Wasps nest
 

What do you do if you discover that you have a wasps nest in your loft?

We're pretty sure it's empty but not sure what to do with it!

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Got this on a Google search
Normally there is no reason to remove an old dead nest. However, if you wish to do so then it should be done carefully and only when you are sure there are no more wasps flying in or out. We would recommend wearing gloves to remove the nest and to have a quick exit route, just in case. A recently dead wasp can still sting you if it is squashed
There is no reason why it can't then go in the bin. That site says that they rebuild a nest next year and wont reuse the one you have if you leave it there, but may build a new one next to it
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Gosh, thanks for that - I should have tried google first!

Has anyone ever had a go at moving one?

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If it's active (of they come back next year) get the council round to remove it, they charge you about £20 but it saves you getting stung :)

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THIS is a good one to have a look at, is it like that one, didn't realise they were so big

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very interesting .........now i know why i could trim my hedge this year without getting charged at with a load of wasps like last year.

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I have read that wasps will not reuse an old nest so it should not be a problem. How big is the nest? Is it one of those that hangs from the roof like a ball? When I look in my loft I often see small old nests, about as big as a golf ball. I think they must have been abandoned unsuccessful nests.

When we moved in here at first the strange old owners had done nothing about a very big nest. It was in between the slates and under boarding in our out building (out building make's me sound about 95 :D ). I used B&Q wasp nest destroyer on it. It is a foam you spray near the nest entrance. The wasps carry the poison into the nest and it kills them. You can get it as a powder as well. This nest was at least 2 foot square and about 3 inches thick within the roof.

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Remember reading this Gayle whilst I was on holiday:-

Summer's last sting: why our bizarre weather has brought wasps out in vast numbers | the Daily Mail

Love the closing sentence... :D

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We've just had a swarm, like something out of a bad B-movie horror film.

Thousands, and thousands of wasps.

Apparently they were here this morning, and have just come back.

All the neighbours ran inside screaming, to close any open windows.

I thought it was funny.

Though it's put an end to my sunbathing, now a big black cloud has blocked out this rare appearance of the sun.

Typical.

:D:cool::D

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Never heard of wasps swarming, honey bees do when a new queen is born, or the brood gets too big, some of the present day honey bees are crossed with Italian bees and they can look like wasps.
If it is a bee swarm you need to contact HBC, it won't be me that comes out, I'm no longer on the list. Honey Bees are protected by law and only a bee keeper can destroy a nest or a swarm
Retlaw

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I keeps well away from wasps, they're nasty little blighters, they sting just for fun:eek:

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We had a nest in the back wall of our house last year. The guys on the farm pumped diesel in to try and kill them but it didn't work though thousands died. The walls were literally humming - some bright spark (who shall remain nameless but is my other half) decided to close their entrance in the bricks and they started coming in the house in the evening crawling towards the light along the pipes in the heating stystem and coming through cracks round the radiators (it's an old house and Italian plumbing is not noted for being good).
For three days, till we worked out where they were getting in and siliconed up the cracks, it was a bit like living in a Hitchcock movie -shades of "The Birds". In the end we called out the experts who dealt with them.
This morning we had a strange phenomenon with Ants -it is the first warm day after 3 days rain and the path outside all the houses here was literally dark brown with swarming ants. After a while the live ones disappeared and there were just loads of dead ones left -looks like something had happened and they were bringing out their dead!

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Ant behaviour changes have been linked to eathquakes ?-

Ants-Earthquakes = yes


CAN ANTS PREDICT EARTHQUAKES? =no

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Now that's really interesting Margaret -hadn't thought of a connection to the earthquakes we've just had. There really were loads of them out this morning -took me ages to sweep away all the little corpses! They weren't just outside the houses either -noticed a lot where we all park our cars too -will have a snoop outside and see if there are any more...

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The ant phenomenon could be due to their mating ritual - which can depend on weather conditions. I've seen this myself when we lived in the country but it's usually a bit later in the year over here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/...ne/7525028.stm

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You're right, they were skinny looking honey bees, not wasps.

A neighbour does keep a hive, but apparently it wasn't them.

These must have been a visiting swarm.

Perhaps they were attracted here by my new dwarf buddleias.

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:rolleyes::D

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When bees swarm they are looking for some where else to live,
After a while they will settle some where, then some of the bees will got out as scouts looking for a new home, now is the time to catch them, they are not really nasty at this stage, they are full of food and pollen, having taken 1/2 the stores from their old home, I used to grab a couple of handfulls and place then in a newly prepared brood box, then sit & wait, they return to the swarm inform the others & eventually they bring the queen down, and take up residence, now you have to wait for near sunset, till all the explorer bees have returned to where the swarm settled. Last thing is to seal the hive but leave enough for a proper airflow, put it in the boot of the car & take it to you new site. I was once bringing a swarm home from up the Rossendale Valley, one or two had escaped & were buzzing round the interior of the car, so I still had my bee hat on, happened to pass a police car on the way home, they did a u turn and pulled up along side me, ready to flag me down, but when they spotted my passengers crawling on the windows, they just waved & sped off.
Retlaw.

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last year my brother pulled down the old garage ... and we found a wasps nest ... my brother him being him .. grabbed hold of it and a few wasps came buzzing out of it ... he threw it in the neighbours trees ....