Wasp infestation! When will they die?

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Over the past few months, I have found several dying/ dead wasps on the carpet in one corner of my upstairs hallway.

I was only finding one every couple of weeks, so didn't think too much about it, but we just got home from a few days away and there were 9 dead on the floor!

The window doesn't open in the hallway, but there is a thin crack down the wall - not sure if they could get in this way, or round the windowsill? And maybe squeezing through is why they're mostly dead (or on the floor dying - never seen one flying about). It's very strange - I've tried to watch but haven't spotted any on their way in.

I've read that you can still get stung if you stand on a dead one, so I am worried about this, and my DD is creeped out after yesterday.

If I have to pay for pest control to find & remove a nest, then I'll do so, but it will leave us very short for money - if all wasps die naturally around this time of year, then I'd definitely rather not!

Does anybody know? I'm going to duct tape over the crack today to see if that helps (we rent & the landlord won't fix anything - moving after Xmas).

Check all your curtains. The queen's get in and hide until they start nest building. Have you checked light fittings too? Could be coming from the loft.

I’ve heard that they never return to the dead nests so if you have one - and it’s a rented property - I wouldn’t bother. We have one in the loft and it’s been there for years, possibly before we bought the house. If money is tight at the moment I would leave it.

They won't reuse a nest but they will rebuild in the same place. Without sounding stupid, are they definitely wasps? Do you have a chimney?

They're normally dead by this time of year, but it's been mild. They may have been hanging around your house, living on scraps.

nest in loft, we have had this

Please don’t duct tape them in, when they awake from hibernation in the spring they will chew their way in, it will be a disaster, it’s the worst think you can do. Call a local wasp guy out, ours charges about 25 quid, he will put the insecticide powder in the cracks it will be done. The stuff you buy in shops is pointless.

They hibernate.

When it freezes apparently - end of Nov probably.

Gardeningtime

They hibernate.

The queens do, but the workers die off pretty rapidly after the queen has left the nest.

They are dying off about now. The queen will find a place to hibernate but she will also leave in the spring, they don’t nest in the same place twice. I had them in my roof a couple of years ago and they just died off. I wouldn’t waste money getting someone out now.

They hibernate in our log store when the logs come in and warm up they wake up. We had a nest in the kitchen walls this summer they found their way in daily.