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Wasp Nest - help

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭az2wp0sye65487


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Wow, a guy posts in AH looking for sensible advice..... and gets 2 pages of sensible advice! I actually had to check at the top to make sure this was indeed AH.

    I originally posted the thread in the nature forum so the first few (sensible) replies are from there.

    Then it was moved to AH as the mods in the nature forum didn't like the talk of killing them!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Wow, a guy posts in AH looking for sensible advice..... and gets 2 pages of sensible advice! I actually had to check at the top to make sure this was indeed AH.

    No-one even used the phrase "blast it with piss".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    I originally posted the thread in the nature forum so the first few (sensible) replies are from there.

    Then it was moved to AH as the mods in the nature forum didn't like the talk of killing them!!

    If those mods found that 20000 wasp nest in their attic I think they would change their tune ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 365 ✭✭Israeli Superiority


    .red. wrote: »
    this is the one up my attick. wouldnt fancy hitting one this size with a broom stick:eek::eek:

    Holy shit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    goose2005 wrote: »
    No-one even used the phrase "blast it with piss".

    Blast it with piss

    There ya go! :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭snollup


    .red. wrote: »
    That post about the 20000 was me and yes we got in rentokill. He said it must have been there months. Its still up the attick 2 years later lol. I keep meaning to take it down but never do.
    We had another one in the shed that somehow broke, i got stung near it so maybe broke it without knowing. It was only the size of an egg shell.

    Can I ask what Rentokill charged? Have the same problem in our attic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,273 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Wow, a guy posts in AH looking for sensible advice..... and gets 2 pages of sensible advice! I actually had to check at the top to make sure this was indeed AH.

    2 pages? Amatuer! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,278 ✭✭✭x43r0


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Wow, a guy posts in AH looking for sensible advice..... and gets 2 pages of sensible advice! I actually had to check at the top to make sure this was indeed AH.


    I know, I'm pleasantly surprised. I came in to suggest that OP burn the entire house down just to be safe but I'd feel about it now


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    If it's smaller than a lightbulb then the queen probably hasn't moved in yet. Hit it with a broom, close the door and run, the wasps will **** off after an hour or so.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    .red. wrote: »
    this is the one up my attick. wouldnt fancy hitting one this size with a broom stick:eek::eek:

    You need to phone rentakill, the army or an estate agent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    Remote control helicopter used here... it's great fun. Wasps go mental.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭jinkybhoy


    I had one in my shed - size of a golf ball. I used telescopic shears to cut it from roof into a bin bag. i then brought it outside and went all michael douglas on their asses.

    Great craic and an added bonus, now all my neighbours leave me in peace.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    I think you need to get Bumblebee man to have a word with them Ay, ay, ay, no es bueno!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    jinkybhoy wrote: »
    I had one in my shed - size of a golf ball. I used telescopic shears to cut it from roof into a bin bag. i then brought it outside and went all michael douglas on their asses.

    Great craic and an added bonus, now all my neighbours leave me in peace.

    :eek: You licked the wasps out?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭jinkybhoy


    :eek: You licked the wasps out?

    only just heard about that after I posted I of course mean Michael Douglas from Falling Down:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    Don't use regular water, use soapy water. Little bastards hate it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,679 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    I think I heard that soaking the nest in petrol will kill them off, or maybe just drive them mental.
    ps , if you ever find a hornets nest leave it to the professionals, those bad boys can really sting!

    My Da said he used to use diesel because it sticks to their wings and basically they can fly.
    As for the hornets, you're right there. We found them in our shed a lock of years ago and they were another story altogether.
    Absolutely huge and incredibly vicious. Like they wouldnt just attack you if you bothered them, they'd seek you out and go for you.
    I remember one slammin up against the windscreen of the tractor and rappin it a few times to try and get at me (at least that's what it looked like to me, but I was still pretty young at the time), it was something out of a horror film.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭Stationmaster


    Used to work in the forestry services during the school holidays and we often came across nests of the b*****ds during the summer. A small coke bottle, half filled with petrol, with a piece of paper coming out the top usually did the job once lit.
    Probably not advisable in a shed though......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    I was stung by a hornet about 2 years ago, was just locking the front door and the little sh*t stung me good.

    My parents have a wasp nest in the shed at the moment. My mam rang me to supervise my dad because she won't be there.
    She's afraid he'll be a twitching lump covered in wasp stings when she gets back.

    Fun day ahead...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 404 ✭✭frank reynolds


    has anyone suggested the tried and tested method of the "Deodorant Flamethrower" yet?

    get a deodorant can, a lighter, hold the lighter in front of can, spray and it will burn your troubles away. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Wow, a guy posts in AH looking for sensible advice..... and gets 2 pages of sensible advice! I actually had to check at the top to make sure this was indeed AH.

    Agreed. OP, I suggest you take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

    :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭Ascii


    Use empty (unwashed) jam jars filled with water. We had problems with wasps for years in turf sheds. Wasps would head into the jar for the jammy sugary remains that were left stuck to the inside of the jar and end up in the water Each jar could drown up to 20 wasps per day/night. Slugs would then move in and remove the dead wasps and the cycle would begin again the next day. In the space of a week you could have 100-150 wasps killed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,679 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Ascii wrote: »
    Use empty (unwashed) jam jars filled with water. We had problems with wasps for years in turf sheds. Wasps would head into the jar for the jammy sugary remains that were left stuck to the inside of the jar and end up in the water Each jar could drown up to 20 wasps per day/night. Slugs would then move in and remove the dead wasps and the cycle would begin again the next day. In the space of a week you could have 100-150 wasps killed.

    This is what we did about the hornets. surprisingly effective


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,496 ✭✭✭.red.


    Ascii wrote: »
    Use empty (unwashed) jam jars filled with water. We had problems with wasps for years in turf sheds. Wasps would head into the jar for the jammy sugary remains that were left stuck to the inside of the jar and end up in the water Each jar could drown up to 20 wasps per day/night. Slugs would then move in and remove the dead wasps and the cycle would begin again the next day. In the space of a week you could have 100-150 wasps killed.

    This could take a while if you have 20000 wasps in the nest.
    Rentokill charged me €100 but that might have had vat added on. Cant remember.


  • Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I had one in my shed a while back. I planned their extermination like a strategic battle opting for the swinging sweeping brush manoeuvre.
    Like the OP mine was located where Id trap myself if I moved in. I dressed up in that many layers of clothes I could barely move. I then wrapped net curtain around my head several times. I could barely see. Then off to the shed that night.

    My girlfriend still relays the story anytime discussion on wasps arise.

    I crept out. Stalking sneakily up to the nest. I could barely see the shed never mind the nest. The sensor light came in to assist me. When I had gotten to the predetermined swinging mark I let fly with brush. With no idea wether I hit it or not I turned and ran for the back door. My planning hadn't incorporated the steel pole used for the washing line and ran straight into it and ended up on my back. Blood gushing from my nose getting matted in the net curtain. My girlfriend came and helped me into the house and tended my wounds. I could see and hear wasps hitting the glass panel of the door and see a swarm encircling the door of the shed.
    The following morning I donned the same costume but with added matching black eyes and a gash on the bridge of ny nose, to assess the damage. I found the wasps weren't too welcoming. I got stung twice as I neared the shed door. I retreated and planned the next wave if attack.

    That evening I crept to the shed in full battle attire and to my horror I realised that I had only succeeded knocking it to the ground and in splitting the nest in two. The wasps were out on both pieces repairing frantically. It was then I decided upon the spray as the thoughts of a war on two fronts didn't appeal.

    The spray shoots about 10-12ft so you can spray and distance in safety. I covered the nests in it and the wasps emerged sticky and disorientated and began to fall from the sky defeated.

    Victory was mine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,046 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    jinkybhoy wrote: »
    I had one in my shed - size of a golf ball. I used telescopic shears to cut it from roof into a bin bag. i then brought it outside and went all michael douglas on their asses.
    Hmmm watch out for the throat cancer......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭sebastianlieken


    Flamethrower.

    BURN THEM!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭Aseth


    In Poland I think you call fire brigade to do that(and it's not a AH joke). So maybe it's the same here.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭az2wp0sye65487


    They're baaaaaaccckkkk...!!

    Just went to put something in the shed and got attacked. Can't see any sign of a nest inside though.


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