Wasps Nest

[raynaputi]

Okay, it's not actually a pet.

We just discovered that we have a wasps nest in our storage box by the back garden. We regularly have wasps here but we didn't know it's found a home in our home!

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[fred]

Those pest control guys will kill them all in about 5 mins..
100 pounds please! Talk about being stung!
Not sure if the council will still deal with them?
One way or another though...They gotta go.

[Steve.r]

Not easy to make friendly as pets Rayna. But a dollop of jam helps

[SimonH]

Certainly looks like a wasps next, as opposed to a honey bee's nest. Contact your local council and should sent someone out to get rid of it for a small fee. Unless it's not bothering you of course

[raynaputi]

Well, Keith just sprayed some "Combat Fly & Wasp Killer" and he said it's already dying. Poor little things..

[raynaputi]

Certainly looks like a wasps next, as opposed to a honey bee's nest. Contact your local council and should sent someone out to get rid of it for a small fee. Unless it's not bothering you of course

A one or two (or maybe a few) wasps and bees really don't bother me coz they don't usually go near me, but a nest?!?!?! I mean that will be loads! And I always go on that storage box because our recycling bin for boxes & cardboard is there.

[grahamw48]

I don't suppose kids are allowed to blow them up with a load of fireworks now...as we used to do.

[SimonH]

A one or two (or maybe a few) wasps and bees really don't bother me coz they don't usually go near me, but a nest?!?!?! I mean that will be loads! And I always go on that storage box because our recycling bin for boxes & cardboard is there.

Get onto the council and ask for pest control, depending on your local council they may charge or not (think I paid about £40 last year). They'll want to make sure that they are wasps and not honey bee's though, as honey bee's are protected.

[Arthur Little]

Well, Keith just sprayed some "Combat Fly & Wasp Killer" and he said it's already dying. Poor little things..

, Rayna ... what Keith has done might act as a short-term measure. But for SAFETY's sake I would strongly advise calling in Pest Control whose number can usually be found in 'Yellow Pages'.

[grahamw48]

Nah...just boot it and then run like hell.

[cheekee]

Nah...just boot it and then run like hell.

Bend it like Beckham....

[raynaputi]

Keith has managed to remove the nest now. A couple of wasps were going back to the nest so he removed it.

Oh, and he said it's definitely wasps nest.

[raynaputi]

I don't suppose kids are allowed to blow them up with a load of fireworks now...as we used to do.

We can't do that, we store the generator there and we got some petrol (I think) there too..hahahahaha

[Arthur Little]

Not easy to make friendly as pets Rayna. But a dollop of jam helps

... perhaps we should make this thread a "sticky", Steve!

[Terpe]

............Poor little things..

[Rory]

Sometime you just get them angry if you spray them. A few years ago some wasps thought they would start a nest in a bird box I put up in the garden. I covered the hole up with cardboard, all they did was eat through it.

Cost me £30 to get pest control out after that.

[alanp]

Ant powder is the best insecticide to use just puff it into the opening of the nest or where the wasps are going in to a gap. Do it at night so they are less active. Nests at this time of the year are getting bigger daily. A football size nest can have anything from 500 to 2000 wasps in it, depending of the species of wasp.

[SimonH]

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