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Spotted Lanternflies Help Stinging Insects Thrive

No doubt about it. Stinging insects are some of the most common pests we’re asked to control. Increasingly, service calls to kill the Spotted Lanternfly are high on the chart too.

This year, we’ve gotten more calls than ever regarding both! There’s an abundance of bald face hornets, yellowjackets, wasps, and European hornets joining the swarms of spotted lanternflies. (European hornets look like Murder hornets, but they are not. The Asian Giant hornet is dubbed the “murder hornet.” Learn more.)

Service calls to control yellowjackets, wasps, and other stinging insects have increased dramatically this year and started earlier. Greg Pettis, Dominion’s president, recently went out into the field to help catch up on stinging insects calls. Scary!

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Yellowjackets & Other Stinging Insects

Yellowjackets can make a nest in the ground or inside structures such as walls in a home or business.  If you have this situation, do not spray!  If you do, you risk pushing them inside where they will not be able to get out.  Wasps can make nests behind shutters, up in corners of eaves, inside lamp posts, etc.  And of course, you have your Hornets that make potentially basketball size nests anywhere.

All of these stinging insects can be controlled by Dominion Pest Control.  For some, it might be recommended to have a regular quarterly powerspray on the perimeter.  In any event,  control for pests is fairly simple.  Depending on the situation, we may use a dust, or a non-repellent transferable product whereby the insects transfer the product one-to-another.

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