On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:54:47 +0000, D.M. Procida wrote:

I've just been to put some more rubbish up in the loft, and I was a
little alarmed to discover what appear to be dead wasps littered
around.

They are dead don't worry about 'em. Sweep or hover them up and look
around for a nest. Possibly tucked right down in the eaves and in size
anything from a ping pong ball on a stalk through to a couple of feet
across. Beige in colour and papery in texture (indeed it is
effectively made of paper). Remove it if you like and examine they are
beautiful bits of work, at this time of year the only live wasp your
likely to encounter is a queen in one of the ping pong balls or
crawling about rather drowsily. Old nests are not reused.

When it gets warmer say April/May go back up and give the entire roof
void a liberal spray with a domestic fly/wasp killer.


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