Stinging Pest Facts & Information

Q: Are stinging pests a cause for concern?

Warm weather tends to bring everyone outside, including stinging pests. While the stings from wasps, bees, hornets, or yellow jackets may hurt, they can also cause more serious health issues like painful swelling, infections, nausea, and in rare cases even death. Not only do you need to worry about the stinging pests themselves, but also about locating and removing their breeding places.

Q: What are the behaviors, diet, and habits of stinging pests?

In the warm months, stinging insects buzz around your home, often building nests inside attics and gutters, or under decks or eaves. It is important to find and seal cracks and crevices to keep these pests from migrating indoors.

Protect your home or business from stinging pests by learning techniques for identification and control.

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Types of Stinging Pests

What do stinging pests look like?

Stinging pests come in a range of shapes an sizes that span multiple insect species. While the common factor is a stinger, body types, colors, and legs vary widely between pest such as bees, hornets, wasps, and even scorpions. These pests can all present problems for you or your home and controlling them begins with accurate identification. For more information, contact Orkin for an accurate identification of the pest problem you are experiencing.

Bees

Order Hymenoptera

Hornet

Vespa crabo

Scorpions

Order Scorpiones

Wasps

Order Hymenoptera

Yellow Jacket

Vespula spp. & Dolichovespula spp.

Treatment

How do I get rid of stinging pests?

What Orkin Does

If you find a nest on your property, removing it safely and completely can be difficult. Orkin can perform an inspection and put together a stinging pest treatment plan for your situation.

Once our technician locates their nest, they can treat the pests as well as remove the source. Your Orkin Pro will look for conditions that invite stinging insects, tackle current infestations, and remove any nests to help prevent future stingers from showing up.

With more than 160 hours of training just in the first year, you can trust your technician will know the classification and behavior of stinging insects so a solution can be targeted for your home.

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Frequently Asked Question

Are stinging pests a cause for concern?

What are the behaviors, diet, and habits of stinging pests?

Stinging Pest Facts

Understanding Stinging Pests

The more you know about stinging pests, the better you can predict and control their behavior. Here are some quick facts to help you on your way.

Stings

Stinging insects such as bees, wasps, yellow jackets and hornets use their stings to subdue prey (primarily insects and spiders) and to defend themselves or their colony.

Hornet Nests

Hornet nests are constructed with paper-like material produced by the insects mixing their saliva together with the wood fibers they gather.

Stings

Unlike wasps, yellow jackets and hornets, honey bees, Africanized honey bees and bumble bees sting and inject venom only once and usually die within minutes after delivering their sting.

Scorpion Habitats

Scorpions live in very dry climates. Despite this, they are very sensitive to the loss of moisture from their body and hide during the day in shady locations.

Pollination

There are many species of wasps that are important pollinators. However, taken as a group, wasps do pollinate, but are not as effective at pollinating as the bees.

Bee Swarms

Two kinds of bee swarms occur: primary and secondary. Queen bees lead primary swarms. Secondary swarms are led by several virgin, female bees. As a result, these swarms are half the size of the primary swarm and do not occur as often.

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