Technical | PPC91 May 2018

Are you a pest technician who’s seen it all? Time to prove it! Eyes down, look in and play... WASP NEST BINGO!

We asked pest controllers the weirdest places they’ve encountered wasps nests while out on the job. We’ve then popped your strangest encounters into this handy bingo card. There’s no prize for winning, other than bragging rights (feel free to yell out bingo all the same). So, without further ado, eyes down…

BUCKLE MY SHOW - 32

“Go for a run”, they said. “It’s good for you”, they said.

RISE AND SHINE - 29

“When the client said they think they might have bed bugs, this wasn’t what I was expecting”.

WINNIE THE POOH - 42

The clever wasps pictured here built their nest just above the water level and were entering using the overflow pipe.

CLICKETY CLACK - 66

You’d have to be a right cycle-path to ride this.

DUCK AND DIVE - 25

This looks like something straight out of a sci-fi/horror film. I wouldn’t want to stick my head in there to get a picture.

MAN ALIVE - No.5

Gee thanks, internet. I didn’t want to sleep tonight anyway. A wasp nest built around a creepy doll.

Between the sticks – 86

Here’s a nest you’re unlikely to find while you’re out this Summer. Also known as the Australian paper wasp, these guys make tiny little panpipe style nests. Small brown paper wasp nest in colonies with several combs built close together. Each comb is made of two rows of cells hanging from a branch by a stalk.

The smaller cells are built around the main larger comb where the queen lives, and these smaller satellite combs can then be used to cool the primary structure when it gets too hot.

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Scott Johnstone
Content and Communications Officer
1 May 2018  |  PPC91