Wasp nest in loft - removal?
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Wasp's nests at this time of year should be empty. Only new queens survive over winter. It's a bit worrying if you've still got live wasps in the loft; I wouldn't want a loft full of queens waiting to build new nests in the spring.
They don't move into old nests, but they do sometimes like to build on top of them. When I was a kid, we once dug up a nest for fish bait, and found a football sized live nest built on the front of a portable TV sized mass of old dead nests.
I'd have removed the dead nests and sprayed everywhere with domestic fly spray to kill any overwintering queens.
They don't move into old nests, but they do sometimes like to build on top of them. When I was a kid, we once dug up a nest for fish bait, and found a football sized live nest built on the front of a portable TV sized mass of old dead nests.
I'd have removed the dead nests and sprayed everywhere with domestic fly spray to kill any overwintering queens.
pest control......only way
don't try anything yourself & stay out of the loft
if you try and get out of the loft quickly there's a good chance you'll fall through the ceiling......not fun (i know someone that has)
.....
i used to fit loft insulation for a living
i once did a survey on a loft, heard some buzzing while up ther & got chased of the loft by a wasp
had a look outside around the gutter of the roof and there was a regular stream of wasps coming & going
told the house owner that the wasps had to be dealt with before we could do her loft
anywho......she got it sorted & when i went back to finish the survey, the woman said that the pest control fella told her that the nest in her loft was the biggest he'd ever seen!!!
good job i ran like a girl when i did
don't try anything yourself & stay out of the loft
if you try and get out of the loft quickly there's a good chance you'll fall through the ceiling......not fun (i know someone that has)
.....
i used to fit loft insulation for a living
i once did a survey on a loft, heard some buzzing while up ther & got chased of the loft by a wasp
had a look outside around the gutter of the roof and there was a regular stream of wasps coming & going
told the house owner that the wasps had to be dealt with before we could do her loft
anywho......she got it sorted & when i went back to finish the survey, the woman said that the pest control fella told her that the nest in her loft was the biggest he'd ever seen!!!
good job i ran like a girl when i did
I like wasps but this is the time of the year queeny is out looking for a nest. You may see one coming and going for a while but she has laid her eggs and waiting for them to hatch. Then its many wasps back and fore. Queeny gets on with the egg business and workers take over. Any sniffing around the house, get them now before the family gets too large.
Not very helpful, but according to "Animal Control" when I had a largish one in a tree. American wasps do not reuse an old nest, but Europeon ones do.
No I did not misspell European, it is my preffered spelling. (peon)
So get rid of the nest.
Use a proffessional and get some sort of time warranty on the service.
No I did not misspell European, it is my preffered spelling. (peon)
So get rid of the nest.
Use a proffessional and get some sort of time warranty on the service.
I had a mahoosive great big thing in the corner of the loft, it looked like one of the eggs in the Alien films anyway I went up one weekend dressed in every item of clothing I could find complete with motorcyle gloves a rapist mask and a crash helmet to give it a dusting with "wasp killer" there were no signs of any living ones but I didn't want to risk it. Went back a week later having got all dressed up again and can honestly say it was one of the most arse puckering moments of my life as I poked it with a broom. Anyway huge anti climax as it all fell apart and got shovelled up into a bin bag quite easily thus saving 90 quid, besides it gave my mrs huge laughs from the bottom of the ladder as roughy toughy mel pranced around like a girl scarred of a few wasps.
I really, really am a girl when it comes to wasps.
About 12 years ago I was staying with a German family for a couple of weeks on an exchange visit. We used to eat meals on their verandah, on a sturdy plastic table. Bearing in mind the weather was pleasant.
There were always a few wasps buzzing around, which did upset me somewhat. However, one day I looked under the table to find a football-sized nest. UNDER THE TABLE!! Naturally, I shat myself, and the father of the family decided to take action. This boiled down to using a fecking VACUUM CLEANER!
Naturally this did not go according to plan and a big cloud of the buggers escaped from his cunning trap. The sight of this large German man waving the lance around his head trying to suck them up in flight was, I am ashamed to say, rather amusing but buttock-clenching at the same time. He didn't get stung TOO badly though...
If I could be confident there was one way in and out of the nest I would probably see fit to fire up the Dyson beast though, it has to be said...
About 12 years ago I was staying with a German family for a couple of weeks on an exchange visit. We used to eat meals on their verandah, on a sturdy plastic table. Bearing in mind the weather was pleasant.
There were always a few wasps buzzing around, which did upset me somewhat. However, one day I looked under the table to find a football-sized nest. UNDER THE TABLE!! Naturally, I shat myself, and the father of the family decided to take action. This boiled down to using a fecking VACUUM CLEANER!
Naturally this did not go according to plan and a big cloud of the buggers escaped from his cunning trap. The sight of this large German man waving the lance around his head trying to suck them up in flight was, I am ashamed to say, rather amusing but buttock-clenching at the same time. He didn't get stung TOO badly though...
If I could be confident there was one way in and out of the nest I would probably see fit to fire up the Dyson beast though, it has to be said...
I do use the term "rapist mask" figureatively speaking I hasten to add, it's one of those under the crash helmet cold weather motorcycling jobbies but commonly refered to as a "rapist mask" by anyone in the industry if you get what I mean, and I'd better add I mean the motorcycle industry not the rapist industry 
oh b
ks, you know what I mean anyway and have probably just gone visual on a fully dressed fat bd tip toeing between the rafters carrying a broom and a big squirty thing full of talcom powder stuff.
oh bks, you know what I mean anyway and have probably just gone visual on a fully dressed fat bd tip toeing between the rafters carrying a broom and a big squirty thing full of talcom powder stuff. carrotchomper said:
I really, really am a girl when it comes to wasps.
About 12 years ago I was staying with a German family for a couple of weeks on an exchange visit. We used to eat meals on their verandah, on a sturdy plastic table. Bearing in mind the weather was pleasant.
There were always a few wasps buzzing around, which did upset me somewhat. However, one day I looked under the table to find a football-sized nest. UNDER THE TABLE!! Naturally, I shat myself, and the father of the family decided to take action. This boiled down to using a fecking VACUUM CLEANER!
Naturally this did not go according to plan and a big cloud of the buggers escaped from his cunning trap. The sight of this large German man waving the lance around his head trying to suck them up in flight was, I am ashamed to say, rather amusing but buttock-clenching at the same time. He didn't get stung TOO badly though...
If I could be confident there was one way in and out of the nest I would probably see fit to fire up the Dyson beast though, it has to be said...
About 12 years ago I was staying with a German family for a couple of weeks on an exchange visit. We used to eat meals on their verandah, on a sturdy plastic table. Bearing in mind the weather was pleasant.
There were always a few wasps buzzing around, which did upset me somewhat. However, one day I looked under the table to find a football-sized nest. UNDER THE TABLE!! Naturally, I shat myself, and the father of the family decided to take action. This boiled down to using a fecking VACUUM CLEANER!
Naturally this did not go according to plan and a big cloud of the buggers escaped from his cunning trap. The sight of this large German man waving the lance around his head trying to suck them up in flight was, I am ashamed to say, rather amusing but buttock-clenching at the same time. He didn't get stung TOO badly though...
If I could be confident there was one way in and out of the nest I would probably see fit to fire up the Dyson beast though, it has to be said...
Christ I laughed at that
carrotchomper said:
I really, really am a girl when it comes to wasps.
About 12 years ago I was staying with a German family for a couple of weeks on an exchange visit. We used to eat meals on their verandah, on a sturdy plastic table. Bearing in mind the weather was pleasant.
There were always a few wasps buzzing around, which did upset me somewhat. However, one day I looked under the table to find a football-sized nest. UNDER THE TABLE!! Naturally, I shat myself, and the father of the family decided to take action. This boiled down to using a fecking VACUUM CLEANER!
Naturally this did not go according to plan and a big cloud of the buggers escaped from his cunning trap. The sight of this large German man waving the lance around his head trying to suck them up in flight was, I am ashamed to say, rather amusing but buttock-clenching at the same time. He didn't get stung TOO badly though...
If I could be confident there was one way in and out of the nest I would probably see fit to fire up the Dyson beast though, it has to be said...
My housemate thought there was something wrong with me I was laughing so much! About 12 years ago I was staying with a German family for a couple of weeks on an exchange visit. We used to eat meals on their verandah, on a sturdy plastic table. Bearing in mind the weather was pleasant.
There were always a few wasps buzzing around, which did upset me somewhat. However, one day I looked under the table to find a football-sized nest. UNDER THE TABLE!! Naturally, I shat myself, and the father of the family decided to take action. This boiled down to using a fecking VACUUM CLEANER!
Naturally this did not go according to plan and a big cloud of the buggers escaped from his cunning trap. The sight of this large German man waving the lance around his head trying to suck them up in flight was, I am ashamed to say, rather amusing but buttock-clenching at the same time. He didn't get stung TOO badly though...
If I could be confident there was one way in and out of the nest I would probably see fit to fire up the Dyson beast though, it has to be said...
I just pointed at the screen and tried to say 'read' before howling with laughter again!
Brilliant!
Mahatma Bag said:
There was a thread on this.
I think the distillation of the advice was to cover yourself in jam, pour petrol over the nest and chuck a match at it. I am not completely sure what role the jam played, but IIRC is was completely essential.
The jam kept em sweet if they landed on you while you toasted the nest and rest of them to a crisp.I think the distillation of the advice was to cover yourself in jam, pour petrol over the nest and chuck a match at it. I am not completely sure what role the jam played, but IIRC is was completely essential.
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