Wasps PLEASE HELP!!!!?

i have a summer house / shed in my garden where my guinea pigs live and a couple of days ago a wasp came and i shut the door but it kept flying at the window and then it crawled through a hole in the top of the shed. for the past couple of days every time i go to the shed 1 or 2 wasps keep flying in and every time they do i scream and run because in terrified of them!!!! its stopping me going down for a long time any tips on how to get rid of them???????????? thank you xx

Wasps PLEASE HELP!!!!?
Hmmm. Sure sounds like it might be a nest. I can't imagine why you would see more than one if they weren't on the same team.



The good news is that black wasps nest in very small numbers, with small nests and don't tend to be very agressive when compared to hornets or yellow jackets!



If they are mud daubers leave them alone as they are harmless and beneficial to the garden as they kill other pests.



If you must get rid of them...stick a shop vac sucker over the hole and turn it on...maybe it will suck them out. Don't laugh! We did this and it worked without using pesticide sprays.



There are over 300 kinds of "wasps" Read below link.
Reply:Just change your attitude. It worked for me. Several years ago, I decided that wasps would no longer bug me. Yes, if they sting, it hurts, but it isn't major. Main thing I realized was that wasps don't consider it their job to sting anyone. They only do it as a defence mechanism when they feel threatened. They are curious, and when they get close, I used to just do relaxation breathing until they left. Now they hardly phase me, I haven't been stung in years and years.

If this is a little tough for you, there are two things you can do: first is to get a hornet trap secondly, and most effectively, find where their nest is, go there just before nightfall, and spray the nest in and out, with bug killer. At night they are all in their nest and you'll get the whole lot of them.

Good luck!
Reply:If you're seeing a lot of wasps in the same place on a regular basis there is a nest close by. Your sure it's not in your summer house, but it could be underneath, or under a nearby bush or brick work.



You have to find the nest, it will be a hole about the size of a golf ball.



Take a seat outside and sit and watch for their flight path, they always fly straight going home wards.



Once you know where the nest is, go out after dark with a torch, (they don't fly at night) and dust the hole with "ant killer". They will walk that into the nest and all be dead in a day.



Ant killer is actually what's in those back packs the council pest control use on wasps.
Reply:There may well be a nest; the nest of a common, or yellow jacket/european wasp (there are many many species in the uk alone, I'm assuming you're talking about the black and yellow one that stings us and bothers us the most) starts off very small, about the size of a walnut when workers begin to be produced, so you may have missed it.

Apparently if you rub standard bar soap around the surfaces it prevents nests developing (once will be fine all summer). It is likely they will be attracted by your guinea pigs, or more precisely the food you give them. So short of moving your pets I don't see how there's much you can do other than call a pest controller if a large nest does develop. Here's a site with a bit more info:

http://www.eartheasy.com/live_natwasp_co...
Reply:First of all, wasp stings are nothing in themselves. Some people get anaphylactic shocks. Mostly, it's fine.



One of the benefits of being taken to France when I was an 8 year old (1988 - blimey!) was the sheer amount of wasps at this one camp site and in the Cevennes. We were all stung a few times. My mum had one in her hair on a car journey.



We used to go to the camp pool which was round and had a 2' tile around the edge, then a gully. This gully was loaded with wasps - some live some drowned. They still sting when they are dead. You had to skip over it to go swimming. Dozens of wasps. Fact is, you get used to it.



What we learned from the other campers/French laughing as we flinched from the wasps:



1)To flick them away. If one flies towards you, bat it with your hand. It soon goes.

2) Build a wasp trap:

Empty a clear lemonade bottle and cut it in two thirds. Bottom third bigger. Put jam or honey or something sickly sweet in the bottom and invert the top third. Hey presto! wasp goes down the funnel, into the jam and can't get back up.
Reply:They might be using a part of the shed to get building materials for a nest, usually a part of the wood that is soft. Or there will be a nest. Watch them to see which it is. Treat the wood area with tcp if it is the former, ring the pest control officer of your local council if there is a nest
Reply:At this time of year the wasp nest will not be much bigger than a golf ball. Just locate it and either crush it wearing a thick glove ot spray it with a household insect spray.
Reply:Stick an old jam jar in the garden with some water in it (and some old jam) They go in and get caught in the water.
Reply:Bung the hole up.
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Reply:Contact an Estate Agent and put your house on the market, I'm scared of em too!