Wasps

[DIDO.1 22,811]

What's our predictions for the wasp season? Iv done 5 now, all quite busy for the time of year. 

Front of my van is covered in dead insects as well which hasn't happened for a few years. 

Tree bee calls seem to be down so far on this time last couple of years but I have had more calls year on year for honey bee nests and swarms. 

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

I feel that it will be a good year

[Guest vin]

43 minutes ago, Phil Lloyd said:

I feel that it will be a good year

I'm praying it will be a good year. or I'm in the poor house... I'm sick of bedbugs and roaches now.

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

Patience Grasshopper

[tilimangro 1,013]

Bees  numbers are down dramatically here

done one small wasp nest 

hoping for a good year

[mole trapper 1,693]

Not a single wasp callout down here.

Less every year down here, it's been pants last 9/10 years.

[DIDO.1 22,811]

5 hours ago, vin said:

I'm praying it will be a good year. or I'm in the poor house... I'm sick of bedbugs and roaches now.

I hardly ever see a roach job.....maybe one a year. 

Don't build a pest control business based on summer wasp money.....a couple of big contracts are worth more than a years wasps.....i know it's not as fun or paper money but wasps can't be relied on to pay mortgages 

[comanche 2,991]

 Hornets are about and wasps' nests are coming-in. I treated six on friday; four little nests in the same pile of fence-panels in my local fencing yard and then a freebie in a horse-rug(they seem to love horse-rugs) for my friend at the stables where I keep my sheep. Just left there and a call came in for another one which amazingly was about 100 yards from where I had pulled-over to take the call. Then the day before I had a call from a lady who was putting put her kayak on top of her car ready for a peacefull evening on the river when she discovered it contained a wasp's nest.

Looking through the books a reasonable year seems to follow a bad year so here's hoping.

 

 

 

Edited June 9, 2018 by comanche

[Guest vin]

On 09/06/2018 at 19:25, DIDO.1 said:

I hardly ever see a roach job.....maybe one a year. 

Don't build a pest control business based on summer wasp money.....a couple of big contracts are worth more than a years wasps.....i know it's not as fun or paper money but wasps can't be relied on to pay mortgages 

They would have to be very big contracts to make what I do over the few months of summer... plus I try and avoid tying myself down to contract work, to be honest with you. I have other avenues of income from which I manage to pay the bills. 

Contract work is something I will eventually have to start doing, But not yet... I like the freedom too much.

[DIDO.1 22,811]

I detest contract work I really do. Fair play if you get enough wasps to make up a decent part of your income.....its not been that way in the north West for a long time. 

Looking forward to the day I sell the lot and go back to job work. 

[LuckOrJudgement 437]

Seen more hornets than wasps where I am. They are definitely in decline round these parts.

[trappa 518]

Not done one wasps nest yet. Last year my first was June 13th (tomorrow)  and was kinda hoping to beat that but so far its just bees, bees and more bees, which half the time i talk them out of treating. As above, lots of insects on the windscreen so im hoping for a good year.

[tilimangro 1,013]

On 12/06/2018 at 05:14, LuckOrJudgement said:

Seen more hornets than wasps where I am. They are definitely in decline round these parts.

Same here 

insects in general are very clearly in decline here

its visible and worrying

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

Coming in nice and steady, darn sarf,..hopefully, we will all prosper...

[LuckOrJudgement 437]

11 hours ago, tilimangro said:

Same here 

insects in general are very clearly in decline here

its visible and worrying

True.