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WASPS - July / August 2025
We are currently experiencing an extraordinary amount of wasp calls.

This will be due to a dry spring which has allowed wasp populations to flourish and populations to become large much earlier than usual.

The best way to book a treatment is by emailing : info@bountypestcontrol.co.uk This way we can send you costs, information and appointment availability.

While it can be alarming to discover a wasps nest, try not to panic. Nests have already been there for over a month so while it is new on discovery the wasps have been busy working and will continue to do so, in most cases without bothering you.

Questions to ask:
Are you seeing wasps entering a nest, such as under roof tiles, in the external walls of your building, in holes in the ground or physical nest in a bush or tree?

If so there is a nest that can be treated.

If not, this is an issue out of your control. An option would be to place traps in and around the areas where people eat to try to ‘lure’ the wasps to the traps and away from this area

These traps and lures can be purchase from DIY Centres or sites such as these: https://dragonfli.co.uk

It is worth buying the liquid too as it is especially designed to attract wasps only. If you try other methods your traps will fill with flies and beneficial insects such as bees.

You will need to monitor the traps regularly, empty the dead wasps and top up the fluid, but they do work.

Are wasps entering your rooms in large numbers?
When wasp grubs hatch they head out of the nest by following daylight. It’s quite dark inside a wasps nest so natural daylight leads them out of the nest entrance / exit point and then outdoors where they can forage for food and nest building.

Artificial lighting from inside homes can also give a ‘guiding light’ for newly emerging wasps or workers in search of rapidly depleting food, especially on bright days or in the evening when electric lighting is on. If you have overside bore-holes around pipes heading into the loft, loosely fitting loft hatches, open chimneys, cracks and gaps around the wall to ceiling or wooden beams, light ‘escapes’ from the room and penetrates the loft. This light then attracts wasps into the habituated areas of your home.

In most cases you can stop wasps entering the living areas of you home simply but blocking these points with suitable materials, sometimes even tissue paper is enough.