Wasp Nest

[Trent900]

Originally Posted by agrumpycow

well, after blocking off the airbrick last night have come home from work and they're still arriving in the bathroom en masse My other half had a look and they seem to be going into the hole in the wall outside where the waste pipe goes in so we're going to block off the overflow to the bath and keep the plugs in!

This seems very strange. There must be another way for them to get in considering all your waste pipes contain a U bend full of water (wasps seem to drown very quickly). Have another look around to see if there is another hole someware.

Keep a very close eye on the little buggers because as stated above by August the nest may become quite big which can be a pain when your sitting out in the garden etc.

If you want to try to thin them out by yourself use Derris powder, but be careful, this makes them a bit dosile until they 'drop off'.

Hope this helps.

D.

Edit: Wasps will never usually nest in the same place more then once, so if you do manage to get through the summer with them they won't re-appear in that place the following.

[agrumpycow]

Originally Posted by Trent900

This seems very strange. There must be another way for them to get in considering all your waste pipes contain a U bend full of water (wasps seem to drown very quickly). Have another look around to see if there is another hole somewhere.
Hope this helps.
D.

Definitely coming up through the bath plug - actually watched several of the buggers appearing earlier! Hopefully keeping the plug in will do the trick. As I said earlier, the cost of getting 'a man who can' in to destroy the nest is more that I want to pay! As for the nest getting bigger come August, if this rain continues I guess that'll keep the numbers down

[Trent900]

Originally Posted by agrumpycow

Definitely coming up through the bath plug - actually watched several of the buggers appearing earlier! Hopefully keeping the plug in will do the trick. As I said earlier, the cost of getting 'a man who can' in to destroy the nest is more that I want to pay! As for the nest getting bigger come August, if this rain continues I guess that'll keep the numbers down

Well, thats a new one to me LOL. The question here is, how are they getting into your waste pipe? Very strange. And wasps LOVE flying in the rain I'm affraid to say, unlike bees.

I quoted 'Derris' powder earlier. This is wrong. You should use 'Nippon Ant' powder if you really have to get rid of them.

D.

[eucera]

Originally Posted by dragonfly

iam sorry to say that as they have found some where inside they may never die off the queen will die but she will be replaced by another one and the nest will only get bigger theyan be removed by an expert dont try yoourself .

Not quite sure of the original source of this information. Although there are VERY few records of nests surviving the winter in UK, they have never been known to replace a dead foundress queen and continue for a second or third year. They always fail early in the new year.

In the tropical regions of North Island (NZ), the introduced Vespula germanica can form vast multi-queen nests, but there is year-round forage available, unlike here.

The latest they are likely to be active is until the first frosts of Autumn

[Waspy100]

Originally Posted by Trent900

This seems very strange. There must be another way for them to get in considering all your waste pipes contain a U bend full of water (wasps seem to drown very quickly). Have another look around to see if there is another hole someware.

Keep a very close eye on the little buggers because as stated above by August the nest may become quite big which can be a pain when your sitting out in the garden etc.

If you want to try to thin them out by yourself use Derris powder, but be careful, this makes them a bit dosile until they 'drop off'.

Hope this helps.

D.

Edit: Wasps will never usually nest in the same place more then once, so if you do manage to get through the summer with them they won't re-appear in that place the following.

Excuse the pun but my nickname really is waspy
When turning my loft into a storage place I came across an old wasp nest which I removed.
Mistake that said an old codger you should leave an old nest in then you will never get another.
Being a retired capenter who has done a few loft conversions in my time I have never come across more than one old nest in in any of them.