Wasps!

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I have never known a year like this one for wasps coming in the house in search of something (food? water? housing?). Every day we're getting 3-6 in the house that need gently shepherding back out again. When we shut the window they stare in through the glass

Is it just me and should I be looking for a nest nearby? Or is this everyone this year?

I've got lots of baby wasps in my garden and they're even more stupid than adult wasps! No manners whatsoever, just fly into your face and dive bomb any food I dare to take outside.

I’ve seen very few wasps this year. You must have a nest nearby. Or maybe they just like you 😁
We had a wasp nest in the garden a few years ago and even then we didn’t see many flying around.

If the wasps are flying then they are adult the babies are grubs. We're in the time of year when the nests are declining and the wasps become sugar junkies. I've not noticed too many so far, on holiday in Wales, bur loads of deer flies. You may have a nest nearby, little stripey bastards.

We have loads. A few in the house a day.

Have got tonnes of the striped bastards! Think they’re all getting drunk on fallen plums, they’re dozy as anything and driving me round the bend.

On the plus side, the thunder bugs have reduced over the last week or two, was getting fed up of them invading the house.

We've had barely any this year. I think it's because we have white-tailed bumble bees nesting in our shed and feasting on the lavender near the house - they're docile but huge and they seem to be deterring the wasps.

That’s interesting. We have very few wasps, haven’t been troubled by them for years. Garden full of bumblebees.

Sounds like a possible nest in the vicinity. If you can put up with it, the wasps will die off in the autumn and then, as new wasps avoid sites where there's an old nest, you shouldn't see any more next year.

We've checked obvious places for wasps - except the loft which I'll check later.

Can't see any and more than happy to live with the wasps if they're not building a nest somewhere pesky. We have loads of bees too but I've just never known this many wasps. Maybe the dry weather is driving them indoors in search of food? Can't be water as we have a pond.

But the pond only went in last year so maybe they've been attracted by the pond as it's so dry?

Sounds as though there is a large nest close by with that many coming indoors.
They often nest in the ground, in old mouse holes etc, so they can be hard to spot if the nest is in a border or in the lawn as the entrance hole is small and so can be hidden by plants or grass. Sit outside and watch where they go, you might notice them going back and forth to a spot in a border. We have raised beds and get wasps nests often, they like the fact those beds are drier I imagine. Be careful weeding and cutting any lawns, until you know where the nest is.
Other common places are in a tree, or up in the eaves/attic.
Friend who had hornets coming in had a nest in her eaves.
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I’d be wary of letting wasps nest anywhere on/in your house. I stupidly tolerated a nest in the void under the eaves.
They chewed through the timber into the house, and up to 200 of them held a party in my bedroom every evening. I always went upstairs hooded and armed with a swatter, but when one of the little bastards hid under my duvet and stung me in the boob, I had enough and called in the pest control chap!