Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Wasp Control for You and Your Horse

Thehorse.com - Full Article

By Alayne
27 Aug 2013

If you think you’re seeing more wasps than usual this year, you’re probably seeing a critter we inherited recently from Europe, the European paperwasp.

The European paperwasp Polistes dominulus was first recorded in the U.S. in Massachusetts in 1981 and has moved its way West since then, reaching Washington State in 1998. As Keith Seinfeld, KPLU News Seattle, reported in 2006, “So far there’s no sign of environmental damage done by the European wasps and it’s not particularly aggressive, in fact it may do a little good in the garden by eating other pests.”

These paperwasps are often confused with yellowjackets, another kind of wasp, because they have similar markings. The easiest way to tell the difference between the two is their nesting habits. European Paperwasps create nests that are only one cell deep forming a single comb and resembling a Dixie cup-sized upside down umbrella. Yellowjackets create large aerial nests that are entirely enclosed in paper. Yellowjackets will also construct nests below the soil surface...

Read more here:
http://cs.thehorse.com/blogs/smart-horse-keeping/archive/2013/08/27/wasp-control-for-you-and-your-horse.aspx?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=nutrition&utm_campaign=09-02-2013

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