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When is the end of the wasp season?

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

A Last Hoorah for Wasps…

The sun is setting earlier, the rainy days are adding up and summer is ending. Typically, this equates to bad news for the wasps. After all the teamwork of the colony to survive throughout the summer to build, preserve and feed the nest, as the cycle comes to a close all of this goes out the window and survival instincts for the worker wasps will begin to kick in. Making them the primary culprits for attacking your sugary foods.

Out with the old in with the new

At this stage of the year the nest will have peaked, and the queen will have produced a sexual brood of eggs within the nest, consisting of females and fertile males. These eggs are the wasps capable of becoming next year’s royalty. As the colony begins to die off the new queens will leave the nest to fertilise with the male wasps.

The final stage involves the new queen looking for places to hibernate for the winter months. Typically, the queens will look for sheltered spots or crevices they find in buildings or trees to survive the winter. This is until spring comes again, and they are ready to find a spot to begin work on their new nest, see for more information on finding wasp nests https://www.pestcontrolberkshi....

Wasps are gone…..for Now

So that is typically it for the wasps until next year, and the next year and the year after that when the cycle will repeat itself again, again and again. Forever preserving the much-loved species of the wasp!

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