Steve Austin
The Marmalade Kid
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- Mlehworld
no. A few will live. The foam stuff squirts about 6 foot, and apparently you can spray it near the entrance and the workers will share it with their fellow wasps.
Wasp nest - what to do?
- Thread starter Danny
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purplepolly
New Member
- Location
- my house
Danny said:
no. but if it's not a big danger right now it might be safer to remove it in winter when they're dormant.
Seeing as everyone's going all touchey-feely-Ghandi about this, just do it the other way.
Start with one wasp. Chat to it. Give it a biscuit. Reel it in.
The ask questions about life in the nest. The fudalism, the lack of prestige and reward for the Ordinary Workers.
Get it to bring some of its mates to the next meeting, and continue the discussion. Mention how much more egalitarian the Bees have it.
Step by step, you'll engineer a revolt in the nest, violent clashes with the Royalists, culminating in a mass Wako-style suicide movement.
Then just sweep it up and put it in the bin.
Start with one wasp. Chat to it. Give it a biscuit. Reel it in.
The ask questions about life in the nest. The fudalism, the lack of prestige and reward for the Ordinary Workers.
Get it to bring some of its mates to the next meeting, and continue the discussion. Mention how much more egalitarian the Bees have it.
Step by step, you'll engineer a revolt in the nest, violent clashes with the Royalists, culminating in a mass Wako-style suicide movement.
Then just sweep it up and put it in the bin.
purplepolly
New Member
- Location
- my house
Bigtwin said:
Bees are vegetarian, wasps are carnivores. Ideally then, you would have to persuade them to give up meat.
accountantpete
OAP
You could try identifying the entrance and then stuffing a few Jeyes Fluid soaked rags in the hole - they don't particulary like the smell and may move off elsewhere. This did the trick on a nest we had - although I did also resort to thinning out their numbers with jam jars/water.
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Yes they will. AFAIK they'll eventually vacate by Autumn and the nest will never be used again.Danny said:
mr_cellophane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Essex
I had a swam nest in a bird box in my garden. I got the wheelbarrow outtook the box off the wall poped it in the barrow, poured some petrol over it and chucked a match on it.
Had nests in the loft a couple of times, just call in a specialist to spray it.
Had nests in the loft a couple of times, just call in a specialist to spray it.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
From:http://harrierpestprevention.com/2009/01/how-to-kill-wasp-nests/
In the late autumn the nest starts to produce the new queens to continue the cycle into the following year and when the time is ripe the young queens leave the nest and mate before hibernating. The rest of the colony dies and the nest is never used again.
and
It is inadvisable to allow a wasps’ nest to remain untreated as the resultant queens produced by the nest will invariably nest nearby in the following spring resulting in many more nests the following year. For this reason several nests are often clustered together in a locality.
In the late autumn the nest starts to produce the new queens to continue the cycle into the following year and when the time is ripe the young queens leave the nest and mate before hibernating. The rest of the colony dies and the nest is never used again.
and
It is inadvisable to allow a wasps’ nest to remain untreated as the resultant queens produced by the nest will invariably nest nearby in the following spring resulting in many more nests the following year. For this reason several nests are often clustered together in a locality.
jnb
Veteran
- Location
- In a corner
Going way back to the first question...
Do you need to get rid of them? Wasps are (despite their reputation and much misunderstanding by people who have never bothered to see what they do) beneficial.
Danny said:
Do you need to get rid of them? Wasps are (despite their reputation and much misunderstanding by people who have never bothered to see what they do) beneficial.
they are not that misunderstood! if you annoy them with noise or disturb the nest yourself they will swarm and come for you.
the council will remove them for about £30.00. don't hesitate to give them a call, because once a nest is established they will come back every year and just add to it. they removed one from a building over the road from me that had been there for 6 years and it filled 8 bin liners!
with regards to the partying neighbours... it wouldn't be very nice for them to have a swarm after them so i would get it dealt with, but also it might be a good idea, once you have had it removed, to tell them that you still have a nest and noise disturbance could make them swarm and come after them. that should sort out your little noise problem.
the council will remove them for about £30.00. don't hesitate to give them a call, because once a nest is established they will come back every year and just add to it. they removed one from a building over the road from me that had been there for 6 years and it filled 8 bin liners!
with regards to the partying neighbours... it wouldn't be very nice for them to have a swarm after them so i would get it dealt with, but also it might be a good idea, once you have had it removed, to tell them that you still have a nest and noise disturbance could make them swarm and come after them. that should sort out your little noise problem.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
I once got a wasp caught on my eyelid... 
It stung me on the eyelid and got its stinger caught, and was buzzing about like a mad thing from madland. My daughter still does an impression of me "dancing" while I tried to get the fecker off me.
It stung me on the eyelid and got its stinger caught, and was buzzing about like a mad thing from madland. My daughter still does an impression of me "dancing" while I tried to get the fecker off me.
