Wasps AIBU

If you can bear to leave it until late autumn the wasps will die out and then the nest can be safely removed - they are works of art so beautifully made. Wasps don't usually return to the same place the next year and if you remove the empty nest it should be OK.

If they are aggressive and you are allergic, get rid of them. We have two beehives on our allotment, a few years ago we had one hive which kept stinging our next door plot holders, DH tipped a cup of petrol into the hive and finished them off.

I am not sure if you can get them in the UK, and I'm also not sure if it works for existing nests, but here in Canada you can buy hanging objects that resemble a fake wasp nest. You hang it in an area where you don't want wasps. Wasps are territorial, so they will see the fake nest, assume the area is taken, and go elsewhere.

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No, Bags These were clearly waisted wasps. Definitely not hoverflies

See this link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp .

Better still, here is the link to the programme I heard. It was this weeks episode of 'Rutherford and Fry' www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5qnxfYXtDJGLCLZs9jV6qZ1/king-of-the-stingers-are-we-too-harsh-on-wasps

It needs sorting if it is close to the house and you have bad reactions. I was in our local farming store this morning and a customer in front of me purchased a can of something to deal with a wasp nest close to her house. I think it squirts foam over or into the nest. Your local council will come and deal with it, for a fee I suppose!

I agree with greenlady. If you don't have to go near the hedge you will not disturb the wasps so they shouldn't bother you. We have done this with a nest in a wall a couple of metres from our back door. No-one got stung all season.

We usually remove a queen wasp from our tool shed each spring though because that would constitute a problem. This year I had to remove her about five times.

However, if you have a severe allergic reaction to stings, It might be worth getting someone to deal with the wasp nest, as others have suggested.

When I looked closely I realised they were very small wasps.

Might they have been hoverflies? They look like small wasps but they do not have a "waist" like true wasps. And they don't sting people.

At certain times of year wasps are more aggressive as some have been turfed out of the nest to fend for themselves. This is when they access people's homes looking for a food source.
One settled on my jacket which was on the bed. When I put it on the wasp stung me. Yes they may sting when feeling threatened but if they come into your home you are more likely to disturb them and get stung.

I`m afraid I`d have to get rid, I`m terrified of wasps, more than anything else.

There are always occasions when the needs of humans are more important than those of insects or animals. Now I will be trolled!!

Last summer we had bees nesting between the interior lining and outer cladding of our garden shed. I first noticed them when they attacked me and chased me halfway down the garden. After that I could not get within 20 foot of the shed, which is large,contains the stock of our small antiques business and DH's work area and a lot of my vegtable garden

I spent hours googling to see if there was any way I could move them on, I then googled all the local pest removers until I found one who was overtly pro bee, who agreed to come and look. After he was mobbed by bees before he got anywhere near the nest. He agreed this was an exception to the rules and the only thing to do was to destroy it. And he did.

Absgran you are in exactly the same position as I was, in this case it is your health at risk. Get someone in to destroy it.

As for the plea for the wasp. I was listening to a R4 program this week about wasps. What are described as 'yellow jackets' are only a tiny proportion of all the different types of wasps around, most of whom we do not notice because they have different behaviours and neither nest near nor bother humans.

We were parked for a while in a country layby yesterday and I was looking into the hedgerow and saw a mass of insepcts around one type of plant. When I looked closely I realised they were very small wasps. I was looking at a myriad number of the wasps that go about their pollination business and bother no-one.

Clearing a dangerous wasp's nest like will do little or no damage to the number of wasps around busy playing their part in the world ecosystem.

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As you are allergic I would get rid of it. The wasps will come into the house later in the year. My neighbour had this problem last year as the nest was nearby. The wasps found their way into her kitchen and she was stung several times.

Where bees don't bother you wasps do. They are more aggressive.

actually they aren't...just like bees, wasps won't sting unless they feel threatened.

As you are allergic I would get rid of it. The wasps will come into the house later in the year. My neighbour had this problem last year as the nest was nearby. The wasps found their way into her kitchen and she was stung several times.

Where bees don't bother you wasps do. They are more aggressive.

She has said you can get it moved if you want to, as she said, it doesn’t bother her so why would she pay to move it.

Sorry but yabu. Wasps are important pollinators like bees and hover flies. I am sorry the hedge trimmer got stung but they will do that if disturbed. If the nest is in your neighbour's garden and at the front, then how near to it do you need to go?

I think I’d get someone in to sort it. You’ll be worrying constantly while it’s there. Maybe your neighbour will feel guilty and offer to contribute to the cost but if not, that’s life. You won’t do them any little favours again - if you did before.