How fast can you get out here?

Stinging insect calls get priority over routine work, and in season we schedule them same-week. If a nest is over a doorway, on a route to a car, or somebody in the house has a sting allergy, say so when you contact us and it moves to the front.

How much does wasp nest removal cost?

$150 to $400 depending on species, location, and access. Included at no extra charge if you are already on a quarterly plan.

There's a nest in my wall — can you get it out?

Usually yes. Cavity nests are treated through the entry point and, where the nest can be reached, removed. Occasionally reaching it means opening a small section of wall or soffit, which we will always discuss and price before doing anything.

Will they come back to the same spot?

The same colony will not, once it is treated. A different colony may find the same eave attractive next year, because the conditions that suited one suit another. Removing the nest rather than leaving it reduces that, and a quarterly plan treats the eave line before the season starts.

What about honey bees?

We do not exterminate honey bee colonies. If it turns out to be honey bees rather than wasps — and it does sometimes — we will tell you and point you toward a local beekeeper who will remove them alive. Carpenter bees drilling into fascia and deck rails are a different matter and we do treat those.

Is late summer really worse?

Yes, noticeably. Colonies are at their largest from midsummer into September, and food sources shift in a way that makes yellowjackets much more interested in your patio. Most stings happen in that window, not in spring when the nests are small.

Wasp & Hornet Removal

Wasp & Hornet Nest Removal in Elizabethtown, KY

A nest over the door you use every day is not a project to think about next month. This is the service people call about the same afternoon, and we schedule it that way.

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Same-week scheduling in season
Ground nests and wall voids, not just visible nests
Guaranteed — if it comes back, so do we

Which one you've got matters

Three different insects account for nearly every stinging call in Hardin County, and they behave differently enough that the treatment is not the same.

Paper wasps build the open, umbrella-shaped comb you can see the cells of, usually under an eave, a porch ceiling, a deck rail, or inside a grill nobody has opened since last summer. They are the least aggressive of the three and will generally leave you alone unless you get close to the nest — which unfortunately describes walking through your own back door.

Yellowjackets are the problem ones. They nest in cavities — a wall void, a gap in the siding, an abandoned rodent burrow in the lawn — and you often have no idea where the nest is, only that there is a steady stream of insects going in and out of a hole. They are defensive, they can sting repeatedly, and a lawnmower passing over a ground nest turns an ordinary Saturday into an emergency.

Bald-faced hornets build the large grey papery football you see hanging in a tree or off a wall. Impressive, genuinely aggressive near the nest, and best left entirely alone until someone with a suit arrives.

What you're seeing

A visible comb or grey papery nest under an eave, soffit, deck, or in a tree
A steady stream of insects entering and leaving one specific gap in siding, brick, or the ground — that is a cavity nest and it is bigger than it looks
Insects indoors at a window in numbers, particularly in an upstairs room, which often means a nest inside a wall void
Sudden aggressive activity around a specific patch of lawn when mowing
Activity that gets noticeably worse from midsummer into September — colonies peak late, which is when most stings happen

How it's handled

1
Identify and locate
Which species, and where the nest actually is. With cavity nesters the entry hole is often nowhere near the nest itself, and treating the hole without reaching the nest just relocates the traffic.
2
Treat at the right time of day
Early morning or dusk, when the colony is home and least active. Treating a paper wasp nest at two in the afternoon leaves half the colony out foraging, and they come home to a treated nest and regroup nearby.
3
Remove the nest where it's safe to
Physically removing a treated nest stops it being re-colonised and removes the pheromone trail that makes the same eave attractive next season. Some locations — deep in a wall void, high on a roofline — are better treated and left, and we will say which yours is.
4
Check the surroundings
Where there is one nest there are frequently two. We check the rest of the eave line, the deck, and the obvious cavities before leaving.

What it costs

$150 to $400 for a one-time removal, depending on the species, where the nest is, and how reachable it is. A paper wasp nest under a porch eave is at the low end. A yellowjacket colony inside a second-storey wall void that needs to be opened up is at the high end.

If you are on a quarterly plan, nest removal on the structure is included and so are re-services — wasps are one of the pests the seasonal visits are specifically timed for.

10% military discount applies, always.

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When to just call somebody

Plenty of pest problems are reasonable to try yourself first. This is the one where we would rather you did not, for a specific reason: the failure mode is not that it does not work, it is that you get stung repeatedly on a ladder.

A can of aerosol from the hardware store can genuinely handle a small paper wasp nest you can reach while standing on the ground, in the early morning, with an exit route behind you. Anything in a wall, anything in the ground, anything that needs a ladder, and anything the size of a football is not a DIY job — and if anyone in the household has a known sting allergy, none of it is.

Common questions

How fast can you get out here?: Stinging insect calls get priority over routine work, and in season we schedule them same-week. If a nest is over a doorway, on a route to a car, or somebody in the house has a sting allergy, say so when you contact us and it moves to the front.
How much does wasp nest removal cost?: $150 to $400 depending on species, location, and access. Included at no extra charge if you are already on a quarterly plan.
There's a nest in my wall — can you get it out?: Usually yes. Cavity nests are treated through the entry point and, where the nest can be reached, removed. Occasionally reaching it means opening a small section of wall or soffit, which we will always discuss and price before doing anything.
Will they come back to the same spot?: The same colony will not, once it is treated. A different colony may find the same eave attractive next year, because the conditions that suited one suit another. Removing the nest rather than leaving it reduces that, and a quarterly plan treats the eave line before the season starts.
What about honey bees?: We do not exterminate honey bee colonies. If it turns out to be honey bees rather than wasps — and it does sometimes — we will tell you and point you toward a local beekeeper who will remove them alive. Carpenter bees drilling into fascia and deck rails are a different matter and we do treat those.
Is late summer really worse?: Yes, noticeably. Colonies are at their largest from midsummer into September, and food sources shift in a way that makes yellowjackets much more interested in your patio. Most stings happen in that window, not in spring when the nests are small.