Holy Sh*t moment!

[rjm2k]

Thought I'd better investigate and document the electrics in my dining room before I cover with laminate, found an interesting JB fed from a ring socket in the kitchen and supplying 2 double sockets in the dining room, no FCU in sight and no earth sleaves either. Easy enought to sort, but I also found these under the floor!

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2 huge wasts nests, thankfull no longer in use. I'd found a few small ones under the lounge floor but nothing like this, explains why the air bricks have had mesh stuck over them! Glad I didn't open that floor whilst they were occupied

 

[Alastairreid]

Works of art...amazing little pests.

 

[gregers]

years back i was lifting some boards on a ground floor and found a huge nest,all attached to the boards i was lifting.THANK the lord they were dead too.mind you i did fill my pants.

 

[ntb]

For info - wasps only use a nest for one season. The workers die off in the Autumn and only the queens overwinter. They move on and start a new colony in the spring. Thus, unless you see a nest actively in use it's quite safe to remove them. They are fascinating things to dismantle.

 

[grahamw286]

Haha, This is amazing. Makes me think what could be under my floor.

 

[Watkins]

mind you i did fill my pants.

Scared of becoming macaulay culkin in My Girl!

 

[rjm2k]

Haha, This is amazing. Makes me think what could be under my floor.

normally just some tab ends, empty fag packets and other bits of rubbish! I ended up squeezing through a hole in the floor, crawling along and scraping the nests off the air bricks. In the loft of last house, I noticed what looked like a small amount of expanding foam and prodded it, after which it fell onto the floor and a bunch of not very happy wasps started to emerge! I legged it and spent a couple of days removing the remaining occupiers.

 

[joinerjohn]

Some years ago, I was up someone's loft looking at a skylight they had (which happened to leak slightly, but had been fixed). I noticed a wasps nest about the size of a 12" portable tv and asked how long it had been there. The chap said he'd not noticed it at Christmas time when he'd last been in the loft. When I was coming back down, I got the loft hatch ready to close and launched a small length of 3" by 2" at it, and watched as a swarm of the horrible insects filled his loft. Dropped the hatch rather quickly and almost fell down the steps.
PS ( I did advise him not to go back up the loft until the following Christmas)

 

[mattylad]

When you come across these just squirt some ant powder at the entrance to them.

Its cheap and kills them off quickly.