Hornets

[Zimmerframe]

Sadly not bike related.. saw this in a loft this week, a Hornets nest .. amazing to think they can make these. One part was like a lamp shade !

It was built over a chimney breast, so I'm guessing it's shaped like that to act as a duct to trap the rising warm air.

 

[RustyMTB]

Get the dog in, it'll love them.

 

[Bones]

Set up a camera and prod the nest with a big stick.

 

[2WheelsNot4]

Id opt for a catapult, from as far a distance as possible and be ready to leg it

 

[PenSki]

So, what are you normally hiding up there on those coathangers - lycra, dresses, gifts for the mistress?

 

[Zimmerframe]

So, what are you normally hiding up there on those coathangers - lycra, dresses, gifts for the mistress?

Not my loft, but if it was, yes it would be lycra dresses which would be gifts for the mistresses ...

 

[Rusty]

Nasty frigging things. Was trimming my track and upset a nest. After a few stings, I though F-this, time to go home for the day, have a shower and a quiet beer. Stripped off and just as I was about to climb into the shower I spotted my face in the mirror. Threw my work kit back on and raced down to A&E. By the time I walked through their door my eyes were almost shut and I spent 10 hours or so on a couple drips and hooked up to all the beeping machines. Little fuckers almost did me in and even to this day, when I go for a point to point ride I carry an adrenaline pen.

 

[steve_sordy]

I dealt with a wasp's nest in the garden with a "wasp nest destroyer". It was a big aerosol can with an extender tube on the nozzle. It fires out a sticky expanding foam that also contains an insecticide. I crept up to the nest and pointed the tube into the main entrance and let them have it. Any wasps that are disturbed by the activity are caught in the sticky foam. Those wasps returning to the nest also get caught in the sticky foam. The foam expands through the nest as it goes. It took me 5 seconds of hosing, but I never saw another wasp anywhere near that nest.

That nest was in amongst the rockery. But your nest is easily accessible, many fishermen will pay good money for a nest like that to use the grubs as bait. I have no idea how they subdue the wasps/hornets without using insecticide.

 

[chamaruco]

5-6 of this...6mt spray..and pray...remember that they track down the offender...
otherwise

 

[Shjay]

Got a nest in our Pampas Grass

 

[Nicho]

I have no idea how they subdue the wasps/hornets without using insecticide

?

 

[Beekeeper]

Id opt for a catapult, from as far a distance as possible and be ready to leg it

how about a flying headbutt

 

[2WheelsNot4]

how about a flying headbutt

Not even this scotsman would take on a nest of angry hornets.
Anyway, is this not your department ? placating angry stingy things

 

[Mabman]

Common here also and easily removable with a spray bomb. There was one by the garden this spring that I hit with the hose and it kept being rebuilt until I nuked it with some good old chemicals.

Our chimney's don't have breasts though, must be they are all male?

 

[billwarwick]

Not my loft, but if it was, yes it would be lycra dresses which would be gifts for the mistresses ...

Why? Don’t they fit you any more?