Killing a wasps nest.

[Loonytoonie]

Wasps have taken up residence in the hollow space above my wooden porch. In just one week, their activity has trebled and I'm getting concerned. The roof space would allow for significant growth and I have two little children who use that area to play. I've been warned that they'll get aggressive come October when their food supplies are scarce.

I hate killing things though. I know I'm due a flaming, but I look at the creatures working away and feel awful for even considering getting them exterminated. Yup, I'm probably a bunny-hugger and need a kick up the bum. Are there are other alternatives bar killing them, or do I just need a size 7 up the rear?

As a lentil-weaving, tree-hugging, fluffy-animal lover, I say kill the evil little fuckers and do not feel any remorse. But don't batter them with a stick, that would be a very very bad idea indeed. Get a professional in to nuke the little bastards.

That ehow link posted above is not terribly accurate. Nests can grow huge, with a couple of thousand adult wasps in, not 20-30!! My mum had one in her loft, it took a few trips from the pest control people to kill them all, and when they brought out the dead nest, it was so huge it wouldn't even fit in one of those large squishy rubber buckets!

I've dealt with two myself in the past...the first time was very funny as I donned my motorcycle gear including my crash helmet! didn't get stung though.

This thread has made me a bit, despite me plotting mass murder against these little critters. My shame isn't eased by my equally bunny-hugging Postie either. He's just cheerfully announced that he's going to get a placard with 'murderess' daubed on it and pace up and down my drive

Time to get the yellow pages out, me thinks....

See if you can cut it down intact and give it to your postie to take home with him if he's that bothered [evil]

Bunny hugger is one thing.
Wasp hugger is just asking for trouble...

There's no 'shame' in killing nasty things like wasps. A friend of mine ended up in intensive care last year with a massive allergic reaction after being stung by one. Didn't know he had an allergy and now has to go around prepared in case it ever happens again. My opinion with all animals (cute or non-cute alike) is that if it's a choice between our health and well-being and theirs, they take second place.

I don't like killing things, even spiders that I am terrified of, but will make an exception for wasps

Wasps AND mozzies. Instant death.

(And cockroaches but you have less problem with them in the UK than I do here in Australia; and of course we have redback spiders which instantly get flattened as well)

i twice has a wasps above my bedroom window as a child, couldnt sleep from the fear and the buzzing. They would fly all around my room in the night and id find them in my bed. my mum refused to remove them for ages-they stung me :( get rid of them

My bee-keeper friends are the first to shout 'nuke 'em' when they see a wasps nest, they evil little buggers are very bad news for bees apparently.

I noticed a huge nest had suddenly appeared on the climbing roses at the front of our house the other week. There's a pest-control chap lives nearby, he's got all the protective gear and got rid of it for only £35. When he sprayed it with powder three queens came out - he'd never seen that before and said they would have been hyper-agressive if we hadn't dealt with it. Yikes!

You need a giant can of wasp spray from b & q. spray it in the nest as fast as you can, and run like fuck!

fluffyanimal

Crikey, you're right- I didn't check it properly- I just wanted something to that would explain that wasps don't move established nests.

20-30? Ell Oh Ell