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Wasps nest found on property we're buying - is seller responsible for sorting?

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  • Mojisola
    Mojisola Posts: 35,571 Forumite
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    jimmy_cricket wrote: »
    Just out of interest, where do they go when they vacate the nest?

    The new queens find someone to hibernate over the winter - the rest just die.

    Early in the year, depending on the weather, the young queens, who are larger than the average wasp, will scout around and find a good place to start a new nest.
  • jimmy_cricket
    jimmy_cricket Posts: 382 Forumite
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    Mojisola wrote: »
    The new queens find someone to hibernate over the winter - the rest just die.

    Early in the year, depending on the weather, the young queens, who are larger than the average wasp, will scout around and find a good place to start a new nest.

    Thank you, fascinating
  • KingS6
    KingS6 Posts: 400 Forumite
    How about one of those dummy nests? The wasps will think there is a rival colony on the scene.
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    http://www.wasp-removal.com/wasp-lifecycle.php

    Bing!

    and again:

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Waspinator-Twin-Pack-Wasps-control/dp/B001UABS2S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471213810&sr=8-1&keywords=dummy+wasp+nest
  • MistyZ
    MistyZ Posts: 1,820 Forumite
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    I'm fighting the wasps' corner. Poor blighters move house every year. Have some pity.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    MistyZ wrote: »
    I'm fighting the wasps' corner. Poor blighters move house every year. Have some pity.
    Wasps are GOOD. Wasps are your friend.

    Perhaps not as obviously so as bees, but they do have a very definite job, and the world would be a much worse place without them. Live and let live.
  • Mojisola
    Mojisola Posts: 35,571 Forumite
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    AdrianC wrote: »
    Wasps are GOOD. Wasps are your friend.

    Perhaps not as obviously so as bees, but they do have a very definite job, and the world would be a much worse place without them. Live and let live.

    Although they can be a nuisance later in the summer when they start looking for sugar-based foods, wasps are hunters for most of the season and collect aphids, spiders, flies, spiders, etc. to feed their young.
  • sheff6107
    sheff6107 Posts: 451 Forumite
    A wasp queen fell off the ceiling into my lap last Christmas. That freaked me out big time!
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    sheff6107 wrote: »
    A wasp queen fell off the ceiling into my lap last Christmas. That freaked me out big time!
    Probably gave her a bit of a surprise, too.
  • Smodlet
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    Mickygg wrote: »
    We get wasps nests in our loft. Not big ones mind, but they are there. Well they were, I just had to take them down and look at them once the wasps had gone of course.
    Amazing really.
    But no issue whatsoever. If it's big and in the way just get a wasp person in, won't cost much. If that's all you have to worry about then sounds like you are on to a good property.

    A wasp person :rotfl: A White, Anglo-Saxon Pest controller, mickygg?
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