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Urgent - wasps nest in WIR - how to get rid?

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Hi!

 

I just got stung right on my love handle :cry::cry: I've got a big wasps nest on the underside of the onduline on the WIR. How do I get rid?? I don't want to spray them with poison, because of the chooks eating them. Any advice please? I need to get OH to do it tonight, as he is going away tomorrow. Many thanks! (Sorry Mods if this is in the wrong place!)

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I found advice on a bee forum where they spray with a soapy solution, which is OK for the chickens. So we just did that, and so far so good, apart from a swolen up back with very tender skin! Blimey, it is the first time I got stung by a wasp - I had no idea it hurts so much :shock:

 

Thanks for the advice Plum. Had the council out last summer to deal with a nest under our bedroom window. It was only £40 (well spent!), but they only come out if it is on or in your house, not outside buildings. We will have to fight this one on our own...

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:clap: yes well done you! Definately a bit of advice to be filed away. Especially as we had numerous swarms of Honey bees deciding they wanted new abodes last year.... bloomin things were damned vicious too! Attacked me & my dog (tiny long haired Chihuahua) while we were walking - got tangled up in my curly hair :shock: to say I was a little freaked out would be an understatement! The OH thought I was exagerating till I made him come with me next time and one stung him under the chin..... :roll: although pleased to have made my point, felt very bad as it didn't half swell up! :doh::boohoo:
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Well I checked this morning, and not a single one remains! The soapy water really did work! I feel bad for having killed them, but I'm afraid they were way too close to my girls (and me!). All done now...

Hi! I have a wasp nest within 5 feet of my chickens' run, can you advise how many parts soap/washing up liquid to how many parts water? it's getting bigger by the hour - I swear!

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Hi! I have a wasp nest within 5 feet of my chickens' run, can you advise how many parts soap/washing up liquid to how many parts water? it's getting bigger by the hour - I swear!

 

I took one of those pump bottles that you pressurise the contents and then spray. I just put loads of washing up liquid in and filled about three quarters with water - add water slowly so you don't foam it up. Just nice and strong - that's my recipe! Good luck, and make sure you get the queen...

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Hi! I have a wasp nest within 5 feet of my chickens' run, can you advise how many parts soap/washing up liquid to how many parts water? it's getting bigger by the hour - I swear!

 

I took one of those pump bottles that you pressurise the contents and then spray.

Perfect, I have one of those in the shed.

I just put loads of washing up liquid in and filled about three quarters with water

Better buy a big bottle of washing up liquid on the way home tonight!

Good luck, and make sure you get the queen...

How will I know!? I think I'll find a pair of goggles and layer up a LOT...

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How will I know!? I think I'll find a pair of goggles and layer up a LOT...

 

She's BIG! About 3 to 4 times the size of the other wasps, and will be the center of all the activity. My OH had so many layers and gloves and a hat on, he looked quite funny, but better safe than sorry :D

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How will I know!? I think I'll find a pair of goggles and layer up a LOT...

 

She's BIG! About 3 to 4 times the size of the other wasps, and will be the center of all the activity. My OH had so many layers and gloves and a hat on, he looked quite funny, but better safe than sorry :D

 

 

I've sorted out my OH's outfit for the action - we're having a debate - do you spray into the entrance hole first or soak the nest and spray into the entrance afterwards?

 

:lol:

 

 

think I'm going to put the girls in a cat carrier in my conservatory for tonight, so they don't become unwitting victims of angry homeless wasps!

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Okay we've sprayed them and shut the back of the house up - even broke a hole in the top of the nest and dumped a bunch of washing up liquid in there so hopefully they'll all be soaked/fly away and not come back. Will burn what's left tomorrow. (If it's worked!)

 

 

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I had to share :lol:

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Did he manage to come out unharmed? I love the outfit 8)

 

 

He is completely unscathed, and rather proud of himself - I think he reckons he earnt man points doing that!

 

We'll see if I still have a wasp problem in the morning :lol:

 

and thanks! It's a haus of Squiffs original from the spring/summer extermination collection ;)

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well, our wasps were either super resilient, or out at the time of spraying, because this morning some were flying in and out and it looked like they'd begun rebuilding.

 

I got a cool box and boiled up countless pans of hot water (and kettles too), mixed in more washing up liquid, my OH put some gloves on, grabbed the nest and we dunked it in the hot soapy water - made sure it was fully submerged, then shut the lid for about 10 mins. (I stood with a can of raid, ready to get any escapees!)

 

Not sure if we got the queen, there were a couple of bigger wasps that could have been her, but the amount of EGGS in the nest was frightening, huge white capsule/cocoon type things, layer upon layer of them, I'm not sure where the unhatched ones would have slept! Urgh, makes my skin crawl - a few wasps have come into the garden looking for the nest, but it and its contents are firmly shut in a cool-box making wasp soup, so hopefully they'll move elsewhere.

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Blimey, you had it bad! Mine is all gone, even the stragglers that survived. They'll just go and find somewhere else...

 

 

it was lodged in the back of a shrub, about the size of a rugby ball until last night, significantly smaller this morning but they weren't budging!

 

they're gone! yippee!! thanks for the tip - I didn't want to have to pay an exterminator £40 to do something that cost me £1.82 to do in the end!

 

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and yes, they may have deserved to live if they had survived this, but I'm still not sure I'd have been so kind :lol:

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