Wasp Nest

[Parm]

Get nice and close. Make your tounge nice and wet. Stick tounge into the nest. If after a few minutes you can still feel your tounge .Then all is good.

That a Viz Top Tip

 

[bricol]

Vacuum cleaner. Gone.

You can get the long-jetting aerosols - and very effective the one I got from BnQ was a few years ago.

 

[Seadog]

+1 for the vacuum cleaner. That's what Henry is for

 

[Cobbler]

+1 for the vacuum cleaner. That's what Henry is for

Gets right up his nose though!

 

[OJCar]

 

[Migmac]

It’s dead. If your worried put a bin liner over it, cut the nest off, tie the bag, job done

 

[JEZGUZ]

Bin bag and a stick, that looks dead. The aerosols work well on live nests, if you have to kill them off.

 

[roofman]

Thats last years as its too early for this years menacing sods...i bet there is a couple of fat queens hung up not far just waiting for the warm weather message to start knocking the eggs out. Have a good look under the eaves for a cocoon the size of a hens egg and kill them before the 1st batch hatch and start grafting to build the empire. Roofing for over 40 years and there's nothing you can tell me about them things from April on

 

[bricol]

Car alarm went off on a sunny day last week . . . looked out of the window - ginormous wasp crawling around back window . . . vacuum cleaner applied . . .

 

[slim_boy_fat]

just leave them

Unless you're anaphylactic.........., but as said ^^^^^ that's a dead nest. Wasps are dirty things which do pollinate but not by intent and are usually close to middens, rot and so forth, thereby possibly passing on infections by their stings......

 

[Seadog]

More importantly, they rid the garden of pests.

 

[roofman]

More importantly, they rid the garden of pests.

late in the year they also get rid of beer garden pests too my missus feeds them from her finger,she,s crazy

 

[Ali]

Vacuum cleaner. Gone.

You can get the long-jetting aerosols - and very effective the one I got from BnQ was a few years ago.

Can vouch for those aerosols after using on a hornets nest in Texas. Wanted to be as far away as possible while they were annoyed.

For wasps it’s best to tackle any possible live nests semi-naked, it’s really annoying when 3 or 12 get under your clothes and sting you 114 times in the 2 seconds it takes you to tear them off.

 

[mcostello]

Not any flies, horse flies, bees, wasps or swallows or bats anymore. All seemed to die off. Been replaced with stink bugs with a vengeance.

 

[brightspark]

i have a bad reaction when stung got one last year by a wasp i got the 1000 v megger out and electrocuted it with the probes made sure it suffered as well

 

[badabec]

Here's mine. I used the Rentokil aerosol from about five feet, they don't like it up 'em. A few weeks later I poked it with a stick to check it was dead, it wasn't. One stung me on the bonce. The Aga saucepans are in the garage because they don't work on the induction hob...

 

[roofman]

Here's mine. I used the Rentokil aerosol from about five feet, they don't like it up 'em. A few weeks later I poked it with a stick to check it was dead, it wasn't. One stung me on the bonce. The Aga saucepans are in the garage because they don't work on the induction hob...

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"That's no lady, that's my wife"

 

[Jbo2231]

Argh.. hate them. Why do they have to be so aggressive and destructive? They are like a bunch of shrunken down humans with wings..

We have a damson tree outside with around 100 to 150 honey bees on it at this time of year, absolutely lovely things which just go about their business. Cat chases them around and they just bumble along chuckling at him. I brush a wasp by accident while tidying the workshop and its attacking my arm while I scramble for the blowtorch...

 

[Brad93]

Thats last years as its too early for this years menacing sods...i bet there is a couple of fat queens hung up not far just waiting for the warm weather message to start knocking the eggs out. Have a good look under the eaves for a cocoon the size of a hens egg and kill them before the 1st batch hatch and start grafting to build the empire. Roofing for over 40 years and there's nothing you can tell me about them things from April on

Seen two queens todag

 

[Parm]

Seen two queens todag

Not surprised, you do live in Essex