Hornet Queen/when will she go away?

[Frith]

Hi everyone, my first thread was querying flying insect which I now know is definitely a queen hornet. She had built a small nest underneath a wooden structure which had a nice little gap underneath. When my husband removed the nest it had small larvae in it which were moving. The fence has not been put back but the queen is still coming to where it was and then hanging round the back of the house and near the eaves. Will she start another nest nearby or if not when will she realise that the nest is no longer there and go away. I hate wasps and hornets and am wary of going out the back as this queen always seems to be in the vicinity. At the same time I don't like killing anything unless I have to. Any comments would be appreciated.
Frith.

[Hedge Witch]

Hi Frith, Welcome to WAB
The best place to get an answer to your query is in the insect forum. This link should work:
http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/fo...=newthread&f=4
Hedge

[treecreeper]

Welcome to WAB Frith

[squodgy]

Hopefully she'll give up & find the nearest alternative site which for the sake of your fears we can only hope is far away.....But it just may not be.
These things are fearsome by reputation, but a review of the books, sites and blogs seems to indicate they just want to be left alone to mind their own business and are NOT normally aggressive towards humans unless provoked.
If she is successful in establishing a nest the normal population isn't anything like our wasp, being in the low tens rather than hundreds.
As a deterrent I would spray the nest site with RAID Wasp Nest Destroyer from good hardware shops. I had to use it on a bee colony which lodged in our roof, because Council cutbacks under this lot of baboons meant no more pest help, the alternative was to cough up to 'professionals'.
Anyway, I sprayed as far in as I could and it wiped most out, with returning workers falling like flies feet from the entrance. Unfortunately the Queen was still alive & the colony re-grouped requiring another more sustained attack....which worked.

[Frith]

Thank you everyone for your comments. Hopefully problem has been solved by removing woodwork where hornet nest was and have now finished wall off with bricks so nowhere for new nest to be built. Have not seen the queen around for a couple of days but our neighbours strangely enough have found two dead hornets near to their log pile. These were obviously not queens not as big but they cannot find a nest nearby so are wondering where they have come from and why they are dead! The plot thickens.
Frith

[ron1863]

A warm welcome to WAB Frith

[Jim Ford]

Welcome from me, 'Frith'!

We felt honoured when hornets set up a nest under our porch sofit a couple of years ago, even though I got stung when I got too near when investigating. We'd welcome them back!

Jim

[sunnydale]

Welcome from me too!