Wasp Control

Manchester and

Trafford

Wasp Nests

Destroyed £32.00

0161 930 8814

Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford destroy wasps nests throughout the areas of Manchester, Trafford, Lancashire, North Cheshire and Merseyside for a fixed charge of just £32 or £44.50 for persons living in postcode areas L, CW and CH.

If you live outside our area of operation please visit our FIND A WASP NEST CONTROLLER page to locate a company near you.

Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford operate seven days per week throughout the wasp months of June – November and we do not charge extra for call outs in the evening or at weekend.

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If you need to get rid of a wasp nest call Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford we answer our phones from 8.00 am to 10.00 pm including weekends.

If we can get to the nest without going through the house then you can even pay online and we will destroy the nest whilst you are out. Please ring us to advise us that you have paid and leave any gates unlocked that we might need to go through. Use the Paypal button lower down this page.

In Britain Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford deal with three major species of wasps. The Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris), the German wasp (Vespula Germanica) and the so called ‘Euro Wasp’ (Dolichovespula media), a recent arrival from the continent.

In practise it is not necessary for Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford to identify the species of wasp we are dealing with as they all respond to the same treatment.

Contrary to urban myth Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford do not deal with hornets (Vespula crabro) in the North West as we simply do not get them this far north. There is a local myth in this area that hornets are much smaller than wasps when in fact they are many times bigger.

The biology of all species of wasps destroyed by Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford is exactly the same.

The wasp nest is started by a single wasp queen in early spring. On awaking from her hibernation in late March or early April she will feed herself on aphids and grubs before starting to build the nest.

She constructs a cocoon slightly smaller than a golf ball using ‘wasp paper’, made by chewing rotten wood and mixing it with her saliva.

Inside the rudimentary nest she will lay a small number of eggs, usually less than 20 and tend to these baby wasps until they are able to fly. Once the first batch of wasps are flying she goes inside the nest and never emerges again. Her job is now to lay eggs and she is cared for by the workers.

Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford will receive many calls in early summer from people who see these early nests in outhouses and garden sheds. Even these small nests should be treated with care as even the queen can sting.

The building of the nest picks up pace in June and early July when the nests can double in size seemingly every day.

The eventual size of the nest seems to be governed by the weather but on average will be about the size of a medicine ball. Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford have however seen wasp nests bigger than Borough Council wheelie bin.

Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford will are often asked ‘what good do wasps do?’. In fact for most of the summer they feed on garden pests such as greenfly and caterpillars, so they are actually a friend to the gardener.

For most of the summer the wasps produced by the nest are sterile females but as autumn approaches the nest will start to produce new queens and males. On average a nest will produce about 2000 new queens.

As the wasp stinger is a modified ovipositor, male wasps cannot sting, but even Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford cannot tell a male from a female, so best to avoid.

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The males mate with the new queens and then as autumn turns to winter the males and the sterile workers all die and the newly mated queens find a hibernation site to spend the winter before starting the whole process again in the spring.

Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford are often asked to remove old wasp nests. This is neither desirable nor necessary. The wasp nest is spent and will never be used again. There is absolutely no need to remove a wasp nest, even if it is possible to access, which they rarely are.

When a worker wasp feeds a wasp grub in the nest the wasp grub produces a sweet sticky substance which the worker wasps crave. However as we move into late summer the nest no longer produces grubs and the workers cannot get their ‘fix’ of this sweet substance. It is at this time of year that they now start to be troublesome, switching from a protein diet of aphids and grubs to a diet of sweet foods such as fruit.

This is the reason that they cluster around your barbecues and beer gardens, seeking out sweet food and becoming a general nuisance.

It is not advisable to attempt to get rid of a wasp nest yourself as it is possible to sustain hundreds of stings very quick. Wasps are at their most dangerous in the immediate vicinity of their nests.

Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford will destroy your nest for you by injecting an insecticide into the entrance hole. The returning wasps will carry this powder into the nest and the whole nest will be dead very quickly.

Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford will do this process from outside the house even if it is possible to see the nest from the inside. Only on very are occasions will Wasp Nest Control AAAA need to go into your loft or attic.

Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford are often called to wasp nests where the home-owner has tried to seal the entrance to the nest will expanding foam or mastic. This is a very bad idea and as well as making the job much more difficult for Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford, it will probably force the wasps into the house.

It is advisable to call Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford to destroy the nest as soon as you see it. Wasp nests treated after mid-September have already started to produce the new queens and additional extra-cost work such as smoking or fogging the loft area may be necessary to destroy these.

Because of the biology of wasp nests it is unlikely that you will see wasps before late May or early June unless it has been an exceptionally warm spring. ‘Wasps’ seen flying around the property in April or May will always turn out to be bees.

Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford will not destroy solitary bees as they are harmless and cannot sting.

If a ‘wasps’ nest suddenly appears in your garden, usually hanging from a branch of a tree, then they are not wasps but honey bees. If this happens to you call Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford as we will almost certainly be able to re-home them with a beekeeper. We charge £75 for this service as we must break our day to get the bees to their new home as quickly as possible.

Wasp Nest Control Manchester and Trafford charge £32.00 to get rid of a wasp nest or £44.50 for postcode areas L, CH and CW.

Wasps Nest £32.00 – Pay Now

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No need to wait in. Prepay by credit or debit card through Paypal and we will destroy the nest whilst you are out. Please phone us to advise payment.

For comparison here are the prices charged by some local councils correct as at May 2012.

Blackpool Council £40

Fylde Borough Council £63

Preston City Council – Do Not Offer A Service

Blackburn Borough Council £53

Bolton Council £52

Wigan Council £49

Salford City Council £46.96

Manchester City Council £54

Trafford Borough Council £55 below gutter level, £75 above gutter level.

Stockport Borough Council £42.00

Tameside Council £56.64

Rochdale Borough Council £51

Cheshire East Council £56

Cheshire West Council £57

Wirral Borough Council £46

Liverpool City Council £60

Sefton Council – Do Not Offer A Service

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