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Title: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: aontroim on June 19, 2007, 12:56:54 PM
Found a wasp nest yesterday outside in the eaves of the garage - it's not massive at the minute (about size of a grapefruit) but theres plenty of wasps about it.  Anyone dealt with removing one of these before themselves or will local councils take care of this type of problem?
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: rrhf on June 19, 2007, 12:58:29 PM
burn the bastards with petrol and flame.
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: An Fear Rua on June 19, 2007, 01:01:01 PM
There is supposed to be a shortage of Wasps this year( and an increase in Hornets) so if your environmentally minded, get it disposed of professionally , others would call it relocation....
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: aontroim on June 19, 2007, 01:05:15 PM
Quote from: rrhf on June 19, 2007, 12:58:29 PM
burn the bastards with petrol and flame.

unfortunately the garage would go up in smoke with them - i don't have that big of a problem with them yet!
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: J70 on June 19, 2007, 01:14:28 PM
Wait until the early morning after a cold night, when they're all a bit torpid, toss the nest into a few plastic bags, dump them out in the woods, and run like f**k! And make sure you wear long sleeves, trousers, hat, gloves etc!
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: Fiodoir Ard Mhacha on June 19, 2007, 01:17:09 PM
I was watching The Swarm yesterday - give Michael Caine a ring and yer man Widmark is still alive - they'll soon get rid of them wee stingers
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: Evil Genius on June 19, 2007, 02:13:15 PM
Are the wasps actually doing any harm? I only ask, because where I used to live, we had a wasps' nest in the roofspace, which over the years became absolutely massive.
However, I left them alone, since the only impact was when some wasps occasionally flew (dropped?) though a crack in the ceiling into our bathroom, from where it was simple for them to find their way out through the extractor fan, or when a window was left open.

All God's Creatures and the like... 
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: Hardy on June 19, 2007, 02:16:08 PM
It's not very practical advice, but be careful - be very, very careful! If you piss them off, they will attack you in their hundreds. I saw the results once when a lad I knew ended up in hospital for a week, with a face like a pumpkin and hands like pounds of sausages.

In case you dind't hear me - be careful!
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: Evil Genius on June 19, 2007, 02:20:58 PM
Quote from: Hardy on June 19, 2007, 02:16:08 PM
It's not very practical advice, but be careful - be very, very careful! If you piss them off, they will attack you in their hundreds. I saw the results once when a lad I knew ended up in hospital for a week, with a face like a pumpkin and hands like pounds of sausages.

In case you dind't hear me - be careful!

Quite true, Hardy, but I would repeat my own advice which is if you don't piss them off, and can avoid them, they'll not do you any harm, either.

And remember, they're only active for a few weeks of the year, the rest of the time they're in hibernation.
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: maddog on June 19, 2007, 02:21:58 PM
Quote from: aontroim on June 19, 2007, 12:56:54 PM
Found a wasp nest yesterday outside in the eaves of the garage - it's not massive at the minute (about size of a grapefruit) but theres plenty of wasps about it.  Anyone dealt with removing one of these before themselves or will local councils take care of this type of problem?

I had one a couple of years ago. It was in the vent brick in my toilet. Now when you were sitting down taking a number 2, the hum of the wasps about 2 feet above your head with your kegs round your ankles was disturbing to say the least. Got some guy out of the yellow pages, £40. He just connected these rods together to make a length of about 20 feet, stood in the garden and sprayed some shit into the vent brick. Wasps gone next day.
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: J70 on June 19, 2007, 02:26:55 PM
Quote from: Evil Genius on June 19, 2007, 02:20:58 PM
Quote from: Hardy on June 19, 2007, 02:16:08 PM
It's not very practical advice, but be careful - be very, very careful! If you piss them off, they will attack you in their hundreds. I saw the results once when a lad I knew ended up in hospital for a week, with a face like a pumpkin and hands like pounds of sausages.

In case you dind't hear me - be careful!

Quite true, Hardy, but I would repeat my own advice which is if you don't piss them off, and can avoid them, they'll not do you any harm, either.

And remember, they're only active for a few weeks of the year, the rest of the time they're in hibernation.

Actually, the only wasps that hibernate are the queens. Wasp colonies last only one season in temperate latitudes like Ireland. All the workers die off in the autumn. Honeybee colonies, on the other hand, last through the winter: that's why they gather nectar and store honey. However, wasps and bees will be fairly inactive during colder weather, hence that is the time to take any action against them.
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: J70 on June 19, 2007, 02:28:33 PM
Quote from: maddog on June 19, 2007, 02:21:58 PM
Quote from: aontroim on June 19, 2007, 12:56:54 PM
Found a wasp nest yesterday outside in the eaves of the garage - it's not massive at the minute (about size of a grapefruit) but theres plenty of wasps about it.  Anyone dealt with removing one of these before themselves or will local councils take care of this type of problem?

I had one a couple of years ago. It was in the vent brick in my toilet. Now when you were sitting down taking a number 2, the hum of the wasps about 2 feet above your head with your kegs round your ankles was disturbing to say the least. Got some guy out of the yellow pages, £40. He just connected these rods together to make a length of about 20 feet, stood in the garden and sprayed some shit into the vent brick. Wasps gone next day.

Paying the boy 40 pounds to do it safely is probably the way to go all right!
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: Hardy on June 19, 2007, 02:30:23 PM
Quote from: Evil Genius on June 19, 2007, 02:20:58 PM

Quite true, Hardy, but I would repeat my own advice which is if you don't piss them off, and can avoid them, they'll not do you any harm, either.

I usually tend to live and let live, but I make an exception for wasps. I don't like slugs either, but I can understand their evolutionary significance and their value in the food chain. But what are wasps for?
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: Gnevin on June 19, 2007, 02:32:44 PM
I have some stuff at home the use to kill insects on aircraft, i used it on the wasps under the shed and the insects in the ground 10 foot away came up and died . Mighty powerful stuff
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: maddog on June 19, 2007, 02:34:23 PM
Quote from: Hardy on June 19, 2007, 02:30:23 PM
Quote from: Evil Genius on June 19, 2007, 02:20:58 PM

Quite true, Hardy, but I would repeat my own advice which is if you don't piss them off, and can avoid them, they'll not do you any harm, either.

I usually tend to live and let live, but I make an exception for wasps. I don't like slugs either, but I can understand their evolutionary significance and their value in the food chain. But what are wasps for?

Wasps are just nasty bastards. Bees i've no problem with but wasps freak me out. What really "grinds my gears" is in summer my mother puts an empty jam jar 3/4 full of water and with a lick of jam round the top to lure in and drown the wasps. But where does she put it? In the feckin kitchen window. ::)
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: J70 on June 19, 2007, 02:43:57 PM
Quote from: Hardy on June 19, 2007, 02:30:23 PM
Quote from: Evil Genius on June 19, 2007, 02:20:58 PM

Quite true, Hardy, but I would repeat my own advice which is if you don't piss them off, and can avoid them, they'll not do you any harm, either.

I usually tend to live and let live, but I make an exception for wasps. I don't like slugs either, but I can understand their evolutionary significance and their value in the food chain. But what are wasps for?

What are wasps for? :D

They're predators actually, so they'll help keep a lot of insects that have the potential to be pests in check.
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: J70 on June 19, 2007, 02:49:16 PM
Quote from: Gnevin on June 19, 2007, 02:32:44 PM
I have some stuff at home the use to kill insects on aircraft, i used it on the wasps under the shed and the insects in the ground 10 foot away came up and died . Mighty powerful stuff

You can get high-powered insecticide sprays over here in the US that allow you to stand a good distance from the nest a spray it. Might not be much good for wasps once they've built around the initial central cells, but you could aim it at the hole in the bottom as they come out. I would assume that kind of spray is available in Ireland too.
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: maddog on June 19, 2007, 02:54:46 PM
Quote from: hardstation on June 19, 2007, 02:43:50 PM
Apparatus - 1 hurl, 1 escape route, 1 pair of trainers, great speed.
Method - Hold the hurl in your two hands and approach the target with caution. When the target is within reach of the hurl, swing like fcuk (one or two good hits should be sufficient). Once you have landed the hit(s), turn and run like Pat Spillane's granny until you reach safety.
Leave it half an hour, go back and examine the damage you have inflicted on the target. You may need to repeat this method to be sure you get the result you are looking for.

that sounds like a trip to casualty
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: Hardy on June 19, 2007, 03:09:20 PM
Quote from: J70 on June 19, 2007, 02:43:57 PM
They're predators actually, so they'll help keep a lot of insects that have the potential to be pests in check.

That's a bit like saying the mafia keeps the crime rate down by killing other criminals.
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: Gaoth Dobhair Abu on June 19, 2007, 03:10:53 PM
Quote from: hardstation on June 19, 2007, 02:43:50 PM
Apparatus - 1 hurl, 1 escape route, 1 pair of trainers, great speed.
Method - Hold the hurl in your two hands and approach the target with caution. When the target is within reach of the hurl, swing like fcuk (one or two good hits should be sufficient). Once you have landed the hit(s), turn and run like Pat Spillane's granny until you reach safety.
Leave it half an hour, go back and examine the damage you have inflicted on the target. You may need to repeat this method to be sure you get the result you are looking for.


Very good...  :D ;D :D
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: J70 on June 19, 2007, 03:19:39 PM
Quote from: Hardy on June 19, 2007, 03:09:20 PM
Quote from: J70 on June 19, 2007, 02:43:57 PM
They're predators actually, so they'll help keep a lot of insects that have the potential to be pests in check.

That's a bit like saying the mafia keeps the crime rate down by killing other criminals.

Assuming every one wiseguy kills dozens of other potential criminals, you're probably right.
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: aontroim on June 19, 2007, 03:27:15 PM
Got hold of local council pest control dept - £40 job done next day. Fella said now was time to get rid of nest as it'll grow and they'll get more aggressive as the summer goes on and numbers grow.

Normally would leave it be, but their flight path is going right through the patio / bbq / clothes-line.

Also found this;

http://www.trapawasp.co.uk/wasp_nest_hornets_nest_destroyer_kit.htm (http://www.trapawasp.co.uk/wasp_nest_hornets_nest_destroyer_kit.htm) - probably the same thing the council guy will end up doing.
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: cville on June 19, 2007, 03:52:35 PM
Feckin Japanese Besterds! If its the size of a grapefruit then it may be a bit late.... I had them in the garage ... waited till about 11.00 at night and bingo! In with the spray and saturated them ...no more! But worse than wasps - BLUEBOTTLES ... bird died in our chimney a few years back... hundreds of them invaded the house ... still squirm when I see them .. Tell me this but I thought that Ireland did not have hornets... French, south of England type of thing...
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: full back on June 19, 2007, 03:54:27 PM
Quote from: cville on June 19, 2007, 03:52:35 PM
... bird died in our chimney a few years back...

Was she hiding from the Mrs?
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: Hereiam on June 19, 2007, 04:08:55 PM
You could try one of the following

1: Try and isolate one of them and present him with a suitcase of money to provide some inside information and then treaten to expose him to the other wasps if he doesn't influeance the rest of them to move on.

2: Again try to isolate one of them and break its legs and wings and nail it up nearby, that should scare the rest of them and they will move on.

Your choice  ;D
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: cville on June 19, 2007, 06:25:24 PM
 ;D ;D ;D Ref: "Bird died in our chimney" ... Did the Mrs Know? .... No because the Mrs was drugged, cut-up and buried under the floorboards, along with her interfering mother! She'll not demean me again. No way. I taught her alright. "Don't go out with your mates!" she said. Oh yes! I laughed longest there! Now pass the Domestos!
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: his holiness nb on June 19, 2007, 06:33:34 PM
"But what are wasps for?"

A truly wonderful question Hardy, they are just annoying little wankers that buzz around you wrecking your head, and hurting you occasionally, and they seem to like it.

You might call them the Ryan McMenamin of insects!
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: Homer on June 19, 2007, 06:43:06 PM
This is how you do it

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2243176 (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2243176)  ;)
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: Square Ball on June 19, 2007, 06:43:20 PM
Why do people like Bees but hate wasps? I would go out of my way to get a bee out of the house unharmed, but wasps!!! get the paper and we have a classic example of man against beast, well a small one (beast that is)

Mothes, now that a flying bastard that does my head in, dont know why but they bug the hell out of me, Oh and those daddy longleg things, there dirty looking things, just hanging there by one leg..
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: pintsofguinness on June 19, 2007, 06:51:21 PM
You can get spray to kill the nest, do it at night, they'll be all dead in the morning, no sitting in casualty. 

I'd f**king ants coming in under the front door last year! f**kers!

One year me and two next door neighbours had millions and I mean millions of these green creepy crawlies all over the place for months! I looked everywhere to see what they were or where they came from and no answers.  The neighbours actually at one stage couldn't see through the glass in their back door with them crawled up on the door, it was unreal!  I sprayed the whole place with all sorts of stuff and within 10 minutes they would be back again, as bad as ever, millions of them!  They seemed to just go away eventually after maybe two months, I've never seen anything like them since! Gives me the creeps even thinking about them!
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: Hardy on June 19, 2007, 08:14:38 PM
Was it 2004? (I'm thinking Fermanagh supporters).
Title: Re: Wasp Nest Removal
Post by: ExiledGael on June 19, 2007, 08:18:52 PM
 :D :D :D :D
Very good, we've long gone, and probably won't be back!