Hornets and wasps are not so different. They are from the same family and hornets are essentially wasps with bigger stingers and stranger bodies. They have a bent form, often looking like a crescent and often have a tight break between both their abdomen and thorax as well as their abdomen and head. This makes them look much more frightening owing to their misnaming. The hornet is more aggressive, generally than wasps and the sting of a hornet is much more painful and one is rarely all you will get. To get a hornet to stop stinging you will have to kill it.
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To get a wasp to stop you need only run away unless you attacked their nest. In that situation, a wasp swarm will chase you around corners, over and around large objects, and wait over water for you to come up for air. They can also identify human faces and if they see you again they will avoid other obstacles and people to attack you directly. Wasps are built to kill, and they can kill mammals and birds much larger than they are. So if you have a nest on your property you need to call a professional and get rid of them as soon as possible before they decide your pet or child is an interloper.
The hornet nest is different from the wasp nest. The wasp nest is often grey and smooth, made from chewed wood and saliva, and appearing like a fine paper. The hornet’s nest is brown and rough, looking more like dark brown paper left in the rain for a while. It has striations along its perimeter and appears oblong and misshapen, unlike wasp nests which are eerily symmetrical. Paper wasp nests are accurate to millimeters in the sizes of the nest openings. While many wasps are not aggressive hornets are generally all aggressive and while many wasps are solitary most hornets are social and build large nests. In essence, the wasp is not much of a threat unless it is yellow jackets or something more severe. Hornets are always a threat and should be exterminated as soon as they are recognized.
The wasp and the hornet both have queens and unless they find a warm place to build their nest they die off in the winter and new queens leave to hibernate. This repeats indefinitely and old nests can be renewed by new queens. So make sure to remove and destroy the nest completely, you must kill the queen and her consorts. There must be no stone left unturned. If this sounds hard it’s because it is. You cannot do this on your own. Call Wasp Control and we can kill, remove, and destroy the nest in an hour and leave a residual spray that will kill any wasps that come near the area.