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    Wasps Nest

    Okay, it's not actually a pet.

    We just discovered that we have a wasps nest in our storage box by the back garden. We regularly have wasps here but we didn't know it's found a home in our home!

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    Those pest control guys will kill them all in about 5 mins..
    100 pounds please! Talk about being stung!
    Not sure if the council will still deal with them?
    One way or another though...They gotta go.


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    Not easy to make friendly as pets Rayna. But a dollop of jam helps
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    Certainly looks like a wasps next, as opposed to a honey bee's nest. Contact your local council and should sent someone out to get rid of it for a small fee. Unless it's not bothering you of course


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    Well, Keith just sprayed some "Combat Fly & Wasp Killer" and he said it's already dying. Poor little things..


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    Quote Originally Posted by SimonH View Post
    Certainly looks like a wasps next, as opposed to a honey bee's nest. Contact your local council and should sent someone out to get rid of it for a small fee. Unless it's not bothering you of course
    A one or two (or maybe a few) wasps and bees really don't bother me coz they don't usually go near me, but a nest?!?!?! I mean that will be loads! And I always go on that storage box because our recycling bin for boxes & cardboard is there.
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    I don't suppose kids are allowed to blow them up with a load of fireworks now...as we used to do.


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    Quote Originally Posted by raynaputi View Post
    A one or two (or maybe a few) wasps and bees really don't bother me coz they don't usually go near me, but a nest?!?!?! I mean that will be loads! And I always go on that storage box because our recycling bin for boxes & cardboard is there.

    Get onto the council and ask for pest control, depending on your local council they may charge or not (think I paid about £40 last year). They'll want to make sure that they are wasps and not honey bee's though, as honey bee's are protected.


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    Quote Originally Posted by raynaputi View Post
    Well, Keith just sprayed some "Combat Fly & Wasp Killer" and he said it's already dying. Poor little things..


    , Rayna ... what Keith has done might act as a short-term measure. But for SAFETY's sake I would strongly advise calling in Pest Control whose number can usually be found in 'Yellow Pages'.


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    Nah...just boot it and then run like hell.


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    Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
    Nah...just boot it and then run like hell.
    Bend it like Beckham....


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    Keith has managed to remove the nest now. A couple of wasps were going back to the nest so he removed it.

    Oh, and he said it's definitely wasps nest.
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    Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
    I don't suppose kids are allowed to blow them up with a load of fireworks now...as we used to do.
    We can't do that, we store the generator there and we got some petrol (I think) there too..hahahahaha
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve.r View Post
    Not easy to make friendly as pets Rayna. But a dollop of jam helps
    ... perhaps we should make this thread a "sticky", Steve!


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    Quote Originally Posted by raynaputi View Post
    ............Poor little things..




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    Sometime you just get them angry if you spray them. A few years ago some wasps thought they would start a nest in a bird box I put up in the garden. I covered the hole up with cardboard, all they did was eat through it.

    Cost me £30 to get pest control out after that.


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    Ant powder is the best insecticide to use just puff it into the opening of the nest or where the wasps are going in to a gap. Do it at night so they are less active. Nests at this time of the year are getting bigger daily. A football size nest can have anything from 500 to 2000 wasps in it, depending of the species of wasp.
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