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Wasps!!! - Got a nest in the compost heap right by the back gate. Kids no doubt will find it. Also next to our bee "meadow", so hope can only kill wasps not the bees.

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[–] Arrakis 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There is a nest in my loft, I can stand in the garden and watch them fly in and out of the eaves.

The loft belongs to them now...

Someone once told me that they won't come back to an old nest the next year, so I'm praying that's true and I'll have my loft back come winter. Thoughts and prayers please!

Unless...OP, do we use the opportunity to begin a Ghostbusters knock-off?

WHEN THERE'S A SPOOKY BUZZ

IN THE COMPOST HEAP

WHO YA GONNA CALL

WASPBUSTERS!

[–] juniper 2 points 1 year ago

The last bit of this comment absolutely took me out. Thank you for the laugh.

[–] t0m5k1 1 points 1 year ago

Make an essential oil mix of peppermint oil and eucalyptus oil, wasps hate the smell of both. I use this mix in the attic by way of an oil burner, after a week they've gone.

Please don't kill them as we need all the pollinators we can get.