Your porch is your relaxation space because it is three sides open and let cool draft coming from these sides. It also offers the panoramic view of your locality or neighborhood and enables you to greet your next door neighbor. Porch lets you soak in the sun in the morning and enables you to take a nap in the afternoon. Your porch is the place where you enjoy a cup of coffee or tea with your friends and relatives. Such useful porch can turn in to a dangerous habitat when wasps find your porch most suitable for building nests. This happens to most Canadian homes and you may not be an exemption if you are not careful enough. Most of you live in the porch for the entire summer and will find it dangerous to share the space with wasps. In such cases you must contact and engage professional help such as BBPP, the most experienced wasp control Richmond Hill and get rid of them immediately so peace is restored.
How to prevent wasp nest building
- Make your porch as unattractive as possible. You have to remove wasp favorites like leftover food, sugary drinks, colorful flowers, meat and other food items from the porch. Some residents like to use porch as their favorite dining space because it allows them to enjoy open ambience and fresh air. If you leave food leftovers in the porch wasps will certainly make it their favorite abode and leave you in the lurch. Keep porch clean of the above items and wasps won’t build nests there.
- Also remove food source from around the porch. You will have to remove fallen fruits from trees, rotting logs, bird feed and bath. Also make sure that no puddle of water is found near the porch.
- Inspect your home structure for wasp entry and also check tall trees, tree cavities, pile of logs in the yard, thickets and bushes nearby and your lush green lawn. Yellow jackets build nests in abandoned burrows dug by rodents and your lawn may have a few of them. if you are not careful while walking on the wall you are likely to stomp on a wasp nest entrance and invite an attack by group of wasps
- Regularly check interior and exterior of your home for signs of nest building at initial stage. You can easily remove a wasp nest in the budding than at a final stage where the nest has already been occupied by hundreds of wasps.
- Planting flowers in front of your porch will invite wasps to build nest in your front portion. Colorful flowers attract wasps and wasps hunt for them to find nectar, so it is a good idea that you don’t grow such plants in your front façade.
- Keep your front door shut most times and shield windows with sheer netting. Keep trashcans well away from porch and keep them tightly lidded. Rotten food smell and other smells are attractive to wasps
- You could also hang or place wasp repellants in the porch and that will repulse wasps
If the size of infestation is on the larger side it is advised to contact neighborhood pest control such as BBPP, the best pest control Richmond Hill, and also for other towns nearby. You can contact the pest control company on phone number 647 910 6315 or through email to info@bbppcanada.com and get a free quote.