wasps coming into house and I don't know where/how??

[Gatekeeper]

We have a wasp nest in the eves , far up s you can't see it but see loads of wasps flying in and out. Entry point is right outside dd's bedroom window. Council couldn't help as unable to locate the actual nest and said that they should be dying off soon as weather turns etc.

However , the last few days we are finding loads in her bedroom and she was stung on the foot last night. They aren't flying but crawling along the floor. Keeping windows shut and there are no places where they can get in so how are they???

Have just shut her door, pulled curtains and bunged in one of those ultra violet zapper things

[SweetFelicityArkwright]

We had a wasp nest in our loft and got wasps in the bedroom, having not had the windows open. Actually found some dead ones in our bed !
Never really worked out how they got there but have heard that they can sometimes come through the ceiling via the light fitting. If they are on the floor could they be getting through the floor boards or under the skirting boards ? Presumably there isn't a hatch to the loft in your dd's room that they are getting through ?
I hate them and would have to seek out and destroy the nest as I am phobic about them getting in the house.

[Marmitelover55]

This happened in my DD's bedroom last year. I think they were getting in through a boarded up chimney breast or gap next to window frame. I taped any possible hole up with Sellotape. This seemed to help but they only completely disappeared when the weather cooled down. Sorry can't be more help.

[Gatekeeper]

thank you; have just gone in her room again and found more of the buggers on the carpet! . No holes in light fitting, window sealed but a small hole about the size of a penny in the floorboards where the water pipes go inot the radiator. have sealed them over with duct tape so hope that this stops any if this is where they are sneaking in

[MillyMollyMama]

Get a professional company out to seek out the nest. They can get huge and you need the wasps out of the house.

[PigletJohn]

holes in ceiling are usually around light fittings and pipes. If it is an old house with lath and plaster ceilings there may well be a broken hole around the light fitting that is hidden, but not blocked, by the plastic rose. I would be inclined to move dc out of the infested room, and put poly sheet over the bed, until the wasps have died for winter. Once it is frosty you can go into the loft and spray the nest with wasp foam. I wouldn't go up there until then.

You can hoover them off the floor but they will crawl into clothes and bedding, and can still sting when dead, until their little corpses have dried up. Children's skin is thinner.

[Gatekeeper]

Thanks everyone; pigletjohn, the loft is insulated and boarded out so you can't see the nest, or hear it so I can only assume it is between the tiles and the insulation. No wasps up in the loft either, only in dd's room. She is a feisty bugger at times though and is whacking seven bells out of the ones she finds. They seem to be on their last legs and stumbling about rather than flying so they must ready for their maker

[CointreauVersial]

We had this in our playroom; there was a small gap in the plaster above the window and they were getting in there. We nuked the nest with wasp powder, and would find 20-30 dead bodies each morning piled up on the window sill. Fortunately they didn't come back this year.

[Gatekeeper]

we are putting up a dummy wasp nest for next year as they are terratorial and won't make another nest in the vicinity. DH has bunged up a few sticky fly papers hanging from the gutter nr nest entrance and they are covered in the stripy buggers!