Trusted Stinging Insect Control Since 1976
Landmark removes active stinging insect nests and provides prevention-focused treatment designed to reduce recurring bee, wasp, hornet, and yellowjacket activity around the home.
- Wasp nest removal and hornet nest removal
- Yellowjacket treatment for nests in structural gaps, ground holes, and other problem areas
- Honey bee inspection and live relocation when appropriate
- Species-specific treatment for bees, wasps, hornets, and other stinging insects
- Nest prevention treatments for eaves, rooflines, decks, vents, cracks, crevices, and other common nesting areas
- Complete Home Care options for stinging insects and other covered pests
Stinging insects often return to the same nesting areas when underlying entry points and attractants are not addressed.
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Choose the Right Pest Prevention Program for Your Home
Stinging Insect Nest Prevention Program
Prevention-focused treatment designed to help reduce bee, wasp, and hornet nest activity around eaves, rooflines, decks, vents, and other common nesting areas throughout the season.
Warrantied service coverage includes follow-up treatment support if new stinging insect nesting activity develops in treated areas between scheduled visits.
Complete Home Care Program
Year-round monitoring, prevention, and treatment for stinging insects, ants, rodents, and more than 40 common household pests.
Complete Home Care includes warrantied service support and prevention-focused pest management designed to help reduce recurring pest activity throughout the year.
Specialized Bee, Wasp, Hornet, and Yellowjacket Treatment
Landmark technicians provide targeted stinging insect treatment and nest prevention services designed to help reduce recurring bee, wasp, hornet, and yellowjacket activity around residential homes, decks, patios, rooflines, eaves, vents, and outdoor living spaces.
Specialized Training
Our team includes trained biologists, beekeepers, and state-certified technicians experienced in identifying and treating different types of stinging insect activity.
Science-Based Treatment
Landmark uses species-specific treatment approaches designed to address active nesting areas, nesting behavior, nest location, and recurring stinging insect activity around the home.
Removal and Prevention
Removing active nests is only part of effective stinging insect control. Landmark also provides prevention-focused treatment and nest formation inhibitor applications designed to help reduce recurring bee, wasp, hornet, and yellowjacket nesting activity around common nesting areas.
Bee, Wasp, Hornet, and Yellowjacket Removal and Prevention
Get help with active nests and reduce recurring stinging insect activity around your home.
Environmentally-Friendly Stinging Insect Treatment
Species-specific treatment approaches designed for residential homes, outdoor living spaces, and pollinator-conscious pest management when appropriate.
Residential Treatment Designed for Families and Pets
Treatment approaches selected for residential environments and common outdoor nesting areas.
Nest Prevention and Ongoing Protection
Prevention-focused treatment designed to help reduce recurring nesting activity around eaves, rooflines, decks, vents, and other common nesting areas.
Identify Your Stinging Insect
Honey bees, Yellowjacket wasps, Bald-faced hornets, Carpenter bees, Bumble bees, and Polistes wasps account for most of the stinging insect problems reported in Illinois.
- Honey bees are ecologically-important pollinators. Our expert beekeepers and biologists relocate Honey bee colonies alive and without the use of pesticides.
- Yellowjacket wasps nest in holes in the ground, holes on the side of your home, or in gray nests made of paper.
- Bald-faced hornets are easy to identify because they are black and white, and they build gray paper nests.
- Carpenter bees make holes in wood and live inside these holes.
- Bumble bees generally live underground. They are important pollinators, and you should have them removed only if they are close to your home or are posing a danger to your family and pets.
- Polistes wasps are also called Umbrella wasps. Their legs hang down when they fly, and they most commonly build their nests under eaves. Landmark applies a nest formation inhibitor under eaves and within deck railings to prevent them from rebuilding their nests.
Honey Bee
Yellow Jacket Wasp
Bald-Faced Hornet
Bald-Faced Hornet Nest
Carpenter Bee
Bumble Bee
Polistes Wasp Nest
Why Bees, Wasps, and Hornets Build Nests Around Homes
Bees, wasps, hornets, and yellowjackets often build nests around rooflines, eaves, soffits, decks, vents, structural gaps, ground holes, and other protected areas around the home. Different stinging insect species require different treatment approaches based on nesting behavior, activity levels, nest location, and safety risk.
Landmark provides targeted stinging insect treatment and nest prevention designed to help reduce recurring nesting activity around common nesting areas on residential homes.
Why DIY Stinging Insect Treatment Can Make the Problem Worse
Over-the-counter sprays can be risky when stinging insects are nesting inside structural gaps, wall voids, rooflines, or ground openings. Disturbing a nest can increase defensive activity and may push insects deeper into the structure.
Professional treatment helps identify the insect, locate the nesting area, and select the right approach based on species, nest location, and safety considerations.
Why Bees, Wasps, Hornets, and Yellowjackets Nest Around Homes
Rooflines, soffits, overhangs, vents, siding, decks, and other protected areas around the home often create ideal nesting conditions for bees, wasps, hornets, and yellowjackets. Different species choose different nesting locations, which is why proper identification is an important first step in effective treatment.
Landmark provides targeted stinging insect treatment and prevention-focused service designed to help reduce recurring nesting activity around residential homes while protecting common nesting areas before new colonies become established.
Honey Bees
When Honey Bees are entering a hole in your building, they need to be removed. Leaving any honey behind will attract other stinging insects, ants, mice and other pests. The wall may need to be opened so that the honey comb and nest structures can be removed. Landmark Pest Management has beekeepers, masons, and drywallers on staff who are able remove the Honey bee colony alive, repair damage, and restore the area.
The beekeepers on our staff specialize in pesticide-free honey bee removal. Once they have opened the wall to expose the colony, they will remove the queen by placing her into a hive box. While the beekeepers work to scrape every surface clean and remove every bit of wax and honey, the worker bees will follow the scent of their queen’s pheromones and they will join her in the hive box.
A pesticide-free Honey bee removal will not result in any more damage to your home or cost more than a pesticide-centric approach. The wall has to be opened to the same degree in either case to remove the comb and honey. It is not possible to solve a honey bee infestation without removing all of their honey and wax comb from wall voids.
Honey bees are perhaps the most important insect to our environmental health. Colony Collapse and other problems are plaguing honey bees. The honey bees that are living in your building are showing some natural hardiness and resistance to these conditions, and it is very important to remove them alive, so that their naturally resistant genes remain in the gene pool.
Click on the video below to watch our team remove a honey bee colony.
Bee Swarms
Honey bees sometimes swarm when their colonies become too large for a hive. Scouts fly off seeking a suitable new home, while the rest of the swarm waits on a branch for the scouts to return with directions to the new home. Swarms may remain for hours or a couple days, but not longer. Unless swarms rest in areas that threaten human safety, they should be left alone and allowed to leave on their own.
Landmark Pest Management allows swarms to resolve on their own, except in rare situations that require intervention. One such circumstance that required our beekeepers to remove a swarm occurred when one was found on the jet-bridge connected to an aircraft, and the passengers could not exit the aircraft until the swarm was removed. Assisted by a hydraulic lift, our beekeepers used a special bee vacuum to suck up the swarm and remove it within minutes without the use of pesticides.
Send us a Photo
Many stinging insects look similar to one another. Honey bees look like smaller, fuzzy Yellowjackets, and Carpenter bees look like Bumble bees with hairless abdomens. If you feel that you can do so safely, please email us a photo of the insect you’re enquiring about, so we can identify it for you. You may send the image to help@landmarkpest.com and an expert will respond quickly.
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