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Wasp nest removal

4,095 pest control businesses across the United States and Canada have reviewers writing about wasps. That is the signal these pages rank on — what customers actually wrote, not what a company lists as a service.

4,095

businesses named for it

2,889,021

reviews represented

3.8%

one or two star

820

list 24-hour service

Every review across wasps listings

4095 of 4095 listings have a collected histogram

Google's own review histogram · 2,889,021 reviews · captured 2026-08-24

The problem
A nest in an eave, roof space or wall cavity is the most common emergency callout in this trade, and the one people least want to handle themselves.
How you know
Steady two-way traffic to a single point on the building, usually a gap under the eaves.
What the work involves
Same-day or next-day work in season. Check the hours on a listing before anything else — a nest is not a problem that waits for Monday.

The playbook

Wasp nest removal, done properly

Before anyone arrives

Keep people and pets away from the flight path, close the nearest windows, and do not plug the entrance hole — wasps sealed into a wall cavity will chew through toward light, which can mean into the room. Mark where the nest is from a safe distance. Night work is for professionals with protective gear, not for a ladder and a torch.

Do it yourself, or call?

A small, exposed paper nest early in the season, at ground level, away from doorways, is at the edge of reasonable DIY with an off-the-shelf treatment used exactly as labelled. Anything in a wall void, roof space or high eave — or any suspicion of hornets, or anyone in the household with a sting allergy — is professional work. Stings from a defended colony come in numbers.

What a proper job looks like

A professional treats or removes the nest at its entrance with the right product and protective equipment, and should tell you whether the colony is a wasp, hornet or bee before touching it — bees are handled differently. Late-season nests die off naturally; an honest company will sometimes tell you to wait rather than sell a treatment.

Choosing the company

This is the emergency end of the trade: check the published hours on a listing, and the share of companies here that list 24-hour service exists for exactly this call. Reviewer mentions of wasps and hornets tell you the company actually climbs the ladder rather than referring it out.

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Most named

Most often written about for wasps

Ordered by how many reviews name wasps, then by adjusted rating. A high count means many customers wrote about it — it is a measure of volume and subject, not of quality.

Ranked on Google review-topic mention counts · each row’s critical share from Google’s own review histogram, on a fixed 0–10% scale · captured 2026-08-24

By place

Where the wasps specialists are

By state and province

Wasps and hornets across United States and Canada