Hi

Just moved in a new house and it looks like there could be wasps in the loft. Anyone used any pest control people in sheffield, know of any good ones?

Thanks

You will be charged!
It could be an old unoccupied nest, so unless you can see activity it would be best not to waste your money.

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This guy was great for us.

Unless the wasps are bothering you leave them alone.They will
die in Autumn -and the nest will not be occupied again.
Tesco sell a foamy spray that you can squirt around the entrance
hole -usually a crack in the masonry -you need to do this at night when they are all inside.

Wasps are just bees without a PR company.
Arthur Askey 1967

We have one in our eaves (close to our bedroom window) I've left it alone, this morning one of the damn things managed to get in my bedroom and sting me, its all out war now.

Originally posted by micksheff
We have one in our eaves (close to our bedroom window) I've left it alone, this morning one of the damn things managed to get in my bedroom and sting me, its all out war now.

get a jam jar with a touch of jam in the bottom,leave it close by..make sure you make a hole in the lid big enough for a wasp to fit through...with in a couple of days the jar will be rammed with wasps..they crawl in but try to fly out and it can't be done.....then fill jar with water and start again..its great fun:)

Originally posted by kirky
get a jam jar with a touch of jam in the bottom,leave it close by..make sure you make a hole in the lid big enough for a wasp to fit through...with in a couple of days the jar will be rammed with wasps..they crawl in but try to fly out and it can't be done.....then fill jar with water and start again..its great fun:)

mind you it is about 30 years since i last did this so the new breed of wasp may have sussed it out

lol:D good way i have a wasp nest i might have to try that one
cheers

Originally posted by kirky
get a jam jar with a touch of jam in the bottom,leave it close by..make sure you make a hole in the lid big enough for a wasp to fit through...with in a couple of days the jar will be rammed with wasps..they crawl in but try to fly out and it can't be done.....then fill jar with water and start again..its great fun:)
Erm yes... only problem is that you end up attracting yet more wasps to your garden, create an unholy mess of dead and rotting wasp carcasses in the jar and ultimately end up getting stung anyway from all the wasps you've attracted...

Erm.. perhaps not so brilliant then :P

Originally posted by BAZZO
Wasps are just bees without a PR company.
Arthur Askey 1967
The man was an idiot! And not very funny as I seem to remember

Originally posted by Martin_s
Erm yes... only problem is that you end up attracting yet more wasps to your garden, create an unholy mess of dead and rotting wasp carcasses in the jar and ultimately end up getting stung anyway from all the wasps you've attracted...

Erm.. perhaps not so brilliant then :P

spoil sport

Why not visit your nearest fishing tackle shop. They may know someone who'll probably get rid of it for nothing, as wasp grubs are a fabulous fishing bait.

We had the same trouble a couple of years ago but our wasps nest was in my compost heap. My father in law decided to hit the wasps with a spade - worst thing he could have done. Any wounded wasp gives off a kind of smell which warns other wasps who set about attacking the attacker. Never seen my father in law move so fast!!
Eventually found a web site (sorry can't remember name) which advised just to use soapy water on the nest and keep repeating if necessary. May be a bit awkward to do inside but worked a treat for us.

There's a new invention for just the job

it is called Wasp Killer spray.

You just point and press and hey presto - dead wasps.

As a bonus it will also kill fly's.

Seriously though, we had a problem a couple of years ago, couldnt find the nest but knew where they were getting in. I jury-rigged a tin of wasp killer so it had a longer nozzle, inserted into the hole and emptied the lot into it. Job done!!

Originally posted by Ned Ludd
The man was an idiot! And not very funny as I seem to remember

Why does making a quite passable observation about wasps make him an idiot?

Arthur Askey may not seem particularly funny to us now, but don't forget he was working in a different era, when radio was king.

The Fast Show character Arthur Atkinson was loosely based on Askey (with a touch of Max Miller). All those catch phrases Askey used which appear pointless (and a little surreal) to us now, were very topical and relevant at the time.

We had one in our porch roof last summer that was tucked deeply inside the roof tiles in the porch roofspace...no access without tearing off the roof. I tried the various nest sprays designed to spray around the entrance, which we located, a crack in a tile, but did not do the full job. The little terrors were back at their native business of annoying the postman in the morning, and had the front door under siege.

Had to call in a team from Chesterfield, forget the name, but it cost over £100 for a full chemical treatment, some funny white powder which looked like heroin, and then a white thick smokeout of the nest, and then the guy removed about 10 roof tiles to dismantle the nest and sweep out all the dead wasps. He filled 2 bin liners with dead wasps and bits of nest....scary. The size of it was ENORMOUS......not a conventional cone shape as the roof space was not high enough, so it had evolved into a 6 foot long by 3 foot wide flattish structure with about 4 inches depth...........wish I had videode it all now......

cant say seen that many about this summer yet.....not here anyway.

Originally posted by mojoworking
Why does making a quite passable observation about wasps make him an idiot?
I've never ever been stung by industrious and amiable wild bees.
Whereas wasps have done for be a number of times without provocation. The obsevation therefore passes me by much like Arthurs other jokes.

Originally posted by mojoworking
Arthur Askey may not seem particularly funny to us now, but don't forget he was working in a different era, when radio was king. Arthur waned because he couldn't match Ken Dodd, Kenneth Horne, Benny Hill, Tony Hancock etc on the radio.
Yes folks, Benny Hill was inventive and funny in his radio era.

Originally posted by mojoworking
The Fast Show character Arthur Atkinson was loosely based on Askey (with a touch of Max Miller). All those catch phrases Askey used which appear pointless (and a little surreal) to us now, were very topical and relevant at the time.
At the time, possibly.
I don't think the unfunny Atkinson character is necessarily in t'other Arthur's favour. Anyway you've taken me a bit too seriously. After all if Eric Morecambe said " the mans an idiot" and waggled his specs, millions would fall about p****** themselves;)

Originally posted by mojoworking
Why does making a quite passable observation about wasps make him an idiot?

But wasps are nastier than bees - so it should be no surprise that the Bees have a PR company whilst the wasps have to represent themselves. Maybe they ought to talk to Max Clifford?

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
But wasps are nastier than bees - so it should be no surprise that the Bees have a PR company whilst the wasps have to represent themselves. Maybe they ought to talk to Max Clifford?

That's the whole point, though. Bees are cuddly and make honey and everyone likes them - no PR needed.

Wasps look evil and don't do much for us except sting - a lot of PR needed to give them a better image

.......anyway back to the topic. How to dispose of the Chavs of the insect world?
Derris powder can't fail (unless it rains)
Find the entrance hole and smother it and the area around it with Derris:as each wasp lands in the powder it crawls in, taking a lethal dose to be spread through the nest.
The instructions say that they are finished in 2 days, whereas I've found that 24 hours is sufficient.
Of course without protection you have to undertake this procedure in 2-3 seconds and then scarper! When I had to get the ladders out to one one the roof I did it when it was dark,using a torch so that the little sods didn't chase me down the ladder.
Not much point doing it today though!

Originally posted by BAZZO
Unless the wasps are bothering you leave them alone.They will
die in Autumn -and the nest will not be occupied again.
Tesco sell a foamy spray that you can squirt around the entrance
hole -usually a crack in the masonry -you need to do this at night when they are all inside.

Wasps are just bees without a PR company.
Arthur Askey 1967

Arthur Askey?! Meh, man sounds like he was a complete retard.

Wasps are nasty little spawns of Satan himself, every one of the little ******** deserves to die a horribly painful death IMO.

Apologies to the mods for swearing.

The colourful comedian Bernard Manning expressed his sincere condolences when the dimunitive Arthur Askey died but insensitively added "he won't take up much space -think they'll use a gro-bag"

We used Sentry Pest Control from Sheffield. They came out the same day and got rid of the nest immediately for us.

Excellent service!

Here is their telephone number: 0114 2844921

Website: www.dmcginley.com/Sentry.htm