Can anyone offer any advice please? Wasps have taken up residence in an empty bird box in the garden/patio that's mounted on a wall right outside the utility door.. My immediate thought was to kill them with fire by building a mega bonner in the garden then tossing the whole lot in, bird house n al.. but seems a bit drastic and harsh.. as much as I dislike wasps I'd rather kill them swiftly if possible.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Spray wasp nest killer foam at it - from a distance and then run....
Do it at night when they are mostly all inside the nest.
I think it’s important to mention that wasps can be just as beneficial as bees so shouldn’t be murdered without further consideration.
However, I’ve found the powders particularly efficient and makes them far less angry than sprays. Small pile at the entrance and gone in 24hrs.
Don't kill them, just take the box off and put it somewhere else. They live in it now, so leave them alone, its not their fault you don't like them.
Unless you are god, you don't get to kill innocent animals 🙂
Just leave it bee.
Standard JoshVegas response.
They're ace leave them alone.
Unless you are god, you don’t get to kill innocent animals 🙂
Ticks...
are you sure they are wasps, bit early in the season according to the pest control people at my office for wasps - but what do they know?
Miniature dalek?
kill them with fire
You were right, carry on.
I hate wasps, weridly my birdbox also has visitors this year, gone are the usual Blue-tits, this year we have bumble bees, Despite having been stung by bith a bee and wasp while riding, bee flew into my jersey and panicked, the wasp flew into my mouth on a windy day and the sting on the tongue stands out as worse.
Wasps are excellent for controlling aphids and such like. If they're posing no risk then leave them.
are you sure they are wasps, bit early in the season according to the pest control people at my office for wasps – but what do they know?
It's nearly July. Wasps appear in the spring.
Thank you all. Some brill responses and I for one have had a good giggle! Definitely wasps and I suspect they've been in there for a little while as I kept finding them in the utility/garage but only recently twigged when I was working in the garden and seen a load in/out the birdbox.
I'm going to try and gently remove the box from the wall and put it at the bottom of the garden away from the house.
Cheers
I’m going to try and gently remove the box from the wall and put it at the bottom of the garden away from the house.
Good luck with that.
Can you get someone to video it?
Edit : btw expect to have a lot of confused wasps buzzing around your backdoor wondering where their home has gone.
I've done this before, trick is to wait till after dark and then using 2inch ducttape to cover the hole and then remove it. Take it to the nearest wood and fix to a tree.
I’ve done this before, trick is to wait till after dark and then using 2inch ducttape to cover the hole and then remove it. Take it to the nearest wood and fix to a tree.
That.
They'll probably be gone by the winter, bring it back and the birds can have ot again next year. Or get another one and some other birds have that
I’m going to try and gently remove the box from the wall and put it at the bottom of the garden away from the house.
Will you deploying a Laura Ashley cushion in true STW style?
Will you deploying a Laura Ashley cushion in true STW style?
I’m not sure that STW style nowadays is Laura Ashley, I think White Company is more it.
Saxondale.... all wasps are bastards.
Spray foam and run like you have never run before...
I’m not sure that STW style nowadays is Laura Ashley, I think White Company is more it.
Half way down that link find Tinners post.
Is @tinners still here?
Brake cleaner and a lighter. There is no other way
I’m still here, Joshvegas. Resting. My advice - definitely do not deploy the Laura Ashley cushion. I learned the hard way. Pay someone to do it and let their jojonas get repeatedly jabbed with venom instead….
Forgotten about Tinner's post and the Laura Ashley reference, my apologies. Could do with an index of classic posts - Picolax but more...
That was brilliant Tinners, dunno how I missed that one 😂
I'd forgotten that thread.
Thanks for posting Josh (and Tinner),I had forgotton all about the cushion Method 🤣 .
Not unlike your episode Tinners, a few years ago I was in roof space, a roof space with a telescope dome ,accessed through a trap door. I was just checking out the shutter opening(it’s hand cranked and rolls back in to the roof space), when I heard a ‘Thayflump’ as a football sized nest fell on to the floor behind me .The trapdoor(and safety)was now on the other side of a big noisy crowd of very pissed off wasps, I had no cushions or flamethrowers. How I got across the room and down the ladder without breaking my neck or getting stung to death (only two stings)still amazes me.
Ive just gone through a patch of 3 wasp nests on the curtains in my bedroom, I wanted to live and let live but they were about three feet from where my head is when I sleep And I found 2 of them in my duvet. I just put gloves on and chucked the nests out the window. I felt like a bit of a dick but I don't think they met me half way.
Hose pipe in hole at front. Give them a shower.
Get some powder - do it at night. Might take a couple of applications.
We had a nest last summer in the roof. They were getting angry everytime the front gate banged when the postie / delivery driver walked through it. Didn't feel great killing them even seeing the stripy bastards lying dead on the path under the nest though made me feel bad I and I hate them.
put up a second bird box for the birds - let the wasps have their own box and they'll live, or be eaten by the birds in the other box. It'd be like living next door to a takeaway 🙂
Also it's a bit late for birds to start using boxes isn't it? I'm no bird expert mind
But either way - don't kill them, we have very little eco-diversity as it is, wasps are being researched more and we are finding out that they are more important than we previously knew.
Don't use powder because they will spread it all over the place and you will end up killing/harming other insects that come into contact with it.
The best why to dispatch a nest is to put it in a sealed container with a cup of petrol and the fumes will finish them off very quickly.
An explosive substance like petrol doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
I have no idea what the result of igniting a bird nest box full of petrol will be but I suspect that an exploding fireball is quite possible.
Definitely video it if you decide to find out.
I’ve done this before, trick is to wait till after dark and then using 2inch ducttape to cover the hole and then remove it. Take it to the nearest Wetherspoons and nail it to the bar
I like this idea.
Just leave it bee
Deserves credit
