According to experts the summer may bring with it a wasp epidemic. The heat-wave is partly responsible for energizing these little menacing yellow and black creatures.

The summer season is not just awaited and enjoyed by us humans but the wasps equally get activated on these long scorching days and clammy evenings. Hot weather is the ideal temperature and condition for the wasps to breed. It is also the perfect weather for other insects to survive on which the wasps feed on.

As per Rentokil’s technical director Savvas Othon, the last year has been very rewarding for the wasps because of many wasp nests left untreated due to recession.

Over the last five-week period in the early summer the company has already noticed a 231 percent rise in wasp injuries. It says, “With more warm weather expected and wasps' nests growing in size as the season progresses, we expect the number of wasp-related inquiries to rise substantially.”

It is expected that in a good year like this for the wasps, the queen keeps on laying eggs and the wasp colonies keep getting bigger and bigger.