This is as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

Grinne, they may have a nap now and then
but I can hear them working away morning
noon and night on the roof supports.
A continuous tapping noise, eating the
wood, chewing it up and making paper for
the nest. My problem they are in the
attic how long do I have to wait before
I can go up there and destroy the nest ?
Adrienne

At the end of the day, do wasps sleep or not??? This has been puzzling me for days. I think that research has been done and they’ve shown signs of sleep. Hmmmmmmmm.

Having encountered a (american) football sized one in our eaves, I can relate!Spray them in the evening or night, when they’re dormant.“Seven” is a wonderful product for ground dwelling yellowjackets, another nuisance.

We had a man come and spray stuff at wasps in our eaves. There was no swarm, they just died. However, after recent rains, their dead bodies have been washed out onto our decking. This morning I swept up about 30 ex-wasps.

I have some of that compressed air in a can used to dust off keyboards. I’m thinking of waiting till nightfall and spraying them with the freezing cold liquid that comes out when you hold the can upside down. It instantly freezes anyhting that it comes into contact with. (Maybe I won’t do this, sounds dangerous)

Remember the freeze idea?
Tried it. Killed one. Awoke many. bad idea. Real bad. Didn’t get stung, but came close. Don’t try this at home ... or anywhere else for that matter.

Guess I’ll just go watch [Adult Swim] on Cartoon Network.

Why do wasp act like they do when they
are sprayed. Their stinger sticks out
and legs straight up in the air. Are
they burning in major pain or not?

wasp stings bloody hurt.
how should i get rid of them without getting stung.
i cant go outside because of the fricking things

I too hate wasps and am having a bit of diffucutly, to say the least, removing them. you see, I live in an ancient second story apartment with many open windows and the awful things keep coming in. I’ve tried spraying a variety of substances at the sneaky bastards but they just fly around like crazy….three in my bathroom yesterday afternoon! How do you propose I get rid of them? I’ll kill one and more will later appear! Not to mention, I’m far from keen on approaching a ferocious flying beast in the confines of my bathroom!

hair spray is good if they are in the house!

Wasps are absolute cunts, sorry about the language but they are.

Me and my girlfriend have battled 2 wasps in the last 4 days and both times they have started world war 3 with us.

We live in the UK (England) and as far as I have seen sting whatever they can which kind of pisses me off.

I tend to get the bastards with hair spray which sticks to their wings and tends to fuck them up somewhat apart from the one tonight…

The other night I killed a large wasp with 2 long bursts of hairspray to immobilise it and then knocking it into a jar and flushing it down the can. However tonight we saw a small wasp circling around the bedroom light…this fucker took about 15 direct hits including a fair few blasts of a combination of hairspray and deodorant.

Eventually we trapped it in a glass on the ceiling but this motherfucker was still alive and kicking, this being the second bout of torment (resulting in me running around the bedroom for half an hour) we decided to drown the fucker in nail varnish remover, they really should sell that shit in an aerosol, it died almost instantly.

Best wishes

Dan And Camwy

I hate Wasps too, and I would like to know if they sleep, does anybody know?
There is no insect that has a more pointless and pathetic existence than that stupid insect, I havent been swimming all summer because of the bastards

i cant stand wasp too, they are doin me head in, fuckin bastard heh, i got stung in ma face, ma cheek, it so painful, so i phone a man to came round to get rid of the nest, its worth it, left me peaceful…..

WASP PROBLEM - ANT POWDER, TREAT AT NIGHT, WEAR TRAINERS, KEEP DOOR OPEN. TREAT AND RUN LIKE HELL.

I heard that wasps in the uk caught a virus, so they are now extinct, or on the verge of all dying out. Is this true?

Tonight I tried to treat a wasp nest with some specialist insecticide foam from a spray can – All I would warn anyone is that the buggers can fly as fast as I can run!

Help Wasps in Attic (Aug. 22/05)

I was awaken this morning by my brother saying there were wasps in his room. Half asleep and thinking I was having a bad dream, I went to investigate and surely there were more than 50 little buggers flying around. He said he first heard buzzing around while sleeping and after he killed it thats when more started coming. We could see that they had chewwed through the ceiling, a little tiny hole and thats where we could see then coming from.

So far the play of attack is to go out this morning and buy so wasp killing insecticide and then use it spray up the little hole. Then ceil up the hole right away him some putty so that they don’t all start flying out. Wait an hour or two and then look up through the attic crawl space to see where the hive is get it out. I’ll need to also get some wire mess to cover up the side vent pn the outside of the house where I think they must of came in through.

I’ll report back with the end of my story after their all gone.

i got the bastards in my fence and cant get rid of them cause i cant see the damn nest does anyone know what i can use ive already tryed ether

Tale of Torment.

Lets get this over with.

I live in Wales U.k we have an almighty wasps nest.

I asked the wasps to buzzz of or behive but they would not listen

We have a nest of wasp's in a compost heap at the bottom of the garden.

I cannot see it. but the steady 12 lane traffic is clearly visable.Not to mention anoying !!

My plan is this....extend garden hose to compost heap, insert hose deeeeep into the mound, pissing off the sentry wasp's in the process. Return to house, switch on hose.......for about a half hour, thus pissing off the whole colony into flight formation.The hose is then turned off...(briefly) On the wasp's return to their now soaking wet home , i turn on the hose once again.

Altough this works to irritate the little blighters it has not provided a solution.

lets see how the Fcukers like CAUSTIC SODA in there as well !!!!!!

I found this site because I suspected I had a wasps nest in my loft. I recently changed a bulb in the lounge and 19 dead wasps floated down. Yes, I went up last night and found one the size of a party jelly and one the size of a rugby ball. Bad dreams last night - hate insects due to having lived in Vietnam and Thailand (don't start me on cockroaches!). Couldn't stand another minute knowing what might be up there so I went with the loft-opening rod and smashed shit out of them both. Luckily both were empty. Ah, sweet dreams tonight.

Hi everyone, just wanted to add a comment to this post regarding the same damn problem! wasps!! I am in the process of getting some quotes to just exterminate the bastards!! I have tried the ortho wasp and hornet killer. this I found to be good if you are sitting outside and immediately see one. It drops their ass dead in their flight. However, we have too many of them. they are going into the side window frames, going way up in the corners of our house, making nests everywhere to where I just can't deal with this anymore. I can only hope the extermination is not going to cost us a fortune. Both hubby and I are disabled and collecting social security disability. I have a paralzyed left foot to where I can't run when one comes after me. We have a very nice deck that i had put a 10X12 screen house. We just bought indoor outdoor carpeting to avoid these pests from coming into it. I am too afraid to zip up the sides and sit in that screen house just in case a wasp happens to come in there as I will freak out being trapped inside before I can unzip the screen and get out. With all the research I have done, wasps are suppose to come in the summer, not the spring time and right now, it is spring and they are here!! most likely due to the very light winter we had. I can only hope this exterminator is not going to tell me they are in my attic. I have a feeling they have come into the house and are nesting in the walls. I have heard noises in there. Not recently but a few years ago. never did find out what that problem was but when one has problems with wasps, you start thinking they are everywhere. Maybe its a good thing they have started this early. knowing I am getting an exterminator, better to have it done early then later. If anyone wants to email me in the future to see how the exterminator went, how much they cost and how many treatments I have had, don't hesitate to contact me. I do feel for everyone that is dealing with this problem!! knowing how bad their sting is, I can pretty much deal with anything that can't hurt you but wasps, they have got to go!! Good luck to all.

We have the beginnings of two nests on our porch, surrounded by at least 15 wasps. Most of the advice I can find is on a completed nest. What should I do about the beginnings of one?

I just did a search on how to get rid of wasp, and this site came up.

I read about hair spray, and that sounded good but instead I used a can of aerosol adhesive glue, it knocked them down, and out. I used this in a tree house being built, as long as it is outside or in an attic spray the nest, and the wasp, be aware of new ones coming in on your way out.

THE BEST WAY OF KILLING WASPS WITH SATISFACTION!! >:)

this method is provided asuming you know where the nest is and that it is accessable.

YOU WILL NEED:

x1 bottle of chloroform (check e-bay)

x1 large thick rag (big enough to completely cover the nest with no gaps)

x1 hole in the ground in the yard big enough to bury the nest

enough fine rust to cover the fill the hole with nest in it

an equal ammount of equally fine or as fine as you can get it aluminium powder

x1 1ft length piece of magnesium ribbon

(for the rust aluminium and magnesium check ebay. Or www.unitednuclear.com if you live in the US)

ok to prepare it:

1. mix the aluminium powder and rust in 50-50 proportions (MIX WELL this is essential) also do it outside as rust wont come out of anything

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And further preperations:

Step one: wait untill dusk (this is when the wasps all return to there nest.

Step two: soak the rag in the chloroform for about half-an-hour untill the buzzing stops.

Step three: whilst the rag is temporarally stunning the wasps put one of those black bin bags in the hole to make it water tight

Step four: fill the hole upto about 2" with the mixture

Step five (30mins later): roll the nest onto the rag and take the nest of STUNNED wasps out side and roll it into the hole

Step six: now empty the remainder of the mixture around and on top of the nest creating a pile of mixture above ground

Step seven: cut off a 4" length of magnesium ribbon and insert it into the tip of the pile.

FINAL STEP: now depending on how pissed of you are you can either wait untill the bastards start to come round (start buzzing) or ignite the magnesium immediatly SAFTEY PRECAUTIONS: stand about 15ft away from it and ware some darkened shades this is what will happen...

the magnesium will burn at 1500 degrees and will cause whats called a thermite reaction the rust will become hot enough to steal the oxygen atoms from the aluminium and become iron again but in the process the wasps nest is submurged in 5000 degree molten iron it will spray everyware during the reaction so do it somewhere out of the way of sheds etc. things to remember do not extinguish with water since it will become hydrogen gas and explode dont examine your focell of a wasps nest untill about an hour has past and NEVER go near it untill ten minutes had past with no further reactions.

LEGAL JARGON:

i cannot be held resposible for any injuries you may recive whilst following my instructions and nor can the website that this may turn up on be sensable with this stuff and follow the guide lines given and you will have no problems... HAVE FUN

Its a shame there isn't enough replies, or follow ups to these posts. Why doesn't anyone post their results, or the solutions they find?

The last post made me laugh though, especially the description of what happens.....

I have just spotted the start of a wasps nest in my gardening tool shed. Rather than leave it I thought I'd do something sharpish.

Gave it a little poke (you never know it may have been deserted). Nope.... an irritated wasp buzzed into life, and I made a hasty retreat, slamming the shed door shut, as I made my escape (I've heard lots of stories, and didn't want to become a statistic, but seem to be becoming a whimp).

I suppose could just get something solid and flat, and crush the nest and all into the roof of the shed (its quite flat), it just that it's the sort of thing you don't get a second chance at, if you piss 'em off.

I think we should just have bees, at least they don't sting you, when they're having a crap day.

Oh well, a quick surf to see if there's any other tips on this subject, then it's off to get something solid and flat, and oh yes, some balls.

I was lucky as I noticed ( or to be correct..my hubby noticed as I wouldnt know what one looked like!!)a wasps nest as it was being built. It was only the size of a ping pong ball and only had one wasp working on it. Me and a friend sat in the garden and waited for the wasp to go for lunch or whatever wasps do when they're not nest building! I then got a tupperware pot, held it up to the nest, slid the lids across and VOILA.....one wasps nest safely moved ( although the wasp lookes a little upset when it returned 10 mins later!!haha serves it right)So I now have no nest in my garden, and a really neat wasps nest to use with my year 2 pupils in science class.I'm not as brave as I seem though as I put the nest, in the container, in a cupboard so that the wasps didnt come looking for it!!!!!On a safety issue, I wouldn't recommend this course of action to anybody else!!

I have been finding wasps for 2 weeks now doesnt sound a lot but ive found 5 now and i havent got a clue how they are getting in. I am absolutely petrified of them when i see one i darent even spray it i lock it in a room and wait for someone to come round and kill it for me. All the ones ive found have been dying or dead. I just wish i knew where they was getting in all the ones ive found have always been upstairs. I just wish i knew how they were getting in then atleast i might dare sleep up there.

Everytime we open a window we seem to get a queen type of wasp come in the house, we must have had 10 in the last two weeks. we generally let them find their own way out although the kids go mental especially when they find one in their bedroom. Does anyone know if these things may ease off as the year goes on or is this just the start.I am about to go for the jugular from now on with the portable can of wasp spray because basically i can`t stand anymore of the little bastards.

shit!! just went down the garden shed and found what looks like the start of a wasps nest..had a good look at it... then smashed the crap out of it along with 1 fucked off wasp and so i am here now after running like mad with a crazy wasp hot on my ass..... i dont know what type it was well seeing as im in the uk(english wasp) right im going back out there for some Reconnaissance with a can of anti-freeze

3 days ago i went up in my loft - i'm always in and out of it cos my sheds at the bottom are falling apart and it's the only place i can saftely store my work gear....

but as i opened the hatch sawdust and chipping sprinkled onto my head... i was suspicious, so i looked around after turning the light on - it was about 7pm - sure enough, a small tennis ball sized straw coloured dome...

I am scared of wasps in a big way, but don't wanna pay a bloke £100...

I got an idea - http://www.trapawasp.co.uk/wasp_nest_hornets_nest_destroyer_kit.htm

- i hope i've got the bottle when it arrives..

I just seen the biggest fecking wasp. It was about 40mm long (1.5ins)

if you`ve not gone metric. Loked like an everyday wasp only a giant. Surely that can`t be right?

Hi All,

I just discoverd today that there's a wasp hive in my garden shed.It's only the size

of a golf ball but the queen is a right bitch.So I got some Info on it and the

objective is as follows,get

a sweeping brush knock the nest with the handle of the brush, drop the brush slam the shed door and run like an olympic sprinter.Leave it for 2 to 3 hours, then open the door a jar and fill the shed with insectiside.

Hope this helps

Hi

I saw a wasp flying around the eaves last night and watched it as the little bugger went in a gap that must be the size of a pin hole

I went into the attic and could not see anything at all sprayed like mad wasp and fly killer and went back outside to see the bugger crawl out of the hole

I have not seen anymore activity so far and the local council pest control will not spray until we see more of the buggers going in or out

Anyone think this is a lucky escape with it looking for a place or is the a beginnings of a nest

Our house has a outer layer of insulation and then the wall I think it is between the wall and the insulation that this bugger is locating a nest if it is

Any ideas

'ello

Just thought I'd share my little storie with you all. Lets start off with the fact that I'm Deathly afraid of the little bastards. So the other day one of them was in my florida room i trapped it in a jar, being extreamly pissed off at the bugger, I threw some nail polish remover in the jar with it and rolled it down the stairs :).... quite fun to watch as the drunk ass wasp squirmed and died... sounds twisted I know... but dont knock it til u try it.

=) adios

i have a wasp nest out side my window but its under the roofing and im sure there is a nest under it because my friend and i have seen them go in (the sods!!), but now there coming into the room below and i dont know how. what can i do or get to get rid of the bloody things!

Last year I was cutting the hedges when a wasp came out in millisecond and stung me on the knee. Fortunately I didn't cut off my leg with the electrical hedge cutter. I ran to the back of the house immediately and went inside to get some Benadryl topical ointment to rub on it. It had already swollen so large.

I hear that some people die from wasp stings.

Nevertheless, I survived. Wanting to complete my hedges, I went out and bought some wasp killer from the local home improvement store.

I opened the front door... sprayed the bush where the nest was, and closed the door very quickly. The next day I beat the bush with a broom to make sure that all of the wasp were out of the tree before removing the nest.

So here I am on the internet a year later looking for ways to kill wasp. They are much worse this year. I can't even walk out of the back door without seeing some fly by.

It's us against them people. We can't let the enemy take over our homes!

I'll let you know how it goes.

Great stories!

In the spirit of "save the planet", my wife put up a bumble-bee/butterfly box against the garden wall. Despite being clearly labelled, some illiterate wasps moved in and set up home.

If they couldn't read a "bees and butterflies only" label I figured they would ignore an eviction order so decided to use force.

Forced a deep plastic bucket upwards from below the nest until the top covered the entry holes. Went and watched football while things calmed down. Lowered a hose pipe into bucket. More football. Filled bucket with water.

One day later and a few wasps still flying around - I hear they have long memories - hope they don't think of following the hosepipe.

I HATE WASP SO BADLY I WOULD KILL TO HAVE THEM BE EXTINKED!!!!!

We just found a wasp nest too. and used RAID on it. The wasp (we saw one) hasn't returned since even though we're still hiding behind our screen door watching in terror.

Hello all,

my sister noticed a wasps next dangling from the soffit above her window and she aint too happy about it. Rugby ball sized at this stage and its just pissing me off knowing its there. We had a golf ball size one last year on the soffit of the house and i watched it for a while and there seemed to be only one or two wasps hanging around so i bit me tounge picked up a flat headed spade walked over to it, took a good swing at it, exploding it. I legged it back inside the house as i gave a high pitched girlie yelp. job done.

The nest we have now is fairly big so i cant really do the spade thing again. Im not too excited about standing under it with a can of spray, hoping they dont pile out on mass. Very tempted to try the throwing the shoe at it and run like crazy method but i can see it all going horribly wrong. Must check the shops and see what they have to battle these critters.....

Heres hoping.

Best of luck to the rest of ye.

Hi,

I have a wasps nest in my roof and I've just had a guy out from environmental health to look at it for me. He told me that I had several choices. One, I could leave the wasps alone as at the end of the summer they'll die off and the nest will never be used again...although before that happens he said an awful lot of activity will be going on, wasps in and out of the nest all of the time. The second choice was that he could deal with the wasps for me and charge me £30. The third choice was that I can go and buy ant powder, which is what he would be using anway, for just a couple of pounds and get my husband to treat the nest himself tonight. All that he said to do was to explode the bag of powder, throw it into the hole and within 5 days all of the wasps will be dead. Apparently they don't like the powder, won't go near it to get out of the hole and so they will all starve to death. I've got my fingers crossed that it works!

I have seen wasps flying around my garage. So my husband did some investigating and found approxmiatly 10 nests all over my garage. So i went to the store when it got dark and bought 100% acetone remover or finger polish remover. Anyways if you use a bottle where it shoots straight out they die immediatly. They died instantly. Make sure to do at night. That is when they are dormant. good luck. If you follow this it works. Just stick it in a spray bottle and go to town. I saturated these nests. knocked them down and smashed them.

There is only one good way to remove wasps, yellowjackets and other stuff without actually touching the nest. (Im afraid of the nest myself).

Take a pop bottle and put an equal amount of sugar and water in it. Put lid on tight and shake that thing until all the sugar dissolves, or close to it. Throw som apple cider vinegar in the thing, and shake some more (make sure lid is on tight). Now, take a knife or something, and without spilling the mixture in the bottle, cut off the top 1/3 of the bottle where it goes from curved sloping sides to flat, ya know? Yeah cut it off there. Now take the lid off and turn the thing upside down so lid end is facing down and drop it in the top of the bottle.

---IMPORTANT--- MAKE SURE THE HOLE WHERE THE LID HAD BEEN IS NOT IN THE LIQUID MIXTURE.THERE HAS TO BE ROOM FOR WASPS TO FLY IN WITHOUT TOUCHING THE LIQUID.

Now, put it where ever the wasps are. They will be attracted by the vinegar and sugar water and fly in, the conical shape will confuse them, and theyll get confused and hit the liquid and drowned because wet wasps can't fly very good.

You have to clean the thing out every now and then and replace the mixture. If you don't, you will have a big bottle of dead wasps that you have to dispose of and it'll be disgusting. Also if it's to full all the new wasps in there might survive because they never actually touched the water. (in theory; i clean mine out often so this hasn't actually happened to me yet)

For really big nests employ the use of about 1 mixture/bottle to x amount of wasps. (I say X instead of an actual number because the less you clean it out the larger x can be)

Most of that wasp killing stuff that comes in aerosol cans is flammable. Wait till early early morning or late night, spray the nest, and light it up with a lighter, in theory this will work, realistically, somone try it and tell me how it worked out.

I came out my front door the other day only to find that freakin wasps had built a nest in a crevice right above my front door!!! This makes leaving the house and coming home an unpleasant and weird experience. I learnt to lock the door real quick!

Plan - I fetched the hoover, took the rug attachment off the end of the pole and switched on. I aimed the end of the pole right over the entrance of the nest and started sucking the mothers up! Problem is I did this mid-day, so I didn't realise there was a backlog of pissed off wasps waiting to get into the nest!!! Next second the neighbours are trying to figure out who this freak obi-wan kenobi is, fighting off imaginary foes with his hoover-sabre.....

Run Obi, run!

I have a Nissan Sentra that I have been trying to get to run for the better part of a year now , and have not really done any work on it for the last 2 months or so . I went to try to replace the starter on it , and was extremely lucky to have not been stung . There was yellow jacket nests from hell under the starter area , under the exhaust manifold , and inside the cooling fans for the radiator . Also inside of the wheels and the front and rear bumpers . So far I have used 8 cans of wasp spray , and it seems to have worked pretty well , but I have a lot of concerns about the first time I go for a drive with this car if I have not gotten all of them . Also have similar problems with mud dobbers . Welcome to Georgia .

I just noticed wasps coming in and out of the guttering above our kitchen. I hate wasps. Gonna ring the council see how much it costs to get rid of them. Cant even see the nest so cant do anything myself its right underneath the roof the sneaky little buggers.

Squirting petrol on the outside of the nest kills them instantly. However, this is apparently illefgal in the UK. Usual warnings apply.

Well, let me join the pack of wasp haters! Why is it that they only want to come out when my family and I go swimming.. Hell when we're not in the pool..they're nowhere to be found...but as soon as we get our happy asses out there...here they come....My six year old daughter ..who by the way is teaching herself how to swim is getting really ticked off...She's the stubborn sort..and won't let anyone else teach her...so she's learning on her own..and doing a damn good job of it...but the wasps are really screwing her up.

The rest of us have really gotten used to the "buggers" as I've heard many of you call them and we haven't gotten stung yet...I just keep a can of wasp spray by the pool and when they get their supply of water and take off...bam! shoot 'em with some of that shit and they are gonzo! But you kill one,,,three more appear...it's a never ending battle...

So in closing..I guess I'm not that bad off as some of you are...but that doesn't make me hate them any less...

Signing off as the wannabe "Wasp Whacker" in California

Ok so I was working away minding my own business when suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my left side.The little fucker had climbed up my shirt and stung me.

Next I felt sick,weak and my muscles felt loose.

I think I had a bad reaction to the sting when I found it hard to breath.So did I run to hospital?No.Got a ladder climbed up to the nest and sprayed half a can of de-icer(only chemical I had in the car) in to the entrance and ran.

Sadly the little fuckers live on.

So its back on Monday with some real ammo to do the little fuckers.

After that im going to whip out thousands of the fuckers.

Im going looking for them now.It aint over.

Got some good tips on here.Ant powder,wasp spray,petrol and I like the idea with the bottle.

Lets do the fuckers.

Joe..

ps Why does my girlfriend think im going mad?

I'm in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. We recently discovered two wasps nests under the eaves of our house (one larger one at the front of the house, one smaller one at the side).

My (stupid?) strategy is to spray them from one of the upper story windows with one of those Raid wasp killer sprays, which sprays 20 feet. I will be roughly 12 feet away - not directly under the nest, but shooting from an angle underneath it.

I plan on doing it about an hour after sundown, and keeping as little of the window open as possible while doing it, just sticking my hand out with the can and spraying away. I'll have my wife stand a safe distance away on the ground outside to tell me if my aim is accurate.

I was planning on autumn & the frost to take care of it, but:

a) we're getting pestered by wasps whenever we're outside, and...

b) we're planning an outdoor barbecue for Aug. 12th, and I don't want the things wrecking our party.

So, what do folks think is the likelihood of me getting stung? I've heard everything from 'shouldn't be a problem' to 'you'll have 40 of the things come down kamikaze-style on you and sting the f*** out of you.'

I'm a little fearful and neurotic about carrying out the operation, but the damn things have got to go.

Went to the dentist once. Had the injection, mouth froze. Then I spotted a wasp, then another, then another. Wasps just emerging from the new nest they had build came through a tiny gap in the window ledge into the room. Waiting room full of patients downstairs, including kids. So the dentist, the dental nurse and I set about the little blighters with whatever came to hand. Had to shut the door because of the people downstairs. We were just about to be overtaken when THE EVIL IDEA STRUCK ME> I hoovered the little sods up with the suction pipe used for removing bits from under your tongue. Crisis avoided but I have to say the feeling of self satisfaction was fab. I was very smug for days after. I live about ten houses away from my dental surgery, I hope the wasp relatives never come back for their revenge.

See it suck it and burn it

A couple years ago,I saw a sodding great big wasps nest in my attic,I had no nasty snuff out sprays so in the evening when there all dosy, i put on a boiler suit, gloves,gogs, long woolie hat and scarf and crept up to em and sucked up the little buggers including the nest into a vacuum cleaner then i sealed the vac bag in plastic bag and set fire to it

Here in UK have tried to live with the wasps that have taken residence in my front porch despite both my partner and I being stung twice now for minding our own business.

Called local council to deal with but they were useless and never got back to me despite repeated requests to come and treat them. Alas never happened so, as I could not see the nest and needed a ladder to reach the top of the porch where they were going in and out from I devised a plan (of sorts!).

Firstly I sprayed Raid fly and wasp killer around the enterance and jumped off the ladder and retired safely back in doors... Later in the evening when they were sleeping (if thats what they do?) I sprayed Nippon Ant powder all around the entrance that they were using - by using the pressure of the powder dispenser managed to spray it right inside the small opening and within 2 days later wasp nest in porch was no more (well the wasps were not anyway!).

Happy days!

Let he who has insight calculate the number of the wasp, for it is the number of man, and that number is six-hundred and sixty-six. God help us all!

I too have problems with wasps. I don't understand why my neighbors don't try to treat them - they just let the wasps fly around and breed as much as they want. The main problem is that I am seriously allergic to them - the doctor says I most likely won't make it to the hospital next time I get stung even though I have an eppie. We have a pool and I had to leave to come in while everyone else swims because a huge wasp kept trying to attack me. I wish there was something that could be done, they're ruining my life. We keep poisons around and kill any nests we find but that doesn't seem to help.

I have found that the best way to kill anything is to get some fertilizer from B&Q (two sorts, which I can't put in print) mix them together, get a backpack fill it full of these fertilizers, go to where the wasp nest or white people are, and blow yourself and the enemy up!!

Before killing anything though, I would do as the prophet Mohammed did and get some hot love from a 9yr old, oh and maybe start trading in slaves.

I have noticed a number of wasps , maybe upto 10 or 20, circling around the top of a small tree in our garden , not swarming as such and not landing on the tree but close to a swarm given the numbers.

This has been happening for about 2 weeks , does anyone know what they are doing? or about to do???? ( UK )( October )

Not to put a downer on all the novel ways people have dealt with wasp problems but seriously, be careful when DIYing it. I read that when you kill a wasp it releases a chemical that makes any nearby wasp aggressive and on the attack. Also, running is a bad idea apparently but to be honest, i'd leg it! End of lecture ..

one of the bastards stung me this morning, probably the worst wake up call of my life. only good point is, it was the last thing it ever did.

So I went to do some laundry the other day and opened the doors to the laundry room to find two wasps. Turns out there wree more than 30 of them and poor hubby had to spray them with this mint spray that's a neurotoxin to them. It worked, but we found 12 dead wasps in the the laundry I'd just washed, then 4 more in the dryer. Oh, uck. Then we found two more in one bathroom and 8 more in the window in our master closet. They're coming from the roof, I think, but I don't have a clue where they're coming in or what to do about it. I think it's time for professional help.

i got a wasp nest in recently coverted loft husband an 15 yr old son chickend out to spray them with something from b&q we had to call out the council £50. but the little sods are still occationally 2/4 coming into the loft through cracks but cant see any flying round the guttering these i think must be ones that are hatching. keep scaying them with rade that deffinatly works

Hi all - love this site!! We have a wasps nest STILL in November! The little bastards are getting slower but we can't open the bedroom window, cause they keep coming in. I rang the council, they told me they would all die soon, so I have my fingers crossed. One came in yesterday, I squashed it (so I thought) but when trying to pick it on a tissue the little bastards sting was going in and out like crazy, almost as if it was aiming for me!! So of course it had to be squashed further. Job done! I think there are so many cause of the hot summer. Hate the thought of thousands of the swines inside my porch - not one of them paying rent either! My husband suggested I should spray them on a step ladder! We are still married - just!!!

I live in a dormer. In the summer of 2006 I noticed dozens of dead wasps on my dormer floor. I noticed this every day and night. They looked like baby wasp bodies. Even now 2nd week in November I see Wasps zooming around everyday. I am a poor 1st year Law Undergraduate, I cannot afford the fees professional pest control people charge, So I am looking for free advice from fellow wasp suffers.

So Shereen, you suffer the agony inflicted on you by your dreaded room mates. HA Ha Ha. Sorry. What you need to do is purchase a wasp spray and simply zap them to hyper-space. If that does not work, consider litigation. After all you are a law student. You just hurl one of your law books, the bigger and heavier the better. Try it. It works.

We have wasps nest in eaves back of house. Obviously climate change is happening, we have a new nest and very active for the past month. Now November 13th. It's London, England. Now I want some cold weather!

Re Alan comment last month, we had exactly the same last year. Loads of wasps in a curly willow tree at bottom of garden, no sign of any nest. They just seemed to hang around there, ceating a feeling of potential menace.

Obviously we should have got hackney council to issue them with an Asbo or one of those notices where the police can disperse gangs.

Just waiting for cold weather.....

Deirdre

I found a wasp nest under constructioon in our garage once, it was only a couple of inches in diameter, my solution was to shoot it with an air pistol from a range of about 8 feet.

What a shot! I blew it to pieces. Only one wasp flew out, must have beeen the queen, the only wasp working on it.

Ran like hell as soon as I shot it, but that method worked, get them while they are small.

This is the greatest sight! I never thought I could laugh about wasps! Every spring I have a halo of wasps around the eaves of my house. This year I think I am going to call a professional. The first time this ever happened was about 15 years ago. It was also the worst. I came out of my front door, on my way to work. I locked the door and suddenly felt something wasn't right. I looked up and there were hundreds of wasps around the eaves. I was afraid to go down the steps because the are right against the wall. That would put me in too close proximity to these bastards. I chose to jump over the railing (farthest point away from the house), about a 4 foot drop. Not a problem except, I landed in a pile of dog poop. Only with my foot, mind you, but I was on my way to work. I went around to the back of the house where my garden hose is. I was going to wash my shoe off. The entire perimeter of my eaves were engulfed with the red demons!! I wiped as much as I could off in the grass, took my shoes off, drove to a gas station and used their hose. It's been a battle eversince, but nothing like the amount that first time.

I have the solution. A wasp and like criders breath through their body. I read a newpaper hint to spray them with soapy water. I had a moble home and thousands of them had taken up residents in the eves. Well, I bought a one gallon pump up sprayer, poured a good squeese of liquid dish washing detergent and added a gallon or so of water. Then the fun began. At dusk when they "come home to roost" I begin to spray them good. They immediately began dropping like flys. I had thousands of them on the ground. The next evening I did the same thing. After 3 days I had pretty well done them in. From then on, a few might show up every once in a while and I gave them a taste of the same. Killed them dead! And it is cheap. Happy Hunting.

Wasps do sleep. I have one here under a glass. Fed it fruit and now it's curled up in a ball asleep.

I thought I would write this, having a debilitating fear of wasps myself. I admire those of you who can actually go out and murder the buggers, I wish I could but the minute I hear that god forsaken buzzing I'm like fucking roadrunner ... quite literally in one case when I ran out in front of a bus to get away from one ... thankfully the bus stopped at the bus stop otherwise dont think I would be writing this.

A word of warning to all of those who are brave enough to go into their lofs and tackle fucking wasps nests on their own. NEVER and I mean NEVER SQUASH A WASP. This is not a statement for the benefit of animals, this is a statement for the benefit of you. We all know that when a cockroach is squashed it lays new cockroaches ... dont worry this isnt what a wasp does, it's even fucking worse when a wasp is squashed it sends out a chemical signal of sorts, a distress call for fucking backup, hence why someone earlier on commented on the fact when she squashed one loads more came ... this is why. How do I know this you ask ... well two reasons one of which I am still traumatised from and the other is because my aunt is a botanist and has to deal with them daily. She actually doesnt mind them because they eat a parasite on plants.

Now dont get my wrong I hate wasps but when you have to deal with a hornets nest then things kind of get put into perspective. They are not only three times the size of an ordinary UK wasp but they are ten times as ferocious, faster with a harsher sting. And living in the north of scotland am having to deal with one at the bottom of the garden ... going to get the council out cause I'm not doing it. Terrified to go out of the house all windows sealed with towels and all sorts ... Paranoid, check.

I also read that someone heard wasps had caught a disease in the UK and were becoming instinct. I have to mark a downturn in their overall general presence, but the disease they are referring to has occured in the harmless, but horribly resembling their disgusting cousins, honey bee community. Sad I'm going to miss them in my heather, I'd rather have fucking honey bees than Hornets any day of the week. :o(

Just read Wikipedia, aparently in Scotland you cant have Hornets, extremely worried as to how they got there, or if they arent Hornets ... what the fuck are they? They sure as hell cant be wasps ... one can only hope ... could have found a new breed, you can all blame me if this is the case ... I highly doubt it lol

I have just nuked a wasps nest in my gazeebo with my pressure washer. Adjust it to a fine jet then had to run like fuck but it was satisfying, has fucked up their nest, pissed them all off and i was able to do it from about 10 feet away !!!

They are now just buzzing around with no nest, hopefully they will all leave shortly

Wasps: We have wasps in between siding! in the corner of our deck under the roof. We had our yearly mainenance worker come and spray them with three things: powder, foam and srpay. they decreased but came right back. I have tried ORTHO for Wasps etc even going there right to the entrance and spraying right down their darn entrance. It helped for about two days. they are right back again now! I even bought a plastic bottle entrance that attracts them with pineapple juice not a single one has gone in days later! They have too much food elsewhere I guess is the reason.

So found this site: I am gonna try:

the Ant Powder into the hole, Mint Spray whatever that is, pressure washer if can!, Was looking to see how bad it would be to put Chloroform into our hole near our deck into their nest but am afraid it would be lousy for us too later?

Hello everyone...I guess Me and My Mom are the exception...No, we don't hate wasps and yes they do sleep...and they have never bothered us. They sleep inside the little hanging plant on our portch. When I go out to water the plants I tap on the pot gentley twice to let them know I'm comming and then I gently start to mist the ground they sleep on to keep it cool. They leave for a few minutes and come back and go to sleep. THey sleep in pairs huddled close together laying in tiny little impressions they have made, with their little heads laying sidways. We were scared at first but they don't bother us and we live in harmony with them. Besides, if we were to kill them we'd be hurting the Bee's too and we love bees...We need them for our food and they are fast disapearing. Please stop using pestisides and Use things like "diatomacious earth" It works pretty good.

If you have a flea problem...use the little Advantage drops and Spay and nueter the little things...I know, that does'nt help when they don't belong to you and they are ferrel. My aunt caught as many as she could and had them fixed and then released them. We were scared at first and even knocked down some of the paper nests before the larva had a chance to grow and we will probable do that again next year to keep the numbers down but thats all. Any way ya'll have a nice day and remember they are God's creatures too.