Wasp nest smell...how to get rid of???

[Yankydoodledandy]

Had a wasp nest treated 2 weeks ago and now we have the rotting smell from it.
Def the old dead nest.

Any ideas how to get ridof the smell???

Might be a bit obvious but can it not be removed? So it isn’t there rotting away? Interesting because I’d never thought they would smell! I’ve never considered it.

It’s not the nest that smells. It’s the decomposing bodies of the dead wasps. This is exactly why you should just leave a wasp nest to die off of its own accord when the weather gets cold. The wasps will naturally die out in the field and you’ll be left with a dry empty nest that doesn’t smell. We have few enough pollinators without purposely poisoning them.

It was inside the bricks...had a guy out to sort with pesticide etc. Will call him tomorrow see what he advises.

Couldnt leave it @Dadaya there were hindreds of them in and out the walls.

They were wasps not bees.

Wasps are also pollinators. I currently have a huge wasp nest right next to my front door. We’re ignoring each other and they haven’t really bothered me.

Some people don’t want hundreds of wasps going in and out of their walls though, for understandable reasons. I would call the people who sorted it and ask them what to do about it.

They usually take them away

They were going inside the bricks the guy spray insectaside inside the tiny hole. So no way of removing them.

The smell this morning is vile.

Ive got smelly candles burning and white wine vinegar in a bowl where most of the smell is.

Lets see!!

Did you ever find a resolution? We have the same issue in a vent we can't access to remove, and the smell Is awful.

The company who treated mine came back out and put some strong perfumed cotton wool pads down in the end, took a good week for smell to go

Great thank you for the update 😀

We just had a nest in the loft. It was huge. We noticed brown spots on the ceiling. We had someone come and poison the entrance. The wasps died but the brown stains got bigger and there was a really awful smell like rotting fish. A hole appeared in the ceiling. It turned out they had completely eaten through the plaster board and all that was left was the plaster skim (a few millimetres thick). There were a lot of live big fat wasp larvae etc. and they were still alive but also rotting. We've had to have part of the ceiling cut away and the nest removed and new plasterboard put up. I had never known the damage they could do.