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Bee or Wasp hive in boiler house

  • 13-10-2013 4:45pm
    #1
    Widescreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks I noticed a bee or wasp hive in the boiler house. Its about 6-9 inches in circumference. Never seen any activity-should I assume that the bees or wasps are dead at this stage ? I was going to knock it down into the wheely bin? Thanks


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  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Beautiful construction. I would wait until about a week of frosts just to be sure. If it is no longer in use, your local primary school might enjoy showing it to their students and even may dissect it to see the construction. It seems to be a wasp nest.


  • #3
    Widescreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭Widescreen


    Lucille Loud Recruiter wrote: »
    Beautiful construction. I would wait until about a week of frosts just to be sure. If it is no longer in use, your local primary school might enjoy showing it to their students and even may dissect it to see the construction. It seems to be a wasp nest.

    Thanks! However, I need to install a new boiler which we need fitting before the frost ideally!

    I can hear nothing from it and nothing ever comes out of it-are you suggesting there could be a stack of wasps in it on their last legs ready for that last sting?!


  • #4
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    If there is nothing coming or going then you can probably go ahead. Put a plastic bag over it and lift it away. There shouldn't be anything lieing in wait inside other than possibly some dead grubs.


  • #5
    Widescreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭Widescreen


    Thanks for advice-I will leave it as long as possible and then proceed with caution!


  • #6
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭hfallada


    That looks like wasps. Bees tend to go for hallow trees or space in flat roofs. Bees have to built long perfect and I mean perfect comb to lay eggs( bees always produce perfect gaps between combs). But they leave room for expansion. So I'm 99% sure that's a wasps nest( well its not a honey bee nest)


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  • #7
    weetiepie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 192 ✭✭weetiepie


    That is most definitely a wasps nest, it is very beautiful..the material is paperthin, so fine, its amazing how they construct it. hfallada is right,def not honey bees.


  • #8
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    If you take it down in one piece, and you're sure there are no wasps left in it, take a very sharp knife and slice through the middle of it to see a wonderful piece of animal engineering.


  • #9
    Marcus Halberstram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭Marcus Halberstram


    And put up a photo so we can see too :)


  • #10
    mr.wiggle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭mr.wiggle


    Lucille Loud Recruiter wrote: »
    Beautiful construction. I would wait until about a week of frosts just to be sure. If it is no longer in use, your local primary school might enjoy showing it to their students and even may dissect it to see the construction. It seems to be a wasp nest.

    +1 to Lucille Loud Recruiters idea.
    Nothing better than showing kids how beautiful nature can be !
    I'm sure a local school would love this if you dropped it into them ?

    Mr.W.


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