HUGE FLIPPIN WASPS NEST

MA

Just thought I'd add this note. I live in an old victorian cottage and get wasps each and every year - and I hate them. Luckily I have a friend who has a company that does wasp extermination!!!! Very money saving, cost me two cans of coke and a £1 each for his two kids who came with him. Any way not on here to gloat about that, but to warn/advise people who do get them inside the house/eaves/loft space.

Where I live we get particularly nasty wasps (apparently!). Put it this way, 3 weeks ago no wasps - go on holiday and come back and they've eaten through the ceiling and the bedroom floor is absolutely covered with dead wasps - SCREAMS LOUDLY thinking they could have done it when I was in bed.

Anyway, my friend advises NOT to remove the actual nest, but just to exterminate the wasps - he squirts some powder in which kills them - as they will never return to a dead nest. Basically I think the theory is if you remove the nest, you just create a vacancy for the next lot of wasps. I now have a selection of dead wasps nests - like a ghost town - in the eaves of the house. Ah well, the eaves are nearly full now so hopefully I won't get them next year. She says crossing her fingers rapidly. Hope this helps someone.

16011996

just had my granddads done by the council, they wouldn't do it for free even tho he on benefits and 86 and practically blind. so some areas mite not do it for free. like here

droopsnout

I dealt with one recently. The little perishers were building the nest inside a tall cardboard box with some thin film polystyrene packaging material inside.

I noticed the wasps were always going in and out through the same hole into the box. I decided (as a complete beginner) to spray garden insecticide into the box. It worked. The wasps inside died, and the rest of the "family" didn't come back to finish the job.

I felt really guilty, though. The nest was a complete work of art, utterly beautiful, as it was marbled in shades of beige and cream as they'd mixed bits of cardboard and polystyrene packaging.

I've kept the nest as a talking point, but it's a bit whiffy!!

Paul1_2

If you think of sorting a nest yourself, just have a look at the kit the professionals use in a confined space! We had one in our loft, meaning that when the wasps got angry you really had to stand your ground, or face a fall through the ceiling.

It's worth pricing private companies, in our area we found they were much cheaper than the council and they operate weekends/same day, which the council doesn't.

If we hadn't got ours sorted on a Sunday morning, my other half and child were ready to leave :-X

Paul1 8)