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Wasp nest?

  • 09-04-2020 2:33pm
    #1
    CarPark2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭


    Photo attached of a wasp that seems to be building a nest in our shed.
    There are also the remnants of nests from previous years.
    Should I be concerned? We have small children that go in there to get their bikes etc.
    The older nests look v small. How many do they hold?


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  • #2
    Tiercel Dave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Tiercel Dave


    If you don't want Wasps near the shed get rid of the 'nest' now. A Queen wakes from her winter slumbers around this time and builds the small paper nests that you have pictured. She rears a brood of about a dozen and when they are mobile the nest is enlarged, more eggs, more workers and it quickly spirals out of control. Wasps are very good for the garden, preying on aphids and caterpillars but in a shed, with young children about I'd be of a mind to destroy what's there and move her on.....


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