Pesky wasps nest.......Help!!

[Wacky Racer]

OK,

Last night I discovered a fully formed wasps nest similar to this:-



In the soffit of my summer house (shed), so I decided to wait until it went dark around 10 and smashed it to bits with our clothes pole extension, however I forgot I was wearing shorts and got stung a couple of times on the bs for my trouble.....

All was well (I thought), until this morning I noticed the little blighters had started making another one in the same place......

So:- I thought I would coat the affected area with Petrol/bleach/Engine oil etc, to hopefully discourage them...I don't want to call council pest control in 'cos they charge around sixty quid.

Any suggestions, apart from nuking them from orbit and kicking their back doors in......

A very sore WR........

[davido140]

tub of wasp powder from B&Q, it'll cost you a fiver and kills the buggers dead very quickly.

[10 Pence Short]

I was helping a friend of mine on a roofing job a couple of months ago. Once we got the slates off there was a huge old nest under there, luckily it was too early for them to be out and about. I didn't fancy being on a roof trying to avoid thousands of p*ssed off wasps.

[HRG]

I attacked the one in my shed last year with insect spray. Sure, they were a bit pissed off for a while but I got the entire colony in the end

As you mentioned, it's best to go in heavily armed and late in the day as the little buggers get dozy

[sleep envy]

smoke them first to pacify them, then burn the fkers

[HRG]

Ricc, we had this last year... Sheds = wood != conducive to fire.

[sleep envy]

I said burn the nest, not the entire shed!!

a gas burner will be fine, worked for me

[HRG]

Your shed is probably tidier than mine

[bungle.]

[rhinochopig]

Tell your wife she needs to suck the poison out now. Tell her if she doesn't you'll die a painful lingering death.

[MarkwG]

I've used a foam spray before, works really well, does the pacify & kill bit: scares the !£$" out of you, when you apply it, as the whole thing seems to boil as if they're coming at you. Then you need to find out how they're getting in, or they'll be back!

Edited by MarkwG on Tuesday 2nd June 12:48

[Wacky Racer]

rhinochopig said:

Tell your wife she needs to suck the poison out now. Tell her if she doesn't you'll die a painful lingering death.

[Wacky Racer]

MarkwG said:

I've used a foam spray before, works really well, does the pacify & kill bit: scares the !£$" out of you, when you apply it, as the whole thing seems to boil as if they're coming at you. The you need to find out how they're getting in, or they'll be back!

Thats no problem, this is on the outside, underneath the overhang on the apex...

The problem is not getting rid of them per se, it's coating the wood with something that they think stinks so they will move on elsewhere...

[sleep envy]

apply some grease to the eaves

[FTJoe]

Try to encourage a bear of some sort, or perhaps a honey badger or wolverine, into your garden and they should do a good job of destroying the nest.

Then once it's been knocked down and the wasps are busy trying to fend off the bear attack sneak in and remove the shed with large crane and place it in a different corner of your garden. Wasps are stupid, and believe in magic, and so will think it's simply vanished and will leave.

Then all that's left is to work out how to get rid of the bear.

[stifler]

Wacky, can't you get Heskey to do it for you?

[Wacky Racer]

stifler said:

Wacky, can't you get Heskey to do it for you?

Not likely...he was laughing his head off when I got stung last night...

[Eddh]

stifler said:

Wacky, can't you get Heskey to do it for you?

I was going to suggest sending Heskey in!

[stifler]

Wacky Racer said:

stifler said:

Wacky, can't you get Heskey to do it for you?

Not likely...he was laughing his head off when I got stung last night...

Secretarys humour eh?

If you were to have worn his tights they wouldn't have been able to sting your bottom half. Ask him in a public place if you can borrow them.

[WorAl]

hit it with this

Stand back and be a man, they're only small.

On a serious Note....you have to kill the queen. Which you clearly didnt do when hitting it with a clothes prop you girl.

Edited by WorAl on Tuesday 2nd June 12:14