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Wasp Pest Control - Nest Elimination and Removal

Protect your family and pets from wasps with a professional wasp control treatment

Wasp Control Bendigo and Central Victoria

Protect your family and pets from wasps with a professional wasp control treatment and wasp nest removal from the experts at Go Pest Bendigo.

Wasps, especially European wasps, are a significant safety concern.

Getting rid of wasp nests is best left to the professionals with specialist products and full safety gear.

For safe elimination and removal of wasp nests
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Our Professional Wasp Nest Treatments

To get rid of wasps on your property requires some prevention steps and possible a wasp treatment.

Wasps are always looking for food, both sugar and protein. They can also fly a long way from their nest. If there is food available on your property they can fly in from neighbouring properties to cause a nuisance. The key action is to remove the sources of food – petfood and BBQs are common sources of food.

For wasp nests on your property, it is necessary to treat the nests to get rid of the wasp problem. A professional wasp treatment is generally the best and safest option, especially when it comes to the dangerous European wasp.

After treatment, native paper wasp nests can be easily knocked down from buildings using a broom. Take care if using a ladder.

European wasp nests can be a lot larger. For a nest on the outside of the building, after treatment then can also be knocked down with a broom. For nests in roof voids, they can be left in place – wasps will not reuse the nest. If you wish to remove the nest place sheeting under the nest and the knock the nest from its position (sometimes a saw may be required). The nest material can then be wrapped and placed in a bag for disposal.

For European wasp nests a professional wasp treatment is highly recommend as they have all the necessary safety gear and products. The pest professional will remove the nest if requested and access is possible.

Disposal of wasp nests is straightforward. Once the  nest has been treated and the wasp are dead, the nest can be knocked down. Wearing gloves, pick up the wasp nest and place it in a plastic bag. Seal the bag and place in the garbage bin.

The price of a wasp treatment or wasp nest removal depends on the number of nests, the type of wasp nest and its location.

Native paper wasp nests are relatively easy to control, we will normally charge per wasp nest. However, if you only have one or two, we will normally take care of them as part of a general pest treatment.

For European wasp nests, treatments are a lot more involved and there is the need for significantly more safety precautions. The cost can also depend on the location, whether it is in the ground or in a difficult to access location in the building. 

Types of Wasps

How to prevent a wasp problem?

Preventing wasps building their nests on the outside of buildings can be achieved with a long lasting residual insecticide spray. Our general pest control treatment will cover the eaves of the home, preventing wasps building their nests under the eaves for many months.

It is not possible to prevent wasps building their nests away from the building.

The wasp season runs from Spring to Autumn. Keep your eyes open in spring for wasp activity as this is often the new queens looking to find a place to start building the nest.

Wasp numbers build up during the Summer and by Autumn their nests are at their maximum size. It will be quite obvious if you have a wasp nest on your property or nearby! 

A word of warning – in Autumn make sure you call us to deal with any European wasps on your property. European wasp nest can sometimes survive over winter and if they do, you will have a major problem come spring!

Wasp Control FAQ

More often than not locating the wasp nest is straight forward – often the customer knows where the nest is and is able to point out the location. However, we always check the property for other nests.

However, sometimes our customers have a wasp problem on their property and can’t locate the nest. This is particularly the case for European wasps. Often the nest may be underground and with European wasps able to fly hundreds of metres from their nest, the nest could well be on a neighbouring property.

We generally (but not always) like to treat wasp nests in the evening as the wasps are all back in the nest and generally calmer / resting.

For Australian paper wasps, we will generally treat with a direct spray, but for European wasp nests we will often need to blow insecticide powder directly into the nest. This may involve using some conduit (piping), to get inside the nest entrance.

If we suspect that the source of the wasp problem is due a nest on a neighbouring property, we will often set up wasp baits to eliminate the nest and control the problem.

Wasp baits use the natural wasp foraging behaviour against them. We set up bait stations with a food attractive to wasps combined with a slow acting insecticide. The wasps take the bait back to the nest where it is fed to the queen and other wasps, eliminating the nest.

After the treatment, we will remove nests on or in the buildings, as long as we can gain access. For nests underground, we will simply leave them in place to decompose.

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