Exterminating & Pest Prevention 

Wasp nest removal throughout Glasgow and Ayrshire

The most prolific of wasps in Great Britain are the common and German wasps and hornets. Other wasp species and subspecies might be encountered, such as the Asian hornet, tree wasp, Norwegian wasp, Saxon wasp, median wasp, and giant wood wasp. Common and German wasps are temperate species forming nests in soil banks, roof spaces, wall cavities and trees. Nests are formed of paper-like mash, which wasps create by chewing wood. The nests may become very large. Wasp colonies only survive one season in the UK. New ones are started each spring by overwintered queens. Wasps forage on a wide range of foods, including insects, spiders and sweet substances, e.g. ripe fruit and nectar. May become aggressive if threatened. Wasp stings are painful and may even cause anaphylactic shock to persons with allergies to insect bites, which could be fatal, in addition to a potential disease transmission. Unless your wasp nest is old and inactive or very small and inhabited by just 1 wasp queen, do not attempt a DIY wasp nest removal to avoid the associated risks to you, your family, your pets, or even to your neighbours and the public. Our wasp control service is available in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, and Ayrshire.

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Appearance, size, and life cycle of wasps in Scotland

Vespula vulgaris, Vespula Germanica, and Vespa crabro

The average length of an adult wasp is 10-20 millimetres, with distinctive black and yellow colouring of its thorax and abdomen (body). Wasp nests are started by queens that emerge out of hibernation in mid April and are very small at the beginning (smaller than a golf ball). As the wasp queens continue laying eggs, the wasp nests grow as do the numbers of wasps in them. Wasp nests in Scotland can grow as big as a sheep and have over 5,000 individual wasps in them by late summer. The majority of the wasps are sterile females (that do most of the work by enlarging the nests and feeding the grubs) but in the latter part of the summer young queens and males emerge for mating. The males die soon after mating and successfully mated young wasp queens leave their nests before the onset of a cooler weather before the winter. They may hibernate near the old wasp nests but they never reuse them the next year after they emerge from hibernation. Old wasp queens die alongside wasp workers (infertile females) in the old nests when cold winter weather comes and the frost kills them. Wasp nests in the loft spaces and inside the walls of residential buildings that were not treated are likely to become problematic for the residents in the late autumn by the wasps dispersing into the living parts of the houses in a bid to escape the cold, while they can still sting people. As hinted above, wasps display complete metamorphoses (egg-larva-pupa-adult) when breeding.

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How we control wasps in Glasgow and Ayrshire 

On arrival, after completing a survey and risk assessment, Czm8's technicians, with precision and safety in mind, disperse insecticides to active wasp nests to reliably destroy all the nesting wasps. Usually, pyrethroid-based dust formulation insecticide is injected into the wasp nests or sprayed onto the wasp alighting surfaces surrounding the entry points the wasps use to enter and leave their nests.

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How we kill wasps: Our trained operative injects circa 70 - 150 grams of the (dust-formulation) insecticide into a wasp nest to be treated or applies a thin layer of insecticidal dust over the nest, around the wasp entry point and/or onto the surrounding wasp alighting area. Wasps start to die immediately and the treated wasp nest, as well as the surrounding area, are clear from wasps usually within 24 hours of the application or sooner. However, the time required for a treatment to take a full effect (eradication of all the nesting wasps) may vary; please see our guarantee for wasp removal. The tools our wasp controllers use in the treatment of wasp nests: A purpose-made compression duster is fitted with a hose and has attached to it an extendable or telescopic lance that is mounted with a nozzle at the far end. Telescopic ladders enable access to treat wasps' nests in mid-high locations. These tools enable our technicians to reach out high and carry out precise applications on nests in all heights up to 26 ft vertically (ground level, 1st floor and the bottom of 2nd floor) while the use of ladders is minimized for greater safety of the operators, overall resulting in lower costs and a better price of the wasp removal service for our customers. Three-piece extension ladders plus a standoff and 2 operators, on top of the aforementioned, get involved in treating the wasp nests that are up high. 

We safely destroy the nesting wasps and add a guarantee for your peace of mind that you can rely on in Greater Glasgow and Ayrshire. Every time we treat an active wasp nest, the number of wasps flying about begins to decrease rapidly within minutes and all wasp activity normally ceases completely in several hours. A treated wasp nest remains in place so that any wasps that were not in their nest at the time of treatment can return to it later and ingest a lethal dose of a fast-acting residual insecticide and die. In most of our treatments, the wasp nest is fully controlled by the next day. This can sometimes take longer due to a very large size of the treated wasp nest or where difficult access did not allow for a direct application of insecticide into the nest and therefore the closely surrounding wasp alighting area had to be sprayed/dusted instead. The maximum time we allow for all our wasp nest treatments to take full effect is three days. We recommend our customers to visually check treated wasp nests three days after the treatment. In an unlikely event wasps are seen to be still entering and exiting a treated nest after three days, all our customers can fall back on the guarantee we provide for eradication of all the nesting wasps in the nests we have treated for them. To claim the guarantee please contact us and we will send a technician out within 48 hours during weekdays to investigate and treat your wasp nest again free of charge as long as it is still active. However, in the case when the same wasp nest we have treated proves to be no longer active, i.e. the treatment was successful the first time, (because there are no wasps can be seen flying in and out of the treated nest) the customer is liable to pay a £30 call-out fee. Where our attending wasp control technician identifies different active wasp nest(s) from the one(s) we had already (successfully) treated, the customer is offered a £20 discount to have the additional wasp nests treated too. This £20 discount expires in 1 month.

A new guarantee covers all of the wasp nests we have treated. To book or enquire about our wasp control service, please proceed to contacting us.​

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​How much it costs to successfully treat a wasp nest (i.e. to kill all of the nesting wasps) in Greater Glasgow and Ayrshire

The service is available in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, and Ayrshire​

As stated above, our wasp nest treatments are guaranteed to exterminate all of the nesting wasps. Our prices start from £60 to treat an easily accessible starter wasp nests on or near the ground in the spring, including in garden sheds and other outbuildings. Otherwise, our going price to treat an active wasp nest in or near the ground (up-to 2 metres high) is £68. The wasp nests on buildings, in trees, or on structures that we can reach and treat with our standard equipment cost £80 each. This operating range covers the ground floor and partially also the 1st floor. The wasp nests (or the wasp entry points) that are visible, not obstructed, and located up to the horizontal gutters or at the soffit level under the roof of a 2-storey house cost £99 each to treat. It costs more to treat wasp nests in the roofs of taller than 2-storey buildings or in the walls higher than the 1st floor. Our prices to treat these wasp nests that are up high range between £100 and  £150 (if we can still reach to treat them). You may have an active wasp nest in the wall of your house but you live higher than on the 1st floor - If the wasp entry point/s are visible and reachable (for treatment) out of your window, the cost of our guaranteed treatment is £75. Wasp nests in lofts are a special category where our prices vary by the access in the range between £100 and £150 (if we can safely reach them and treat from inside the loft).​

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Removal and disposal of inactive wasp nests

Wasps in Great Britain make their nests for one year only. They do not reuse old nests from the previous years or the nests that have been treated with insecticide . The old nests are soft and fragile, made of wooden pulp, they usually disintegrate within a couple of years if left. However inactive wasp nests do not attract new wasps to come, they could be an eyesore where they are, and you might want to physically remove them. Unlike wasp nest treatments, physical removal of inactive wasp nests doesn't require special pest control skills and you may be able to do it by yourself. If you prefer us to remove and dispose of an old or inactive wasp nest for you, the price would be by the access from £50 to £100, as long as we can reach it at all. The wasp nests we have treated can be removed for disposal from as little as £30 (on a separate visit).

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Our wasp nest removal freebies and discounts

One additional active wasp nest in the same height (or lower) or location can be treated for free on the same visit, more than one additional wasp nests for half price each. All the wasp nests we treat are covered by our guarantee for elimination of all the nesting wasps.

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Survey before wasp nest treatment

A survey on a separate visit before our wasp nest treatment is not usually required unless the wasp nest is up high or in otherwise difficult location to reach and treat. If you wish to arrange for a survey to be done prior to the treatment, it would involve a £30 call-out charge to pay (on the day of the survey) of which we would deduct £20 if it is followed by a treatment on our next visit (that is no later than 1 month from the survey).

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How to prepare your house before our wasp nest treatment

There are usually no special requirements but be prepared to ​e.g. have your window closed for the day or avoid the area where the active wasp nest we treated was located for about 1 day. It is also a good practice to tell your neighbours to have their windows closed on the day when we treat the wasp nest/s on your house