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I'll try with my macro kit later but they look like the common "Stingius *******ius" variety
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I'll try with my macro kit later but they look like the common "Stingius *******ius" variety
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That's quite a small nest then looking at it now. The one in my loft must be 4 times the size of that.
It would be interesting to know what type of wasps these are.
It would be interesting to know what type of wasps these are.
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well buzzy foreigner can b****r off home :rules:, i dunno they come in to the uk, move into homes at the bottom of our gardens, sting our children, eat our food, fill up OUR wasp traps and invade our airspace, what can you do, bloody scrounging foreigners!
i say raids too goodfor'em!
on a more serious note
wasps are scum they should be exterminated, so what if they polonate some flowers, im sure we can employ Titmarsh to do the polonating for us
I think he means birds, unless he clubbed to death with his camera some enemy combatants?
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I just love stories like these the amount of calls I get
"I have a wasps nest tried to deal with it and got stung" Please sort it out
its a fact of life you poke a wasps nest , or stand in their flight path
they will poke back
at the moment there will only be a few hundred wasps at home
give it a couple of months and there will be several thousand
the later in the season it gets the more aggressive they get.
Why do you think that I and others like me wear a full bee suit
when dealing with a wasps nest? its not for fun as it gets bloody hot in there!
Call a local exterminator Mr G ( the local council if anything like ours will take
a week or so to come out a decent independent will do it in less than 24 hours for around £40
DONOT call rentokil they charge an absolute fortune)
They will inject Bendiocarb into the nest, the wasps will go ballistic for
about half an hour, settle down to their normal routine and be dead in 24 hrs
a few eggs may hatch in which case there will be a few for a day or two.
about .001% treatments fail, any decent pestie will guarantee sucess and will return if after
about 3 days they are still semi - active
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the council guys that did for mine didn't wear suits. the used a long pole thing to inject powder into the access hole in the chimney.
They had to come back a week later, as they were as active as ever.
They said that it was very unusual as they were using an old nest, but when I read up about them on the net it said that they would reuse an old nest.
the nest is absolutely huge now having been used twice.
They had to come back a week later, as they were as active as ever.
They said that it was very unusual as they were using an old nest, but when I read up about them on the net it said that they would reuse an old nest.
the nest is absolutely huge now having been used twice.
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Are you 100% certain that they are / were wasps?
Bees love to nest in chimneys and the nest they build is pretty much impenetrable
( wasp will use a chimney though but its not that common)
The long probe thing ( dust stick) needed to penetrate the nest if they didn't then they would have been wasting theirs and your time.
Wasps NEVER re-use a nest
each queen builds her own at the start of the season
HOWEVER if the queen doesn't die at the end of the season very late Autumn / early winter
she will hibernate ( around 50% die at this time ) then she will start again with the same nest.
the workers will gradually add on to the nest. thats when you start to get the
"larger nests"
football - small beach ball size is your average. in a second year
that size could double
Bees love to nest in chimneys and the nest they build is pretty much impenetrable
( wasp will use a chimney though but its not that common)
The long probe thing ( dust stick) needed to penetrate the nest if they didn't then they would have been wasting theirs and your time.
Wasps NEVER re-use a nest
each queen builds her own at the start of the season
HOWEVER if the queen doesn't die at the end of the season very late Autumn / early winter
she will hibernate ( around 50% die at this time ) then she will start again with the same nest.
the workers will gradually add on to the nest. thats when you start to get the
"larger nests"
football - small beach ball size is your average. in a second year
that size could double
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Yes, I'm 100% certain they were wasps, I had loads of them in the house and the loft. If they stayed out of the house and stuck to the nest I would have left them alone.
The nest was here when I moved in 8 years ago, no idea how old it is. Clearly it wasn't reused by former occupants but it was reused by wasps.
I assumed that whoever found the hole in the chimney came across the old nest and decided to set to work. The nest in the loft shows signs that it has been extended.
The nest is in the loft space but accessed though a hole in the mortar where the lead flashing is on the chimney stack
The nest was here when I moved in 8 years ago, no idea how old it is. Clearly it wasn't reused by former occupants but it was reused by wasps.
I assumed that whoever found the hole in the chimney came across the old nest and decided to set to work. The nest in the loft shows signs that it has been extended.
The nest is in the loft space but accessed though a hole in the mortar where the lead flashing is on the chimney stack
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They scare me summit rotton!
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TBH I think that they cocked up first time its not uncommon to get seval
nests in a roof space and I bet they "hit" the wrong one first time
a nest that was active for years would be huge
if you imagine that a nest per season is a large football size x 8 seasons !
I have only come across one super sized "several year old nest" and that totally filled a roof space
of a bungalow, yep I ripped through it when I lifted the hatch
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TBH I think that they cocked up first time its not uncommon to get seval
nests in a roof space and I bet they "hit" the wrong one first time
a nest that was active for years would be huge
if you imagine that a nest per season is a large football size x 8 seasons !
I have only come across one super sized "several year old nest" and that totally filled a roof space
of a bungalow, yep I ripped through it when I lifted the hatch
Who cocked up? The wasps?
The guys from the council used the access hole as a means of getting to the wasps, they never went into the loft.
The nest is visible in the loft, it fills up the space between two rafters in width and is about the same in height. It is back to a fairly uniform colour again now but you could see different colours on it when it was freshly extended.
From what you say it sounds like this nest was only used once before, and as I said that was over 8 years ago.
I'm glad to say I've seen no activity there this year.
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Ah I miss understood what you were saying
I though you said the nest had been active for
8 years
Yep that sounds about the right size for a two season nest They should though have
injected the wasp nest direct if it was visible then there are no mistakes
if you inject the the "entrance" there is a better than 10% chance that the treatment will fail
especially if the nest is not covering the entrance hole. (which it seldom is)
If thats the case then you have to rely on the wasps carrying the poison in
It should only be done that way if there is no visible nest ie in a wall cavity
I though you said the nest had been active for
8 years
Yep that sounds about the right size for a two season nest They should though have
injected the wasp nest direct if it was visible then there are no mistakes
if you inject the the "entrance" there is a better than 10% chance that the treatment will fail
especially if the nest is not covering the entrance hole. (which it seldom is)
If thats the case then you have to rely on the wasps carrying the poison in
It should only be done that way if there is no visible nest ie in a wall cavity
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Oh I see, no the nest was reused by an opportunist queen I think, she couldn't have known it was there when she found the whole in the mortar.
Yes, I was surprised when they used the entrance hole to poison them, I'd already tried that myself without too much success.
They had a more effective poison and delivery system, but I was expecting them to go into the loft.
In the end it was me that went into the loft using up two cans of fly spray to get the ones that were wandering around the loft and getting into the house through the downlighters in the ceilings.
They charged me £36 and they came back the second time for free so no real complaint. The nest is still in the loft, no reason to move it. I should get around to blocking the hole really.
Yes, I was surprised when they used the entrance hole to poison them, I'd already tried that myself without too much success.
They had a more effective poison and delivery system, but I was expecting them to go into the loft.
In the end it was me that went into the loft using up two cans of fly spray to get the ones that were wandering around the loft and getting into the house through the downlighters in the ceilings.
They charged me £36 and they came back the second time for free so no real complaint. The nest is still in the loft, no reason to move it. I should get around to blocking the hole really.