"harry" wrote in message
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On Jul 5, 8:59 am, Terry Pinnell wrote:
There's a wasps' nest in my garden - a hole (maybe two, close together) on
a sloping section of rough lawn. On two visits to Homebase a fortnight
apart they had no stocks of their 'Wasp nest killer', £5.99, or indeed
*any* wasp destruction product. Meanwhile it struck me that there must be
several ways I should be able to do this myself. So I'm here to seek
suggestions please.

My own initial thoughts a

1. Put a plastic bag and a something heavy over the top to suffocate and
prevent entry.

2. Pour fine sand or similar into the hole, with same objective.

3. Position a hose over the hole and trickle water into it to drown
inhabitants and presumably make re-entry of others unlikely, even after
hose switched off and water drains away.

4. Stuff some dry newspaper into the hole, douse it with paraffin and
light it, with similar comments to #3.

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Best left alone, they are benificial, eat lots of garden pests.

Tch. Pour petrol down the hole and block it off. DON'T set on fire.

I remember many years ago a friend of mine was the pest controller of the
local Urban District Council and on my days off from work I used to
accompany him on his rounds. On this particular day he was called to the
back garden of a property to deal with a wasp nest beside the path. He had
this large pump up sprayer filled with pesticide and asked me to drive a
spade into the entrance while he sprayed the stuff in to
it...........................BIG MISTAKE!!! a few seconds after carrying out
the operation the sky was black with rather angry wasps and my mate dropped
the sprayer and proceeded to run down the garden path in one direction while
I ran in the other covering the distance to the upper hedge in a speed Usain
Bolt would find difficult beat! Standing there panting and wheezing I felt
something behind my ear followed by a sharp pain and realised one of the
little blighters had chased me all the way up the path and wreaked his
revenge! So needless to say I leave wasp nests well alone now and recommend
getting someone to deal with it that knows what they're doing (not my mate
who went on to become a chief inspector in the police!)

H D