Wasps

Negative Characteristics: They can inflict a nasty sting if provoked.

Redeeming Characteristics: Top predator in the garden devouring many insect pests.

Quick tips:

Be safe, wasps will gang up on you to protect their nest.
Wear a hat/veil and thick clothing. Don't climb ladders to access the nest.
Choose the right product for the nest - sprays if you can see the nest, - powders if you can't
Watch the nest for several minutes before you approach in order to work out their flight path.
Move slowly and avoid the wasps main flight path to and from the nest.

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Wasps: Description & Life Cycle

Wasps are social insects. They construct new nests each year and never re-use an old nest.

Description:

Life cycle:

Queen overwinters in crevices and holes in buildings and trees
emerge in the spring
queen starts to build a nest constructed of wasp paper which is made by chewing wood fibre
queen lays first eggs in the base of the nest
4-6 weeks later the first workers emerge
these are small female wasps, the males emerge later in the season
the workers take responsibility for maintaining and enlarging the nest
the queen devotes her time to laying eggs for the workers to look after
by the end of the season she may have laid 20,000 eggs
in autumn new queens and males are produced
the males fertilise the queens who then depart to find a safe place to overwinter
as the weather cools, all the workers and males die leaving just the fertile queens to start the cycle again next spring