dead wasp nest and the lingering stench of death!

It's not. A queen wasp cominig out of hibernation is programmed to start a new one, she wouldn't regognise an old one.

They are!

Mary

Thus spake snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) unto the assembled multitudes:

Try blundering into one of those plastic washing baskets, barefoot in the dark. I thought I had taken off my little toe once. Ow!!!

Re wasps, they are such useful creatures (preying on lots of garden pests) while the nests are active, that it seems a shame to destroy them. It's only in August when the nests break up that they start becoming a complete pain, especially when they get drunk on rotting apples.

My grammar? or the facts?

The nest was built under the eaves of the house, on the outside, on the sloping part of the gable end, on the side nearest the local woods.

Between us and the woods is another house. The owners of that house had a baby (she's a bit bigger now!) and the baby's room faced our house.

They had a lot of trouble with wasps flying in through the open window, when they didn't get it right on their way to hunt in the woods.

Does that make it clear?

Andy

Believe me it's not a "local reaction" Mary - and it lays me low for well over a week! As I said, "I swell up like a ruddy balloon".

Yes, I find WD40 *VERY* effective. As for cars, two have hit me in 58 years (both times my fault I may add)! Dogs, I hate them more than wasps and if I could "shoot" them I damn well would! As for humans, well 99% are ok, the other 1% - well, killing would be far too quick!

BTW, apologies for the delay in responding, but holiday preparations had a higher priority and I'm off tomorrow.

Brian G

replying to Cookie, IainL wrote: I have something similar: a destroyed nest under the eaves and now a bad smell akin to old, sour milk in the room below. Does this sound familiar and did the smell eventually fade away?

posted on September 11, 2007, 8:55 am

If the answer to the second question is "No", then he really does have a problem.

It's interesting to explore the menu options of the Waspbane website.

Well did it, if not I'd have thought the nest would have been removed by some irate person in the intervening years. Having said all of that part of a nest is still under my bathroom floor, and I've never smelled anything. Brian

Pear kinsons, is that a tree disease?

Brian

People always cite fear for children or dogs as justification :-)

Killing one colony makes no perceptible difference to the number of flying stinging and biting insects in the air all around us. The reality is that very few people are stung and then rarely more than once - except people like me who are dealing with them and interfering with their brood. Then they become defensive.

I do understand though, if another nest is built in the future try to discover where the insects are getting into the room - they don't want to be there so you'll be doing them as well as yourselves a favour by stopping the hole. If they're coming in through an open window and you're nervous simply fit some fine netting over the opening. Bridal netting is fine, mosquito netting is rather fine and doesn't allow as much movement of air. Or there's always the wasp trap, they work as well indoors as outdoors. Put some jam and water in a bottle with a narrow neck, that usually works, they go in but can't get out easily. A properly designed wasp trap is even better, you don't need to expose your grandchildren to beer fumes, dilute jam works just as well.

I hope this helps,

Mary