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What is this in my attic?

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  • jenny-wren wrote: »
    They're birch seeds. You must have a tree nearby.

    You can relax!

    Jenny-wren, full kudos to you sherlock. I do indeed and google leads me to believe you are spot on :-)
  • Is that white thing hanging from something? Could certainly be a wasp nest

    You can buy a spray that destroys it and the wasps.. I've used it in my shed before.
  • Is that white thing hanging from something? Could certainly be a wasp nest

    You can buy a spray that destroys it and the wasps.. I've used it in my shed before.

    yes the freaky white thing is hanging from the roof!
  • marc81
    marc81 Posts: 122 Forumite
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    We have a silver birch in the garden and these little !!!!!!s get EVERYWHERE! I remember dropping a panel under my dash in the car once to change my pollen filter and thousands of the things dropped out!
  • marc81 wrote: »
    We have a silver birch in the garden and these little !!!!!!s get EVERYWHERE! I remember dropping a panel under my dash in the car once to change my pollen filter and thousands of the things dropped out!

    I've only ever seen them in my attic.
  • yes the freaky white thing is hanging from the roof!
    Get some of this and spray from a distance.. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000TAY2EQ
  • EssexExile
    EssexExile Posts: 6,595 Forumite
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    It doesn't look anything like my wasp nests. But if it is one just leave it, they'll build somewhere else next year.
    Tall, dark & handsome. Well two out of three ain't bad.
  • Biggles
    Biggles Posts: 8,209 Forumite
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    Get some of this and spray from a distance.. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000TAY2EQ
    No, please don't. Two reasons:-

    1 They will have left the nest now and they don't return to the same one next year.

    2 To use that stuff, you need to be fairly close and get it into the entrance, then get the hell out, as they would be mad at you. Good luck with getting down the loft hatch before they get you! It should only be used outside.
  • jenny-wren wrote: »
    They're birch seeds. You must have a tree nearby.

    You can relax!

    I bet he won't relax when birch tree roots start coming through the bedroom ceiling. :D
  • Ebe_Scrooge
    Ebe_Scrooge Posts: 7,320 Forumite
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    Birch seeds, as everyone else has said. Bane of my bloody life every autumn, they get everywhere ! They blow into places you wouldn't believe.
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