Wasps’ Nests Destroyed In Manchester £29.50
Wasps’ Nests Destroyed In Manchester £29.50
No Price Increase For 2009 – Fixed Price £29.50
Wasps’ Nests Destroyed In Manchester – Manchester Pest Control destroy wasps’ nests in the Manchester Area in 2009 for a fixed price of £29.50. We do not charge extra for nests destroyed in the evening, on a weekend or on a bank holiday. We work Sunday afternoon until 6.00 pm, Call us on 0161 452 3165.
Manchester Wasps' Nest 2007
The annoying wasp season is almost with us once more, what would summer be without our old friends the wasps to annoy 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 early spring the over-wintering queens leave their hibernating quarters 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 new queen starts to construct 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 rearing 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 collect 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 mid-September the immature queens mate and leave the nest to find hibernation sites, 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 discomfort 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 Control Officer deal with a Wasps’ 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 an hour all wasps should be dead.
It is not a good idea to allow a wasps’ nest to remain untreated as the new 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 clustered together in a neighbourhood a locality.
No Price Increase For 2009 – Fixed Price £29.50
Wasps’ Nests Destroyed In Manchester £29.50
Pest Control in Manchester Wasp or Bee?
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Pest Control in Manchester Wasp or Bee?
Pest Control in Manchester Wasp or Bee? – as a pest controller covering Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire it has become obvious that there is a great deal of confusion, especially in people under forty between wasps and bees and even between honeybees and bumblebees.
Perhaps in these heath and safety obsessed days schools no longer have the summertime nature rambles of my youth and that is a great pity.
At a distance it is possible to the untrained eye to confuse wasps and honeybees but bumblebees should never be in doubt.
This One’s A Wasp
A wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor ant but in terms of common understanding we are dealing in North West Britain with just three species which we term wasps, The Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris), The German Wasp (Vespula germanica) and the relative newcomer termed the ‘Euro Wasp’ (Dolichovespula media).
The biology of wasps and bees is very different.
In the late autumn a wasps’ nest dies out completely and is never re-used. The workers and males die but the newly produced queens hibernate for the winter before waking in the spring to start nest building.
At the first sign of warmer weather the young queens emerge from hibernation and commence nest building, mixing rotten wood with saliva to make ‘wasp paper’ with which to construct the nest.
She will lay 15 – 20 eggs in cells inside the nest and tend these until the first workers emerge to take over the nest building process.
An Average Wasps’ Nest
Any reports of wasps’ nests prior to June, and certainly any in late April or May will always turn out to be a bee species of which there are many.
Wasp nest building continues throughout the summer and in the autumn the nest produces immature queens and males which then mate. A single wasps’ nest may produce over 2000 new queens.
This is the one that makes the honey
The bee which makes the honey unsurprisingly is the honeybee (Apis mellifera) but a staggering number of people confuse the honeybee with the bumblebee (Bombus spp.)
The honeybee has an altogether different lifecycle to the wasp, the entire colony surviving the winter, and hence are seen much earlier in the year.
A feature of the honeybee is the way in which new colonies are formed. In late spring and throughout the summer the colony will produce new queens which split or ‘bud’ from the old colony taking several thousand worker bees with them; these are called swarms and can actually be heard in flight.
A honeybee swarm Manchester 2007
This causes alarm in many people who will then ring a pest control company and declare that a ‘wasps’ nest’ has just arrived.
Clearly we know immediately that we are dealing with a bee swarm and can often point them in the direction of a beekeeper who may be able to remove the swarm unharmed.
Contrary to urban myth, and indeed the web sites of many local councils, honeybees are not a protected species in Britain and there are circumstances where there is no alternative other than to destroy a colony.
Frequently they establish a colony or ‘hive’ in a chimney stack and where this is venting a gas fire this is clearly dangerous and it is often necessary to destroy the colony.
After destroying the colony the owner of the property has a legal and moral duty to have any honeycomb removed from the stack as if it is left in place it will be robbed out by wild or commercial hive bees, resulting in the death of those colonies.
The Bumblbee Bombus terrestris – Male
A responsible pest controller will not destroy a colony unless arrangements to remove the honeycomb are in place.
The bumblebee has a lifecycle similar to a wasp in that only the new Queens survive the winter and start new nests in spring. A bumblebees’ nest is an insignificant affair, now where near as intricate as a wasps’ nest and rarely contains more than 300 workers at most whereas a honeybee colony or wasps’ nest may have upwards of ten thousand inhabitants.
Another common myth is that bees can only sting once and whilst this is true of the honeybee, the bumblebee like a wasp, can sting multiple times.
Bumblebees are however extremely placid and will only ever sting as a last resort and therefore it should rarely be necessary to destroy a bumblebee nest.
That concludes this article entitled – Pest Control in Manchester Wasp or Bee?
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