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reef

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  • Location: Skirlaugh, East Yorkshire
  • Location: Skirlaugh, East Yorkshire
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the mid 90's - be prepared to do the 100m sprint when u pop anything in a public bin in september. that cloud of angry wasps that rises forth and attacks u.

Certainly agree with that. Summer 1995 was definitely one of the worst for them here. Got stung many times that summer and being only 11 at the time it has ingrained a fear of wasps that I still have to this day!

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Nick F Maestro

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
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Haven't had any wasps come into the house this summer, though sat in the beer garden a few times they have been hovering around for sure. I'm sure the person clearing the glasses was not amused when they found them upside down with an angry wasp trapped inside :lol:

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The PIT Maestro

The PIT

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  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield
  • Weather Preferences: Any Extreme
  • Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire 160M Powering the Sheffield Shield
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Another year and again very few wasps. Guess it shows that spraying crops is having a fairly large impact elsewhere.

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Hiya Contributor

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  • Location: New York City
  • Location: New York City
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i don't think its the spraying crops that kills them, its to do with rainfall. Wasps tend to flourish in dry conditions, cause their nests are made of paper, wet/humid conditions ruin their nests, if its very wet then they have to make smaller nests that are 100% protected from the damp and it reduces their numbers. Thats why the wet years at the end of the 90's killed off a lot of population from the mid-90's and they have never recovered.

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  • Location: NH7256
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  • Location: NH7256
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far fewer wasps here than in the last few years. apart from getting stung by one in may, i've hardly seen any. gone but not missed.

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M'Lady Apprentice

M'Lady

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  • Location: Merseyside
  • Location: Merseyside
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We've just found a wasps nest in our garden shed. *shudder*

I have a wasp phobia - so we want to get rid of it.

Lord P is quite happy to set fire to the thing, but I'm a little concerned that we may end up shed-less as he can get a little over enthusiatic when the opportunity to burn stuff presents itself.

Has anyone got any suggestions for a way to get rid of the hateful things?

(And please bear in mind we don't want to harm the lovely birdies nesting in our blossom tree... which is close to the shed.)

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Polar Continental Seasoned

Polar Continental

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  • Location: South Derbyshire nr. Burton on Trent, Midlands, UK: alt 262 feet
  • Weather Preferences: Extreme winter cold,heavy bowing snow,freezing fog.Summer 2012
  • Location: South Derbyshire nr. Burton on Trent, Midlands, UK: alt 262 feet
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We've just found a wasps nest in our garden shed. *shudder*

I have a wasp phobia - so we want to get rid of it.

Lord P is quite happy to set fire to the thing, but I'm a little concerned that we may end up shed-less as he can get a little over enthusiatic when the opportunity to burn stuff presents itself.

Has anyone got any suggestions for a way to get rid of the hateful things?

(And please bear in mind we don't want to harm the lovely birdies nesting in our blossom tree... which is close to the shed.)

Hi Lady P,

I wouldn’t have thought the nest would be very large just yet as it is very early in the season, are you sure it’s not an old nest left over from last year, if so you will probably find it is abandoned, but be careful never the less.

If it is active, it shouldn’t be anywhere near it’s peak yet, only the queen and at best a handful of workers.

If in any doubt, get the pest people out to it.

Paul

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M'Lady Apprentice

M'Lady

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  • Location: Merseyside
  • Location: Merseyside
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Hello Paul, you're right the nest is only small at the moment - I am reliably informed it looks just like the picture dear Froggy posted up on an earlier page. (I haven't seen it myself, I can't even bring myself to go into the garden now!)

I do know it wasn't there last year though... in fact, it wasn't there last weekend.

Lord P wants to try DIY treatment first... I suspect this will involve a flame gun type thing. :rolleyes:

Thanks for your help.

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Hiya Contributor

Hiya

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  • Location: New York City
  • Location: New York City
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Knock it off with a stick, take it outside, allow your husband to set it on fire away from the birds.

Have the children lined up ready to count the pops.

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PersianPaladin

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  • Location: 4 miles north of Durham City
  • Location: 4 miles north of Durham City
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Knock it off with a stick, take it outside, allow your husband to set it on fire away from the birds.

Have the children lined up ready to count the pops.

Bad idea. Bad idea.

At least you're not the one who got stung in the balls by two wasps on a hot afternoon.

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M'Lady Apprentice

M'Lady

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  • Location: Merseyside
  • Location: Merseyside
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Hit it with a stick. A long stick would be best.

Erm...

I hit something with a stick once. He got angry.

Just the once?!

Knock it off with a stick, take it outside, allow your husband to set it on fire away from the birds.

Have the children lined up ready to count the pops.

I like the way you have brought in an educational element there...

Bad idea. Bad idea.

At least you're not the one who got stung in the balls by two wasps on a hot afternoon.

Well, no, because I don't have balls you see... being a woman.

Lord P has purchased something called 'foaming wasp nest destroyer'.

This should be interesting.

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The Penguin Apprentice

The Penguin

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  • Location: South of Glasgow 55.778, -4.086, 86m
  • Location: South of Glasgow 55.778, -4.086, 86m
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I hit something with a stick once. He got angry.

An angry stick eh? That must have been a sight.

Lord P has purchased something called 'foaming wasp nest destroyer'.

This should be interesting.

But will it work if they're not foaming wasps?

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Greyowl

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  • Location: Cambridgeshire Fens. 3m ASL
  • Location: Cambridgeshire Fens. 3m ASL
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The nest isn't foaming either... yet.

Maybe set light to it as well just to make sure. :rolleyes:

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rixxxgolf

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  • Location: Grimsby
  • Location: Grimsby
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Grab a sack, quickly put it in the sack, tie-wrap the sack shut and then place it in a deep freeze for 3 days.

All wasps dead and it'll freak you out hearing the buzzes in the sack lol.

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Costa Del Fal

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  • Location: Truro, Cornwall
  • Weather Preferences: Winter - Heavy Snow Summer - Hot with Night time Thunderstorms
  • Location: Truro, Cornwall
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All the Wasps by me at the moment are like Static Ones. They will just be anywhere still....they dont seem to attack or get close to anyone either.

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flagpole Rookie

flagpole

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  • Location: Lindum Colonia
  • Location: Lindum Colonia
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All the Wasps by me at the moment are like Static Ones. They will just be anywhere still....they dont seem to attack or get close to anyone either.

They're dead.

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BARRY

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  • Location: frogmore south devon
  • Location: frogmore south devon
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inject a syringe of jeyes fluid into it they don't like it up them :) , also kills ants if you mix it with water

and spray with a watering can, smells very clean for about 2 days.

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Costa Del Fal

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  • Location: Truro, Cornwall
  • Weather Preferences: Winter - Heavy Snow Summer - Hot with Night time Thunderstorms
  • Location: Truro, Cornwall
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Theyre not Dead they Just stay there in the air.

Infact instead of coming to you they move if you go to them close!

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Andy Bown

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  • Location: Warminster, Wiltshire
  • Location: Warminster, Wiltshire
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Theyre not Dead they Just stay there in the air.

Infact instead of coming to you they move if you go to them close!

I think you may be confusing them with Hoverflies which have a very clever

defence mechanism ; they look like wasps!

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flagpole Rookie

flagpole

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  • Location: Lindum Colonia
  • Location: Lindum Colonia
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Theyre not Dead they Just stay there in the air.

Infact instead of coming to you they move if you go to them close!

Sleep-flying. Well know phenomena amongst wasps. Just be careful not to wake them.

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