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bedroom wasps

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snowglobemouse · 22/04/2015 17:56

I'm confused. is there a wasp nest in my bedroom?! Sad

woke up to a loud buzzzzzz. something behind my blinds bashing itself at the window. it eventually made its way to the glass at my bedroom door (goes to a small balcony) so I opened the door to let it out. it was a huge angry wasp. I briefly thought 'how did that get in my room' because the windows and doors have been shut. I've been away for 2 weeks and only got back yesterday.

BUT then I noticed on the floor by the door 2 dead dusty wasps. who I assume had been trying to get out the glass and had just given up and died on the floor beside it. while I was away.

so...how the fuck did they get in? surely if there was a nest somewhere in my room (typing this is making me shudder) I would hear it?!

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WorraLiberty · 22/04/2015 17:58

Is your loft hatch anywhere near your bedroom?

Mine is just outside my bedroom door and it turned out we had a wasp's nest in the loft.

FlowerPuffGirl · 22/04/2015 18:00

I get them every summer. Have you painted recently? There is definitely no nest near me, but something seems to attract them.

Jengnr · 22/04/2015 18:12

I bet the nest is in the loft. They come in through the light fittings. Would be very clever and admirable if they weren't such little bastards.

SideOrderofChips · 22/04/2015 18:16

Urgh that made me shudder. I would be moving out but i am petrified of wasps

Floisme · 22/04/2015 18:25

I'm no expert so please come and correct me if I'm wrong but I think it might be a bit early in the year to have a wasps nest. It sounds to me like you've had a queen (they're extra big) looking for a suitable place to build one. They get inside in all kinds of ways e.g. ventilation shafts.

We've had one in our roofspace a couple of times but it's not normally until late summer that they really become a problem - up until then they're mostly too busy to bother you.

PingPongBat · 22/04/2015 18:30

I had a bloody huge sleepy wasp in my bedroom the other day, scared the living daylights out of me. No idea where it came from. I scrunched it up in some loo roll and put it in the loo, but didn't flush. I went to have a wee a bit later and it was sitting on the loo seat.... so it must have somehow escaped, unless there were two of them...

We've had a wasp nest in the loft space before, so I think we need to check again to make sure they aren't back.

digerd · 22/04/2015 18:34

I have had 2 wasp nests - 1 in the loft and one under a roof tile.
Each time they got through the ceiling spot lights gaps into my bathroom.
The biggest spotlight is right over the toiletHmm Confused and they were crawling around the seat, dropping on my head ad crawling from the floor onto my feet and legs Shock.
They were confused by the light from the window and were trying to get outside through there in error.

Normally they go out where they came in but sometimes things confuse them. They enter from outside through the tiniest of gaps/holes. But the Queen has overwintered somewhere in your place

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snowglobemouse · 22/04/2015 18:42

oh hell. the story about wasps dropping onto the toilet makes me want to cry.

there is no attic, I live in a rented 2 storey flat with flats above. I only have a normal light with a cable in my room attached to a plastic circular thing (is it called a ceiling rose?) so I don't think they've been coming in there.

if the queen (and I think it must have been, it was huge) was spending winter in my bedroom whimper then where did the others come from? Were they all having a wee sleepover in my room?! does that mean more and more will wake up and come out from...wherever they've been hiding?

AGH

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Idefix · 22/04/2015 18:49

I would check your loft. We had this problem a few years ago. The wasps were in the roof, we had them treated and thought the problem was solved. We were told it was only a small nest. The nest went back into a recess and were not fully seen, many, many survived but now could not get out as the hole in the roof was sealed. We to saw the odd dead wasp but thought it was ok as they had been treated. The problem became much worse my ds woke up screaming in the night having been stung 5 times. He was admitted to hospital as he was very unwell from the venom of so many stings and is now sensitised to wasp venom. When the fire brigade (in Europe) came they found a huge next directly above ds room.

Idefix · 22/04/2015 18:50

Cross post op, would check crevices around radiator pipes, vents etc.

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snowglobemouse · 22/04/2015 18:53

I thought I posted in chat sorry.

flatmate has seen no wasps, dead or alive in her room or anywhere in flat. so...they're living in my room? fuck.

worried that pp was correct in saying it's not wasp season so maybe they're just waking up. Shudder.

but surely I would have noticed them building their nest last year? all that buzzing? I've lived here 3 yeara

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stareatthetvscreen · 22/04/2015 19:26

don't stress about it just get the pest people in

it'll be the best 40 quid you ever spend

been there done that got the stripy t shirt

Jengnr · 22/04/2015 20:19

Take your light fitting off, I bet you there's a couple of dead ones in there.

I didn't think it was possible either.

Momzilla82 · 22/04/2015 20:22

Could be worse OP I have a mouse in my kitchen not helpful

ParkingFred · 22/04/2015 20:39

We have them in our loft every summer. The empty nest up there from last year is so big, from the floor to the ridge! Apparently the queen will have wintered in there, maybe several of them!

They used to traverse our bedroom every morning to get outside, but after a very unfortunate multiple stinging incident (on my face), we have blocked that route so now they go in and out through the top of a gable.

They don't cause us any problems (again, ignores stinging trauma), so we just leave them to it.

peacoat · 22/04/2015 20:42

Are you in my old room? I came home from work one day to find 16 wasps in my room, mostly dead thank goodness.

I kept the window shut but I keep getting more.

backwardpossom · 22/04/2015 20:47

I'd rather have a hundred mice than one wasp, momzilla

This thread has given me The Fear.

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snowglobemouse · 22/04/2015 21:45

I would much prefer a kitchen mouse. swap?

peacoat did you ever work out where they were coming from? did you appear home one day and find a bunch of dead ones or had you been away for a while?

the description of a floor to ceiling nest has made me feel really itchy

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RhiWrites · 22/04/2015 22:16

I used to live on the top floor of a house and one summer started seeing a lot of wasps. Sprayed raid before going away for the week and came back to a wasp massacre - at least 100 living crawling on the bodies of the dead. Turned out there was a nest under the waves.

Call an exterminator to take a look.

ItsADinosaur · 22/04/2015 22:38

Argh we have the exact same problem! Keep finding dopey wasps crawling along the bedroom floors. Looked in the loft but can't see anything, am really scared the DC are going to get stung.

Momzilla82 · 22/04/2015 22:43

A hundred mice? Shudder. We have a dormant wasp nest in out attic. Good job it's dormant tempting fate as there's an air vent into my sons room. If I were you I'd call in a professional.

Fluffyears · 22/04/2015 23:25

One winter I heard our light buzzing looked up and there was the biggest wasp I've ever seen it was fucking huge. Couldn't understand it as it was winter but reading above I think it might have been a queen hiding out for the winter. I caught it in a tin and released it outside in the cold.

EnriqueTheRingBearingLizard · 22/04/2015 23:33

We've had wasps in the house too this last week and it's really early, must have been the warmer weather and the sunshine waking up the ones that were hibernating.

When we've had nests before the tell tale sign's been a kind of relentless ticking noise as they go about their business. Didn't notice any buzzing as such.
Have also had bodies in bathrooms and unused bedrooms. It's weird.

If you want to deter wasps from building you can buy dummy nests that you hang outside close to where they want to access and that supposedly deters them, they think there's already competition. You can also buy aerosol sprays to kill a nest but you have to use with caution, usually at dawn or after dusk I think? I bought one for a fiver or so, but chickened out and leave it to the professionals.

Floisme · 22/04/2015 23:51

I thought it was only the queen wasp that hibernated? I think the rest are kicked out of the nest at the end of the summer and spend a few weeks making whoopee before they die off so it's quite rare to see anything other than queens around at this time of year.

If there is a nest in your room I doubt there's much going on there yet though I suppose some might be hatching earlier than normal because of the warm weather. But you should still be in plenty of time to get pest controll in to blitz it. They do use poison so it might be worth asking their advice about whether to sleep in the room straight away.

I should repeat that I'm not an expert and I'm happy to be contradicted on any of this - I'm just a a bit of a veteran when it comes to wasps' nests!

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snowglobemouse · 23/04/2015 02:31

I really can't afford an exterminator at the mo, I wonder if my letting agency would cover it? probably not as it's not their fault! will look into local exterminators and start putting a bit by and hope I don't get stung to death meanwhile

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