Hi,

I hadnt been in to the loft for a few
months. Last night I found a wasps
nest in there. Its only small about the
size of a fist and is quite a thing of beauty.

Its at the edge of the roofspace near the eves.
Im not sure whether its dormant or not.
I was going to try to slide a box underneath
it and knock it off the back of the ceiling felt using
a long 6' pole. Then quickly place a lid and fly spray it.
At least our loft is cold and anything inside
should be sluggish I hope.

Do you think it will work and how firmly
attached are the nests?

Thanks,
Matthew

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Matthew wrote:

Hi,

I hadnt been in to the loft for a few
months. Last night I found a wasps
nest in there. Its only small about the
size of a fist and is quite a thing of beauty.

Its at the edge of the roofspace near the eves.
Im not sure whether its dormant or not.
I was going to try to slide a box underneath
it and knock it off the back of the ceiling felt using
a long 6' pole. Then quickly place a lid and fly spray it.
At least our loft is cold and anything inside
should be sluggish I hope.

Do you think it will work and how firmly
attached are the nests?

Thanks,
Matthew

What you have is almost certainly an over-wintering place for a queen wasp.
They are often quite pretty - like little chinese lanterns. Try to give it a
generous dose of fly/wasp killer *before* removing it.
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Matthew wrote:
Its at the edge of the roofspace near the eves.
Im not sure whether its dormant or not.
I was going to try to slide a box underneath
it and knock it off the back of the ceiling felt using
a long 6' pole. Then quickly place a lid and fly spray it.
At least our loft is cold and anything inside
should be sluggish I hope.

Have you seen any wasps around? The only ones I've seen
are queens looking for somewhere to hibernate (they easily
fall prey to the rolled-up newspaper!). Don't try what
you're proposing when wasps are active, i.e. earlier in
the season, or they'll make you pay for it, if you're not
protected.


Do you think it will work and how firmly
attached are the nests?

I should think it's empty, if you can get it off fairly
intact, it will be interesting to examine it.

Set Square wrote:
Matthew wrote:
I hadnt been in to the loft for a few
months. Last night I found a wasps
nest in there. Its only small about the
size of a fist and is quite a thing of beauty.

What you have is almost certainly an over-wintering place for a queen wasp.
They are often quite pretty - like little chinese lanterns. Try to give it a
generous dose of fly/wasp killer *before* removing it.

It's as big as his fist - so, probably a nest that's
been abandoned at this time of the year. One option
is to get a plastic bag, and close it around the nest,
gathering the whole thing in the bag, which should
obviously not have holes! If there's anything alive
in there, which I doubt, a few drops of petrol
squirted in will quickly gas it.

On 10 Nov 2005 11:17:46 GMT, (Huge) wrote:


You needn't bother. The wasps leave in the winter and do
not re-use old nests. Block up the hole they used to gain
access to the loft so they don't re-use the loft space if
you don't want them back next year.

That was pretty much the advice I got from the local authority pest
control when I found a couple of nests a few years ago, so I left
them, and sold up the following year! Apparently small nests are made
at the end of season and are never fully viable.