Wasps eating our bench!

[Hoofy]

jon- said:

Simpo Two said:

seeby said:

Put a "NO WASPS ALLOWED" sign up

That's silly, wasps can't read. You need a sign with a picture of a wasp and a diagonal line through it.

Or both!

Idiot. They'd only obey the sign if they flew sideways. Do I have to think of everything?

[Campo]

Mmmm, benches. My favorite.

[HOGEPH]

Full instructions here.

http://youtu.be/Iiv4AbrRsww

[mybrainhurts]

Alternative instructions here ------->

[TheRealFingers99]

The strange thing is that they're eating teak (surely harder to digest?): you might try leaving the odd bit of broken pallet lying around, see what happens.

[TheEnd]

Well, they don't digest it, they just gather it in big gobfulls, head back home and spit it out.

Or did you lot think the wasps ordered in a ream of paper from officeworld to build a nest?

[TheRealFingers99]

I suppose a wasp gobful must be pretty small. But when you look at the nests, they look like paper.

Is there a wasp expert in the house?

[fttm]

REM Orange Crush at max volume , can of WD40 and a lighter , job jobbed .

[jmorgan]

Cover it and move it and offer a substitute, bit of un treated wood?

Give the woodwork a treatment (I know teak is one of the more resilient).

Spray area with an insecticide, though you perhaps do not want to eat off it for a while. We used to use Kybosh (??) when queen wasps were sniffing around air bricks.

[Sheepshanks]

Fake nests are supposed to keep them away.

[ianrb]

TheRealFingers99 said:

The strange thing is that they're eating teak (surely harder to digest?): you might try leaving the odd bit of broken pallet lying around, see what happens.

There is about 3 tons of chopped up firewood, a mixture of oak & beech, far closer to the nest than the bench, but they seem to be ignoring that. Although we don't try to sit on the pile of firewood, so maybe we just never spot them.

[carreauchompeur]

Sheepshanks said:

Fake nests are supposed to keep them away.

Link for purchase please

[Drogo]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Waspinator-Wasp-Deterrant-...

[seeby]

I think the OP should move house and buy a plastic bench ! Problem solved!

[Hoofy]

Drogo said:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Waspinator-Wasp-Deterrant-...

Reviews not good: http://amzn.to/1kTaOIq

[Sheepshanks]

Hoofy said:

Drogo said:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Waspinator-Wasp-Deterrant-...

Reviews not good: http://amzn.to/1kTaOIq

Reviews good: http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B0039P5J5O...