The short version: do not do it yourself. This is the one pest where the DIY attempt is genuinely dangerous rather than merely ineffective.
Have it treated professionally. £90 fixed cost, guaranteed for 30 days. The colony is treated at the nest, foragers carry the treatment in, and it dies within a day or two.
Do not attempt it yourself. Not because we want the work — because aerosols provoke the colony, blocking the hole drives wasps into the building, and most serious injuries come from the ladder rather than the stings.
You do not need to see the nest. You need the entry point, and that is easier.
A steady stream in and out is a nest. Wasps around a bin or a fallen apple are foraging and mean nothing.
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It does not reach the nest. It does provoke the colony into defending it, from a distance of a few feet, with you holding the can.
This is where the real injuries come from. Wasps defending a nest at head height, on a ladder, produces falls. The sting is rarely the serious part.
It happens every summer. Roof fires, burns, and a nest that is still there afterwards.
A visible nest under an eave or in a shed is a colony of hundreds to thousands. Knocking it down releases all of them at once.
Wasps defend the nest. Anything that reads as an attack on it gets treated as one, and you are standing next to it.
From late August the colony structure breaks down, workers stop rearing brood, and behaviour changes — more interested in sugar, less predictable, more likely to sting. A nest that was tolerable in July can become a real problem in September.
| What you see | What it is |
|---|---|
| Yellow and black, sharp waist, smooth | Wasp — treat |
| Large, brown and yellow, loud, slower | Hornet — treated the same way, less aggressive than reputation suggests |
| Golden-brown, hairy, many at one spot | Honey bees — we will not treat; contact a beekeeper |
| Big, round, very fuzzy | Bumblebee — docile, colony dies out by late summer, leave it |
| Small dark bees in a lawn or mortar | Solitary bees — harmless, do not treat |
At the end of the season, yes. That may be months away, and the colony grows and becomes more aggressive in the meantime.
No. A new queen builds a new nest. But a good site tends to attract a new nest nearby.
A mature nest can hold several thousand wasps.
£90 fixed cost, guaranteed for 30 days in Edgware — including a second nest on the same visit.
Professional treatment at the nest. £90 fixed cost, guaranteed for 30 days. Foragers carry treatment in and the colony dies within a day or two.
No. Wasps chew through plasterboard, insulation and soft mortar, and come into the room instead.
Not on one inside a void. It does not reach the nest but does provoke the colony.
Wasps defending a nest at head height cause falls. The fall, not the stings, is usually the serious injury.
Treat it as urgent and tell us. Anyone with breathing difficulty or swelling beyond the sting site after a sting needs urgent medical help.
A communal area is normally the freeholder's or managing agent's, and a neighbour's property is their decision — we can only treat with the occupier's permission.
At the end of the season, yes — but that may be months away, and the colony grows and gets more aggressive in the meantime.
We do not treat honey bees and will point you to a local beekeeper. Bumblebees and solitary bees are harmless.
£90 fixed cost, guaranteed for 30 days. Do not go up a ladder for this one.
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