I found a wasp's nest!

I had a piece of garden furniture that was waiting to be assembled (still waiting!). It was standing right out side the back door. I'd seen the odd wasp here and there but took no notice until I realised they were flying into the box! With some degree of caution I lift one flap to find this large paper globe hanging from the cardboard lid!

I quickly phoned a pest control chappie and he was round that afternoon and dispatched them! What a relief.


Ooooh! I hate wasps! They really freak me out! However, can't help admiring the beauty of their nest. never seen one before.

 

Why pay for someone to do something one can done oneself. I have just removed a nest about the size of a football from inside the chicken shed. I used a spray can of Wasp Nest destroyer, late evening when the wasps were asleep and in the morning the nest was dissolved and the wasps and grubs dead on the floor. Just to make sure I then played the flame gun over the remains. ?Cost next to nothing and there is enough in the spray can for at least another nest.

 

Cus I'z a major league wuss! :hehe:

 

On the last allottment I detected the location of a wasps nest. Built a wooden fire around it, let the other lotty foly folk know what I was going to do. Then set fire to it and went to the pub to seek refuge!!

 

Yes, Daisees, wasps nests are a work of art, Just beautiful, but the wasps can be more than a pain in the butt.
I think you're right to be rid of them, and I would always get the professionals to do it.
I can't find the link at the moment, but a large number of people die from wasp stings every year. Have a Google for it. And leave the wasps to the professionals. They're not that expensive.

 

From anaphylactic shock from the stings, yes I know. Once when I was a young nurse, a patient with poor eye sight and who was required to lay flat in bed, reached on to her bed table for her slice of jam and bread and ate it, not realising there was a wasp on it. She had a massive allergic reaction and there was a real panic until we got a tracheostomy in. She did survive okay but it was mega scary! No ITU or anything in those days, y'see. But that fright has stayed with me all my life. I run miles from wasps!

 

Not just from anaphalactic shock Daisees.
Apparently quite large numbers of people die of heart attacks a few days after a sting, and the two events are not always recognized as going together.
Best to be wary of the wasps.

 

I inadvertantly damaged a wasps nest today, my arm is still swelling.:gnthb: There are a lot of nests out in the gardens. Be careful people. One wasp stung me 4 times.

 

Dont think the blue tits will be coming back this year:(

 

The nests are amazing, my father in law had and ex-nest last year that he gave to my daughter...Its still in her room, very intricate, more delicate that paper!

 

After this initial taking over of the bird box activity has died down quite a lot, with only one or two wasps now around the nest at any one time.
I'm wondering if they do the same as bees and a swarm leaves the nest to start a new one?

 

in my last home i was growing a hedge at the bottom of the garden .it was growing great till one day when cutting the grass i heard a drone sound coming from part of the hedge . i stopped the lawnmower to investigate the drone and there it was a ( LARGE WASP BYKE) growing in the middle of the hedge.
my next door neighbour was messing around her garden at the time,she seen the situation of the wasps
in the hedge coming and going. she was 84 yrs old ,or young, depending on what age you are said (i will fix that):thumb:. she went into her shed, produced some liquid in a bottle and poured it over the Byke, produced a lighter and an old Daily Record poured some more liquid on the paper and set the whole thing on fire:skp:. she did get shot of the WASP BYKE but my poor hedge was burnt to a crisp:(
YOU CANT WIN THEM ALL music.

 

Had to smile reading this Music as I did the same thing many years ago. I spotted a nest in the hedge so put on anorak with hood tight, a pair of goggles and gloves and poured lighter fuel onto the nest. I demolished the nest, hedge survived, but I'd left a small gap twixt goggles and hood and the clever little sods got me!

 

This was my wasps nest box
http://www.youtube.com/user/capney#p/u/2/3fkhYLwT1CE