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Wasp nests - best time to remove?
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from "Flummoxed" contains these words: I know this topic has come up before, but we have a massive wasps nest in the loft. I realised it was there in the summer, but I thought I'd wait till winter to get rid of it, then try to seal up the holes where they get in, following previous advice in this group. I gather that by December the wasps would normally be dead, but because of the mild weather we had (apart from the recent cold snap) they may still be alive. I still find the odd drowsy looking wasp around. Can anyone tell me when would be teh best time to remove it, when I can be sure they're dead? I don't want to risk doing it too soon, and disturb them (not to mention getting stung!), but if I leave it till too late next year, the queen wasp might be active building a new nest - any idea when they start doing that (I guess it depends on the weather)? The best way to deal with the nest is to put a dustbin bag over it and break it off into it. Depending on where you are, there may or may not be wasps still alive - they were certainly active on my ivy flowers a short while ago. The drowsy ones you find around may be young queens, a bit slow finding somewhere to hibernate. The old queen will die along with the workers, and the new queens will set up home somewhere else - in the spring I'd check the loft for little paper lampshades the shape of a fritillary. (Snakeshead lily, not the butterfly!) Is there a time when they would be guaranteed to be dead, e.g. Jan or Feb? Depends on how warm your loft is I suppose. The dustbin bag method you can do more-or-less any time - I've done it in the middle of summer - but at night, and only after casing the job for a while... -- Rusty Separator in search of a sig |
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