Wasp Pest Control and Wasp Nest Removal
Wasp Nest Elimination
Newcastle and Hunter Valley
For safe wasp pest control and wasp nest removal, contact Rebel Pest Professionals to get rid of your wasp problem.
Wasps are certainly a safety issue, especially around children and pets – a single sting can be painful, but multiple stings can be a serious health concern.
For those who suffer allergic reactions to wasp and bees stings, a single sting can be life threatening.
Trying to deal with a wasp problem yourself, especially with European wasps, can be very dangerous without specialised products and the necessary protective clothing.
For quick and safe wasp nest elimination and removal, call the experts at Rebel Pest Professionals. Call (02) 4956 8727
Wasp Pest Control > Professional Wasp Nest Treatments
- As with all our pest treatments we start with a thorough inspection to fully understand the nature of the problem. If you know the location of a nest, do not approach it, just direct our professionals to the location.
- Once we have located the nest or nests, nest entry points and identified the species of the wasp present, we can determine the best treatment method. For nests in roof voids or wall cavities, we will also check inside the building to make sure there are no escape routes which will allow wasps to enter the building.
- Typically, we will use a liquid spray to treat the nests, but sometimes we blow insecticide powder into the nest, depending on its location.
We will always discuss any safety concerns you may have before carrying out a treatment. We do this over the phone at the time of booking and also carry out an on-site risk assessment before starting a treatment.
It’s important that people and pets are kept clear of the treatment area until the nest has been eliminated and our pest technician has confirmed it is safe to re-enter the area. Apart from the danger of being stung it is important that our pest technician are not distracted during the treatment.
We will often schedule the treatment for later in the afternoon or early evening when the majority of the wasps are back in the nest and they tend to be calmer.
We always choose the products with the best safety and environmental profile.
The nest should be destroyed within minutes. We will remain on site until elimination has been confirmed.
We will remove all accessible nests after the treatment is completed (see below).
Our general pest control treatment will help prevent wasps building their nests on the outside of the building – a pest spray in Spring before they start building their nests is ideal.
Although we will remove all accessible nests after the treatment is completed and dispose of safety, this is not always possible.
Native paper wasp nests on the outside of buildings can be readily knocked down after treatment. European wasp nests are more problematic and it depends on the location. If the wasp nest is accessible (on the outside of a building or in a roof void) we will remove and dispose of the nest. However, many European wasp nests are located underground. In such situations, once we have confirmed that the nest has been eliminated, we will simply leave the nest in place.
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How do you know you have a wasp nest on your property?
Observing an increased number of wasps is a sure sign of a nearby nest. However, they can fly quite a distance from their nest, so the nest may not be on your property. If you can, try and track where they are flying to / from – this will help you find the nest.
Wasp nests increase in size during the season. Queens emerge in spring to start new nests, which increase in size over the warmer months. Wasp activity will be the highest in Autumn when the nests have reached their maximum size.
Native paper wasps will build their nests in sheltered areas, typically under the eaves of homes and under leaves or branches in the garden. Native paper wasps tend to have smaller nests (up to a few hundred individuals) but there can be a lot of nests in a small area. Be careful when you’re gardening as it is easy to knock a nest on a plant without knowing it’s there!
European wasps are a different beast altogether. This invasive pest can develop huge nests of over 10,000 individuals. Although homeowners are more likely to spot nests under the eaves of their home, in the roof void or occasionally in trees, actually around 80% of European wasp nests are underground, often dug out of raised areas of soil with good drainage.
It’s important to remember that wasps can fly some distance from their nest to a feeding site (especially European wasps) and so the wasps you find on your property may be from a nest 50 or 100 m away.
Native paper wasps generally go about their own business, capturing caterpillars to feed their young. Although European wasps like protein to feed their young – they love petfood and BBQs – they also like sweet foods for themselves, so soft drinks and cakes are favourites too!
How to prevent a wasp problem
Stop wasps building their nestsRemove potential food sourcesKeep wasps out of your homeMore wasp information…
In the Newcastle and Hunter region there are number of paper wasp species (both native species and the dangerous European wasp), as well as mud dauber and potter wasps. There are also a number of native bees and wild honeybees, so it’s useful to know which is which.