Can you believe it? I went up the loft today to get my suitcases down and when I opened the loft door FOUR wasps flew out into my bedroom! Luckily I wasn't stung and managed to guide them out the window. Then I went up into the loft and saw another two flying around! I thought all wasps were dormant around this time of year.
Knowing there must've been a nest about I frantically searched around me with a torch for a nest (the light in the loft is broken) and there it was!
A stunning, intricate masterpiece, just a little bit bigger than a football. Nature at it's best - but of course it has to go.
But how?? Is there something I can spray on it cos I can't be arsed getting someone in to remove it - or is this the best idea?

Peej, GET SOMEONE IN!!!! Seriously you could be killed messing with it yourself as wasps invariably swarm when their nest is threatened.

It's my worst nightmare, we had one in a rabbit hole in our orchard two years ago and a guy from the council came and smoked them all to death, but he wore full gear to do it in and it took two visits. It cost us about £50 I think. Your local council should have a team that does this.

If you get the Council in it probably won't be more than about £30 Peej, or if you're a student they'll probably do it for free. VOR is right, the wasps are highly dangerous and the stuff you need to use even more so!!

Ok, I'll get someone in to do it.
My dad usually takes care of all this stuff but he and my mum are in Canada for a few weeks so Im house-sitting in the mean-time and would like to get rid of it before they get back.
Bloody wasps :glare:

Peej, you have to ring Environmental Health Dept at your local Council Offices, where it will be dealt with by professionals. We had a wasps nest in our loft and it was stunning. I felt a right meanie getting rid :sad:

Yeah Peej - as everyone else has said already, you need to get some pest controlpeople in. The council is the best place to start - they're cheaper than independent pest control agencies, but they take wasps nests seriously and should send someone round within the next few days. We had a wasps nest in our old place nd the council were round the next day to deal with it when we rang them.

But like Voice says though - definitely do NOT try and deal with it yourself. Wasps nests are dangerous at the best of times. It IS late in the season to still be getting problems with wasps though!

managed to guide them out the window.
Are you stark staring bonkers man?????? Why guide them???? - you should have got the fly spray and killed the stinkin, evil, nasty, manic horrors.

But brave peej for going up again into the evil haven of the wasps!!!

You really have to follow everyone's advice get them sorted ASAP. I found one down a rabbit hole near a shack we have, me and Mr F poured white gloss paint down the hole [we had nothing else to hand] - played havoc with the wasps and they were very angry - but a bit shiny white to do anything about it!!

Are you stark staring bonkers man?????? Why guide them???? - you should have got the fly spray and killed the stinkin, evil, nasty, manic horrors.

*nods fervently*

Hairspray works well. If you've been stung in the past, you may get more pleasure from flicking a lighter once you have them nicely saturated in ultra-hold hairspray.

Hee.

And it sounds like a job for the professionals.

Hairspray works well. If you've been stung in the past, you may get more pleasure from flicking a lighter once you have them nicely saturated in ultra-hold hairspray.

lol Reminds me of a scene from a film... can't remember the name of it though. Some bloke used a flame throwing to destroy a nest. Although thinking about it now, it could have been a spiders nest. God my memory is rubbish. :glare:

Welcome back bustywench - you've been gone far too long.

Hey, thanks Haydon. Nice, clean setup here- all the forum bells and whistles, I like it. =)

That movie might have been Arachnophobia? Gave me nightmares. *shudder*

Yes it's "Arachnaphobia"...
That movie terrifies me - total woose when it comes to spiders :ninja:

Urgh, Peej you have my full sympathy! I cannot understand the need for wasps on this earth! One of my sister in law's friend found a wasps' nest in her bedroom undernearth her bedside cabinet!!!!! She kept hearing buzzing but couldn't work out where it was coming from. Urgh, it makes me shiver.

Agree with everyone else, get professional help and SOON!!!

It's unusual to find wasps at this time of year, hope you get it sorted soon.
Wasps are nasty, horrible things.

two questions peej - your parents let you housesit AGAIN after what happened last time?

and where you jetting off to that requires a suitcase.

and on the topic - have you not seen my girl? wasps are horrid!!

lol Reminds me of a scene from a film... can't remember the name of it though. Some bloke used a flame throwing to destroy a nest. Although thinking about it now, it could have been a spiders nest. God my memory is rubbish. :glare:

Welcome back bustywench - you've been gone far too long.


it was called The Wasps

Peej, you just think you're a friggin power ranger dont' you!!

As everyone else has said, help is needed. We get at least one a year. they really are works or art tho arn't they.

We had a bee's nest last summer under the garage. I phoned the council and said come get them, and the chap was really nice. He knew from our records we had on going wasp probs, but said leave the bee's alone. I freaked and said...'I have small children, they are buzzing about the garden'

He replied that it is unlikely they will sting them, they just leave the nest, gather the honey and take it back home (his words not mine).

What could I say....OK let the bee's live.

We then had a wonderfull summer watching the bee's gathering their honey, Freddie would stand right in a lavender bush with bee's buzzing around him.

I like bee's.

two questions peej - your parents let you housesit AGAIN after what happened last time?

and where you jetting off to that requires a suitcase.

and on the topic - have you not seen my girl? wasps are horrid!!

LOL kooks!

One - yes they did. Although no parties at chez peej!
Two - Im not going away til next summer but just want to get the case down just now. I am [not leaving all my packing til the last minute like I usually do!
Three - yes My Girl was tragic! But didn't he die cos he was allergic to wasp stings? As far as I know I'm not!

peej I thought of you very loudly today. I was happily walking back from the post office when I walked into a wasp.

It sat on my jacket collar for some hours [well only moments] but certainly long enough for me to scream and screech and dance the lesser known 'I'm scared of wasp' dance - for some people to look at me oddly and then it flew away.

When my sister and hubby asked me what I was doing I gasped, whilst hyperventilating - 'it ... was... a... wasp'. Neither believed me!!:huh:

It's my worst nightmare
Argh yes, I'm spheksophobic too. Wasps! Why is something so little, SO terrifying!

From September onwards until the temperature really drops, wasps search out new sites to hibernate and build nests. Often you'll find people complaining about hornets at this time of year, but in reality in the British Isles it's far more likely to be a queen wasp looking for lodgings.

Any wasps are going to be pretty sleepy round about now (which is why they will exhibit odd behaviour like taking a nap on Flip's collar), but they're still dangerous when roused...

Flip - you should see my oh-****-wasps-freak-me-out dance. It's pretty wild.

Argh yes, I'm spheksophobic too. Wasps! Why is something so little, SO terrifying!

'Cos they flamin' hurt, that's why! :sad:

Individual wasps don't bother me, I don't even mind if they bring a mate, it's just nests that freak me out. I was at a study weekend at Nottingham university once and one whole floor of residences (not mine I'm pleased to say) woke up to find the entire corridor outside their rooms buzzing, a queen wasp had left the nest and flown in through an open window and the colony followed her. The fire brigade came and managed the evacuation and people had to literally crawl through on their hands and knees as it was so dangerous. By late morning the wasps had gone under doors and had covered the rooms too, every surface was swarming in wasps and people were told they could easily have been killed if the wasps had entered their rooms as they slept.

Since then I've not been keen!

Individual wasps don't bother me, I don't even mind if they bring a mate, it's just nests that freak me out. I was at a study weekend at Nottingham university (http://toolbar.desktoptraffic.net/cgi-bin//ezlclk.fcgi?id=97) once and one whole floor of residences (not mine I'm pleased to say) woke up to find the entire corridor outside their rooms buzzing, a queen wasp had left the nest and flown in through an open window and the colony followed her. The fire brigade came and managed the evacuation and people had to literally crawl through on their hands and knees as it was so dangerous. By late morning the wasps had gone under doors and had covered the rooms too, every surface was swarming in wasps and people were told they could easily have been killed if the wasps had entered their rooms as they slept.

Since then I've not been keen!
That quite literally made me shiver with fear.

I hate Evil Wasps. When the sting me I blow up like an inflatable doll, and if I get stung on the throat I might die.

I'm a bit like Macauly Culkin, you know, from that film.

cheerio!