Wasp nest in bike shed

[Night Train]

You could have left the wasps as added security for the bike shed....

 

[Globalti]

Hmmmm... that will give your cycling a buzz.....

 

[Davidc]

OK removing the nests up to that size (tennis ball) but not much more. Once they're hockey ball size there are uncomfortably many wasps, and by football size enough to kill you. Need the men in white coats then.

They may be essential to our food production and the health of gardens and countryside but they're a b100dy nuisance in sheds, garages, lofts, or inside the house.

 

[ianrauk]

I was surprised at how light and flimsy it was. When I picked it up it near enough disintegrated in my hand showing the big fat Queen wasp inside. Poor love. She had to go.

 

[compo]

If they are not doing you any harm and not invading your territory leave them be. most people don't use their lofts so they wont do any harm. Come the autumn they will do whatever wasps do in the winter and they will not return to the nest the following year. If you want to remove it autumn is the time to do it. If you do want to eradicate the wasps from your roof space spend a few minutes just watching and see where they come in and out of the roof space. There will be a hole. Pump some wasp powder in that hole and the wasps will carry it on their bodies into the nest and kill the queen (amongst others). Once the queen is dead the surviving wasps will vacate the nest, although many will die from the powder.

I am not a pest controller! I once spent a month on work experience while on the dole working with the coucil pest controllers. It was a fascinating month. I was disappointed not to have a job at the end of it but they only employed qualified people.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I did the same from in our garage last year more tennis ball size. In my teens my then girl friend had one in her parents loft it was the size of a beach ball took the hatch off the loft one day and it sounded like a motorway up there. Had to get the pro's in for that one .

I am sat in the back garden here and there is a Cotoneaster bush the Bees always like at this time of year.

I am sitting here listening to the lovely warm Buzz of them all going about their business, as close as 3 or 4 feet away from my head, but quite undisturbed by me. Gorgeous sound!

 

[paul04]

Yes I had a little golf ball sized nest in my shed a few weeks ago, and a couple of wasps around it, they was not very happy that I knocked it off the roof and stood on it.
They was buzzing around like mad, the only thing to hand was a dust pan, so I had to swat them with it, I bet the neighbours thought I was mad waving a dust pan around my head

 

[ianrauk]

I am sat in the back garden here and there is a Cotoneaster bush the Bees always like at this time of year.

I am sitting here listening to the lovely warm Buzz of them all going about their business, as close as 3 or 4 feet away from my head, but quite undisturbed by me. Gorgeous sound!

Have a Cotoneaster in the garden. Right next to the garden furniture. Swarming with bees at the moment and they don't show the slight interest in people being very close.

 

[Schmilliemoo]

Don't you think it's mad that bees make honey? Small, furry buzzy things = honey on toast. It's like wasps making gravy.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Indeed.and looked exactly teh same as yours too. And in your thread.. a link to Shauns wasp nest the year before

Conspiracy!

 

[Chris Norton]

Once bee's are away from their nest you are pretty much safe from them stinging unless they get caught up in your hair. If I discover a wasp nest, it's a dress up in the beekeeping kit and pour a bit of petrol on the wasp nest. You don't need much only a small capfull. The fumes kill the wasps.

If a beekeeper needs to destroy a colony of bee's then a fume board with petrol is the method used by defra employed bee inspectors.

Would not recommend tackling a wasp nest unless it's only a small one unless you have protective equipment. They do a wonderful job of keeping aphids at bay and a wasp nest is as intricate piece of paper you'll ever find.

 

[fossyant]

Tackled a football sized one last year. Sprayed nest with nest destroyer foam and leg it. Best done after dusk as less wasps.

This got most of them, but still needed to remove the nest as I was clearing Ivy from the area. The jet wash polished off the rest.

Ant powder puffed into where the wasps are going (eg cracks in brick work) also works well.

 

[slowmotion]

Where's waspyfecker?

I was wondering about that too. I guess the little fecker has become all caring and good-natured..... ah, Bless....