Wasp or Bee?

[Gamergirl86]

Sorry about picture quality. The little beasts are fast.

They are making something in my walls. I hear them at night eating my structural integrity.

Not really true, honey bees have a similar nipped in waist shape (I’m a beekeeper).
But I’m almost sure from the photos those are wasps.
They are actually very important pollinators and will eat the caterpillars and other pests in your garden. So they can be beneficial to have around! Until late summer, when they no longer have babies to care for and start to get interested in sweet stuff like your picnic. So if they are in your house, it’s probably better to call pest control before the nest gets to that stage.

Definitely wasps.unless you need work doing leave them. Then in about October get the hole sealed up.

GET THE PEST CONTROL PEOPLE IN.

Seriously. Our neighbours didn't and their entire ceiling collapsed bringing ceiling, wasps' nest and tens of thousands of wasps down into a bedroom.

We didn't either - oh how sweet, I thought, it is in an out-of-the-way hole in the side of the house... then we finally realised what a disastrous mess they were making of the structure of our porch. The man from the council said it was one of the largest nests he'd ever seen. Forty thousand was his guess. We had to have the porch rebuilt.

Just had a nest exterminated this morning. We weren’t sure if they were bees or wasps and were advised to put something sticky near the entrance to catch 1 or 2. We stuck a big bundle of balled up sticky tape. Google image search confirmed wasps.

The pest control guy told me that there are loads of them around this year, one house has had 5 nests so far this summer!

If you can access the entry point, spray it in the evening when they have gone to bed with shop bought wasp nest killer. It's usually very effective.

Wasps are smooth, bees have hairs on the upper body (or all over for bumbles), as per FadedRed's photo.

We've had 2 wasp nests in our loft. One had an entering point under the tiles right near my daughter's bedroom window. I've no regrets about £60 spent on a pest controller killing the nest.

2nd nest about our bedroom in loft. Its an old house with single brick, plaster, wallpaper. They managed to burrow through the wall, from the loft, and came out under the skirting board in our bedroom. I have a severe wasp phobia !! My idiot hubby wouldn't spent £60+ again. He bought a beesuit from Ebay costing nearly £30. Poison from the hardware store and dealt with it himself. He is an effing moron and a tight one at that !!

OP, if you have wasps and want rid of them, please leave it to the experts

Blimey!

We got rid of one as soon as we spotted it as their entry point was under the tiles right above DS1's bedroom window meaning we couldn't open it. The council pest controller was very reasonable and got them in one go but they had obviously settled in well and we were finding dead and dying wasps all over the place for weeks, some near some cracked plasterboard on the other side of the house.

The year after, they started to move into the weep vents above our back doors but a bottle of powder from screw fix sorted that one out.

I had that Im my bedroom in the cavity wall. I could hear munching and buzzing as soon as it was dawn. Couod see them flying past the window and in the side of the window frame to get inside the wall.

I got pest control and they used a long pole attached to a spray he operated from the ground to teach up to the first floor and spray the foam poison into the hole and seal it.

a few more wasps tried to go home to it for the next few days but couldn’t get in so left.

for three years they came back trying to get in. Ive no idea how they recognised it as I thought they died annually but they didn’t seem to if they came back remembering it?

none for three further years since so hopefully it’s over. It was one hour out of my day and £45 well spent.

They are persistent blighters, aren't they?

They’re wasps, just call a pest control company to come and kill them. You don’t need to agonise about it.

@RentalWoesNotFun they do die off each year but the new wasps could probably smell the scent of the old nest. Bees and wasps are very sensitive to pheromones. Hopefully the smell has gone by now!