In article , Nick Maclaren
writes

Yes, but it is MORE likely to go wrong if you try to get rid of it!
And that includes getting someone in to do the job, as you may be
unlucky and pick a cowboy. The chances of a problem are very low
indeed, but never say never.

And don't believe what you read about armchairs - that is very rare,
and almost all nests are MUCH smaller.


We've just had a nest in a pyracantha that I'd trained over the end of
the path down the side of the garden. They were buzzing fairly
innocuously at the beginning of the spring but getting more troublesome
and more numerous in the last few weeks. As our patio doors open very
nearby and they started to fly in regularly I decided they had to go!.
I could see the nest so stood on the other side of the garden, shut the
patio doors and jetted a spray of water into the bush/tree until it took
out the nest.
Probably not a good thing to do and should have left it but we had so
much trouble with wasps when we had the red oak that I had to do
something before it got too much.

The red oak used to have a lot of black fly etc. up high in the branches
by June and this in turn gave sticky surfaces to the lower leaves which
the wasps of course loved. They used to drink up so much that they would
fall drunk on the ground into the grass. In turn the dogs and us got
stung as we trod on them by accident.
They covered the ground!
At night once they'd recovered they obviously had a nest on the other
side of the house as they would all fly onto our windows and patio doors
and crawl up and down them.
We had 56 on the kitchen window one night, it was like The Birds film
only worse!!

Luckily mine have now all gone from the Pyracantha and I shall take care
they don't come back next year!
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk