Nothing can ruin a summer day faster than a sting from one of North Carolina’s many venomous insects. From ants to bees to wasps and more, your Greensboro pest control plan can’t leave out bugs with stingers, not only because stings can be painful but because, depending on the circumstances, they can also be dangerous. That’s why you need to ensure you control all potential stinging insect infestations around your property.
The Types Of Stinging Insects You Can Encounter In Greensboro
We have dozens of stinging insect species here in North Carolina, but they can all be categorized into a few primary groups. Stinging ants include the highly aggressive and openly hostile fire ant and the much more laid-back pavement ant.
Flying insects that can sting include bees, wasps, and hornets. We’ve got several types of wasps and bees, and again, they range from highly aggressive yellow jackets and baldfaced hornets to fearful and shy dirt daubers, which can sting but rarely do. Honeybees and bumblebees can also sting, but they typically won’t unless their nests are in imminent danger. Meanwhile, hornets and yellow jackets might sting if you look at their nest incorrectly.
Helpful Wasp Prevention Tips
Keeping stinging insects like bees and wasps out of your yard can be a hassle since these insects can fly and will nest wherever they very well please. Fortunately, you can keep bees and areal wasps out of your yard by reducing attractants and nesting sites:
- Get rid of high-nectar, sweet-smelling flowers that can attract bees and wasps.
- Harvest fruit from any trees before it falls.
- Plant herbs and flowers bees and wasps hate, like peppermint and lavender.
- Trim back tree and shrub branches to reduce places to nest.
Taking these measures can help encourage these pests to move on by making it inconvenient for them to set up shop near your property.
Ways To Deter Hornets And Yellow Jackets
Ground-nesting social wasps like yellow jackets can be different animals than areal wasps like paper wasps. While it’s typically easy to spot a wasp nest in the air and avoid it, yellow jackets like to make camp in holes in the ground. This is because it’s a lot easier to do stuff like run them over with a lawnmower, which can set off a swarm of thousands of individuals that can sting repeatedly. That’s why you need to take measures to keep them away too:
- Cover outdoor garbage cans so yellow jackets can’t use them as food sources.
- Fill holes in the ground to prevent ground-nesting wasps from colonizing them.
- Don’t leave sweet drinks or pet foods sitting out for long periods.
- Avoid using scented bath products like soaps and perfumes when you’re outside.
- Clean up well after cooking or eating outside because yellow jackets will come after your crumbs.
These pest control measures won’t make it impossible for ground-nesting wasps to set up shop on your property, but it might just make it a hassle to shoo them away.
Professional Stinging Insect Control And Removal
If you wind up with a wasp or bee infestation, avoid trying to deal with it on your own. One mistake could trigger a swarm that could leave you with dozens or even hundreds of stings. For safe and effective bee and wasp removal and fire ant treatment in Greensboro, contact us here at Go-Forth Home Services. We can deal with every stinging insect problem you’ve got so that you don’t have to!