How Wasp Infestation Starts?
A queen wasp starts a new nest (old nests are not reused) in late spring by chewing tiny amounts of wood, which with the wasps saliva, becomes a papery material. The nest may be in a roof space, hanging in a tree, shrub or in the eaves, in an air vent, or in the ground. These early golf ball sized nests are often seen in roof spaces when the queen has been killed whilst foraging for food for her young. Later, when the young develop into female workers, the queen will remain in the nest to produce more offspring, and the nest will increase in size often to a volume sufficient to fill a bin liner. The nest is however mostly insulation (air) layers inside, and even very large nests may be compressed into a small amount of material i.e. the wood removed to make the nest causes no structural damage. Throughout the summer the nest develops with the workers feeding the young on other insects. A wasps nest in the garden may well keep the garden free of other insect pests because of the very la
