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Opened the shed to-day to find a wasp nest
Any info on safe removal as I dont fancy forking out £80 for the council to remove it or just knocking it down and having a few hundred pi55ed off wasps attacking me
That kit looks good for getting rid of them if you wanna brave doing it yourself, i had one in a hole in my driveway and just bought some destroyer foam, filled up the hole with and put a brick over the hole so no wasps could get out.
In the shed? How often do you go in? Are there any wasps actually IN the shed, or is the nest in there, and the entry/exit outside?
You can see where I'm going with this.............do you NEED to kill them? They do a damn good job at garden pest control and if you don't annoy them, they won't annoy you.
Last year I had one in the roofspace above the outhouse, just next to the kitchen window. I could see them coming and going from around april until late october, early Novemeber. A FEW got into the house and were ushered out or killed. Probably less than 20 in all. The nest is not there this year. We used the other window while they were there.
I also had a HORNET'S nest up one of the chimneys in the French house. Now THOSE girls are some serious sh*t, they WILL attack you, and will come after you once they have decided you are a threat. Get stung by one and you know you've been hit. More than two stings is a life-threat. We had the fireplace blocked off, so I made sure none could get into the house and ignored the ones going in and out of the top of the chimney. They have gone this year.
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I had them going in under the roof-line of the Dorma window right above where I'm sitting now. Started about 2-3 weeks ago. Fortunatley they weren't flying around in the loft. To be fair they kept themselves to themselves, but I hated the continual buzzing and could hear them moving about up there making their nest, so I eventually decided that enough was enough and called in local pest control last week.
He said it was the first wasps nest of the season for him and estimated 3000 - 5000 wasps in there + the queen bitch.
Anyway he climbed up the ladder and poked his pole about to spray them with powdered insecticide. As he couldn't find the exact hole they were using it was all a bit hit-and-miss and he half-expected to have to come back a couple of days later for a second try. Not so, he was here at 4pm last Tuesday afternoon and all was quiet and back to normal by Wednesday morning!
£51.75 inc VAT. Well worth getting rid of the f*ckers.
NB: they never go back to the same nest apparently.
Been back in the shed to-day at the nest is growing day by day
Its attached to the wooden side of the shed and the wasps appear to be getting in from the outside via a gap as the shed is made of overlap.
I'm in the shed quite a lot but yesterday was the first time i noticed it.
TBH they are not bothering me but its a little unsettling with them buzzing around, they have to go!!
Dont laugh about the petrol option the thought had crossed my mind but sense prevailed in the end
I'm not sure if the nest in in its early stages as their are not too many around, I was very tempted to give it a poke with a very long stick and run like feck but again sense prevailed.
I'll get a pic up of the nest then perhaps you wasp terminator experts can advise further
When I was a Kid there was a wasp nest in bush in my parents garden. Made great target practice for my catapult, and then run like Fcuk.
There is a bees nest in my back garden at the moment but its out of the way so I'm going to leave it for now. In the shed sounds a bit too close for comfort though, you will know about it if you knock it off the wall!
We seem to get at least two in the loft every year.
Tend to leave them be most years unless they're in an awkward place - like last year when they set up right over the top of the loft hatch and regularly started crawling into our bedroom much to mine and the OH's chagrin!
Just don't make the mistake I did: One night (to make sure they were all safely tucked up for the night) I carefully spread dustsheets under the loft hatch just in case, placed the ladder, shook the can of wasp killer foam (a bit like that silly string stuff), climbed the ladder and, as per the instructions, fired the foam at the nest entrance hole, then proceeded to liberally spray the nest as directed.
Question for the class - what's a wasp nest made of? That's right - paper. And what happens to paper when it gets wet? Correct Timmy, it tears!
Imagine the look on my face as the nest (luckily it was new, so only grapefruit sized) ripped free of the rafters and shot past me on the ladder to splatter onto the dust sheets below!
What do you do when your retreat is cut off by a surprise move by the enemy? That's it - fight your way out! More of the can was fired down the ladder at the recumbent nest, followed by a flying leap over the last 3 rungs.
Luckily the stuff in that can was strong - there were only a few wasps still to be seen twitching in the wreckage of their home - which was unceremoniously scooped up, bagged, and stuffed in the bin!
So - beware the laws of gravity and thin, wet paper!
I had a wasp nest break through my bedroom ceiling at the weekend, my bedroom was full of wasps, and when i say full i mean thousands of the blighters, i could hear a ticking sound coming from my bedroom ceiling, so when i got up i had a listen and could hear it again, i gave the ceiling a gentle tap with my hand to see if the ticking would stop and my hand went straight through it and thousands of angry wasps flooded out, i managed to beat a hasty retreat shutting the door on my way out of the room, got stung a bit but i was very lucky that i was right by the door at the time, so my advice is, if you have a wasp nest in your loft or you see wasps going up under your roof tiles ect get a pest controller out pronto, I called someone to come out and deal with the little blighters, after spending three hours phoning numbers from the Thompson local, i managed to find a very helpful man who was here within an hour, all the others we tried said they cant come until Monday, some said they would phone back in a few minutes and we never got a return call from any of them, anyway the nest in the ceiling was huge, (his words not mine) they had eaten away a large area of the ceiling and would have eaten their way right through within the next few hours, and could have filled the room whilst we were in bed asleep, so me tapping the ceiling and breaking through into the nest was a blessing in disguise, so do yourself a favour if you have a nest get it sorted asap.
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I was in a garden center to-day and picked up a can of wasp nest destroyer, yep thats what it's called.
It Say's 'coat the nest after dusk with a thick layer of foam from the can and leave for a few days'
So, I'll be giving it a go later, I must admit I'm a touch nervous especially after reading the post from Spider luckily I'm at ground level and will have my escape route well and truly planned out.
Wish me luck
I took a few pic's of the nest this afternoon, its growing by the day to give you an idea of size the planks of wood are 5".
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Prop the door open and blast it with a jet washer.
Make sure someone is filming it cause the £250 from You've Been Framed will go someway to help ease the pain of a 1000 stings
Gave the nest a good coat of foam which took all of about 10 sec's and not a wasp in sight You should have seen me I had tracksuit bottoms on as I did not fancy anything up the leg a thick gortex coat with elasticated waist, sleeves, neck and hood gloves and safety goggles, I was taking nothing to chance
I waited until it was dark to cut my chances of a reprisal attack and the operation went well
Just got to give it time now and see what happens.
Prop the door open and blast it with a jet washer.
Make sure someone is filming it cause the £250 from You've Been Framed will go someway to help ease the pain of a 1000 stings
Been there, done that wont be doing it again
Tried it with a hosepipe when I was a kid, the result was a painful one
I had a wasp nest break through my bedroom ceiling at the weekend, my bedroom was full of wasps, and when i say full i mean thousands of the blighters, i could hear a ticking sound coming from my bedroom ceiling, so when i got up i had a listen and could hear it again, i gave the ceiling a gentle tap with my hand to see if the ticking would stop and my hand went straight through it and thousands of angry wasps flooded out, i managed to beat a hasty retreat shutting the door on my way out of the room, got stung a bit but i was very lucky that i was right by the door at the time, so my advice is, if you have a wasp nest in your loft or you see wasps going up under your roof tiles ect get a pest controller out pronto, I called someone to come out and deal with the little blighters, after spending three hours phoning numbers from the Thompson local, i managed to find a very helpful man who was here within an hour, all the others we tried said they cant come until Monday, some said they would phone back in a few minutes and we never got a return call from any of them, anyway the nest in the ceiling was huge, (his words not mine) they had eaten away a large area of the ceiling and would have eaten their way right through within the next few hours, and could have filled the room whilst we were in bed asleep, so me tapping the ceiling and breaking through into the nest was a blessing in disguise, so do yourself a favour if you have a nest get it sorted asap.
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Christ! Never tap at the noise! You are lucky to get away with a few stings!
I do this for a living and i wouldn't treat a nest without proper equipment, it only takes one sting to kill you if you are allergic to the venom. Theres no way of knowing till you get stung.
Leave it to the guys with the proper gear
Or if near to gloucester/oxford drop me a pm and i'll do it cheap
Christ! Never tap at the noise! You are lucky to get away with a few stings!
I do this for a living and i wouldn't treat a nest without proper equipment, it only takes one sting to kill you if you are allergic to the venom. Theres no way of knowing till you get stung.
Leave it to the guys with the proper gear
Or if near to gloucester/oxford drop me a pm and i'll do it cheap
The £6 can of wasp nest destroyer was a result for me, I guess I got lucky this time
Was sorted with by a can of lynx and a lighter and a good pair of trainers.....I wouldn't advise this with a shed, unless it has good insurance and you don't need to go into any great detail on the claim form.
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Wasp nest in the garden shed!!
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especially after reading the post from Spider
You should have seen me I had tracksuit bottoms on as I did not fancy anything up the leg a thick gortex coat with elasticated waist, sleeves, neck and hood gloves and safety goggles, I was taking nothing to chance
