Wasp's nest in/under window sill - how to remove
Duncan Di Saudelli
Whilst watching the MExicans run rings round the French, I could hear a
"munching" sound from the window. Close inspection identified quite a few
smallish wasps coming and going so I went outside and identified a structure
about the size of a matchbox being assembled underneath the outside window,
underneath (or possibly starting to become inside) the window sill.
I could pay 40 quid-odd for someone to come and kill them but I would prefer
to use a cheaper/humane method i.e. can I scrape this fledgling wasp's nest
into a bag and take it waway, or can I do something to make them leave short
of trying to smoke them/burn them oout (don't want to damage the woodwork of
course)?
The sound inside the house is quite loud so I am afraid they might eat their
way underneath the sill and end up forming an internal nest around the
aluminium double glazing unit, inside the profile or soem such void.
Thanks for pointers/experience/stories/advice
DDS
Adrian C
> Hello
>
> Whilst watching the MExicans run rings round the French, I could hear a
> "munching" sound from the window. Close inspection identified quite a few
> smallish wasps coming and going so I went outside and identified a structure
> about the size of a matchbox being assembled underneath the outside window,
> underneath (or possibly starting to become inside) the window sill.
>
After dusk liberally dust it with Ant Powder available from the Pound
Shop. Activity will stop after a few days.
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Adrian C
freepo
They will not be there for any more than a few months, they die in the
winter and they are not dangerous if you respect their flight path to/
from nest. I urge you to leave them be and scrape it away next
spring. They won't cause any damage to your house. You can fill any
gaps under your sills with mastic but it's not really necessary AFAIK
freepo
You could encourage them to remain outside the window by placing a
piece of plywood sticking out from the windowsill, weighted down with
a big heavy weight to stop it falling off try to make it so it sticks
out flush from the underside of the windowsill.
This will be a rain shelter underneath which they can build their
nest outside of your home.
geoff
<0ef67142-23d3-48ef...@w31g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
freepo <free...@gmail.com> writes
Or ...
you could just liberally spray the entrance with nippon powder
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geoff
TheOldFellow
Sounds to me like the queen has already found a way under your sill into
the cavity where she has built her nest. The suggestions about borax-
based ant killer will work, but it's true that the nest will be abandoned
as soon as the frosts start.
I have no proof of this, but looking at the construction of wasp nest I
suspect it is a very good insulator so long as it is dry.
R.
cynic
>
> - Show quoted text -
they burn well when dry
TheOldFellow
> On 18 June, 09:28, TheOldFellow <theoldfel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:20:42 +0100, Duncan Di Saudelli wrote:
>> > Hello
<snip>
>> I have no proof of this, but looking at the construction of wasp nest I
>> suspect it is a very good insulator so long as it is dry.
>>
>
> they burn well when dry
But this is a very bad way of getting rid of the wasp's home, in that it
might get rid of yours too.
R.
stuart noble
Not usually a problem until late September when they start to lose their
bearings and end up in the house, crawling about the place and waiting
for you to tread on them in bare feet.
Don't know how you would hear a wasps nest when watching WC football
TheScullster
"Duncan Di Saudelli" wrote
Sounds like a job for "Wasp Nest Destroyer" to me.
At least that's the stuff I used after the council did half a cock up job of
removing a nest in my loft.
It's a foam sprayed from an aerosol and you should apply this to the
nest/nest opening each night when activity has stopped.
The type I got had a range of about 2m with reasonable accuracy - I was
working off a ladder so didn't want to get too close.
Yes you can leave them, but you may regret it if the nest gets as big as
ours (effectively preventing safe entry to the loft space where I was trying
to install vent fan and ducting).
Phil
geoff
Streater <timst...@waitrose.com> writes
>In article <EeSdnagdi5SEs4bR...@pipex.net>,
>perhaps your shed and chew it up, then use it for building. So it would
>be a decent insulator but presumably would bridge the cavity wall and
>lead to dampness.
>
>Cyanide will kill them if you have the nerve for that.
So would a thermonuclear device
but why bother when a few squirts of nippon powder will dispatch them
quite safely
> My dad used to
>kill them in ground nests by putting some on a square of cloth, then
>pulling the corners up and tying round a stick. Then you wet the cloth
>and ram it into the nest entrance.
Each to their own
>
>Bees use wax rather than papier maché. And any unpainted bit of shed
>will likely show evidence of the wasps' rasping habits.
>
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geoff
cynic
Exactly so - it increases the fire risk to the building so kill the
little hot arsed buggers, remove the nest and put it on a bonfire
newshound
> Sounds like a job for "Wasp Nest Destroyer" to me.
> At least that's the stuff I used after the council did half a cock up job
> of removing a nest in my loft.
> It's a foam sprayed from an aerosol and you should apply this to the
> nest/nest opening each night when activity has stopped.
> The type I got had a range of about 2m with reasonable accuracy - I was
> working off a ladder so didn't want to get too close.
> Yes you can leave them, but you may regret it if the nest gets as big as
> ours (effectively preventing safe entry to the loft space where I was
> trying to install vent fan and ducting).
>
> Phil
>
kids / pets, especially if the nest is inaccessible. Although they can be
annoying if you do a lot of eating/drinking al fresco they do predate a lot
of other insect pests.
Adrian C
>>
>> I have no proof of this, but looking at the construction of wasp nest I
>> suspect it is a very good insulator so long as it is dry.
>
> perhaps your shed and chew it up, then use it for building. So it would
> be a decent insulator but presumably would bridge the cavity wall and
> lead to dampness.
The insides of one I removed!
<http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9ri4a_a-dead-wasps-nesty_animals>
>
> Cyanide will kill them if you have the nerve for that. My dad used to
> kill them in ground nests by putting some on a square of cloth, then
> pulling the corners up and tying round a stick. Then you wet the cloth
> and ram it into the nest entrance.
Yikes :-)
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Adrian C
Duncan Di Saudelli
"Duncan Di Saudelli" <n...@home.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for pointers/experience/stories/advice
Indeed - some useful approaches there. I've opted to wait and see what
happens. If they don't nbother me and don't cause damage I'll leave them be.
Thanks all
DDS
Gib Bogle
> Hello
>
> Whilst watching the MExicans run rings round the French, I could hear a
> "munching" sound from the window. Close inspection identified quite a few
> smallish wasps coming and going so I went outside and identified a structure
> about the size of a matchbox being assembled underneath the outside window,
> underneath (or possibly starting to become inside) the window sill.
In Costa Rica last year I saw a wasp nest a bit bigger than a man's head,
hanging in the open under an eave near a swimming pool. Interestingly the wasps
were very small, about half the length of the usual ones we see in NZ.
NT
> Cyanide will kill them if you have the nerve for that. My dad used to
> kill them in ground nests by putting some on a square of cloth, then
> pulling the corners up and tying round a stick. Then you wet the cloth
> and ram it into the nest entrance.
I'm guessing chlorine would work too. If it does, its cheap &
available.
NT
Mr. Benn
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I've used Nippon powder on a wasps nest and it worked a treat. I waited
until dusk when they were less active a gave one big squirt. I never saw
any wasps there again. Cheap and effective.
Mr. Benn
I wouldn't! They will become a problem at some stage. It's better to deal
with it early.
Adrian C
> I've used Nippon powder on a wasps nest and it worked a treat. I waited
> until dusk when they were less active a gave one big squirt. I never saw
> any wasps there again. Cheap and effective.
In 100 years time, or a suitable period of evolution (if there still is
us and a planet), ye'll find Wasps will be immune to Nippon powder.
Then what?
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Adrian C
Grimly Curmudgeon
drugs began to take hold. I remember Adrian C <em...@here.invalid>
saying something like:
>In 100 years time, or a suitable period of evolution (if there still is
>us and a planet), ye'll find Wasps will be immune to Nippon powder.
>
>Then what?
They'll never be immune to a flamethrower.
terry
wrote:
Wasps do catch and eat many small midges and mosquitoes.
As do bats.
pjlu...@yahoo.co.uk
Agreed. I once had a nest in our loft.
Left it thinking it wasn't a problem.
After a while some kind of sap from the nest seeped into the
plasterboard of the ceiling and weakened it.
Had to get the nest removed and ceiling repaired.
Ian
I have 2 wasp that have been going in my windowsill and they sleep on my
curtain and I'm afraid to try and kill them on the curtain please help
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Rod Speed
> I have 2 wasp that have been going in my windowsill and they sleep on
> my curtain and I'm afraid to try and kill them on the curtain please help
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Andrew
FFS, Why can't people read the date of the post before
slamming in a pointless reply.
FMurtz
alone and they will leave you alone, and will eat other annoying pests,
and then go away till next season.
Unless they have set up nest in a place near children who may want to
play with them.
Bob Eager
We have a Waspinator... and no, it doesn't kill them.
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FMurtz
>> Andrew wrote:
>>> On 07/09/2017 06:16, Rod Speed wrote:
>>>> Ian <caedfaa9ed1216d60ef...@example.com> wrote
>>>>> I have 2 wasp that have been going in my windowsill and they sleep on
>>>>> my curtain and I'm afraid to try and kill them on the curtain please
>>>>> help
>>>>
>>>> I just kill them with flyspray, works fine.
>>>
>>> they all flew the next *SEVEN* years ago.
>>>
>>> FFS, Why can't people read the date of the post before
>>> slamming in a pointless reply.
>>
>> I do not know why the preoccupation with wasps anyway, just leave them
>> alone and they will leave you alone, and will eat other annoying pests,
>> and then go away till next season.
>
If not others do.
>
> If the nest is adjacent to an outdoor seating area, they are a PITA,
> especially at this time of year as they begin to starve, but otherwise
> I leave them alone.
>
Bob Eager
> On 2017-09-09, FMurtz <hag...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Huge wrote:
>>> On 2017-09-08, FMurtz <hag...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Andrew wrote:
>>>>> On 07/09/2017 06:16, Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>>> Ian <caedfaa9ed1216d60ef...@example.com> wrote
>>>>>>> I have 2 wasp that have been going in my windowsill and they sleep
>>>>>>> on my curtain and I'm afraid to try and kill them on the curtain
>>>>>>> please help
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just kill them with flyspray, works fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> they all flew the next *SEVEN* years ago.
>>>>>
>>>>> FFS, Why can't people read the date of the post before slamming in a
>>>>> pointless reply.
>>>>
>>>> I do not know why the preoccupation with wasps anyway, just leave
>>>> them alone and they will leave you alone, and will eat other annoying
>>>> pests,
>>>> and then go away till next season.
>>>
>>> Not even then, since they do not return to existing nest sites.
>>
>> If not others do.
>
That's why the Waspinator (dummy nest) seems to work.
Bob Eager
> In article <f1hnk4F...@mid.individual.net>, Bob Eager
>
>>On Sat, 09 Sep 2017 08:14:34 +0000, Huge wrote:
>>
>>> On 2017-09-09, FMurtz <hag...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Huge wrote:
>>>>> On 2017-09-08, FMurtz <hag...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Andrew wrote:
>>>>>>> On 07/09/2017 06:16, Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>>>>> Ian <caedfaa9ed1216d60ef...@example.com> wrote
>>>>>>>>> I have 2 wasp that have been going in my windowsill and they
>>>>>>>>> sleep on my curtain and I'm afraid to try and kill them on the
>>>>>>>>> curtain please help
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I just kill them with flyspray, works fine.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> they all flew the next *SEVEN* years ago.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> FFS, Why can't people read the date of the post before slamming in
>>>>>>> a pointless reply.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do not know why the preoccupation with wasps anyway, just leave
>>>>>> them alone and they will leave you alone, and will eat other
>>>>>> annoying pests,
>>>>>> and then go away till next season.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not even then, since they do not return to existing nest sites.
>>>>
>>>> If not others do.
>>>
>>> Nope.
>>
>>That's why the Waspinator (dummy nest) seems to work.
>
Except when they see an existing one. Hence the Waspinator.