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during our holiday we were being pesterd by wasps, both in and outside or cottage
My wife noticed them flying under the roof tiles. So being brave I lifted up the loft hatch and had a quick look. This is what I saw! Attachment 5017 In my line of work I see quite a few beasties cockroaches, tropical moths & butterflies, so i'm not particularly scared. But this freaked me out. One othe useless fact is they were German wasps, smaller but no less a threat than our own native wasp. The photo was taken after the pest man had nuked the nest ![]()
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Burn them
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I noticed the beginings of a wasps nest in the loft the other day. I share with a mate and its his house so i was sure to tell him about it as soon as he got in. He went outside and looked up at the roof for a bit and said...well i cant see many going in and out. I explained again that it was just the start of one (was about the size of a tennis ball) and it'd be best if he got rid of it now while he can before it got out of hand. His reply...i cant be bothered.
![]() I;m moving out anyway so its gonna be funny when he tells me about what a pain it was to get rid of in a few months time. The div.
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I remember a awesome topic a while back of the best ways of killing wasps/beas... turns out alot of the org are pyromaniacs
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Bubble...you clealry didnt come to the AR and see just how many pyros were having to be held back from the fire. There was a good reason we had a "fire team" otherwise half of essex might still be ablaze, lol.
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Having studied wasps very briefly, I can assure you that they are not all bad and they are also very beautiful. That nest was a cracker, such an amazing construction. They may annoy us, but wasps are beautiful animals and I for one do love them, even though they can be bad tempered and irritable little monsters.
I always feel it is such a shame that wasps can't coexist with us the way bees can. My Ex-Father in Law kept bees right up until he passed away. He was such a gentle man and his bees were equally docile. After his passing, my ex said we had to tell the bees because it is tradition. So she went and had a quiet moment with them. I don't know if they understood, but I know it helped her deal with her loss. The things we think of when we open a thread on here. |
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Poke it with a stick.
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wasps nests are incredible, when its dead, remove it and have a look, they are immense.
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During the night they were attracted by light in gaps around the windows into the loft space. Wasps do do good work in destroying other pests ![]() It's the 2nd time the cottage has had a wasps nest, but the other one was the size of a tennis ball and outside in a bush. This one was the size of a beach ball! Potentially 25,000 invaders ![]()
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