Our approach

Once the nest or the entrance to the nest is located, Oldham wasp nest treatment and removal technicians can then commence the treatment work. We treat the entrance of the nest with insecticide in a form of dust/powder. The insecticide we use can only be obtained by professionals and is not available to the public. We pump the insecticide into the entrance of the nest using specialist pressure applicators and the poison often reaches the nest immediately. If it doesn’t reach the nest immediately then the returning forager wasps will carry it into the nest and that will contaminate and kill the entire nest quickly. We use specialist tools and extendable equipment to ensure that job is done first time. 

After the completion of the job all wasps in the nest will die within a few hours. You’ll often notice activities dying down a couple of hours after treatment, however it might take up to 24hrs for the nest to be fully disabled as foraging wasps will continue to return to their nest and will also die quickly as they come in contact with the insecticide. It’s common that wasps will get agitated during treatment and may pose risk to people and pets nearby, so we always recommend that you keep windows and doors shut during the treatments and the immediate few hours after. 

In most cases it’s not necessary or even possible to physically remove the wasp nest. In fact it’s best left behind. Treated nest will act as a trap for all remaining wasps that are out foraging during treatment. Returning wasps will die as they enter the nest. Wasps never reuse an old nest. Queen wasps build nests from scratch every year and will never occupy an old nest. Therefore the physical removal of the treated nest is not necessary however if it’s alarming for the customer we can remove it at a later date if accessible.