We have a wasps nests in the top of house - where the brick meets the Fascia - little bstards have burrowed a little hole in the brick by the looks of it. My previous experience with one was almost in the same place but in the ground - between the bricks and the grass lawn, that was easy enough to sort with some of that white foam stuff - just waited until dusk and went and sprayed the hole full. I obviously can't do that here, any suggestions? I was wondering, with it being so late in the year whether they're best just left to die off and hope they don't nest there next summer?
Powders best as they take it into the nest and it kills the lot of them. I did it last year and the morning after there were cart loads of the nasty little ***** dead all over the patio.
If your not confident doing it yourself contact council 01226 770 770 then ask for pest control.I think it's about £40 .Obviously they know what they're doing.
If council have to go up a ladder they will do it in a full bee suite, that is they can comfortably ignore the little stingers. Without a suit you’ll not be in the same position and falling off ladders is never good. £40 is a bargain!
Gior what's up w know any Anglers . ?. Some will get shut for you, and use the nests (grubs and all) for bait.
This is true. We get dozens of wasps nests around our house outside and unless they are actually in door ways on doorframes etc we leave them alone. The types we get are paper wasps or mud daubers. The paper wasps build nests that look like honeycombs and are very benign. Several nests this year have been within several feet of the Loggia where we sit and eat meals and, apart from one or two occasions over the entire summer with the odd rogue 'scouts', we have not been bothered by them even when eating. Mud daubers are more of a nuisance in that they build cement like cocoons to protect the grubs that eventually hatch but always in places like the slotted guides where the zanzeria nets in the window frames are. The first time you know they are there is when you find the zanzeria wont slide up or down and 'sticks' . When you force it you get showered with lumps of hardened mud. There are a lot around now looking for hibernation places. We have a small water feature in the garden and , during the drought, dozens of wasp were constantly flying between their nests and the water . They didn't bother us one bit. Both types though do keep a lot of other buzzy things away although nothing seems to deter the Italian version of the famous Scottish midge. even covering youself with Deet , lighting Citronella candles and having wasps around, the little buggers still get us in the June to September in the evenings. A red lump appears which itches like crazy for about half an hour. The odd bite is not too bad but it is murder when they get under your clothes as they seem to try to bite there way out and you get clusters that itch like crazy. Fortunately the effects dont last too long. The House Martins though love dusk where they stuff themselves with the mozzies and midges. You get a real flying display when they do. I am sure the UK wasps are more agressive and annoying.
Are you sure they're wasps and not bees' my mum had someone out a couple of years back and he said he couldn't do owt because they were actually bees' he did say however that they wouldn't hurt you and will disappear quite quickly' still charged her bloody full price mind...
I can keep any eye out for a Murder Hornet to loan you. They can destroy a nest in no time. They’re just up the road in Washington.
Another vote for this. Unless they’re actually plaguing you there’s no reason not to let them get on with their lives. We had one in the garden store a few years ago and one in a woodpile last year, the only inconvenience was we had to wait till they’d gone to burn the last of the woodpile.
It is not wasps in the woodpile we worry about but hibernating snakes. We used to store our burning wood in a single story extension adjoining the house where the boiler, water tank and gardening equipment is kept until after a few years gas boiler service man suddenly decided to tell us it was actually illegal to keep the logs in the same space as the gas appliance- When we moved the pile and got down to the very bottom of the pile that had been there a couple of years we found a 5 foot snakeskin in the remains of a nest, obviously from one that had hibernated and shed. Ever since then, we wear thick gloves when getting wood in for the log burner and wood oven. We often get grass snakes 2-3 foot long and the cat caches a few from time to time, We also had a slightly injured viper (usually only found up in the mountains) about 4 foot long once hiding in the herb garden (we think it had been captured and dropped as we get a few Golden Eagles around when the weather is particularly bad in the mountains and they come to lower ground). I turned the hosepipe on it to ' encourage' it to move on, which it did and we never saw it again.
