anyroadup

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=d7mpq3k_1f4kp3g

Can anybody tell me what this thing, in my attic, is please?
If it is a nest will there be anything in it at this time of year?
What should I do with it?
Thank you in anticipation
Justin

Ian D

On 15 Jan 2007 06:54:57 -0800, "anyroadup" <anyroadup@gmail.com>
wrote:

>http://docs.google.com/View?docid=d7mpq3k_1f4kp3g
>
>Can anybody tell me what this thing, in my attic, is please?
>If it is a nest will there be anything in it at this time of year?
>What should I do with it?
>Thank you in anticipation
>Justin

It's a wasp's nest, and should be empty at this time of year. As far
as I know they never re-colonize old nests, so I suppose there would
be no come-back if you just left it, but if you want to get rid just
put it into a plastic bag and dispose of it in the usual way.
On the other hand, on the basis that there's a good chance I'm wrong,
you could ring up the local authority pest control dept and seek their
advice.

Peter Alaca

Ian D <idinsdale@blueyonder.co.uk > wrote:

> On 15 Jan 2007 06:54:57 -0800, "anyroadup" <anyroadup@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> http://docs.google.com/View?docid=d7mpq3k_1f4kp3g
>>
>> Can anybody tell me what this thing, in my attic, is please?
>> If it is a nest will there be anything in it at this time of year?
>> What should I do with it?
>> Thank you in anticipation
>> Justin
>
> It's a wasp's nest, and should be empty at this time of year. As far
> as I know they never re-colonize old nests, so I suppose there would
> be no come-back if you just left it, but if you want to get rid just
> put it into a plastic bag and dispose of it in the usual way.
> On the other hand, on the basis that there's a good chance I'm wrong,

I don't think you are.

> you could ring up the local authority pest control dept and seek their
> advice.

Why? The fact that it is discovered only now is the
best evidence that there is nothing wrong with a
wasp's nest in your attic.

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p.a.

Ian D

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:57:30 +0100, "Peter Alaca"
<p.alaca@purple.invalid> wrote:

>
>Why? The fact that it is discovered only now is the
>best evidence that there is nothing wrong with a
>wasp's nest in your attic.

Not until you want to do any maintenance in the attic - or indeed in
the immediate vicinity of the entrance to the nest.
I believe the contractor who was last seen fleeing down a ladder
propped against the side of my house as he tried to renew a piece of
guttering would not entirely agree with you. ;-) ;-)

Malcolm

In article <45abb276$0$75077$dbd43001@news.wanadoo.nl>, Peter Alaca
<p.alaca@purple.invalid> writes
>Ian D <idinsdale@blueyonder.co.uk > wrote:
>
>> On 15 Jan 2007 06:54:57 -0800, "anyroadup" <anyroadup@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> http://docs.google.com/View?docid=d7mpq3k_1f4kp3g
>>>
>>> Can anybody tell me what this thing, in my attic, is please?
>>> If it is a nest will there be anything in it at this time of year?
>>> What should I do with it?
>>> Thank you in anticipation
>>> Justin
>>
>> It's a wasp's nest, and should be empty at this time of year. As far
>> as I know they never re-colonize old nests, so I suppose there would
>> be no come-back if you just left it, but if you want to get rid just
>> put it into a plastic bag and dispose of it in the usual way.
>> On the other hand, on the basis that there's a good chance I'm wrong,
>
>I don't think you are.
>
>> you could ring up the local authority pest control dept and seek their
>> advice.
>
>Why? The fact that it is discovered only now is the
>best evidence that there is nothing wrong with a
>wasp's nest in your attic.
>
Hear, hear! And absolutely nothing wrong if a queen wasp decides that
your attic is a suitable place this coming year, too. She won't re-use
the existing nest, but could easily build one close by. There's
obviously a way in that the wasps were using all last summer that you
knew nothing about and where the wasps didn't bother you. Wasps do so
much good eating garden pests that they deserve to be encouraged.

--
Malcolm

Mike Coon

Ian D wrote:
> It's a wasp's nest, and should be empty at this time of year. ...

On the other hand I think it was just last Friday week that as I neared home
from work (and therefore in the dark) I saw the unmistakable silhouette of a
wasp on my car's dashboard. I wondered whether to do an emergency stop and
expell it, but decided that was too dramatic. (I'm not spooked by wasps or
hornets, but don't like being stung either.)

Typically, by the time I got home I had forgotten all about it. I didn't see
the wasp again until yesterday (Sunday) when I drove a few miles away. It
was against the window so I just opened it and let it out. Presumably also
miles away from its nest, since I don't know where that was.

Moral of story: don't assume that with global warming that all wasps are now
dead. Queens will be hibernating somewhere, though that is not normally in
old nests, I believe.

To get full stories, consult Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society Yahoo!
Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/.

Mike.
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anyroadup

Thank you for all your advise. I thought wasps made spherical nests so
assumed something worse.