WASPS AND HORNETS

It is usually yellow with brown markings or black with red or yellow markings. These wasps are aggressive and they readily sting. People are usually stung while trimming shrubbery or cleaning nests from eaves of houses.

Paper wasp nests are made of a papery material that is shaped like an inverted umbrella. It usually has a single comb with up to 250 wasps. Nests are often built under eaves or on branches of shrubs. The eggs are laid in a cell. When the larvae hatch, the wasps feed them. They forage for caterpillars and other small insects to feed the larvae.

CICADA KILER WASPS

The fertilized female begins the reproductive cycle by making burrows 0.3 to 1.2 meters in length, with numerous branches and cells. The front legs rake the soil which is pushed out behind the female with her hind legs, resulting in a large dirt mound. The burrows are left open during provisioning and may never be closed. However, the cells are carefully closed when completed. From one to four cicadas per cell are deposited depending on the size of the cicada.

Everyone loves to hate wasps. The nature of these aggressive creatures are so territorial. Whenever they're buzzing around folks, obviously hunting as they would systematically hover around foraging for food sources, it freaks everybody out. And as any species in the animal kingdom, they simply want to protect their hive/home base.

Hornets, Bees, and Wasps, luckily, don’t eat your house as termites and carpenter ants do. And they don’t feed on your blood, as bed bugs and mosquitoes. They do, however, build their nests around your home and garden area, and they are prone to be very protective of their territory. Hornet, bee, and wasp control is fairly simple, but requires proper chemicals and safety equipment. Your GAC exterminator is prepared with both. Call our main office for a qualified technician to determine the best strategy to eliminate your hornet, bee, and wasp problem.

BALD FACED HORNETS

The baldfaced hornet constructs aerial nests often a foot or more in diameter. The wasp is easily recognized by its black and white color and by a black anterior half or more (terga I-III) of the abdomen which is black. Relatively little is known about this species despite its abundance and wide distribution.

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