AIBU to be a bit scared of what I've just seen in my shed

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Pictured here. I think I've seen these before but not so many or so big. I thought they were just some feature in the wood of a cheap shed but now I realise something or somethings have actually (gulp) built them. It looks like something(s) is living in them. I saw something winged on one of them then I ran away.

Could have been worse. Remember some wasps invaded someone's spare room a few years ago and built a nest on the bed?

Oo, something nasty in the wood shed. Is the sukebind out?

Put a jam jar around one, use the lid to scrape it off the timber and screw the lid shut. Then dump them humanely.

We had to get rid of a rugby ball sized one last year. Small bit more complicated

Wasps.

I agree with the suggestion to burn the shed down.

Then burn the house down too, just in case.

Feckless has lost another leg.

Burn it.

Burn it down.

There is a wasp nest near my window and every summer i have them on the window trying to get in. Hoping they have disappeared this summer.
To my surprise i realise wasp come out at night which i never knew before.
Get rid of that nest before they come out, they do look so cool though but are a nightmare to get rid of if hatched

*Is one pink and the other one blue?

Do the wasps have segregated facilities where you live?*

I can't stand the gender stereotyping they force on wasps nowadays

Bold fail

You can buy a spray that kills on contact. We had a nest under our shed and had to do this. Its a shame but they were nasty agressive wasps that otherwise made our garden unusable.

Its a wasps nest. We get these in our shed every Spring. Clever how they make them but I agree they are unwanted. Take a wallpaper scraper and a container. Scrape the top of the nest, whack it into the container, put it a bag, tie it and take it to the refuse dump. Then wait til next Spring and do it all again :)

Get some bees. We used to have loads of wasps, then someone put a beehive next to our house and the wasps are all but gone.

On a possibly more practical note just a sweater and some thick gloves will do the trick - I have to clear three or four nests a week from my mailbox, and have yet to be stung.

Those don't look like german wasp nests (the most aggressive type ime) so you should be OK anyway.

Wasp's nests.
It could be worse, they could be spider's eggs.

Streuth - that wasps nest on the bed 😳. Ruined a perfectly nice crocheted blanket by the looks of it too

I'm sure I read somewhere that the little round ones are where the queen hibernates before she colonises a new big nest in the spring. We had them in the attic of our old flat which was inhabited by hornets. Have you ever seen a queen hornet? You don't want to

Fuck that. Move house. Now.

Aw- they look like little downlighters!

I was hoping some kind oddjobman had been in...

We had a queen wasp flying around the playroom yesterday - massive - scared the bejesus out of us. We do get them occasionally in April - I think they hatch in the chimney and come down through the open fireplaces.

I generally respect all living creatures, but I'm afraid DH killed it. We didn't want it setting up home anywhere near.

It's the eyes (as a PP pointed out) that are freaking me out - never mind the wasp nests (which are quite cute).

As said up thread Potter Wasp nests.

Only fear them if you're a caterpillar.

We had an early wasp nest in our shed. I very bravely knocked it down, then was chased around the garden by a very angry queen. Even when I ran inside and slammed the door she bashed against the door.

wasps love stinging me and I swell up to comic proportions :(

I see your wasps and raise you hornets.
Just like wasps only MUCH bigger, the nest was the size of a rugby ball and had hundreds of them.

potter wasps use mud dont they? those arent made of mud but paper.

Hmmm yes they do. Though it's not usually to have waspy wasps build many nests isn't it? Thought it was just one.