Wasp nest in loft - removal?

Wasp nest in loft - removal?

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Timmy33

12,915 posts

197 months

Monday 17th March 2008
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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.
I wonder if you could mix petrol with egg whites and beat it with a blender to create a sort of explosively flammable meragne that you could pour over the nest. Giving a longer lasting and more even burn than petrol alone. scratchchin

NDA

21,488 posts

224 months

Monday 17th March 2008
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A few here have posted that they have golf ball sized nests.... This is the Queen and the nest looks like:



This is the start.... if you have one of these, get rid pronto as the nest develops from this.

Remember, though it looks harmless, there is usually a queen wasp inside.

rlw

3,321 posts

236 months

Monday 17th March 2008
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Nobody has loft insulation that clean Shirley?

Boosted LS1

21,165 posts

259 months

Monday 17th March 2008
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swerni said:
This is what we found in our loft when we moved in.

To put the size into context the smaller ones are somewhere between the size of a golf ball and a tennis ball

Hmmm, wasp nest soup, add some spit and your cooking.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 17th March 2008
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swerni said:
This is what we found in our loft when we moved in.

Perfect size for a blast from one of these:



Be prepared to bit a hasty retreat, mind.

LukeBird

17,170 posts

208 months

Monday 17th March 2008
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Symbolica said:
Perfect size for a blast from one of these:



Be prepared to bit a hasty retreat, mind.
You're not fking kidding are you?!? hehe

defblade

7,392 posts

212 months

Monday 17th March 2008
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It's soooooo tempting to try and shoot the queens while I'm using the 6yd air weapon range in my attic. But they're usually buzzing around the flourescent tube, so I have to resist.

It is good fun to blast them with air from a dry-fired pneumatic gun tho wink (very close range only)

I also find the very hot halogen down lighters in our bathroom (which are open to the attic above) are very successful at first attracting then roasting the little bds.

I've had to clear out the attic as we're moving in a couple of weeks. Must have squished 2 or 3 dozen queens along the way - luckily it was still cold and they are very sluggish.

NDA

21,488 posts

224 months

Tuesday 18th March 2008
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Hi Steve - and yuk, to that nest.... We've recently moved house leaving a fecking monster in the loft that must be 3 feet across, not ball shaped, but just draped between the rafters. That wee nest just above the main nest, was where the queen will have wintered.

We also have a hornet's nest in our woodland. Which is nice.

jimmyjimjim

7,329 posts

237 months

Monday 14th April 2008
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swerni said:
This is what we found in our loft when we moved in.

To put the size into context the smaller ones are somewhere between the size of a golf ball and a tennis ball

Reminded of this thread by the other wasp thread -

To put that into context, that's a smaller one!

One summer at my parents house I could hear rustling in the ceiling above for a few weeks. mentioned it to my dad, and we went outside to see if there was anything obvious. We eventually notived a few wasps entering the roof under the eaves. The old man cconnected up a can of wasps nest killer to the compressor, on the end of a long pole, and sprayed a couple of cans worth up in to the eaves - we could see the powder billowing up under the tiles. Next morning, no activity.
The loft was fairly full at the time so we didn't bother looking for the nest.

Last year he finally cleared enough to find it -




LukeBird

17,170 posts

208 months

Monday 14th April 2008
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jimmyjimjim said:
Holy lord!! yikes
Lucky that wasn't disturbed while it was full, that'd be bloody terrifying!!!

Carpie

1,111 posts

194 months

Monday 14th April 2008
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We have this monster in the attic, its roughly 5 by 4 foot, guessing, looks smaller in the pics than it is. Don't want to bash it down as I think it looks pretty cool, interesting piece of natural engineering smile Anyway doesn't seem to be any living there now.



On the topic of ceilings, I was in school one day when suddenly a teachers legs appeared from the ceiling accompanied by a shout of "f**king hell!". He stayed there with his legs flapping about until he was rescued. Was quite amusing.


lee.

94 posts

197 months

Monday 14th April 2008
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Oh the joys of being a sparky, we come across nests like that on a regular basis and bigger! and i can tell you its a nerve racking experience working next to them with no quick means of escape. I've a picture on my phone with me sitting next to one that's at least twice as big as me and i don't look happy, stroll on the summer frown

Edited by lee. on Monday 14th April 18:58

Davi

17,153 posts

219 months

Monday 14th April 2008
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lee. said:
Oh the joys of being a sparky, we come across nests like that on a regular basis and bigger! and i can tell you its a nerve racking experience working next to them with no quick means of escape. I've a picture on my phone with me sitting next to one that's at least twice as big as me and i don't look happy, stroll on the summer frown

Edited by lee. on Monday 14th April 18:58
uncle (a chippy) gave me a tip from a wasp expert he had dealings with for similar reasons - never wear one of those head lights (torch on a sweat band as he calls them!) as if you disturb a nest, they will go straight for any source of light. Take a torch and hold it out at arms length, if they attack drop it and it might give you a chance to get away while they attack it!

paul38

194 posts

197 months

Monday 14th April 2008
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Had 2 last year, dressed in full wet suit, tied waist & sleeves put on woolly hat, hood ziped up, diving face mask, put black bag over them hanging from the rafters and slid thin metal underneith them to dislodge them catching in black bag.

I was too busy laughing at the state of myself and varying insults from wife i tripped on way down ladders, not a plesent sound andsight lying at the bottom of the ladders pissing myself laughing while wasps flew around.

It was middle of winter so they were dosile (spelling!) like really dopy.

Morale of the story well worth 90 quid. I buggered my back and took a few weeks to fully shift it.

shoot

carrotchomper

17,830 posts

203 months

Monday 14th April 2008
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paul38 said:
Had 2 last year, dressed in full wet suit, tied waist & sleeves put on woolly hat, hood ziped up, diving face mask, put black bag over them hanging from the rafters and slid thin metal underneith them to dislodge them catching in black bag.

I was too busy laughing at the state of myself and varying insults from wife i tripped on way down ladders, not a plesent sound andsight lying at the bottom of the ladders pissing myself laughing while wasps flew around.

It was middle of winter so they were dosile (spelling!) like really dopy.

Morale of the story well worth 90 quid. I buggered my back and took a few weeks to fully shift it.

shoot
Good effort!

I think you missed style points by failing to don comedy snorkel/goggles, flippers and ducky rubber ring though. HTH for future wasp extermination.

NDA

21,488 posts

224 months

Tuesday 15th April 2008
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Carpie said:
We have this monster in the attic, its roughly 5 by 4 foot, guessing, looks smaller in the pics than it is. Don't want to bash it down as I think it looks pretty cool, interesting piece of natural engineering smile Anyway doesn't seem to be any living there now.

Holy feckin catfish.

Evil, dirty bastids.