If i didnt need to pull.down and rebuild the chimney they are nesting next to I wouldnt bother them to be honest but if I dont donit before winter when they all die, the ceiling in my sons room will.dissapear due to the leak. I also have a cracked chimney pot that needs replacing.
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I've recently had one in the wall cavity - they were going in at the corner of one of the windows. I had someone out to it, £50 to spray some stuff in and they were gone a few hours later. I had a go with spray but it just annoyed them two at a time.
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20 odd feet up a ladder might be a bit of a stretch though. I found that Nippon ant powder works on wasps and most other insects, just spray it round the entrance it sticks to brick surfaces and they track it into the nest.
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If it's up a ladder then I'd get the someone in....just not worth taking the risk.
I dislike ladders and I dislike wasps...so for me I'd be out at that point!
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I cobbled together a paraffin gun full of white ant/wasp powder, a portable compressor and 3m of 15mm copper pipe with 4m of smaller heating oil copper pipe cable tied to it.
Could blow as much white powder up the pipe as needed around the soffit/facia boards where the wasps were coming in and out. Clouds of powder and the roof turned white but it worked.
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Yep, I wouldn't be going up a ladder attacking wasps there!
Could blow as much white powder up the pipe as needed around the soffit/facia boards where the wasps were coming in and out. Clouds of powder and the roof turned white but it worked.
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Yep, I wouldn't be going up a ladder attacking wasps there!
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All the workers and drones will peg. Only the mated(?) queens will successfully over-winter, tucked away in some secluded hiding place, emerging in early spring to start new colonies. The queens can easily survive sub-zero temperatures while in hibernation. They will not re-use the old nests, but may start one very close by.
A legal requirement - unless they are a nuisance due to their location. I really doubt whether that position would be regarded as a sufficient reason for destruction.
Destruction of a bee colony is a problem - persistent insecticides are not permissible because the nest may be robbed out by other bees - killing those colonies as well.
Most beekeepers would remove the colony - if practical - but likely not an option in your nest location. Wasps will generally build inside the building and bees will colonise an enclosed space - often the cavity of a wall, unfortunately.
Yep, great for ground nests, but not so great using it aerially! Unfortunately, now a virtually banned substance. Damp cymag gives off cyanide gas. There was one case of a gamekeeper who opened his landrover cab door and was gassed. Luckily for him, he fell out of the vehicle and recovered. He was lucky.
Back in the 1960s, we walked the hedgerows around fields that were to be ploughed in the autumn (usually after the harvest). Wasp nests, ploughed out, were a real problem for the tractor driver of tractors without cabs!
Whenever I used cyanide, I had two flasks containing the antidote - one on each side, close to the work. The instruction was to mix the two and drink it - quickly - if an incident occurred.
reminds me of a time I went to the chemists to get the antidote. Accused me of being a drug user, you get a high from it
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That is an impressive beast!
I've just killed off a wasps nest that was near my son's bedroom window, they were coming out from under the roof tiles, I have a cobbled together pipe about 4 meters long with a u bend and a peglar ball valve on the bottom.
Fill in with Nissin wasp powder connect it to a compressor and gave them 3 blasts, they were gone the next day. Only 1 sting!
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Had a bee keeper on the allotment...every now and again they would swarm and it was chaos...but they generally they left humans alone.
One time they settled on a tree branch....I was amazed to watch the bee keeper calms cut the branch off (no gear on!) and relocate them. When I say settled on the branch....it was a ball of bees about 1-2 foot in diameter....quite impressive to watch.
One time they settled on a tree branch....I was amazed to watch the bee keeper calms cut the branch off (no gear on!) and relocate them. When I say settled on the branch....it was a ball of bees about 1-2 foot in diameter....quite impressive to watch.
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Tried this last year and although it didn't clear them it gave me a great deal of satisfaction just listening to them hitting the baffle plate inside the receiving tank before dropping into the water. killed thousands but not all. Now waiting for this years batch. bit of fun.
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whilst its a legal requirement its also highly 2 faced when they are using pesticidesA legal requirement - unless they are a nuisance due to their location. I really doubt whether that position would be regarded as a sufficient reason for destruction.
Destruction of a bee colony is a problem - persistent insecticides are not permissible because the nest may be robbed out by other bees - killing those colonies as well.
Most beekeepers would remove the colony - if practical - but likely not an option in your nest location. Wasps will generally build inside the building and bees will colonise an enclosed space - often the cavity of a wall, unfortunately.
when we have crop sprayers, spraying pesticide that kills them.
uk has been allowed to start to use the spray again that kills them.
The Government has again put bees at risk by permitting the use of the banned pesticide thiamethoxam on sugar beet in England in 2022. In making the decision ministers went against the explicit advice of their own scientific advisors not to allow the pesticide to be used.
so for corporate advantages its spray away lets kill them and other animals for the casual user its illegal
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me bum would be chuffing spending that much
or even 30
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me bum would be chuffing spending that much
That's because you're a tight-*rse.
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nahh id have more fun doing it myself .had to get rid of about 100 bumble bees nesting in a roll of insulation in my small garage that was a challenge without getting stung spraying em with wasp killer trying to drag the large roll out of back of garageThat's because you're a tight-*rse.
I just needed it gone and fairly quickly because the scaffolders wont put the tower up and frame around the chimney with them there. It seems expensive but by the time i have tried several things, failed, fallen and got stung i probably wouldnt be far off. More if you cost in my own time.me bum would be chuffing spending that much
