Found a nest over the front door or wasps coming out of the ground? Life After Bugs is your local, family-owned wasp exterminator. We identify the species, treat the nest safely, and take it down — across Houston, Katy, Richmond, Fulshear, and the surrounding communities.
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Life After Bugs is a local, family-owned wasp exterminator serving Houston, Katy, Richmond, and Fulshear. We remove paper wasp, yellowjacket, and mud dauber nests, including ground and wall-void colonies, and every quote is free.
Updated July 2026
Three species account for almost every wasp call we take around Katy and west Houston — and each one is treated differently.
Paper wasps build the open-celled nests hanging under your eaves. Yellowjackets nest in the ground or inside wall voids and defend a wide area aggressively. Mud daubers plaster mud tubes on garage walls and brick and are almost entirely harmless. Getting the species right is the whole job, because the treatment for one is the wrong move for another.
A nest over the front door or a yellowjacket colony in the ground isn't something to knock down yourself. Our technicians identify the species, treat the nest safely, and address the spots wasps keep coming back to.
Life After Bugs handles stinging-insect nests around the home and business, including:
Paper wasp, yellowjacket, or mud dauber — the species determines whether a nest is a nuisance or a genuine safety problem.
Polistes species
The stinging insect we see most around Katy homes. Paper wasps build small, open-celled nests that hang from a single stalk and look like an upside-down umbrella, usually under eaves or in dense shrubs. Texas has several species, including the red wasp and the golden paper wasp. They defend the nest when disturbed but generally leave you alone while foraging.
Vespula & Dolichovespula species
The dangerous one. Yellowjacket colonies are far larger than paper wasp nests, and they aggressively defend a wide area around the nest. Around Houston they commonly nest underground, in wall voids, or inside abandoned structures — which is why hitting one with a lawnmower can trigger a mass defensive response.
Sceliphron caementarium & others
Solitary wasps that plaster mud tubes under eaves, in garages and attics, and along brick exteriors. They have no colony to defend and rarely sting people. Mud daubers are actually beneficial, since they provision their nests with spiders. They become a problem mainly when nests clog weep holes, vents, and mechanical penetrations.
Not every nest is an emergency. Location and species are what change the math.
A small paper wasp nest in a far corner of the yard, where nobody walks, is not much of a practical danger. Put that same nest above a door you use every day, a playground, or the patio table, and it’s a real sting risk — especially for anyone in the house with a venom allergy.
The Texas Department of State Health Services notes that anaphylaxis from insect venom is a medical emergency requiring immediate treatment with epinephrine. If someone in your household has a known venom allergy, nest removal is not a DIY project.
Yellowjackets in a wall void are their own category. The nest can keep growing until wasps chew through interior drywall, and a bad treatment drives the colony deeper into the structure — or into the rooms you’re living in. That one is worth a professional every time.
Houston-area colony cycles start earlier and end later than the standard advice assumes.
Our winters rarely get cold enough to wipe out overwintering queens, so the cycle starts early. Paper wasps begin building in March as queens come out of overwintering, and colonies hit their largest and most defensive stretch from June through September.
Yellowjackets peak in late summer and early fall. In a warm fall, colonies around Houston stay active into November or even December — well past the “first frost ends wasp season” rule of thumb that works in cooler climates. Mud dauber activity tracks the spider population, so a heavy spider summer means more mud nests on the brick.
That timing is why a residual treatment on eaves, soffits, and window frames in early spring pays off: treating while queens are still scouting for nest sites stops colonies before they’re big enough to be a problem, which is easier than dealing with them in August.
Species identification
Paper wasps, yellowjackets, and mud daubers each call for a different approach, so we identify the nest before we treat it.
Safe nest treatment
Protective equipment and professional products for nests in eaves, shrubs, wall voids, and the ground.
Nest removal
Taking the treated nest down so it doesn't draw other insects or invite rebuilding in the same spot.
Preventive perimeter
Residual treatment of eaves, soffits, and window frames so new queens don't establish nests there.
We handle every pest control job to the best of our abilities, and we're always ready to do more.
Tell us what's bugging you and request service online or by phone. We'll get you on the schedule fast.
Our trained experts identify the infestation and explain the extent of the problem in plain language.
We build a treatment plan customized to your home, your pests, and your schedule.
We get the job done and stand behind it, so you can finally enjoy life after bugs.
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We explain the extent of your pest problem in a language you'll understand, then provide a treatment plan customized for you.
Efficient, thorough inspections
All of our experts are trained to identify what infestation is present and how to combat it, and we start working as soon as we finish.
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Life After Bugs treats stinging insects across the greater Houston metro.
Find local coverage on our Houston pest control and Katy pest control pages, or add stinging-insect coverage to a year-round pest control plan. Dealing with something else outside? See our mosquito control and spider control services.
Yes. Life After Bugs is a local, family-owned wasp exterminator serving Houston, Katy, Richmond, Fulshear, and the surrounding communities. We treat paper wasp nests under eaves, yellowjacket colonies in the ground or in wall voids, and mud dauber nests on exterior walls. Every quote is free and no-obligation.
There's no flat fee. What it takes depends on the species, how big the colony is, and where the nest is — a small paper wasp nest under an eave is a very different job from a yellowjacket colony inside a wall. Call us or request service online and we'll put together a free, no-obligation quote.
A small, newly built paper wasp nest can often be handled by a homeowner at night with protective clothing and a jet-spray wasp aerosol. Large nests, ground-nesting yellowjackets, and any nest inside a wall void or confined space are worth handing to a professional. Anyone with a known venom allergy should not attempt removal at all.
That's usually a yellowjacket colony in a wall void, and it's the situation we'd most want to look at. The nest can keep expanding until wasps chew through interior drywall, and treating it wrong can drive the colony deeper into the structure or push wasps into your living space. The colony has to be located and treated correctly, then the entry point sealed once it's dead so the remaining nest material doesn't create a secondary pest problem.
Paper wasps start building in March as overwintered queens come out, and colonies are at their largest and most defensive from June through September. Yellowjackets peak in late summer and early fall, and in a warm fall they can stay active into November or December here — our winters rarely get cold enough to end the season the way they do further north.
They can. Paper wasps are drawn to places where a nest already worked out, and queens that survive the winter may return to the same eave or porch ceiling the next spring. Removing the nest material after treatment helps, and a residual treatment on eaves, soffits, and window frames in early spring — while queens are still scouting — reduces how many get established in the first place.
Tell us where the nest is and we'll get you a free, no-obligation quote. Wasp nest removal across Katy, Fulshear, Richmond & Houston, TX.
