Wasp Pest Control

The best way is to stand outside the area where you are seeing the wasps (although not close to the wasps route themselves) and watch where the wasps are going. If there is a nest in your premises then you should see the wasps entering and leaving a gap or hole in the building/structure.

Common areas to look at for wasps entering or leaving are holes in walls, soffits, fascia boards, in between roof tiles, in window frames, door frames, into out of sheds or holes in the ground, tree or soil but remember to look everywhere. Your looking for a consistent back and forth motion from wasps to and from a specific point with the point being the nest entrance.

Wasps are usually brighter and more yellow in colour with a more pointed abdomen. Honey bees are usually much darker, hairier and rounder in appearance and bumblebees are usually big round hulking insects with usually a orange or white tail.

1- Their stings can be painful and you can even be allergic to wasp venom which can result in potentially life threatening anaphylactic shock.

2- They can cause damage to buildings. I have with my own eyes seen wasps strip part of a wooden wall to the point where you could poke your finger through the wall like it was made of paper.

3- There are only a couple of wasps? Right now there’s a couple. Over the coming weeks and months the nest will grow and it may become even harder to go about your daily routine at home or work without being disturbed or attacked by wasps.

4- They’re going to die anyway at the end of summer? The nest will but the queens it produces will not. So you may only have a single nest this year but next year you may have many more which could make your next summer much more difficult at home. Nobody minds a single wasp it’s numbers of wasps that can make life difficult at home or work.

Wasp nest treatment is dangerous work and their are all sorts hazards to deal with aside from the wasps themselves.

Bats are protected under the Wildlife & countryside act 1981. If you have bats in your property and a wasps nest before your nest can be treated a surveyor from Scottish natural heritage must come out and inspect your property. If the surveyor clears the pest controller to treat the nest then we can come and treat the nest. Their are a lot of restrictions and legal requirements to adhere to when treating the nest if bats are nearby so the cost is usually much higher than our normally significantly cheaper prices for wasp pest control (as compared to large firms and local authorities).

It is not recommended to treat a wasps nest in close proximity to a fish pond or a source or body of water as this would contravene a piece of legislation called the food and environmental protection act 1985 and the control of pesticides regulation 1986. In a nutshell It’s illegal to apply any pesticides near fish or sources of water.  We can of course go for physical removal without insecticides.

The insecticides we use are very safe for both cats and dogs. You should however keep them away from the area where the nest is located during and after treatment.

Wasps can sting multiple times without suffering any damage to themselves whereas honey bees can only sting once whereupon they die.

An old nest is never re-used by wasps although they may build a new nest next to an old one.

Only honey bees (Apis mellifera) make honey. Wasps do not make honey.

That’s more likely to be honey bees. Wasps do not swarm in huge number like honey bees do.

Never attempt to burn or “smoke” a nest.

Yes but they charge for the service. Glasgow City Council currently charge £114 to treat a wasps nest. We are guaranteed to always be cheaper than the council for wasp pest control and just as- if not more- professional.

Prices can vary depending on your location, the location and quantity of the wasps nests and any other factors to consider. Please call us for a quote. We are usually much cheaper than local councils who charge for this service.

A wasps nest is made up of wood that has been chewed up by the wasps and turned into a sort of paper mâché.

It is usually described as a buzzing, crackling or popping sound.

NO! This will not kill them but make it harder to kill them as they will find other ways to get in and out their nests.

It is most likely then that you do not have the nest in your property but a nearby property instead has the nest. If you find the presence of wasps to be unbearable then a small electric fly killers can be bought from most hardware shops which has a UV bulb which attracts and kills wasps.

Call us on 0141 846 0022 for information on treatment options and prices.

Wasps are usually brighter and more yellow in colour with a more pointed abdomen. Honey bees are usually much darker, hairier and rounder in appearance and bumblebees are usually big round hulking insects with usually a orange or white tail (but not always).

The main ones we come across are bumblebees, honey bees & masonry bees. There’s around 25 different species of bumblebees. This type of bee is usually larger and furrier than your average wasps. Honey bees are smaller but quite furry with usually an orange yellow coloration and finally masonry bees look very similar to wasps but when you look closely they are darker and furrier than wasps with a rounded bottom as opposed to a pointed abdomen.

If you can then leave them alone. They are not protected but their populations have taken a hit in recent years and they do function as a great pollinators They are extremely unlikely to be aggressive and can but usually do not sting.

Honey bees are not protected and you can legally treat honey bees nests with an insecticide (with other precautions also being a legal requirement) to kill them but we do not recommend this unless as a last resort when all else has failed. If you can leave them alone then that is best. There are specialist beekeepers who can remove them for you.  This is a specialist task and do not attempt it yourself.

Firstly don’t panic. Honey bees are least likely to attack at that time as they tend to be very calm and relaxed when swarming. The best course of action is to call a local beekeeper who may take it away at little or no cost or us (we also do bee swarm removal but we have to charge for this service as none of us like to keep bees as pets). In fact in many cases the swarm may move on by itself with no intervention.

Wasps can sting multiple times without suffering any damage to themselves whereas honey bees can only sting once whereupon they die.

Wasps can sting multiple times without suffering any damage to themselves whereas honey bees can only sting once whereupon they die.

Only honey bees (Apis mellifera) make honey. Wasps do not make honey.

Simply call us on 0141 846 0022 to get a price and arrange an appointment. We will come at the allotted time and carry out the treatment. After some basic health & safety questions all you have to do is steer clear of the area(s) we will be working in during and after we treat the nest.

Once we treat the nest with insecticide then the wasps can be agitated for up to 2-3 hours after the treatment as they will sense the insecticide is harmful and try to protect their nest. They are extremely unlikely to chase you down the street or go out of their way to attack you but just the same we recommend you keep several meters of a distance from the nest for a period of roughly 24 hours. The nest is actually likely to be dead much sooner than 24 hours but there may be wasps returning to the nest from foraging outdoors in the coming hours post treatment (which will also come into contact with the insecticide in the nest and die) so that’s why we say 24 hours.

That’s more likely to be honey bees. Wasps do not swarm in huge number like honey bees do.