Bees, Wasps and Hornets

It is very important to know generally if the pests you want to get rid of are bees, wasps or hornets. They all look somewhat alike and are often mistaken for each other, but knowing a few key features of both can be helpful in telling them apart. Bees gather pollen and nectar from flowers to take back to the hive and use as food. Bees usually have very hairy bodies and hairs on their legs or under their abdomen to help them to collect pollen.

Honey bees are very important to the environment because they pollinate crops, fruit trees and flowers, but their stings can be very dangerous. Honey bees can be removed and relocated from a property without using pesticides.

Carpenter bees make nests by tunneling into wood. Each nest has a single entrance leading to many adjacent tunnels.

Wasps are carnivorous, hunting other insects or spiders, but some species also visit flowers for nectar. Wasps do not collect pollen, so they usually exhibit no hairs at all. Most wasps build small paper nests.

Yellow jackets may build larger nests containing as many as 10,000 individual insects. Hornets are part of the wasp family, but are larger. They usually build a large, basketball-sized, paper nest.

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