Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: greenfingers on September 09, 2007, 19:10
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We have had a wasps nest on our plot for a while and its situated under the ground but there is a hole where they come out :shock: Can anyone suggest what we can do (apart from keep away :wink: )
Thanks
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Wilko's do a wasp nest killer powder, works brill, used it in my roof earlier in the year.
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Thanks alfie. I'll have a look when i'm in there next :wink:
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hi there pour wasp powder or ant powder(same thing) in the hole and around the edge, best to do this semi dark as there will be less activity and then just leave the plot for the evening :wink:
jobs done minimum cost :lol:
cheers
jr
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hi there pour wasp powder or ant powder(same thing) in the hole and around the edge, best to do this semi dark as there will be less activity and then just leave the plot for the evening :wink:
jobs done minimum cost :lol:
cheers
jr
Then bung a lump of turf over the hole to stop the little * coming back out :wink:
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it will all be done and dusted within a few hours at most just keep out the way of white disorientated wasps :lol:
cheers
jr
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We have a nest at home so i checked out the internet which said that in the UK most wasps will die off naturally in the autumn/winter and the queen will go somewhere else to start a new nest. So we have left ours where it is as its not bothering us.
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when its dead ...lynne take it down if possible and spray with hair laqeur and take it to the primary school thye love little projects like tha .i found one in ahedge on the farm n did just that :wink:
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Chuck petrol into the hole. If it isn't going to spread, set it on fire. When it's safe, bung something in the hole and hammer it in.
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I had one on my plot. I rang the council and they removed it for free !
All the other solutions seemed a bit too risky to me :?
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when its dead ...lynne take it down if possible and spray with hair laqeur and take it to the primary school thye love little projects like tha .i found one in ahedge on the farm n did just that :wink:
Great idea Munty. I don't like to kill them as they do actually have a purpose apart from stinging people. I'll see if I can remove it when they have all gone. :)
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Chuck petrol into the hole. If it isn't going to spread, set it on fire. When it's safe, bung something in the hole and hammer it in.
:twisted: jeese contadino you make it sound like summin out of a die hard film :lol:
I might leave it till the winter and then fill it in as i have nothing against creepy crawlies except blooming slugs n snails that eat my stuff :roll:
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i have a wasps nest in the hedge behind my shed doing no harm at all i quite like em. 8)
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Chuck petrol into the hole. If it isn't going to spread, set it on fire. When it's safe, bung something in the hole and hammer it in.
:twisted: jeese contadino you make it sound like summin out of a die hard film :lol:
I might leave it till the winter and then fill it in as i have nothing against creepy crawlies except blooming slugs n snails that eat my stuff :roll:
Well last year we had a bit of a set to with some very big wasps. They attacked the house and the wife was battling them with a frying pan. I tried Extra Strength Wasp Killer from the local agricultural shop, but it just upset them, so I asked my neighbours who all suggested the petrol route. Worked a treat.
Wasps are in that bracket of 'gits who eat my stuff' - they've decimated my fig harvest this year.
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If it helps,wasps mostly abandon their nests in september,so I would do nothing and they will just go on their own.
They do not return to the old nest site normally. :wink:
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Can of deodorant and lighter, flame throw their little asses!!!
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Before we all go around destroying the insect population, remember that wasps spend most of the year dispatching things like greenfly.
It is only in the autumn, when they start to feed on part rotting fruit, that they can become agressive. The fruit of course has partly turned to alcohol and just like a lot of humans I know when they have a drop to much, the wasps become somewhat beligerant.
Live and let live is the best option, then the queen can set off a new nest next year in a different location and help keep you pest levels down.
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Before we all go around destroying the insect population, remember that wasps spend most of the year dispatching things like greenfly.
It is only in the autumn, when they start to feed on part rotting fruit, that they can become agressive. The fruit of course has partly turned to alcohol and just like a lot of humans I know when they have a drop to much, the wasps become somewhat beligerant.
Live and let live is the best option, then the queen can set off a new nest next year in a different location and help keep you pest levels down.
hear hear :wink:
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they have a warning system,the nest on my plot you only have to walk up to it and they come out mob handed ,brilliant i love em 8)
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Before we all go around destroying the insect population, remember that wasps spend most of the year dispatching things like greenfly.
It is only in the autumn, when they start to feed on part rotting fruit, that they can become agressive. The fruit of course has partly turned to alcohol and just like a lot of humans I know when they have a drop to much, the wasps become somewhat beligerant.
Live and let live is the best option, then the queen can set off a new nest next year in a different location and help keep you pest levels down.
hear hear :wink:
The worse thing you can do is flap your arms and sceam,they go straight into attack mode.Plus if you do kill one all of his pals will turn out for the funeral. They sent out a distress signal which calls all available wasps. :wink:
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Personally I have nothing against them apart from the fact they insist on chewing the fence to make pulp, interesting to watch. 8)
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im of the opinion that wasps only live to annoy you in pub gardens in the summer :lol:
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The worse thing you can do is flap your arms and sceam.
You've met my wife then?
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Personally I have nothing against them apart from the fact they insist on chewing the fence to make pulp, interesting to watch. 8)
Right then its offical RichyRich has time to sit and watch the wasps chewing fences. :?
Aunty this is one for you perhaps shed duty or tidying up the hedge row cobwebs. 8)
I dont know a young man like that standing idle what is this lottie site coming to. :wink:
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Not likely if I stand still too long SWMBO soon finds me a job ( like painting the fence, blooming wasps !! :roll: ), anyway watching the wasps is therapeutic, if you ain't got time to stop and stare, then what have you got time for ?
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the worst place i got stung was on the my ear,I had those little yellow ear plugs in at work and the wasp wouldnt leave me alone,I think it fancied the ear plug. :?
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the worst place i got stung was on the my ear,I had those little yellow ear plugs in at work and the wasp wouldnt leave me alone,I think it fancied the ear plug. :?
I got stung very badly in that part that men that a man never wants to be stung. :shock:
I asked the doctor to take away the pain but leave the swelling :wink:
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:lol: henry :lol:
the mrs got stung on the neck at a market so I sucked it out there and then,we got some strange looks of folks walking past as she was crying at the time with the pain(from the wasp) :wink: :lol:
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we had a nest above our patio doors last summer we left it as i had heard they don't come back and this year they have moved up to the eves! i can't kill them as they arn't doing any harm (you just can't open the window below the eves!!) we have a loft extension so i don't know where their nest is. yes i agree they eat aphids all life has a reason for being here however anoying they are! (even slugs eat decaying plant matter, and each other!) :shock: