Deterring wasps

[shakey jake]

During Covid I was standing outside with a customer in there back garden when we heard a whoosh and a bang . His next door neighbour had tried to dispose of a wasps nest in the cavity of his gable end of his bungalow with a butane weed wand !! The burnt the wasps no problem but the insuring fire set the roofing felt alight and burnt half his house down …
When the fire brigade were putting the fire out they found one off his shotguns sitting in the loft next to his gun cabinet this was after half the roof collapsed and the fire had set off about 1000 shotgun cartridges which were popping off .
Good news was that the wasps were gone and his insurance paid out !!
The home owner has been renamed barbecue by locals

You can laugh but he saved himself £75.00!!

 

[rem284]

I would say unless they are likely to sting people or pets, just leave them alone. They kill a lot of garden pests as well as doing other useful stuff. I have been stung plenty times so fully understand if they are causing a problem it has to be resolved

 

[Pedro]

How is it when you want to keep the back door open in the summer, wasps come in uninvited but then are incapable of finding their way out the same way and continually walk up and down windows thinking it's a diabolical force field? Yet they never try flying through closed windows from the outside.

Yours sincerely,
Puzzled from Cumbria.

 

[Dodder]

I would be very careful climbing a ladder in the dark whilst carrying a running strimmer.
Not sure what ppe you would need

Wow! I'd hate to be the poor devil doing a risk assessment on that procedure!

 

[Demetrius]

Wasps are valuable for ecosystems, economy and human health (just like bees)

Wasps deserve to be just as highly valued as other insects, like bees, due to their roles as predators, pollinators, and more, according to a new review paper led by UCL and University of East Anglia researchers.

www.ucl.ac.uk

D.

 

[Freeforester]

Dish soap liquid works well if you are able to spray the nest without getting stung. Get it on them and they drop to the floor and die. Else have found that ant powder works better than wasp powder. You can even make wasp traps using old pastic bottles or Lidl I think are selling some. Best to get rid of it before the nest gets bigger in my view and offense is the best defense.

Talk about a clean kill…