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Flying Squirrel Control
Yellow jacket bee removal and control services in NJ
Yellow jacket is the common
name for a North American wasp and of course they are
generally yellow and black but some are black and white,
because of their colors they are mistakenly called bees.
Yellow jackets vs. Bees:
Yellow jackets, in contrast to honey bees, are not
covered with tan-brown dense hair on their bodies and
lack the flattened hairy hind legs used to carry pollen.
Yellow jackets have a lance-like stinger without barbs
and can sting repeatedly whereas honey bees have a
barbed stinger and sting only once. Some have yellow on
the face. Mouthparts are well-developed for capturing
and chewing insects with a tongue for sucking nectar,
fruit and other juices. Nests are built in trees, shrubs
or in protected places such as inside human-made
structures (attics, hollow walls or flooring, in sheds,
under porches and eaves of houses), or in soil cavities,
mouse burrows, etc. Nests are made from wood fiber
chewed into a paper-like pulp.
Life Cycle and Habits
Yellow jackets are social wasps living in colonies
containing workers, queens and males. Colonies are
annual with only inseminated queens over wintering.
Fertilized queens occur in protected places as hollow
logs, in stumps, under bark, in leaf litter, in soil
cavities and human-made structures. Queens emerge during
the warm days of late April or early May, select a nest
site and build a small paper nest in which eggs are
laid. After eggs hatch from the 30 to 50 brood cells,
the queen feeds the young larvae for about 18 to 20
days. Larvae pupate, emerging later as small, infertile
females called workers. By mid-June, the first adult
workers emerge and assume the tasks of nest expansion,
foraging for food, care of the queen and larvae, and
colony defense.
Parent colony workers dwindle, usually leaving the nest
and die, as does the queen. Abandoned nests
rapidly decompose and disintegrate during the winter.
Nests inside structures will persist as long as they are
dry. Nests are not used again.
Alco Animal & Pest Control provides yellow jacket
and other bee removal and control services for residents
in NJ. We are more than happy to inform New Jersey and out of state visitors on these and other
species that (might) cause dangers to their health. We offer great advice and
solutions because we are well certified and informed when it comes to animal control and
the
safety of animals in New Jersey, that is our
main priority.
[20.03.2006]
