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just seen a wasp nest or where they going in so went to loft and the other end of bungalow this is what i see :(
2 i hope this isnt live guy coming later to do other

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There's a nest entrance just by the front porch as I go into the log cabin.The wasps are very small,don't come in the door,and seem very well behaved,I'm rather reluctant to kill them (And I don't like wasps!)
 
Wait until its dark & they are all inside & cover the nest with a special aerosol foam which will be problem sorted. Wasps can cause all sorts of trouble.
 
POLLDARK said:
Wait until its dark & they are all inside & cover the nest with a special aerosol foam which will be problem sorted. Wasps can cause all sorts of trouble.
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what sort of trouble?

am ignoring ours at the moment,they are under the roof valley.
 
Cahill said:
what sort of trouble?

am ignoring ours at the moment,they are under the roof valley.
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You ask what sort of trouble. temperature fluctuations cause changes in behavior. They can drop to the stable floor when there is a lowering of temperature, horse lies down & gets stung. If it's in a tack area that's your riding finished for a while, if the horse reacts badly which some can either in alarm or in anaphylactic (can't be bothered to check spelling) shock which in extreme cases can kill then you have even more problems.
 
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I had a huge nest immediately above my feed room door, in the overhang. I saw it as a small nest, then didn't look again until haymaking time, when I was up on the bales, stacking. I realised that the light was eclipsed, so shone my torch and holy shiiiit! It was the size of a football!

On the other hand, i had Swallows nesting in the next door stable and I know that they eat wasps, so I left it, after promising them that one sting would mean extermination! Never got stung! This despite me opening and shutting the door (door is less than 6 inches below) and the wind sometimes slamming the door, too!

Have never known people to have problems when they leave them and was worried for a little while myself until I forgot about the little buggers. That's a strange looking nest you've got, though. They're normally ball shaped, aren't they?

ETA: Just checked em out on google. Seems they do sometimes build flat nests. Fascinating stuff!
 
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We had them in our porch at home and they ate a load of wood that joined the porch to the house to make the nest, so when it was removed half the blimming porch had to be replaced!
 
Exterminate Exterminate

I just powdered one at dusk and run fast!! I have two others to do...I nip up the ladders puff puff at hole entrance when they are all asleep and RUN(but at night they will be peeps)

If you do use the foam do any of this at night as they will come after you. I find the puff powder they carry it to the nest and it can take a 2-3 days to kill them off. The foam is interesting so shut all the windows as they can cascade out just like a waterfall. Horrific

Get rid yuk
 
My hubby, who is allergic to the stings, would whack it with a big stick risking getting stung. Some men just don't have the sense they were born with :rolleyes:

Me on the other hand would get the exterminator people out to get rid :D




Without telling hubby it was there of course ;)
 
penhwnllys_stardust said:
Is it only me who wants to poke that nest with a stick?
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lol the exterminator man did poke it with a stick turns out its and old one but he did puff the active one

and on cat pen u could see them collecting the wood.
my donkey got a reaction to them shaking and dribbling last year so i kill any 1 i see i like the bug bats u can literally electrify them with a zap and snap of the current.

I hate them too

the guy said u can tell if old one

as this time of year the nest is very small only nearer sept is it football size normally i had them zapped asap i

i know one person saw a nest dangling down the metal roof so he squirted petrol on it and used a blow torch wooshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it went hehe loved to have seen that
 
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in my old house i heard some scratching type noises coming from the wall, i put it down to maybe a bird or something. after 4 days my step daughter came to stay, she came down stairs screaming the next morning saying that the room is full of wasps.

the 'scratching' i heard was them eating away at the wall and they finally broke through. the noise coming from the room was horrible and we had to wait 5 hours for a guy to come and get rid. bloody horrible things. doesn't help that i'm allergic to the stings.
 
i had one on hay bale so clipped a lead rope to it dagged it out side flipped itover and dragged it along the ground squashed it well hehe
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I have a wasps nest in the lower part of my roof, I can hear them in one of the bedrooms and watch them fly in. I have no problem with them at all. No way I would have them exterminated. Glad I could give them a home :D
 
Put the Poisonous Powder on a table spoon taped to a garden cane at dusk keeps you abit further from the hot assed bug*** :D I have so many run ins with Wasp nests but have only been stung 3 Times in 51 years have ploughed the buggers out driven fence posts into their nest (not on purpose):eek: Loaded semi treated sewage at Hinckley in the 70s every bucket full had a wasp nest in it and totally smothered in Tomato Plants hate them with a passion give them a dose of Symag ASAP.
 
My sister and brother in law had a wasp nest in their roof, they could hear them munching on the inside.

Anyway, BIL goes onto roof with aerosol thingy, my sister is waiting by window, he puts poison in, angry wasps go towards my sister who is still inside, she panics and shuts the window, BIL stuck on roof, gets stung and has to cross the roof ridge and jump down on the other side where the ground level is higher and its soft grass! Cue lots of swearing!

I have to admit that I did laugh when they told me...
 
riding_high said:
in my old house i heard some scratching type noises coming from the wall, i put it down to maybe a bird or something. after 4 days my step daughter came to stay, she came down stairs screaming the next morning saying that the room is full of wasps.

the 'scratching' i heard was them eating away at the wall and they finally broke through. the noise coming from the room was horrible and we had to wait 5 hours for a guy to come and get rid. bloody horrible things. doesn't help that i'm allergic to the stings.
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Aaargghh! Was their house called "Amityville" by any chance?! :o



nicelittle said:
My sister and brother in law had a wasp nest in their roof, they could hear them munching on the inside.

Anyway, BIL goes onto roof with aerosol thingy, my sister is waiting by window, he puts poison in, angry wasps go towards my sister who is still inside, she panics and shuts the window, BIL stuck on roof, gets stung and has to cross the roof ridge and jump down on the other side where the ground level is higher and its soft grass! Cue lots of swearing!

I have to admit that I did laugh when they told me...
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PMSL!! :D :D
 
One sting from a wasp is bad enough, (painful), my horse threw me off when I was riding her and she got stung, that was one bite, imagine if for some reason you upset the nest and your horse or you or a friend was stung several times, not nice.
 
mmmm whilst i dont like wasps i can not kill them arggghhhhh wish i could but cant(glass and wait for hours) but mmmm bees i love thier little fat bums so so damn cute an oi watch out dont kill honey bees thinking thier wasps :)
 
Had a huge one at the end of my stable block, so armed with hoe and hose. i blasted the nest to bits (surprisingly fragile) and scraped the rest off with the hoe and fill the hole with poop.
Persistant little blighters each day they started building a new one and each day i scraped it down.
Took about a week for them to go completely.
Also i was good and only a few died in the process so no mass murder
 
i had a nest in the hay once,i sprayed with deosect which killed the lot and scooped it up with the poop-scoop the next day.
the one at the moment is under the house tiles.
 
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