Where Do Wasps Live?

As Summer approaches, you may be wondering, "where do wasps live?". Once you have established where they are making themselves at home on your property, you can make a plan to get rid of them.

Wasps make their nests out of small pieces of bark or cardboard that the mix with their saliva to form a great product for forming their nest, cellulose. So, most often they will live a spot that has trees nearby.

Last summer, my daughter got stung in the face while swimming in her grandma's pool. A wasp was determined to get a hold of her. He followed her around and kept trying to get on her face. I splashed at her and it would go away and come back. Finally, it landed and just as it landed, I grabbed it with my hand, placed my hand under water, then threw it. I don't know where it ended up. My daughter had a wasp sting. She was scared (still is), but luckily was fine.

Some people are very allergic to a wasp sting. So, it is a good idea to get rid of them when you see a wasp's nest beginning to form. Where to look? Where do wasps live?

• under awnings and eaves.  Always look under eaves of roofs.
• Underground in small burroughs.  Watch out for these when gardening.
• In small openings or holes in trees or walls.
• In hedges or bushes.
• Our wasps, from that day, lived in a ceiling fan that my mother had out on the patio.  Once we had this figured out, we sprayed for them and had to repeat a day later.  It made a big difference in the amount of wasps in the area.

Next time we will go over some of the ways to get rid of wasps.