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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Roxy on July 08, 2010, 04:19:02 pm
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Its massive, and the problem is, its in the corner of the goat shelter where Cain and Abel live. I noticed a few wasps a while back, never thinking much about it. Then saw this white mushroom looking thing up in the eaves, well its grown, and now its a big nest. They chase me when I go in the shelter to put food down, and probably chase the goats too.
Terrified of wasps, but it needs sorting. How do I get rid of them, and what do I use, thats ok with animals around obviously?
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We had one removed once. The guy put on a parka/snorkel type coat, zipped up with a net curtain over his head ;D sprayed the whole thing with fly/wasp killer, broke into it still spraying, most died straightaway, the kids took the nest into school after! it was the biggest nest the guy had ever removed! Be careful though, and they are defo wasps not bees?
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Dixie dear Wasps play for Hull City ;D ;D ;D :farmer:
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We had one in the eaves of the stables last year, I just enptied a couple on aerosol can of wasp killer onto it and it did the trick, waited till night time when all was quiet.
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theres a wasp killer spray that coats their bodies & they take it back to the nest.... dont know what is called though!
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I think your local Council can deal with it for you Roxy!
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yes definately teh council is the way to go, Pest Control dept not sure which main area they come under but am sure they get plenty of calls this time of year.
A few years ago i was digging in a new koi pond and removing a dwarf wall when i happened to stick my spade right through a wasps nest!! it was middle of summer and as i was running i grabbed lily our dalmation and legged it into the house! anyway i had a plan............... what better that a gallon of petrol and a match, so i dressed up in my full hi-viz leggings and jacket and tied a scarf round my face so only my eyes were exposed!! sweltering i legged it up the garden with a cup full of petrol, poured it on and tossed in a lit macth.. hey presto no more wasps. what i didnt bank on was teh flames being about 8 feet high. thank god i didnt have a fence near by!!
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That's how John got rid of a nest underground - it was very near an old railway carriage that had been left there when we moved in. John and the wasps are long since gone but the railway carriage lives on ;) ;D ;D ;D
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We've had three nests around our house and garden in 20 years. The first one was at the end of the garden and we called a man out to get rid of it. I'm standing watching in my shorts and trainers as it's a hot day and he is dressed in the full bee keeper type gear. Anyhow, he sprays this stuff into the nest and promptly turns and runs headlong past me towards the house. It seems that he was really scared of wasps and failed to tell me that they get a bit miffed when sprayed. It took me a disturbingly long time to catch on to what was happening but I got away with it.
The second nest was in an air brick in my sons bedroom. I sprayed that one myself at dusk and it was ok.
The third was only a small ball in my shed so I took it down before it could develope.
Ian
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Long ago by the light of the silvery moon these two Herbert's crept down the side of the fence and when they got to this mouse hole in the ground Quietly removed the tin lid and with a dessert spoon removed a spoon full of Cymag .The spoon was taped to a 10 ft cane hence two of us,Very carefully was the spoon maneuvered over the hole and gently turned over pouring most of the powder down the hole but a little around the top on the ground.The next day when the sun was high in the sky we went and inspected the hole most cautiously nothing happening So we left it At the week end we took a spade and very carefully dug the wasps nest out there were hundreds of dead wasps We eventually got it dug up and it was without any exaggeration twice as big as a football and it had 13 layers in when we broke it open.Two chaps in the village said they had never seen one dug up as big .They had seen them as big in roofs and even bigger in the chapel roof a couple of years earlier What a lot of soil they must have carried away to get the nest that largeImagine how many grains of soil and how many journeys because there was no evidence of their being there only the sight of them going in and out.Whilst I wonder at their industry of home building and some must be gathering food and some tending their young I HATE THE BLASTED THINGS Its a spoon of cyanide or a pint of petrol if its in a hole and don't throw the match in to soon.Ive not tried em but barbecued wasp don't appeal to me ??? ::) >:( :farmer:
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A little observation on the post below I am well over 70 years old and am a true dyed in the wool joskin. I have never ever seen a swarm of wasps.Bees many a swarm. I have even taken a box and cut the branches from around the nucleus and then lowered the branch end and the bees into the box and then cut the branch then taken the box to a pal who gently undoes the lids and tips the bees out onto the apron of a empty hive but all those days are long gone I'm afraid I now still treat bees with the same respect and all ways talk to them if I go near their hive.I went and told Lady Yarborough's bees in the walled garden that Jim had passed away while he was on holiday in Egypt.No they didn't come and want to know more about it.Nor did they come to the funeral.I was talking to a chap and he said he had just bought a hive and some bee keeping gear and was going to get a swarm for £200 I was horrified You must not do that you never ever buy bees they never do any good for a master Don't be daft he said Alright you see and two years later they buggered off.I said now clever clogs sell the hive buy a fresh one and buy a jar of honey for X £'ss if he gives you a nucleus with the jar.This way you have not bought the bees and they will serve you well if you look after them well.He had that hive until he gave up bee keeping some 20 year later.
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Last night, it was dark when I took the two goats their hay and put it in the rack. Well, the light of my headtorch must have annoyed the wasps, because suddenly out of the back of the shelter, hundreds came at me and the goats. I ran, screaming up the field, with two goats behind me. Unfortunately one of them got stung on his head and his back, and he was running all over the field, trying to shake the horrible things off. Got to do something, its dangerous. Not sure the council will come out if its not in a house or garden, but a field though?
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No harm in asking - if it's a NO, then you need to get those goats out of there, then sneak in at night and spray the dammed things
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Just spoken to my farmer friend, and he has had a wasp nest in his field shelter where the cows are. He has got some powder, which he sprinkled on the nest, and he said it worked very well and killed the wasps. He is finding out what it is called so I can get some.
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Ant powder I believe
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So, ant powder will kill wasps? I really don't care what its for, so long as I can rid the wasps!!
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I got it froma website - googled -
After identifying the air vent as their entrance, I bought the most expensive wasp killer I could find in the shops but to my dismay, it just made them crazier and rushing from the choking fumes to other rooms in my home. Within a week, the numbers were increasing, I was scared to use the bathroom and tired of the swatting, ducking and diving. Even worse, I knew I couldn’t afford to call out the pest controllers on my low budget. Then remembering a friends past comment on ant powder killing wasps, I squashed some powder in the vent in my bathroom. The wasps didn’t dissappear but the ones I were finding were now dead or half way there.Viewing the vent connecting to the bathroom from the outside of the house, I could see these wasps diving in the holes (friends, aunties, uncles, cousins, the whole chibang!). Pushing my fear of heights to the back off my mind in order to win my battle with the little buzzers, I threw a quarter of the tub of ant powder down the outside vent, and watched in triumphant glee (from a distance of course!) as they buzzed off, suffocating in powder.
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That was three weeks ago and I can honestly say, there’s been no more buzzing activity from my bathroom air vent. Better still, I solved the problem with a 99p tub of ant powder. So people please think of ant powder as a pocket saving and effective alternative to picking up that phone to dial a pest controller that can cost from £50.00 upwards in my hometown.
Read more: http://gomestic.com/home/how-to-kill-a-wasp-nest-quickly-effectively-and-cheaply/#ixzz0tEM9AKrm
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good old fly spray, ant killer, proprietory wasp killer from a good garden center they all workas does creosote. patience is the key wait til dusk or very early in the morning and spray the nest with what you have then walk (run) away. respray the next day if there are any lingerers.
I do maybe 10 a year but only if they are in an area we are likely to disturb. we have loads of hedging and outbuildings. once we had an old diahatsu soft top which was left standing in the summer when we finally moved it it had a massive nest in the back seat probably the size of a 5 yr old child. we left it til the winter before we cleared that one out. Another occaision I was clearing some shrubs, after trimming the branches I was hauling them to the bonfire dangling the 10ft long branch over my shoulder when I suddenly heard a loud buzzing... looking round I saw a wasp nest melon sized attached to the branch.... that branch didn't travel much further that day. It was empty the next day