Best Bee Brothers Bee Blog — Wasps

From carpenter bees around your cabin to mason bees, honey bees, wasps, and more, Best Bee Brothers has you covered. Learn to ID and address stings effectively!

Learn about carpenter bee and wasps traps including differences, best traps to use, & more. Keep the carpenter bees and wasps away with Best Bee Brothers today!

Aggressive wasps can be unwelcome and dangerous backyard invaders with their painful stings. Learn how to prevent these pests and learn how to manage them with products from Best Bee Brothers.

Are They Carpenter Bees or Mud Daubers? Not sure what’s buzzing around your property? We get this question a lot, so let’s take a look at how to identify each. To control wood-boring bees, our carpenter bee traps are highly effective, but ONLY for catching carpenter bees! While both male and female carpenter bees have black heads, the mail has a light marking on his face. What Does a Carpenter Bee Look Like? First of all, they are BIG! Carpenter bees are typically one inch long. They are often confused with bumblebees. Male and female carpenter bees look similar, but...

How Do Wasps Reproduce? When Is It Too Cold for Them? Ahh, the birds and the bees talk…this time about WASPS! What’s a Wasp’s Life Cycle? Since there are many different types of wasps, 30,000 identified species, in fact, let’s focus on one, the Eastern yellow jacket – Vespula maculifrons. This easy-to-identify black-and-yellow-striped social wasp has pestered many picnics and backyard BBQs, since it loves sweet, sugary foods. The yellow jacket life cycle begins with a fertile queen, who builds a nest and uses stored sperm to create worker wasps. These workers continue building the colony, and die off at...