How to get rid of wasps.

Legacy_user

Our daughter had been complaining that there were some wasps in her room and we just thought it was because of it was summer.
However she is away for a few days and having ventured into her toom we have discovered several flying at the windows and several more dead on the floor. :eek:

We have a timber framed chalet bungalow and so there are doors in her bedroom leading to the eaves of the house and we reckon that the little blighters are in there. My DH has had a nosey and can hear some but could not see a nest.
So can anyone suggest how we get rid of them or who we can contact to remove them for us. Inexpensively of course

tight_arze

There is stuff you can buy in B&Q to spray in the nest which kills them.

In the past I have put a few smoke pellets in them and smoked them out. Wouldn't recommend this for a nest indoors though.

BOBS

Copious amounts of fly killer in suspected area.

elliemoo

We found a wasps nest in our attic at the end of this summer, and they are still flying in and out of it. My hubby has used numerous tins of the killer stuff from B&Q, it is supposed to disslove the nest, we have also used the stuff that is supposed to destroy them from the inside out, taken into the nest by the wasps themselves but they are still living. Ours is in a really tight spot, in the cavity wall right at the top of the eaves.

I would recommend a professional to do the job, contact your local council and they will advise.

onetruevoice

As we are now in November, the wasps will die soon because of the temperature change.

My advice is if you can live with your little lodgers for a few weeks more, they will soon die.

Wasps never return to a nest the next year so you will be left with an extinct nest which can be removed safely next year.

OTV

System

Thanks for the advice.
DH rang the council who said they normally charged £40 for their pest control officer to come and sort the problem but he was on the sick so they recommended another company who charged £50 and came today to see if they could find the nest.
They had no luck finding the nest but verified that they were flying around in the loft and the eaves in my daughters room. They think they got in via a gap in the roofing tiles where one has been moved by the winds last year. So they liberally douses the area with some sort of powder and basically said the same as some of you guys, in that, the wasps will die off soon and not return to the old nest.
Given that they couldn't find the nest they did say to call them back in a few days if there doesnt; seem to be any reduction in the number we find.