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Any suggestions on how to kill the stripey bastards in the attic, fine when they stay up there but pricks now coming down into house and missus has been stung twice!

A fly swat and a big stick.

Or a plastic bag  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:


https://youtu.be/6nBaQhH6scw

Do you know where they are coming into the attic?

Put a ladder up to the hole, or if ground level find the entry point, leave during the day and as it’s dusk puff wasp powder (get it from any DIY store, B&Q etc) - Done it loads of times and not been stung once and by the next day problem sorted.

Saves paying out £60 or so for a pest controller.

Blackbirds, Magpies, starlings etc all eat slugs. Chuck a load of them up there?

We did the plastic bag approach when we got shot of a nest at the back of the attic, but that time had the advantage that we had the roof off at the time so it was easily accessible to spray the fuck out of it when we removed it, at this stage the location is unknown.


I know how they get in and out and that will be closed once what I assume is a nest up there is removed!


What Blackbirds, Magpies, starlings or slugs?

Whatever you do, DO NOT follow this example-

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=970804289948707

Mate don’t close the hole up until you blast it with the wasp powder.
They will take it to the nest and within 2 days max you won’t see them coming in and out of that hole👍

You can by some spray off of Amazon - we used it for a nest in the garden

search for wasp nest foam - I think its called "Zero In Ultra Power" - it worked surprisingly well, better than I expected tbh

I smoke bombed mine , then sealed the gap up with expanding foam, they don't like being smoke bombed !!!

Just an update, I smoke bombed the stripey bastards a couple of times which calmed it all down, plus its been colder so we have had nothing since the end of October, so left the loft shut with a view to finding the nest and getting rid come winter.

Had reason to go up into the attic today to get the Christmas Decs down and had a poke about, found the nest and its fucking huge so now trying to decide what I can put it in to get it out via the hatch and away, seriously its bigger than the neck of a sodding bin liner!

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiqcRkgXkAAgJ7G?format=jpg&name=small)

Cheeky fuckers!

Have you seen the film Aliens?  :)

The other night - whenever England played USA - we randomly had 3 wasps appear. 2 I managed to vanquish with a rolled up newspaper and the third one seemed to hover about and then disappeared. (it may have got bored watching the football and committed wasp suicide somehow)

The room at the time was roasting as we had the woodburner on and I suspect they may have been lured out from wherever they were because of the heat? We haven't had anything since but I'm fearful there have been nests somewhere in the house. Is under floorboards an option? We have bees that have nested above the utility area which I have left alone as bees are nature, but I really do not like the idea of the other stripy creatures sharing the property.

Don't the wife is totally freaked out by it, and we are not telling the 9 year old what we have found, the wasps in the house upset her enough!

It looks gruesome! What about two people trying to hold a sheet around it and hitting it off.

The good thing is that they never come back to the same nest which hopefully might put your wife's mind at ease? To be stung twice must be pretty unnerving though for her.

As long as it's empty I'd break it up.

I'm removing it with my Father in Law and I am not beating it off in front of him  ;)! Seriously though what I think I will do is take a spade up with us and just prise it away from the wall/roof, the issue is getting it through the hatch!


Yeah it hasn't been great, albeit strangely its actually been a bit of a relief in some ways as she had never been stung before (at 40 which was quite some going) and as she can be quite allergic to things she had always worried about anaphylactic shock, so at least it has proven she doesn't have that!


I suspect it will come down to that, albeit I may ask him to do the breaking. Not sure yet, when I was up there there were a couple of the little pricks still loitering about, very very dopey and easily dispatched by the spray) so may be worth leaving a week or two till it gets even colder, if the wife will tolerate it knowing its there now!

 :romantic:
That would be an amazing way to find your true love  :girlgiggle: :blowkiss:

The mind boggles :banana:

please video it, it sounds like a Frank Spencer moment in the making

It won’t be empty. They will be inside albeit a little less active due to the Winter months.
You will be able to get close to it mind.
Find the entrance hole and puff lots of wasp killer inside.

Wait until a cold snap would be my advice then you will be fine to get rid of it.

Had wasps flying around my head only yesterday with a nest in our roof.
Get loads round here and always get rid of them for the neighbours as well.

Now rats are another battle 😀

Don't think that will be an option, its definitely going to be a 2 person job and the other person in the house will be the wife and I guarantee that she won't be coming into the attic during the event.


I got close enough to it yesterday to spray it with the killer stuff, couldn't see an obvious entrance, but did spray all the way round its edges with the stuff plus give its face a pretty liberal coating.

We had our first proper frost up here this morning so looks like its finally getting colder, FiL coming tomorrow so we can assess the situation and agree a plan of attack.

Thankfully we haven't had rats (touch wood), had issues in the past with Badgers and Stoats shitting on the lawn though.

She can wait in the garden for the inevitable of you running into the nearest river/lake chased by a swarm of angry wasps.

I had a wasp nest last summer by my bedroom window of my flat, I got stung about 4 times by the fuckers. In the end I used some powder near the mouth of the nest to kill them off.

I have used a hoover to suck the fuckers up and then kill the nest before on a previous nest some years ago in a different property

Rather have a wasp nest to deal with than rats. Been there, done that, trapped a dozen.

And relax, eviction complete.

Did you get the Wasp Police in for a "sting" operation.

Nice  :D

Wasn't as exciting as that, a big garden waste bag, a hoe and it was removed, and didn't see any stripey bastards in the process.

Wasps are just evil little flying nazis.

The Luftwaspe

Very good!

Cracking Chub bait for fishing, wasp grubs.