Wasps, love them or loathe them? - Pest Control

Pest Purge is getting calls on a daily basis to eradicate your wasps. Often you will see them dive-bombing and showing off with their aerial acrobatics, whizzing around your garden. By the end of the season, there may be as many as 20,000 yellow-jackets living in your loft, rent free. Talk about free-loaders! Get them out, get them evicted vamoose.

The best spotting sites will be up under tile roofs (one of their favourites), facias, soffits, potting sheds and garages. They also like holes in the ground, shrubs and trees. If you are going up into your loft you will often see them flying around, attracted by the light, don't hang around, give me a call and a chance to be stung!

There are three main reasons for killing wasps; the first is because we can, the second is because they can sting you and the third is because they spoil our penchant for al fresco dining.
Wasps have no rights, as winged insects, like you and I. We can enjoy the right to roam, go to the pub and visit friends. Wasps prefer to fly rather than walk, they dive into beer and they have no friends. Enough said!

Wasp stings can be painful, even fatal. If you are stung by a wasp, you will likely be dead in 20 minutes if you have a severe allergic reaction which goes unaided. Some people only experience a mild reaction to the sting, feeling just a small prick. Others suffer varying degrees of discomfort from mild, Third Division, through to the Premiere League 'anaphylactic shock', a sudden and massive immune reaction to the venom. Either way, whether your reaction is mild or severe, it pays to be cautious and keep your distance. If you are going to swat, be accurate, missing only makes them wilder.

The issue of wasps dining with us is significant. Have you noticed that within five seconds of laying the table outside, wasps are gathering and circling around, eyeing up your lobster sandwiches, the mouth-watering glass of sauvignon blanc and your fruity syllabub dessert. Their formation flying now takes on more purpose, their mission is to get you to abandon your food and get stuck-in for themselves. What treats we serve up for them, all manner of entomological digestive delights. The answer is to eat under a large army surplus mosquito net, safe from their formation flying and out of harms way. If you don't have access to army surplus, try navy or air force or better still eat indoors, on a tray in front of the telly.

For discreet but effective wasp nest removal contact Richard Lee at Pest Purge. All squadrons of wasps and hornets dealt with.
PS Keep your eyes peeled for the Asian Hornet, soon to be arriving in the UK, it's big, like a Lancaster bomber, you will not miss it if it flies past.

The flying insect season is upon us

Have you noticed that suddenly your gardens and your air space are starting to get crowded? Full of flying summer insects, wasps, moths, flies, bees, hornets and young birds chasing after the insects. All of them vying for space and seeking out suitable nesting sites to get started colonizing any suitable nook or cranny. Why are they a problem, well for starters flies can contaminate foodstuffs, bluebottles and house flies are never really welcome and moths like the brown house moth and the common clothes moth will soon scoff holes in your best cashmere jumper and leather jacket. Wasps and hornets are the real scary ones, noisy and showing off with their aerial displays, dive bombing the BBQ and searching out a nice cold Magners or a jug of Pimms to quench their thirst. Worse still if they happen to take a serious dislike to you and actually sting you, just the ticket to spoil a lovely summer garden party. We can come along and move them on, whoever has overstepped the mark, Pest Purge have the technology, the wit and charm to remove them safely without a fuss, keeping your event pest free. It must work; we have never had a complaint from any pest that we have extradited. We are tolerant of small disturbances but will intervene when insects get out of hand. Now where did I put my tongs?!