Well we've travelled a bit since we started this journey down the pest control road, but here we are at last with the good old wasp page, and you would be amazed at how many different types of wasp we have in this country, or there again maybe you wouldn't, anyway a bit about the wasp species...

These types of wasp are social and like ants and sawflies, are of the order Hymenoptera and Family Vespidae. Hymenoptera has about 6200 known species, if all the above are included, with more being discovered every year. We'll just concern ourselves with those species that directly intrude into the idyllic situation that we call "The Home". So we will deal with five or six species out of the nearly 300 types of wasp which inhabit our sunny climes.

Unlike the Honey Bee, wasps have not developed methods of storing food for the winter, and this is why their colonies only last for one season in temperate regions. Each colony starts to break up in the autumn and the workers die of cold. However, before this happens new queens and males have been developed and have swarmed out of the colony to mate.