Wasp Nest - how to get rid of it...

[Maz]

Hi

There's a wasp nest in my loft. Does anyone have experience of how to get rid of them? Most effective methods?

Is there wasp spray/foam you can get? Any advice most welcome.

Thanks

 

[accountantpete]

The slow way is 3 or 4 Jam jars half-filled with water.

 

[gary r]

My brother had a wasp nest in a large bush in the garden,it looked like a large papier mache (sp?) ball,the council wanted £50 to come and remove it,being a tight wad my brother approached the nest with a large old suitcase and shut the nest inside the case!!! he took it to the dump,we still laugh now wondering if a council worker opened that case to see what was inside (they always do!)

 

[asterix]

we still laugh now wondering if a council worker opened that case to see what was inside (they always do!)

Yes it is amusing in a Beano-ish sort of way, but other than the fact it is unpleasant to be stung some people are allergic and suffer very unpleasant reactions.

Council workers may be getting a bad press right now but they are just ordinary people trying to get along.

 

[ventoux50]

Yes it is amusing in a Beano-ish sort of way, but other than the fact it is unpleasant to be stung some people are allergic and suffer very unpleasant reactions.

Council workers may be getting a bad press right now but they are just ordinary people trying to get along.

Well I chortled when I read it can't say I spend all my day trying to be PC at the cost of a little mirth.



to answer the op's question - nip down to B&Q they sell a spray powder to deal with the little b***rs - all the instructions are included, I dosed one at the mother in laws and within a few hours they were all dead

 

[BrumJim]

to answer the op's question - nip down to B&Q they sell a spray powder to deal with the little b***rs - all the instructions are included, I dosed one at the mother in laws and within a few hours they were all dead

How many mother-in-laws do you have? With an apostrophe in there, it looks very much like you are a serial killer.....

 

[Globalti]

Once you've subdued the wasps get covered up and go up with a big plastic bag, take the horrible thing away and burn it. I hate wasp nests, my mother had one about 2 ft in diameter, I set fire to it but it wouldn't burn very well so eventually I broke it up, to find wasps still alive deep inside. I still shudder to think about it, it was like a cancer growing in the house.

 

[Spinney]

I paid about £35 a couple of years ago for someone from the council to deal with one in the eaves of my house. He squirted something nasty - but he had the full protective gear, and after he showed me where a few of them had stung him (i.e. his clothes) so enthusiastically they had actually left the sting in (which wasps don't normally do).

I'd be very wary of trying to do it myself...

 

[fossyant]

If you can get access to it, the foam spray works well - although it won't kill them all.

Wait till dark as they don't fly then.

I treated 2 nests with the foam - one was easy to reach, the second less so. The easy to reach nest - more or less got all of them, so was able to re-treat it and knock it down. 2nd was burried in ivy - so that took an attack with my jet wash. That said, some 'honeycombs' with the pupa remained, and I got stung removing the ivy as one or two buggers were still about.

If you can only see the entrance - i.e. flying in a brick gap, spray entrance with foam (again late on as there will be buggers queuing to land). Then sprinkle/squirt ant powder into the entrance, then the buggers will carry that in. That's how I got rid of one last year.

We've currently got one small nest in the eves of the house but I can't find it. I'm currently treating the entrance (when I remember) so that will get rid of them eventually.

 

[numbnuts]

Many years ago we had a wasps nest in the loft, I got two cans of wasp/fly spray and with some sticky tape held down the spray top and throw them into the loft, two days later no wasps.
I don't know about now but a few years back if you had a disabled person living with you the council would do it for free

 

[4F]

£ 45 with a local pest control firm. 2 Hours later and the stripey twits were no more.

 

[Maz]

Well, I went to BnQ and bought some spray foam. There were 3 nests up in the loft. 2 really small ones and one big mother. Good job i got a couple of cans of spray. I will douse them again tomorrow.

 

[sheddy]

If you've managed to hit the target properly the first time, there won't be any nest left.

 

[Maz]

If you've managed to hit the target properly the first time, there won't be any nest left.

That's what I was wondering - whether the foam 'dissolves' the nest or just sort of sits on top of it.

 

[fossyant]

The foam damages the structure of the nest - instead of being a hard wood pulp, it's like paper mache - and of course full of pesticide !