View Full Version : Wasps nest - need to get shot of, PDQ
I've discovered we've got 2 wasps nests in the house. One of them is behind an airbrick, I can see the buggers flying in and out. The other is by the window - they crawl in and out of a small gap in the mortar by the side of the window frame.
How best to get rid?
Quiff Wichard
02-07-06, 09:56 PM
there's only one way to get rid of a wasp ..
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Professional people to fumigate them? I don't advise annoying the wasps yourself.
there's only one way to get rid of a wasp ..
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Did you leave something out? :roll: :wink:
Anyway I need to get rid of a few thousand
Poke 'em with a stick :D
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Of course this is only valid if you can run 100m in 5 seconds!!
Safest way is to get the council in.
chris
Wasps are a relation of the ant so if you are feeling really brave get a good dose of ant powder around the entrance to the nest.
Get the local council?
Correct. Call their Pest Control section. They will inject powder into the nest that will kill the wasps and stop it being recollonised.
PM me is you want more details.
Quiff Wichard
02-07-06, 10:19 PM
LOL -
OK ED for you and you only--
it was a play on a jasper carrot sketch !!
tigersaw
02-07-06, 10:20 PM
Wait till sundown when they are all dopey and going to bed, spray ant powder all around the entrances. A good dose of airosol wasp killer in the holes helps too!
I've got one of those 10,000 volt tennis racquet things, wasps are fun :D
wasps are fun :D
Not when you react badly to their sting theyre not. Especially as a mate had a nest in her house and one was on my neck while I was dozing so I slapped what was tickling my neck in my sleep. To say that was the fastest Ive ever woken up is an understatement.
Seriously, call in the council pest control people or a private company specialising in their removal.
RingDing
03-07-06, 06:29 AM
Unless they are in a place that causes a direct conflict with you, near a doorway into the house etc. then I'd leave them be. They are some of natures best clearer uppers (technical term!). If you do want rid then the council is the best place to start.
Two nests is just greedy though!
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wheelnut
03-07-06, 07:01 AM
I had some in my old digs in Banbury. We got the council out and when they eventually got intio the attic there were over 300kg of dead bodies.
Thats over 1/4 tonne of wasps in my roof space
Get the council,
Or do as Quiff said :D
pour petrol on the nest and then light a match, guaranteed to work. :lol: :lol:
Daryl :lol:
Marshall
03-07-06, 07:42 AM
pour petrol on the nest and then light a match, guaranteed to work. :lol: :lol:
Daryl :lol:
garanteed to work
timwilky
03-07-06, 07:54 AM
pour petrol on the nest and then light a match, guaranteed to work. :lol: :lol:
Daryl :lol:
Yup done that when the nest is in the ground. and got stung for my troubles, brother got stung on the lip and ended up with a face like a balloon and a visit to hospital.
I had a nest under my sons bedroom floor. buggers were getting in from a small hole in the front porch. called out the council who sprayed there stuff. but a week later there was evidence of wasps so I ended up ripping up the floor near to the porch. No the nest was about 2 ft from where the entrance hole was. got some nest killer foam from B&Q gave it a good spraying. put the nest in a bin liner and demanded without luck my money back from the council for the initial call out.
also had bees that have picked out the motar and nested within the cavity wall. council managed to sort them out
THe one by the window, could you no just point up the whole and seal them in ?
Normally I'd agree with RingDing but if their causing you a problem.
Unless they are in a place that causes a direct conflict with you, near a doorway into the house etc. then I'd leave them be. They are some of natures best clearer uppers (technical term!). If you do want rid then the council is the best place to start.
Two nests is just greedy though!
P.
See, my girlfriend says that every insect has a use else they wouldn't be here.
What do they clear up, RingDing.. Enlighten me! :wink:
They're nasty little f**kers, really
northwind
03-07-06, 10:11 AM
See, my girlfriend says that every insect has a use else they wouldn't be here.
Yup, but sometimes their use is something like "spread malaria" "damage scottish highlands' tourist industry" "chase small children"
Ceri JC
03-07-06, 10:22 AM
A couple of summers back some mates accidentally (no one had any idea it was there) hit a wasps nest (they were play-fighting and one of them knocked it). The wasps went absolutely mental. I was just stood nearby, but for some reason they chose to go after me rather than the lads who did it! Some of them managed to get under my clothes and I got stung to bits; about 8/9 stings all on/near my left arm. Aside from the pain, my arm was a bit numb and weak for 12 hours or so, it was as though the poison had mildly paralysed it.
Marshall
03-07-06, 10:27 AM
See, my girlfriend says that every insect has a use else they wouldn't be here.
Yup, but sometimes their use is something like "chase small children"
sounds like a good use to me
*waiting for taxi and gets ready for torrent of abuse from members with children*
RingDing
03-07-06, 05:25 PM
What do they clear up, RingDing.. Enlighten me! :wink:
All sorts! At a wedding last year I couldn't quite manage all of my quota of the buffet. I spent a good couple of minutes watching a wasp carefully cut out a little bit of the ham I'd left and fly off with it, returning about 10 minutes later to carry on. They are a gardeners friend as well as will take many garden pests.
also had bees that have picked out the motar and nested within the cavity wall. council managed to sort them out
:shock: They were most likely Red Mason bees or a similar relative. These little fellas have a hard job finding a home to live and won't do you any harm. See http://www.insectpix.net/ for more information.
Let's all live in harmony with nature man. Mother earth is our friend! :smt033
P.
Agree with Tim, killer foam works wonders — killed the nest under my garden shed in less then 24 hours.
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amarko5
03-07-06, 08:43 PM
Let's all live in harmony with nature man. Mother earth is our friend! :smt033
P.
ED when you have removed the nest send it to ring ding :lol:
kwak zzr
03-07-06, 09:04 PM
wait for them to leave the nest after summer if they arnt causing a problem then remove it, wasps will come back to old nests tho so if you really need to put an end to them then poison is the only way. i'm sure a neighbour of mine paid £80 last year to the local council to rid one nest.
RingDing
03-07-06, 09:11 PM
ED when you have removed the nest send it to ring ding :lol:
:D
Peter Henry
04-07-06, 11:31 AM
WASPS? I am surprised Akbar has not popped in to pass comment! :P
I think he might find that a little difficult :wink: .
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Peter Henry
04-07-06, 11:40 AM
Greg...Nudge,nudge wink,wink and all that! :wink: :P
creamerybutter
04-07-06, 12:15 PM
Wasps built a nest in my bike cover while it was in the corner of the car port thing at my old flat. I needed to get the cover out and didn't know they were there so I dragged it out and noticed the wasp after running away and hiding I dropped a slab on the cover as it was now in the middle of the garden and turned the hose on it. the ones that weren't crushed got drowned. I bloody hate the things.
Called the Council, they have a backlog. Seems it's a good year for wasps :roll: I said 'I know mate, there's a few thousand in my house'
RingDing I shall take great pleasure in sending you a package :wink:
I came home from work one day to find my bedroom full of wasps, 100's of them. They had nested in the chimney and were flying out of the fireplace. Went in and got a peice of wood into the top of the fireplace, opened window and left for a few hours... then went in with a few cans of wasp spray. :D all fine.
I came home from work one day to find my bedroom full of wasps, 100's of them. They had nested in the chimney and were flying out of the fireplace. Went in and got a peice of wood into the top of the fireplace, opened window and left for a few hours... then went in with a few cans of wasp spray. :D all fine.
Hey you sound like the person I need :lol:
Peter Henry
05-07-06, 12:44 PM
Ed from past comments of your failed meals,perhaps firing your barby up might smoke them out for you? :P :P :P
cyphertheory
05-07-06, 03:10 PM
i have a terrible phobia of wasps and bees, so imagine the sheer terror i had when i was 12 to have them nesting in the celing directly above my head!, my parents got the council in, but i darnt go into my room for days after.
ive never been stung (run away too fast lol) so i have no idea where my fear comes from
Peter Henry
05-07-06, 03:22 PM
I really hate wasps with a vengeance. This all stems from a day when I was a kid and visiting a local park to sail my new model yacht on the kids paddling pool. A group of lads came running out of some bushes in a rather excited manner which obviously caught my attention.
I wandered over,(hey I was about 6 at the time) and in to the bushes to walk right in to a crazed swarm of wasps whose nest the other kids had just disturbed.
I was wearing just shorts and they stung virtually every piece of flesh they could see. Bloody agony I can tell you. :?
I really hate wasps with a vengeance. This all stems from a day when I was a kid and visiting a local park to sail my new model yacht on the kids paddling pool. A group of lads came running out of some bushes in a rather excited manner which obviously caught my attention.
I wandered over,(hey I was about 6 at the time) and in to the bushes to walk right in to a crazed swarm of wasps whose nest the other kids had just disturbed.
I was wearing just shorts and they stung virtually every piece of flesh they could see. Bloody agony I can tell you. :?
Now you can see why I don't want the buggers in my house :evil:
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