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Miche Pest Control is a family owned and operated pest control company that provides high quality residential and commercial yellowjacket control services in Arlington VA and the surrounding areas. Our expert yellowjacket exterminators get rid of yellowjackets from homes and businesses fast, and use preventative treatments to keep the yellowjackets from coming back after they've been eliminated. Miche Pest Control has a 4.9 star rating and over 1,000 reviews online - call today or book online!

Yellowjackets In Arlington VA

Yellowjackets are aggressive pests in Arlington VA that possess a painful sting and bite. You’ll find these bright yellow and black insects in the backyard, at picnics and other outdoor activities. Yellowjacket nests are usually built underground, although some species will construct their nests in hollow logs, trees, attics, between walls, or under eaves of houses. An underground yellowjacket nest is difficult to locate because the entrance is about the size of a nickel. Most yellowjacket workers forage for food within 1,000 feet of their nest -- a distance of three football fields. In the middle of the season -- usually June or July -- yellowjackets are drawn to protein sources, such as hamburgers on the barbecue grill. During the late summer to early fall, they tend to shift their diet to sweets, including soda and juice.

Yellowjackets scavenge for meat and sweet liquids, which brings them into frequent contact with humans. Yellowjacket attacks can be deadly for people who are allergic to their stings. Yellowjackets are more aggressive than other stinging insects such as wasps, hornets, mud daubers or bees. Yellowjackets can both sting and bite - in fact, they will often bite to get a better grip to jab their stinger in. Since they don't lose their stinger, they can sting numerous times, and will do so unprovoked.

Yellowjackets vigorously defend their nests. Swarm attacks can occur when someone accidentally steps in or hits a nest opening. Ground vibrations can also trigger attacks from underground nests -- thus, mowing lawns can be hazardous, especially during the late summer season when colonies are at their largest.

Yellow Jacket Bees In Arlington VA

Although yellowjackets' yellow and black stripes are similar to those of bees, and even though they are both types of stinging insects, yellow jackets are not bees. Rather, yellow jackets are wasps and differ from bees in a number of ways.

The bodies of bees are fuzzier and more rounded in shape, while yellow jackets are noticeably smoother and thinner. Yellow jackets' bodies are narrower between the thorax and abdomen. Unlike bees, which have stingers with pronounced barbs and can sting only once before dying, yellow jackets are equipped with lance-like stingers with much smaller barbs, and are capable of delivering multiple stings without dying.

Yellow jackets also differ from bees in behavior and habits. They are predatory and will consume other insects. Yellow jackets are also scavengers of human food, and can be found swarming around trash cans or picnic sites in Arlington VA and the surrounding areas. Yellow jackets will also feed on nectar, but they depend primarily upon insects, meat and fish for nourishment. Most bee species are significantly less aggressive than yellow jackets, which are territorial and may sting at even the slightest provocation.

Yellow Jacket Wasps In Arlington VA

Yellowjacket or yellow jacket is the common name in North America for certain predatory social wasps. They are known simply as "wasps" in other English-speaking countries. Most of the yellowjacket wasps found in Arlington VA are black and yellow like the eastern yellowjacket and the aerial yellowjacket; however, some are black and white like the bald-faced hornet. Others may have the abdomen background color red instead of black. They can be identified by their distinctive markings, their occurrence only in colonies, and a characteristic, rapid, side-to-side flight pattern prior to landing. All females are capable of stinging. Yellowjackets are important predators of pest insects.

Ground Nesting Yellow Jackets In Arlington VA

Ground nesting yellow jackets construct paper nests that may contain thousands of larvae and adult workers. In Arlington VA, these nests are typically located underground in abandoned rodent burrows or in other enclosed spaces such as tree cavities, wall cavities, wood piles, and dense ivy. During the fall, young queens mate and find protected areas (such as fallen logs, tree cavities, cracks in buildings, etc.) where they remain for the duration of the winter. When spring arrives, queens select nesting sites and begin the process of colony initiation (nest construction, deposition of eggs, and hunting for food). Once adult workers emerge, they take over many of the tasks of nest maintenance so that the queen can remain within the safety of the nest and lay eggs. Foraging ground-nesting yellow jacket workers commonly come into contact with people who are eating outdoors and may at times become extremely aggressive. The colony grows throughout the summer and into the fall, and eventually begins production of males and queens. When rain and/or freezing temperatures return, nests typically die out, and newly mated queens find protected areas to overwinter so the process can begin anew in the spring.

Arlington VA

Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia, often referred to simply as Arlington, Virginia. The county is situated in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from the District of Columbia, of which it was once a part, under the name Alexandria County. The county is coterminous with the U.S. Census Bureau's census-designated place of Arlington. Arlington is considered to be the second-largest "principal city" of the Washington metropolitan area. If it were incorporated as a city, Arlington would be the fourth most-populous city in the state.

With a land area of 26 square miles, Arlington is the geographically smallest self-governing county in the US, and by reason of state law regarding population density, it has no incorporated towns within its borders. Arlington is home to the Pentagon, Reagan National Airport, and Arlington National Cemetery. In academia, the county contains Marymount University, George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School, the administrative offices buildings and graduate programs for the Schar School of Policy and Government and the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, as well as satellite campuses of the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech.

The area that now constitutes Arlington County was originally part of Fairfax County in the Colony of Virginia. Land grants from the British monarch were awarded to prominent Englishmen in exchange for political favors and efforts at development. One of the grantees was Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, who lends his name to both Fairfax County and the City of Fairfax. The county's name "Arlington" comes via Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, a Plantation along the Potomac River, and Arlington House, the family residence on that property. George Washington Parke Custis, the grandson of First Lady Martha Washington, acquired this land in 1802. The estate was eventually passed down to Mary Anna Custis Lee, wife of General Robert E. Lee. The property later became Arlington National Cemetery during the American Civil War, and eventually lent its name to present-day Arlington County.

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