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Nah, already there when I posted that. Found it Saturday 23rd, closed her up again Saturday 30th.
Be interesting to see how/if it comes on on July 1st when I go back to summer over there..........LOL, I'm becoming a rich American.....sorry, for my summer of work over there.
**** that, you need to splat the ******, you'll go back in july to a massive nest full of them and youll need pest control to move them, id get rid now if it were me.
When I go back, I can see what the nest is like through the window from inside the house, inside the shutters, if you see what I mean?
IF it's massive, I shall simply leave those shutters shut. The wasps will then get on with their business and I'll get on with mine....and neither will harm the other. I'll be able to photograph from inside though, so I'll post pics of whatever is happening.
Now if it were hornets...........
I have a sneaking feeling this is a solitary wasp, though, so will have few young.
I have a great respect for them, they are much maligned and yet are brilliant at destroying garden pests.
Hornet usually 50-100% bigger. Red-ish legs and face, not black. Brownish thorax, not black. Very low-pitched hum. Slow flight, easy to knock down with hand or swat.
DO NOT swat with hand on flat surface...you might get away with it with a wasp, but hornet stings are nasty
Was stung on neck by hornet whilst just setting off in the car from place we had in New Forrest ( there was always nest there) , just put hand up cos felt something there . He flew away and it swelled up a bit . Carried on driving couple hours , was ok though
No, the shutters are louvred, that's how she got in for a start.
I'm guessing your hornet was a wasp, dpb.......I've seen three hornet stings and my wife looked like quasimodo, her eye swelled shut and one side of her face was swollen out of proportion. She had three stings about 40mm from the left eye.
Got stung on face similar about 8 years ago poking around in back garden girlfriends rented place , looked like comedy horror character for days like distorted mirror / apps you get on phones. Never saw the culprits start to finish . Clearly I must have poke their nest though
I had a wasps nest in my garden, funny thing is I could stand right next to it and they'd fly straight past me and not bother me. They stuck to the same flight path, was like they don't **** on their own doorstep. Probably harassing the neighbours.
Went out to look one day and the nest was lifeless, then I noticed bits of wasp on the floor. I opened the nest and there was two very knackered looking hornets in the nest. They'd destoyed all the wasps and obviously taken a beating themselves in the process.
Yeah, they seem pretty placid to be fair (well to us humans anyway) they don't like wasps though.
We used to get a lot of hornets in where I used to work, quite something to look at. They never seemed to be as up for a fight as a wasp, certainly look the part though!
They are fairly placid...unless you get too near the nest, then watch out!
Three years running we've had a nest in one of the chimneys at the French house. Lighting the wood-burning stove that uses that chimney causes them to fly DOWN the chimney en-masse. They can't get into the house easily, so they come down the cooker hood vent, and get stuck inside that.
I then put the fan on very slow and spray fly-spray up into it. They go crackers, for about half an hour. I've removed between 30-50 dead ones after. Good job they can't get out
One or two always DO get into the kitchen via the chimney plate, but so far......they have been swiftly dealt with, and by the time the Mrs gets down there, the nest is destroyed.
here's hoping they aren't back for the fourth year running I'll know on 1st July.
Pollination,
Keeps pests down in the garden,
Removes dead fruit.
Far from a pest or an *******, IMHO.
And yes, I've been stung and yes, both recent times my own fault.
Once by putting my hand on a wasp, (should have been looking) and the second, last year, spraying ivy and sprayed the entrance to a wasps' nest in the wall. they quite rightly came out and attacked.
One year we had a wasps nest about ten feet from the barbecue, and the same from the garden table......no problems whatsoever.
People who put them down are simply afraid of them.
Could do with some wasps (albeit the parasitic type); my Oleanders have a massive aphid infection (called oleander aphids, unsurprisingly), and seem to have grown resistant to domestic insecticides.
Ladybirds would be nice, I found two humping on one leaf, but checked later in the day to find them still humping each other rather than eating the aphids
Wasps and Hornets are both pretty placid and not really interested in us humans, if one comes near you just don't move it will go away once it's satisfied it's curiosity, it's folk that have a mental and start swinging for them, screaming and running about the place that cause the problem, then if they get lucky and kill it, it it gives off a scent that can be detected by it's pals up to half a mile away so they come to investigate and then it's more of the same.
Living where I do in the middle of a forest on a big hill surrounded by all sorts of stinging biting venomous insects and creatures, I find that if you leave them be they generally go about their business, you just have to pay attention, I currently have a Black Widow in my passenger side wing mirror of my VW Transporter, I was tempted to give it a good spraying but decided it would be bad Karma, there was a Scorpion on the doormat this morning inside the house so I picked it up with a piece of A4 and put it outside, live and let live.
31 May 2015, 08:39 PM
Wot YOU lookin at?????
I'll know on 1st July.
