[apannamma]

Have had a wasps nest outside my old bedroom in my parents house for around 10 years or so, it appears to change location every year. Only noticed it initially as there were loads (30+) of wasps in my room every night back when I was in school. Never really bugged me, so left them alone, have never had a sting. Anyway... tonight I'm back at my parents place playing some late night xbox360 and look up... there's a swarm of around 50 of the things all over the place, circling the light, on the walls, hovering around... Never had quite this many before, so I go to investigate and there's a nest RIGHT outside my window, like the enterence is in the corner of the window on the outside, 5-10 entering a every second! There must be a massive nest in the wall

So... should I finally get rid of them? Should I leave them? My understanding is the queen lives on over the winter while the others die, in the summer the queen has a new nest setup, so I'd assume if I got rid of the nest this time they'd be gone for good? Just wondering about killing them off this time because the nest seems to be the most accessible it's ever been and I could probably do it myself.

As an aside: I pulled a wasp out of a man's ear at 3am around 3 weeks ago in A&E... perhaps tainting my view toward them a little! :P

[feqlmwtuqx]

Personally, I'd've paid a professional to have got rid of that nest ten years ago - Just not worth getting badly stung, at all!

[nretdjuend]

Yes its pretty easy to do it, just takes a short amount of time and a small amount of money, get a good few tins of raid, get a small plastic box you can seal and attach a fan in the side of the box, so its blowing into the box slowly, get a tube the same size as the entrance to the wasps nest, and attach it to a corner of your box.

Once ready, before you attach the tube to the entrance, spray through the fan into the box, but away from the corner and saturate the box until it starts coming out the tube, attach the tube the entrance of the nest, and turn on the fan, this stops wasps coming out, and pushes the insecticide into the wallspace.

Spray thickly every ten seconds or so, and use all of the raid, leave the box running with the fan on for about 30 minutes after finishing.

The goal is to get the queen, she is a slow mover, so will probably be poisoned, you will also hit a lot of the wasps as well, probably 60-70% but once the queen dies and the wallspace is saturated, the wasps will leave and won't come back.

[apannamma]

Well at its closest it was previously around 2m from the outside of a top floor window, so as long as I kept the window closed they wouldn't come in. If someone opened the window they'd slowly congregate, but as nobody's lived in this room for around 8 years it hasn't been a problem. To be honest I thought they'd moved on as I haven't seen a load of them in years.

Here's a quick phone vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuJ9Ganvewg

And yeah I know the windows need replacing, original 1890s frames complete with cracked putty that haven't been painted in 40 years or so!

Thanks for the advice Dirk... may well give it a go since I'll be staying here for a good month.

[Tribas4u]

Those don't look like wasps.

Maybe hornets?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet

Hornets are mean ****s too. The whole nest comes after you.

[PolPitasc]

http://forums.somethingawful.com/sho...readid=2243176

Classic.

[apannamma]

Those don't look like wasps.

Maybe hornets?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet

Hornets are mean ****s too. The whole nest comes after you.

Close up inspection of a dead one and much intarweb consultation reveals these are common wasps (Vespula vulgaris).

[apannamma]

Hahahaha... just been stung on the face!!

They will die!!

[feqlmwtuqx]

Must have been reading this thread

[8IhGpvH0]

Just get a professional to do it.

[Ettiominiw]

Your crazy if you dont mind them being in your room id be gettin rid asap.

But thats in a awkward place you might get stung if you do it yourself.

[bppstorr]

Your crazy if you dont mind them being in your room id be gettin rid asap.

But thats in a awkward place you might get stung if you do it yourself.

Agreed, you don't know how big the nest is since its in the cracks of the house so I would just hire a pro.

[Biradallo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhW3tk17Y_M&NR=1

Do it like this Touche!

[gtyruzzel]

We had one in our kitchen extension, no idea how it got there, but the local council seemed more than happy to help out, didn't cost a lot either. Safest option too.

[onelovemp]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhW3tk17Y_M&NR=1

Do it like this Touche!

LOL that nest went BOOM! [rofl]