about as OT as it can get...

Alphabet

Wasps. Horrible little buggers. I've had two nests in my loft which haven't really bothered me until i had the builders in this week. they're doing some work up there and want the nests gone because they're a bit scared.

had a pest control company round yesterday to spray the nests and they're now telling me itll take up to 5 days for them all to die. This sounds like rubbish to me. anyone got any top tips on DIY insect slaying without getting massively stung?

Kieran_Burns

WD40. Lighter.

Maybe a fire extinguisher

Diesel works well for the less brave and foolhardy

kelsen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhW3tk17Y_M

Alphabet

hmm... not sure that's such a good idea in the loft, but i'll give it a go

hatbeard

take off and nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

cyclopsbiker

let the professionals do their job. if the nest full decide to swarm you it can be fatal. they're not to be messed with!!!

il_principe

This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7IsnS7csSQ

SimonAH

These aren't yellowjackets we're talking about, these are itty bitty normal wasps.

If the nest is accessible (ie one of the dangly paper jobbies) then wear work gloves, slip a plastic bag over the nest with one hand and use a paint scraper in the other to detatch the 'neck' from the joist.

Tie off bag full of shouty wasps.

Then decide who rates top of your revenge list, post bag through letterbox.

Alphabet

one of them is pretty small but hard to get to in the eaves, the other one i'm a bit more wary or - it's about the size of a large bean bag :shock:

SimonAH

..............ah. In that case call the A-Team.

lost_in_thought

Shouldn't most of the wasps be really rather dead and sleepy by now anyway? If they're not, turn your heating off for a week, then sweep them off the floor.

gtvlusso

I think a shotgun maybe a bit extreme, would be great fun though!

davmaggs

SimonAH wrote:

These aren't yellowjackets we're talking about, these are itty bitty normal wasps.

If the nest is accessible (ie one of the dangly paper jobbies) then wear work gloves, slip a plastic bag over the nest with one hand and use a paint scraper in the other to detatch the 'neck' from the joist.

Tie off bag full of shouty wasps.

Then decide who rates top of your revenge list, post bag through letterbox.

Or post them to the Veolia complaints department (as per thread about dangerous bin lorries)

Kieran_Burns

gtvlusso wrote:

I think a shotgun maybe a bit extreme, would be great fun though!

Hell of a buzz though!

paulus69

I had a wasps nest in my shed, the word being HAD.

I decided to put my charcoal BBQ in the shed and after about 45 minutes didn't have a problem, before anyone asks no i did not burn the shed down!

gtvlusso

Kieran_Burns wrote:

gtvlusso wrote:

I think a shotgun maybe a bit extreme, would be great fun though!

Hell of a buzz though!

A 9mm pistol might be frustrating...

Alphabet

lost_in_thought wrote:

Shouldn't most of the wasps be really rather dead and sleepy by now anyway? If they're not, turn your heating off for a week, then sweep them off the floor.

that's what i thought,l but apparently they can happily caryy on buzzing about until mid Nov. Turning off the heating isn't a problem - my heating system has been taken out. The builders need to get into the loft to whack a new boiler in. Chffing freezing in my house at the moment

SimonAH

hatbeard

have you tried asking them nicely if they'd mind leaving?

they may not even be aware that you want rid.

I say don't risk unnecessary escalation, just sit down with them and talk it through like adults and you may find you can come to an amicable solution.

or they may sting you in the eyeballs

Alphabet

think i'm just going to hit them with hammers. big flaming hammers

hatbeard

Alphabet wrote:

think i'm just going to hit them with hammers. big flaming hammers

oddly my suggestion to every single problem at my previous place of employment was to 'kill it with hammers and fire... fire'y hammers'

is that phrase in common parlance, I have no idea where I picked it up from...

kelsen

Try playing Rick Astley to them continuously. Eventually they'll have to flee the mental torture or go insane.

MonkeyMonster

kelsen wrote:

Try playing Rick Astley to them continuously. Eventually they'll have to flee the mental torture or go insane.

a bunch of mad wasps all humming rick astely at you day and night...

gtvlusso

kelsen wrote:

Try playing Rick Astley to them continuously. Eventually they'll have to flee the mental torture or go insane.

I though wasps would go for W.A.S.P.....

Ryan Jones

+1 for the fire extinguisher, a big CO2 one and at close proximity will freeze the little blighters or suffocate them. Sounds a plan to me

gtvlusso

gtvlusso wrote:

kelsen wrote:

Try playing Rick Astley to them continuously. Eventually they'll have to flee the mental torture or go insane.

I though wasps would go for W.A.S.P.....

Perhaps borrow some hairspray off these guys - guarenteed that the stuff they are using is f*cking toxic!

Zombie_donkey

http://www.focusdiy.co.uk/NipponWaspNestDestroyerFoam300ml50072?category=chemicals_fertilisers


I've used this stuff with success before. You can be meters away too so you can hopefully just poke your head and shoulders through the loft hatch and hit the nest. Then you can evacuate quickly if it all goes wrong

Kieran_Burns

Zombie_donkey wrote:

http://www.focusdiy.co.uk/NipponWaspNestDestroyerFoam300ml50072?category=chemicals_fertilisers


I've used this stuff with success before. You can be meters away too so you can hopefully just poke your head and shoulders through the loft hatch and hit the nest. Then you can evacuate quickly if it all goes wrong

I used this on a nest at my old house - the range on the spray is prety impressive and it DID kill all the wasps. (took a couple of days as the nest was hidden in the boardings above the garage)

The Queen came out eventually, flaming 'eck she was HUGE