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Wasp’s nest in compost bin - HELP!

mandryka said:
This is the most reckless advice I have ever heard from anyone anywhere in my whole life.

I have, unfortunately, frequently used pest control specialists. They all say the same thing. Rats and mice are easy; squirrels are hard; wasps are ****ing scary and agressive.
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Total BS.
Just perpetuation of a totally lunatic myth.

I pick up wasps and bees - gently done they are absolutely fine. I have stood next to a wasp nest and faffed about at the entrance - not a problem.

Pest controllers usually know very little about what they speak - based on personal experience.

If anyone is allergic - ignore the above.
 
We regularly get a wasps nest in the giant compost heaps at the side of the building (we're on the ground floor flat on the end of a building with a communal garden). Even when there are a LOT of wasps coming and going we've never had a problem - though I tend not to linger by the nest.

TBH my main worry is that our cat will try to catch them as they're about the size of prey she can manage bless her...
 
Bjork67 said:
Dress up as a honey badger and chase them away or get a long pole with burning tar on poke it out the closest window and try for victory.
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Nowt messes with a Honey Badger....

Or just let them BEE....

on a more serious note good luck.:confused:
 
I tend to just leave them alone. We did have one in the clematis just above the back door and got rid of it by spraying fly spray into the exit hole. One of the few regrets of my life.
As someone above said the year is passing, they will be gone soon.
 
MVV said:
I tend to just leave them alone. We did have one in the clematis just above the back door and got rid of it by spraying fly spray into the exit hole. One of the few regrets of my life.
As someone above said the year is passing, they will be gone soon.
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Was the regret in the form of guilt or pain?
 
mikeyb said:
What you really need is the addresses of all the let them be's and pick one at random to send your compost bin including the wasps nest too, they'd be happy to accommodate them I'm sure :p:D

As close as it is to your house I don't blame you for wanting rid, as much as I release them when they get into the house, a nest right next to you means you're going to be plagued with them indoors from now until the autumn.
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Plenty of room here and more than welcome, were that practically possible.

We had a nest under the tiles in our kitchen roof right next to our outdoor dining area last summer and they really weren't a nuisance and no-one got stung.
 
Used to get loads of nests, often above and around doors to the house and outbuildings etc. Unfortunately too many people / dogs getting stung meant I’d keep an eye out for new nests forming and zap them at dusk with the foam wasp nest destroyer stuff in cans. A few in the ground striking distance to the house had to be dealt with by petrol and fire.
 
mansr said:
Cats seem to be less sensitive to the venom than dogs, or maybe they're just better at not getting stung.
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nope, we've had two cats needing vets intervention after having been stung by wasps. Massive facial swelling....
 
My kind older sister told me when I was young that if a bee or wasp stung you on the neck, you'd die within seconds. I naively believed her, and used to spend the late summer with my hands covering my neck. To add to the summer trauma, she also told me that if I was wearing anything metal in a thunderstorm, I would almost certainly be struck by lightning. Given that the only metal I wore was in the zip of my trousers/shorts, I was terrified by even the slightest rumble of thunder.

I think I've only once been stung by a wasp, on the hand, and it was only slightly more painful than a nettle sting. So far, I've managed to avoid lightning strikes.
 
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