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Wasp Nest - help

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  • #62
    duploelabs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    sorry for your trouble but couldn't be happier, best thread ever


  • #63
    Zombienosh
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Bo2ro60ro


  • #64
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,887 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Blake Deafening Levee wrote: »
    They're baaaaaaccckkkk...!!

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

    They're gonna be really pissed with you this time :P


  • #65
    az2wp0sye65487
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭az2wp0sye65487


    dmc17 wrote: »
    They're gonna be really pissed with you this time :P

    Especially since I squashed the one that attacked me earlier


  • #66
    Doctor Strange
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭Doctor Strange


    This is what you need to do


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  • #67
    dmc17
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    One thing I have noticed though is that I have only seen 1 wasp all summer which I had to kill because it was massive and in my room . They usually terrorise me every year and I expected to see even more with all the good weather but it's been the opposite. Just had a quick search there and found a thread on it too so it's not just me either.


  • #68
    dmc17
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    Unforgettable _ Fire wrote: »
    This is what you need to do

    And this shall be the result :D


  • #69
    the purple tin
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    dmc17 wrote: »
    One thing I have noticed though is that I have only seen 1 wasp all summer which I had to kill because it was massive and in my room . They usually terrorise me every year and I expected to see even more with all the good weather but it's been the opposite. Just had a quick search there and found a thread on it too so it's not just me either.
    There seemed to be loads of them in the crappy weather and as soon as it got hot they vanished :confused: maybe they don't like the extreme heat.


  • #70
    mattjack
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    A friend of mine bought an old house with his girlfriend and found a nest in his attic .... being a resourceful type of lad , he decided to dispose of it himself.

    His GF invited us around for the event , beer and food were provided .

    Anyway my friend dressed himself in wetsuit and armed himself with a hurley.

    As he swung the hurley he lost his balance ,falling and ending up with a leg on either side of a joist almost debollocking himself.His GF pissed herself laughing at him.


  • #71
    De Bellem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭De Bellem


    Blake Deafening Levee wrote: »
    They're baaaaaaccckkkk...!!

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

    Be careful because if you get stung it also lets others know who to go for.
    By releasing something in that process. The queen bee is the key. If there
    is one left alive then they will rebuild. Wasps do a lot of good during the summer
    killing other insects. etc Its only in autumn when there is not enough food available that they for example get drunk. Apples contain sugar and also are used in making cider . Why do think they get so cranky. Its either too much
    or the hangover afterwards. I just hope you do not live near an orchard


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  • #72
    [Deleted User]
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    God help ye OP. I had a Huge nest of bastard Yellow Jackets wasps when I lived in the US. They lived behind the pool, and everytime I went outside and made noise they went for me :) Terrifying yokes.


    had to get an exterminator in to evict them.


  • #73
    Pai Mei
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 240 ✭✭Pai Mei


    Jesus people are a lot braver than I am... I would just boycott that shed forever and then move away without telling the future owners about the massive nest in the shed.


  • #74
    De Bellem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭De Bellem


    Last year I had the start of one in an old dog box. I recommend if you
    are successful this year in removing them that you varnish / paint the timber shed because the worker wasps chew the dry timber and convert it into a form of paper io make the nest. So if painted / varnished the problem of future nest building there is reduced a lot.


  • #75
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    I saw a wasps nest once, it looked foreboding like some kind of, wicked walnut whip with a sinister centre. other worldly you just know some kind of alien hornet bastards were in there..........


  • #76
    Aglomerado
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    I fcuking hate wasps. I found a nest in my shed a few weeks ago when I was going to get the lawnmower. It was only the size of a golfball, so I just whacked it with the grass box so that it fell in, then threw it on the lawn and mowed over it. Muahahahahaha. Bastards!
    If it was any bigger though, I would have run away...:o


  • #77
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    You could take a few tips from this guy - http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=135103771&page=1


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