Wasps and bees can be handled by your Broken Arrow pest control company. Wasp and bees are stinging insects that can cause issues if they build their nest in a place that’s too close to you or your loved ones. Getting stung by a bee is no fun. In some situation, getting stung by a bee can cause an allergic reaction that can be very dangerous. So in order to handle these pests, it’s important that we understand them and their life cycle. So in this article, let us take  a good hard look at bees and wasps, their life cycle, and what are you and your Broken Arrow pest control company can do to protect yourself from bees and wasps.

POLLINATORS AND BROKEN ARROW PEST CONTROL

Bees and wasps are great for the ecosystem. They do a job that not many other species do. That job is pollination. The blossoms of trees and flowers require cross pollination in order to reproduce. Most plants use a sexual reproduction system that produces these flowering structures. Inside you’ll find the stamen and pistil. The pistil is the female part of the tree, and the stamen is the male. The stamen will emit a pollen that needs to be carried to the pistil in order to create the fruit or seeds that are necessary for the plants reproduction.

This is where bees and wasps come in. Both of these insects feed off of the nectar of these plants. It will land on the flower, picking up the pollen on their legs and bodies. Once they get the nectar out of that flower, they’ll move onto the next flower to take more nectar. Here they will deposit some of the pollen that they picked up and pick up some more from this flower. This process will go on multiple times cross pollinating these flowers, creating the ability for these plants to reproduce. Without bees and wasps, plant life would die off, and we would not be far behind. If you are having an issue with these wasps or bees, then its a sign to call your Broken Arrow pest control company for help.

NESTS AND BROKEN ARROW PEST CONTROL

Both bees and wasps create a nest that they rear their young in. Bees nests are different than wasp nests. In fact, they have a hive built by a colony of bees. They will take care of their young until they grow to adulthood. Wasps, on the other hand, will have a nest but once they have laid their eggs and prepared for the young, they will leave and allow the young to survive on their own. 

Wasps come in two varieties. There is the solitary wasp and the social wasp. Solitary wasps will create a single cell nest. In the nest, a cell is a small compartment that will house one egg. It’s inside this compartment that the development of the wasp will happen. Solitary wasps will create one sell for one egg in one nest. The social wasp, on the other hand, will create a nest with many cells each having one egg. Often these nests will produce their young all at the same time producing a swarm of wasps.

AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR OF BEES AND WASPS

While bees and wasps can be quite docile if seen by themselves in the wild, they could be very aggressive when you get near their nest. They protect their young with a fervor that you don’t want to get in the way of. Often wasp nest can be hidden behind fence posts or in holes in the ground. If you stumble upon it, you will find out very quickly how aggressive they can be. But if they build their nest or their hive in a place that’s too close to us as humans, then action must be taken. 

This is where your Broken Arrow pest control company comes in. These guys will come in and remove the nest, taking care of the problem. In some cases, people want to save the beehives. In those cases you’ll need to contact a beekeeper in order to remove a bees nest that will be relocated.

BEE STINGS AND BROKEN ARROW PEST CONTROL

Bees and wasps both sting if they are threatened. Wasps use their sting also for hunting. The female wasp will use her stinger to inject her prey with a cocktail of neurotoxins that will paralyze it. Then she will place the paralyzed insect inside a cell with an egg. This will provide the food that the newborn wasp will need to grow and develop. On the other hand, the honeybee has barbs on its stinger. If it has to sting, it will lose its stinger and a number of vital organs in the process. This means that a honeybee will lose its life if it must sting. Bees only use their stinger for defense. There are some bees, though, that can sting multiple times because they don’t have barbs on their stinger. One of those is the Africanized honeybee.

While stings can be extremely painful, in many cases, they don’t require medical attention. The only exception to the rule is when a person has an allergic reaction to them. There are some people that are allergic to bee and wasp stings. If this is the case, then it’s important that you get them in contact with their medical physician or emergency services as quickly as possible. These kind of situations can be life-threatening if the allergy is strong enough.

If you’re having an issue with bees or wasps, then it’s time to call your Broken Arrow pest control company. Here at TermMax pest control, we are the best in the business when it comes to dealing with stinging insects or any other pests. We service a greater Tulsa area, including Broken Arrow, Claremore, Coweta, Catoosa, Sand Springs, Sapulpa, Prattville, Jenks, Bixby, Turley, Owasso, and so much more. Call today for a free estimate. We’re here to help!