Yikes! Wasp nest 🙅‍♀️

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Any advice? In the corner of the front garden by the pavement so I’d need to be 100% certain of success before tackling it myself. Quick google was throwing up £300+ to get rid.

If you can see the entrance then there are things to buy in garden centres to close it up (foam). We keep getting nests and they do work although does seem a bit cruel. Wasps only use a nest once and will look for somewhere else next time.

Oo thanks Hercules. Do they work, did they swarm? I really don’t want to hurt anyone.

Paid about £60 a few weeks ago - check your council website to see if they offer a discount or recommend a firm. However this year has been ideal conditions for wasps and of the two treated one is still active, we've been using rentokil powder since.

Our local council deals with them for around £ 40. We seem to get one every year! Apparently if they have conditions they like they will keep returning..

We bought powder from Amazon to deal with ours.

£300? I paid about £50 last time we had a wasps nest ( I’m in London so cant imagine it’s more expensive elsewhere)

We've had two nests in the back garden in the last few years. One was in a shed roof, the other in a hole in the ground beneath a rhododendron bush. They left us alone and we left them alone. Are they actually bothering you? The nest will have been there for months now.

Thanks everyone. Unfortunately I have the cheapest house on Isawyoucomingstreet and always seem to get big estimates.
I’ll contact the council first.

We get them every year and do it ourselves. You can buy aerosol cans of wasp nest destroyer foam in most hardware stores. I usually buy two tins to be sure and wait till night time as they become much less active when the temperature drops. The spray gives a decent range of about 2 or 3 metres so you don't need to get too close and I've never been stung or swarmed yet.

I have very successfully used the wasp powder on a nest that was under my shed last week. I could not use the foam as I could not get near it. I just sprinkled the powder where they were flying in and out of. Wasps are now no more.

We used powder successfully on a nest in our garden, we couldn’t see the entrance or the nest but covered the area with the powder over a 12 hour period (just to make sure) and it’s all gone! £5 from a garden centre

But make sure you do it at night as they are less active then

If you have fresh lawn clippings, tip them over the hole at dusk. They will ferment and draw the oxygen from the nest

The foam does work. They shouldn't swarm, unless you upset them before hand (DH poking the nest with a stick for example...)

Brilliant. Thanks all!

Final tip. If you take the advice to do it at night, as you should, do not use a torch or if you do set it down away from you. Apparently they will follow the beam.