There are many, many different wasps in the world, thousands of varieties but only 18 are in North America. Even then, most of the 18 are not likely to show up on your property or in your home. The most common wasps are yellowjackets after that are paper wasps and after that are bald-faced wasps which are very similar to paper wasps. These are the most common wasps you will find on your property.
If you suspect wasp presence anywhere near or on your property, contact wasp removal Whitby for quick and safe removal.
The bald-faced and paper wasps build almost identical nests. They create nests that are open so they must be placed somewhere very safe. If not they can be attacked by predators like birds that will eat them and their larva. For this reason, they are often building in places that are hard to access, they love the attic and inside tree trunks and they are also comfortable building a nest on the side of a house or even in the wall or in a vent. THey build honeycomb-looking nests that resemble a wall sconce. It is a beautiful nest and destroying it can be hard. But that is not the only option. Paper and bald-faced wasps sleep at night and are not especially aggressive or easy to wake up. If you take a jar and a cutting board you can move the nest of your property and they will stay where you leave them as long as it’s safe, like under a bush.
The yellow jacket is quite different. They tend to build nests underground and they are not solitary wasps like the paper and bald-faced wasp, they make large nests of tens of thousands of wasps. The queen, after hibernating for the winter, will start a small pocket like a nest in a rodent burrow that has been abandoned or in a hole she digs herself. She then lays eggs and feeds the larva until she has sterile female workers to build up the nest and feed more of her eggs. This continues into the fall when the queen lays male and female eggs that can mate, the males and sterile females die come the winter and the new queens fly off to hibernate and then make their nests in the spring. You can find these nests under shrubs and in the corners of the yard. If you had rodent issues in your yard it is even more likely they will show up.
If you have a nest on your property you should deal with it yourself or call the professionals at Wasp Control. We can kill, remove, and destroy the nest in less than an hour and leave you wasp-free.
