Help! Wasps are nesting in my shed. They are building the nest in a really awkward place, on a high shelf in between some boxes of netting and a length of coiled up hosepipe. I noticed it yesterday after hearing a wierd rustling sound and seeing lots of wasps flying in and out.
Eurghh! It's really creepy...you can hear them moving about inside.
How to get rid of it? I can't seal up the shed to fumigate it as it's a bit dilapidated and there are big gaps round the door, and in the walls for that matter.
:( :o
I think Nippon (of ant killer fame) do a nest destroyer which is like expanding foam with an insecticide built in.
However IIRC you need to don protective clothing!!
http://www.dobbies.co.uk/acatalog/vitax-syn302-wasp-nest-destroyer-foam-300ml.html
Just use a stick to break up the nest - you'll be fine! ;)
Theres plenty of differant products out there to get rid of a wasps nest an angler would give his right arm for it wasp grubs make great fishing bait, but don't do what I did many moons ago when I had my first allotment I went and put my spade right through a wasps nest and ended up with over thirty stings on my back just glad that my car was near by, ;)
Get some wasp nest killer. Just make sure you use the right stuff; if you spray with ordinary insecticide the wasps deep inside will probably survive and the nest will recover.
Leave them alone if you can - they're catching all your aphids to feed the grubs. They're not interested in you until Sep/Oct when the new Queens leave the nest, then they have the rest of the year off until they're killed by the frosts. They won't return to the same nest.
Quote from: isbister on July 01, 2009, 08:13:52
Leave them alone if you can - they're catching all your aphids to feed the grubs. They're not interested in you until Sep/Oct when the new Queens leave the nest, then they have the rest of the year off until they're killed by the frosts. They won't return to the same nest.
Now that is what I call a good reply. :)
I've shared my shed with wasps several times and never been stung yet.
Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on July 01, 2009, 12:22:16
I've shared my shed with wasps several times and never been stung yet.
We haven't met Robert, but I am getting to like you more and more.
Quote from: isbister on July 01, 2009, 08:13:52
Leave them alone if you can - they're catching all your aphids to feed the grubs. They're not interested in you until Sep/Oct when the new Queens leave the nest, then they have the rest of the year off until they're killed by the frosts. They won't return to the same nest.
Really? that's brilliant news. If this is a 2009 only nest I don't mind nearly so much. I will leave them be for now (and try not to mind the creepy rustling). If they sting me though, it's war!!
Thankyou very much :)
Our window cleaner noticed we had a wasp nest in our bay window roof. they were gettting in through the a small gap betweeen the window and the facia. No problem i thought, so i masticed it up last night to stop them going in/out. there was about 20 hanging around last night and this morning before i went to work. I 've just had call from home, there s about 300 wasp in the front room (where the bay is)(they got in through a slightly open window and a simular number outside the window trying to get in. the inside ones have all been killed with spray, but where did they come from, there wasn't that many this morning????
they don't all come home at night! (little stop-outs) ;)
The queen dies about this time of year, and the nest breaks up. Result is, you get wasps wandering around, and they'll come through any crack.
Quote from: OllieC on June 29, 2009, 14:21:50
Just use a stick to break up the nest - you'll be fine! ;)
Now who's being cruel! ;D
Not just wanting to see people suffer you want to see the wasps suffer too. ;)
I've just read this post that a friend has done on her blog!
http://vegplotting.blogspot.com/2009/08/official-announcement-its-year-of-wasp.html
Quote from: electric landlady on July 01, 2009, 16:02:35
and try not to mind the creepy rustling)
we had one in our kitchen ceiling when we lived in a flat in brum - if you stood very quietly in the corner under the nest you could hear them munching the ceiling ;D
I also enjoy watching them carefully nibbling and rolling the surface of a piece of wood into little balls and flying off to their nest to carry on building. fascinating stuff!