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[Terbs]

Got a bit of a problem here...and swmbo is getting a bit paranoid.

We keep finding dead, or nearly dead wasps around the house. I can't see a nest anywhere, and I can't hear any buzzing.
However, the mrs has been stung twice now whilst in bed, and then keeps finding others.
Do they all die off. Can't recall having seen any flying around the house when the weather was better. So why are we getting them

[tigers_gonads]

A woman across the street has the same problem.

Normally, they tend to go a bit mad when winter aproaches and the cold weather comes then they die off.

She has a wasps nest in the eaves of her roof / loft area.
Have a look outside in the corners (small normally whiteish in colour) nest.

Don't touch the thing because they will come and get you.
You can buy a spray foam that you coat the nest with that kills them off but my advise is to get some other muppet to do it for you 

[omega3000]

A woman across the street has the same problem.

Normally, they tend to go a bit mad when winter aproaches and the cold weather comes then they die off.

She has a wasps nest in the eaves of her roof / loft area.
Have a look outside in the corners (small normally whiteish in colour) nest.

Don't touch the thing because they will come and get you.
You can buy a spray foam that you coat the nest with that kills them off but my advise is to get some other muppet to do it for you 

Aye dont poke em with a stick like i did last year  I covered them in special white powder but they were all flying at me with the stuff on them  Think i heard they never use the same nest twice .

[llewellyn237]

They hibernate.

[STMO123]

They go to Spain for the winter.

[cleggy]

They just BUZZ off 

[plym ian]

the go to WASPital to recover

[Terbs]

OMG....I feel ill

Ask a sensible question

[the alarming man]

A woman across the street has the same problem.

Normally, they tend to go a bit mad when winter aproaches and the cold weather comes then they die off.

She has a wasps nest in the eaves of her roof / loft area.
Have a look outside in the corners (small normally whiteish in colour) nest.

Don't touch the thing because they will come and get you.
You can buy a spray foam that you coat the nest with that kills them off but my advise is to get some other muppet to do it for you 

Aye dont poke em with a stick like i did last year  I covered them in special white powder but they were all flying at me with the stuff on them  Think i heard they never use the same nest twice .

i was told by our pest control guys they do keep reusing a nest..that's how a nest become so big as they build on it year after year

tony are these's wasps or solitary honey bee's?...as the later are protected unless they are in close proximity of a dwelling as these will swarm without reason....get yourself a pest control guy in they will get rid first time as they know where to look and tbh it is £ 40 but a lot less if the buggers swarm

[Sir Tigger KC]

The world expert on European wasps was strolling past a record shop. A sign caught his eye: "New Album - Wasps of the World!” The man asked to hear the album and was given headphones. Three minutes later, he announced, "I am the world expert on European wasps and the sounds that they make and yet I recognize none of those." The clerk offered to play another track. And another. And another. Still, the expert did not hear sounds he recognized. Suddenly, the clerk realized his mistake. "I'm really sorry," he said. "I was playing you the bee side." 

 

[the alarming man]

that is really poor lol....


as for what they do in winter they die BUT the queen lives and lays eggs/larve in the wasps nest which are you new wasps

[Varche]

They go to Spain for the winter.

maybe. I have just got rid of three barrow loads of lovely grapes (don't tell Guffer for gawds sake) There must have been a couple of hundred wasps (just arrived from the English Costas) gorging themselves on fermenting juices and then falling on the ground in a stupor.

They hibernate - beds are a great place. Nice and warm and safe........

[aaronjb]

They hibernate - beds are a great place. Nice and warm and safe........

One chose one of my t-shirts one year as it was hanging in the spare room to dry.. it got a surprise when I put the t-shirt on, but not as big a surprise as I got when it stung me two or three times down my back, fell into my jeans and got me another three or four times between the buttocks..

Oh, the dance I did around the kitchen, tearing off clothes...

[the alarming man]

They go to Spain for the winter.

maybe. I have just got rid of three barrow loads of lovely grapes (don't tell Guffer for gawds sake) There must have been a couple of hundred wasps (just arrived from the English Costas) gorging themselves on fermenting juices and then falling on the ground in a stupor.

They hibernate - beds are a great place. Nice and warm and safe........

no they don't they die as they cannot store food.........see here



http://www.ehow.com/about_6591887_happens-wasps-winter_.html

[Kevin Wood]

Where's lazydocker when you need him? He's the expert on pests.