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| How to Find the Nests of the Common Wasp, German Wasp and European Hornet |
Treating for wasps is a tricky business. There are things you can do to avoid attracting wasps, but once you have a wasps nest on your premises, there is really not much more you can do. In fact the only proper thing to do at that point is to call in the professionals to deal with it for you; they are the only ones with the proper training, knowledge and equipment to get rid of a wasps nest.
You might find that wasps are building nests in your loft, shed, basement or whatever year after year. The reason for this is that they have optimal conditions for a wasps nest, that it is dry and warm.
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Of course there also must be a way for them to come and go, but they are so small that closing all of those holes off might be difficult. So you could try making whatever space they live in artificially cold, but that will cost a lot of money and the wasps might not even come back anyway. Trying to close off any holes into the space is a good idea, but only during the autumn or winter when you do not already have a wasps nest there. If you try to block off any entrances while the wasps nest is there in order to kill them, then they will not die so easily. Wasps have very strong jaws, which they use to chew off the wood that they use to make their nest. If they are trapped, however, they will use those jaws to chew out a new opening. In some cases when this has been attempted before, the wasps have ended up chewing through the ceiling so that a wasps-in-the-loft problem soon became a wasps-in-the-house problem.
Other attempted DIY solutions to a wasp nest have included knocking it down. This just makes the wasps extremely disoriented and angry, and you will be a prime target for them to vent at. It will not take care of the problem of having thousands of wasps in your loft, they just won’t be so well behaved anymore. Trying to destroy the nest completely will also not work for the same reason. The nest you might destroy, but you’ll never get the thousands of wasps that live there, they will just be making even more of a nuisance of themselves. That includes if you set fire to the nest or try to blow it up with fireworks or other explosives. It might sound brave, it might sound ridiculous, but whichever it is, it just won’t work. Professional wasp controllers have a special insecticide which cannot be bought on the market without proper credentials, and they spray this either into the nest or into an entranceway which leads to the nest. This might aggravate the wasps a bit at first, which is why it is a good idea to keep all door and windows shut while the wasp treatment is being carried out, but the wasps soon go back to their normal routines. Only now, any time they go into the nest they will pick up some of the insecticide and soon will die. This is the safest form of wasp treatment, and the only kind of wasp treatment for nests that really works.
| | Wasps can get drunk on fermenting fruit and become more aggressive, just like humans.
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Wasp Stings
Things to look out for which could indicate that you are having an allergic reaction include a rash, felling unwell or feint, difficulty breathing, a dry cough, stomach cramps, diarrhoea, vomiting, and swelling on the face, tongue or lips. Apart from the rash or swelling, any of these might be due to other factors but if they occur within an hour of being stung then it is best to get medical help, as another of the indicators of an allergic reaction to a wasp sting is cardiac arrest.
Prevention If at all possible, of course, you want to avoid having to administer wasp treatment by avoiding getting stung in the first place. One, pretty obviously, is don’t deliberately aggravate wasps. This includes, as already mentioned, setting its home on fire or trying to blow it up. Also, however, if a wasp does happen to be flying around you or lands on you, do not move about or flay your arms around. At best this will provoke interest, at worst agitation leading to it perceiving you as a threat and therefore increasing the likelihood that you will be stung. Just stay still and fight the urge to move. In the unfortunate event that you happen to trip over a wasps nest, however, then run. Wasps will follow you, but probably not for more than fifty yards. And if you can run through vegetation all the better as it should knock off any wasps that might have clung to you. For some reason wasps are more attracted to people in dark clothes, so wear light clothes to avoid being attractive in the wrong way! And if you get a wasp inside your car, again, don’t move about too much, and don’t panic, just wind down your windows and let it out or look for a safe place to stop and then let it out.
If you follow these instructions then you should minimise your risk of having problems from wasps.
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