Hi I have a strange looking nest in my attic... It looks like a white coloured shell about the size of a fist and is attached to one of the roof joists 18 inches up.. haven't gotten that close to it to 'look' inside etc there is a small 'mess' just below it... taken a couple of pics if anyone care to email me to have a look! Thankyou Daryn
Probably a wasp of some kind. At this time of year any occupants will be dead. Wasps do not re-use their nests but start a new one in the spring.
Peter Crosland
Which they make by chewing up my beloved shed, the little perishers! :-(
See
Well, your shed was made by chewing up a forest ... :-)
Mary
But they will return to the same area. We disposed of a wasps nest situated on a balcony outside our bedroom window one year and the following year wasps were to be seen swarming around in the same spot
That's because the site was suitable. It was sheltered with an easily defended entrance and not too far from Richard's shed :-)
(or some other easily available timber)
And food. A garden with what we call pests is ideal.
'They' are not returning. The queen chooses a suitable site to build a nest, the wasps which 'swarm' (not an accurate word but it will do) round later are her daughters, they've been reared in the nest so they have no other home. They're not returning from anywhere except from foraging.
Mary
Yes. I had a big bees nest in the old house and the buggers have ben back two years in a row looking for it.
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