controller destroy a Wasps’ nest for the reasons given above. An insecticide will be injected into the entrance to the nest. Returning wasps will carry the insecticide into the middle of the nest and within a few hours all wasps should be dead.

It is inadvisable to allow a wasps’ nest to remain untreated as the immature queens produced by the nest will invariably build nests 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.

Wasps Nests Destroyed £29.50

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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

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