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Wtf is this nest! Pterodactyl perhaps

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LauraNorder Tue 27-Apr-21 15:48:03

Son doing up old house has come across this nest in the rafters just inside the window.
Anyone know what it might be.

JaneJudge Sat 01-May-21 12:08:40

wow that is quite something!

Purplepoppies Sat 01-May-21 12:07:47

This was it

JaneJudge Sat 01-May-21 12:06:48

Actually wasp nests or prints of? nature is wonderful

Purplepoppies Sat 01-May-21 12:06:00

I recently saw a beautiful lamp with a wasps nest incorporated. They are amazing works of art!

Chapeau Thu 29-Apr-21 23:24:37

I had a monstrous wasp nest in my hedge a few years ago. My local primary school were delighted to have it for their wildlife lessons. As your son appears to have a few, perhaps a local school might be interested.

Susangilley Thu 29-Apr-21 20:26:26

A large wasp nest!

songstress60 Thu 29-Apr-21 17:16:08

Boiling water will kill off the wasps. It looks like a wasps nest.

Callistemon Thu 29-Apr-21 16:56:16

Sorry MiniMoon
I have a sore finger!

Callistemon Thu 29-Apr-21 16:55:51

MiniMoon

Its a wasps nest. You don't need to worry about removing it. Wasps only use the nest once. They build a new one each year.

What MiniMoorn said.

There won't be any wasps in it now.

Newatthis Thu 29-Apr-21 16:05:09

How fabulous it looks - but deadly - definitely wasps.

Theoddbird Thu 29-Apr-21 15:11:32

Secondwind. It stands for What the and a four letter swear word beginning with F

GoldenAge Thu 29-Apr-21 14:15:52

Very large wasps nest - I've had two of these in the eaves of different houses - the local council may come and remove this for you (at a charge). If not, it's a pest control company. The important thing is for your son not to try to destroy this himself.

homefarm Thu 29-Apr-21 13:31:57

Wasps

MiniMoon Thu 29-Apr-21 13:12:42

Its a wasps nest. You don't need to worry about removing it. Wasps only use the nest once. They build a new one each year.

Secondwind Thu 29-Apr-21 13:11:54

What does wtf stand for please, LauraNorder?

Growing0ldDisgracefully Thu 29-Apr-21 12:40:35

We discovered one of those in progress in our garden shed some years back. That then explained why, when sitting quietly in the sun, I had heard a rasping noise and saw a wasp seemingly gnawing on the wooden garden fence. Must have been collecting material for the nest.

Theoddbird Thu 29-Apr-21 12:07:36

WTF... I know what that stands for and feel it totally unnecessary at beginning of question Just because it isn't spelt out it still means the same!

Aepgirl Thu 29-Apr-21 11:54:56

It’s definitely a wasps’ nest. Do we have to use the ‘WTF’ phrase?

Oofy Thu 29-Apr-21 11:37:24

You can buy “mock” wasp’s nests made of paper to hang up in the garden. Apparently wasps won’t go near another wasp nest so it keeps them away. Haven’t tried them though

annifrance Thu 29-Apr-21 11:24:49

I would say hornets' nest. we get them here in Southern France quite often. They are huge and unlike a wasps nest you do not discover them until the leaves are off the trees as they usually build them high up in trees.

As said earlier, once the queen has gone at the end of summer they never come back, unlike bees. We had one in a baling machine.

NanaPlenty Thu 29-Apr-21 11:13:05

We found a wasps nest just like that on the underside of my dads bath! It stank.

Plunger Thu 29-Apr-21 11:09:13

My sister had a huge wasps' nest in their shed. As a primary school teacher she wanted to take it it show the children. She sprayed it liberally with hairspray so it held together. The children could then gently pull it apart. Obviously the nest was abandoned and no live wasps!!

Alioop Thu 29-Apr-21 11:05:56

It looks like a wasp nest to me too. I had one in a tree stump in a garden once and had to get the council out. It was huge and people were frightened to walk past it.

LauraNorder Wed 28-Apr-21 18:40:48

No, not listed thank goodness.

Callistemon Wed 28-Apr-21 10:02:22

Is it listed too?