NDN won't get rid of a wasps' nest

[DoloresLandingham]

During the really hot weather we noticed a constant stream of wasps flying in an out of a gap behind the fascia board on NDN's house. It's clearly visible from our side of the fence but they rarely use that corner of the garden as it's just a side return around their extension. It's right over our garden.

We knocked and told them about it, and they promised to look into it. I saw one of them in the street today and asked about it. He said that the council have a six-week waiting list for removal. I asked if he had considered a private company, and he said he didn't want to spend too much money on something which 'barely affects them'. I offered to pay half of the cost as we would benefit too but he said no. I reminded him that we have two very small children, whereas his are much older, but he was unmoved. We haven't seen many wasps in the garden yet as I think they're still building the nest (not that I know much about wasp behaviour...) but it's surely only a matter of time before there are a lot more of them around.

AIBU to feel that he's being selfish, and that we should be able to use the garden without a wasps' nest a few feet away, or am I being precious?!

[DeeWe]

It's your problem not his. He's not worried about it. Actually if you hadn't noticed them flying in and out then you wouldn't be worried about it either. So you're seeing an issue before it comes-they may not become an issue.
We have an (unused) garage that backs onto our garden, and one year there were wasps flying in and out of a little hole in the back wall into our garden. Quite a lot of them. It never became a problem, although I thought it might. Good thing to though as I've no idea whose garage it is.

When we had one under the roof cost us ?25 and the chap came round with a spray thing on a long pole so he removed it without needing ladders. It was only an issue to us as they could also get into the loft from their position and as our boilet had gone wrong we needed the gas chap to be able to go up there safely.

[FretYeNotAllIsShiny]

I had a wasps nest in the garden. Bought a can of foam from B&Q, did the nest with it that night. Cost about a fiver.

Could you offer to buy the foam and do the nest for them?

[eyebags63]

Buy some wasp killer, sneak over and tip it over the nest when the neighbours are out. Problem solved.

[Dawndonnaagain]

Sleep, our nest was directly below our waspinator!

[SleepIsOverrated]

Buy a Waspinator and hang it in your garden. They'll stay away.

[Sunny67]

Two years ago we had a wasps nest in our garden. It was under ground near a dry stone wall. We've a fairly large garden and always have plenty of bees and some wasps around so hadn't noticed it. That was until one Saturday morning one of my dogs came flying back to me covered and I mean covered in the little buggers.
I was trying to get them off him with a tea towel and the poor little thing had been stung so many times I took him to the vets to have him checked over.
We got someone in to get rid of the nest and we were told that we wouldn't have been able to get anywhere near that part of the garden in another three weeks as the wasps would have become more and more aggressive as the best contained the following years queens.

[Sparklingbrook]

NDN sounds less than understanding.

[ProbablyMe]

It's not necessary to pay someone! I had a pest control officer out from the council and he refunded the money I'd paid up front for the appointment and said that I needed to wait until dusk when they went back to the nest and squirt ant powder into the entrance as it was basically the same stuff that he was going to use. Worked a treat.

I would want them gone too - but that's largely because my DP is terrified of them and I get fed up of saving him from them!!

[Dawndonnaagain]

Agree with LIZS we had one removed last year, it was £35.00.

[YeOldTrout]

Wasps are very good for the environment, they kill all the nasty pests that eat our plants. If you said your child was highly allergic I'd get the concern. I try to leave their nests alone now.

[gamerchick]

Do the bags with pennies in as said above and put random pots of jam around the perimeter of the garden and they may not bother you.

That nest will be responsible for many miserys in the neighbourhood in the coming months.

[Becles]

[smile]@DoloresLandingham for reminding me of one of my all time favourite books as a child. Off to see if I can find a copy on Amazon.

If you've never read the Fattypuffs and the Thinnifers, you're missing a treat.

[gamerchick]

Is he aware that those things can eat through houses? He might feel differently if they start to dive bombing him from the light fitting while he's in bed.

For now you need to take steps for your own house. The nest will soon be self sufficient and there will be filled up to the rafters. They get bad tempered for a few months.

[Itllbefiiiiiiiiine]

I don't think YABU, wasps are total wankers.

I'd probably pay to get it whipped out. Although my hate for them has grown significantly since DC2 came along with severe allergies. Wasp stings have always been a concern....

[rollonthesummer]

I'd pay to have it done if it was bothering me.

[LIZS]

I doubt this is about the money. When we needed a wasp nest removing , admittedly in a the eaves around a ground floor bay window so not involving ladders etc, it was less than £40 for a private firm. It simply isn't a priority as far as he is concerned.

[CakeLady1]

Hang a clear plastic bag full of water with a few pennies in near your house - to them, it looks like another wasps nest and will deter them from coming near.

[WayneRooneysHair]

I hate wasps so I feel your pain, I think the only solution is to move house OP.

I guarantee that if the wasps were bothering your neighbour he'd get rid of them like a shot.

[Friedgreenpajamas]

I'm that woman that runs around, tits flailing. Id pay whatever it took to kill the fuckers. Ideally with fire and hammers. Wasp-petters you are so very very wrong!

[velourvoyageur]

When I was little we had a wasp's nest next to my bedroom window and in summer there were always wasps in the house. We wouldn't have dreamed of getting rid of them (although there were no allergies involved have to admit). My dad showed me how to pick them up and take them out of the house so they could find food. I've let loads crawl into my hands and can't remember being stung ever.

If all you're worried about is your kids getting stung....would you really kill a whole nest just to avoid the possibility

captain love the sound of your dad!
and loved watching their little wasp faces eat a smidge of honey off my finger all trusting and hungry :)

[Fatmomma99]

I'm sorry, but like others here, I think the problem is for you so you need to find/pay for the solution.

But I'm sorry for your pain!

[GiddyOnZackHunt]

I'm allergic to the fecking jaspery bastards. I haven't once been stung whilst having a flap but have been stung about 10 times with wasps on clothes or in shoes.
I would get DH to shove a can of wasp murder at them or pay someone to kill them. So yabu. If it bothers you but not them then you need to pretty much pay for it.

[tabulahrasa]

Years ago we called out the council to deal with a wasp's nest we thought we couldn't get to...

A man came, sellotaped a tin of wasp powder to a stick to make it reach and shook it at the entrance to the nest.

I could have done that for free

[dodobookends]

They do come back and nest in the same place.

We had them twice at the front of our house, several years apart. The first time we got the council out as soon as we noticed, and the second time we decided to let them get on with it, as they don't seem to hang about near their nests but to fly in from far afield. Big mistake. When we gave in (because of the noise they were making - a sort of communal throbbing hum every evening, v. weird) and called the council, the man who came out said that judging by the numbers flying in and out of the hole, the nest was about 40,000 - 50,000 strong.

Your neighbour will find that the wasps will eat their way through rather a lot of wood in 6 weeks. They practically ate our porch away, and cost us a packet.

[NeedsAsockamnesty]

Yabu.

It's not bothering him enough to want it done quicker of it bothers you that much pay in full for it to be sorted