Someone has the right answer BUT i think some answers were misinterpreted like below...
for example. Nick asked "
Was it alive?"
It WASNT alive. This item is not a living thing but the contents are.
Timbob asked "
Do dutch people use it too?"
No one USES it is what i could have said if i wasnt restricted to Yes or No. So i just said No.
So to the answers...
stargurl wrote:Is it an animal skeleton?
No
stargurl wrote:
Is it an animal nest?
Yes
stargurl wrote:
Is it part of an animal skeleton?
No
usernick wrote:The problem with things like nests and water leaking into the roof is that they can be found in the Netherlands!
See above. Timbob asked if dutch people USE them. I wasnt asked if they can be found in the NL
stylustrouble wrote:You found your hair,I bet.Now....where's my prize?
haha
I have hair now. Its a good inch on top!
hippy dave wrote:yeah i'm guessing a nest. wasp nest? had one of them in the roof above my bedroom once, not fun.
Yes
I actually knew it was there but up to now i couldnt go in the loft for the obvious reasons. The last time i did was in the summer and i had no idea what was up there. I was searching a box for an old CD and heard a buzzing. By the time i looked around i was stung on the back of the neck. I nearly shit myself
I jumped down the loft and looked up to see around 6 wasps flying around the light. In the UK there are people who will come around to sort these kinds of things out but the nest itself was in the very corner of the loft and under the eaves. They charge 40 to 60 quid and there is no guarentee they will get rid of the nest. So i decided to tackle this in the winter as we all know wasps hate the cold.
I left it to this weekend as i needed to put my fishing gear back in the loft (plus some holiday things) and get the xmas decorations down. When i got up there i found a load of dead wasps scattered about. I had a kid’s plastic spade plus a black bag to attempt to break down the nest. All went well until i broke in the middle of the nest and found that the bastards were still alive. They were sluggish so they didnt exactly attack me. Decided i would need some extra attacking utilities as a plastic spade is not going to help.
I got this foam stuff that you can spray on the nest from 2 metres and some basic pest spray. The evening after i entered the loft and i had to deal with 2 flying wasps. After a short battle they were doing the dying swan on the floor. I squashed them with my torch which was probably the worse mistake to do (as i later found up after reading the web). I looked at the nest and found i had an army coming towards. The pest spray disabled their wings so they were just marching towards me. Torch bashing took place before i let out for nest foam spray covering the football sized nest all over. I retreated to allow the spray to do the damage.
That night i read up you shouldnt squash a wasp as it sends out pheromone which sends the alarm out for many metres to all other wasps. So me squashing one a few metres from the nest was not a good move. Take note
Monday night I ventured up there expecting it all to be over. The foam had dispersed into the nest and i couldnt see any activity around the nest or in the loft. I decided to take a different approach this time. I got my fishing landing net pole and from a distance break the nest apart. As i destroyed their lovely home i came across some really pissed up wasps that were obviously dying. I made sure with a lot of spray...a lot
Nest totally in bits i decided to let the cold and spray finish the rest of.
Last night i went up there and started to scoop up all the remains of the nest into a bag. There were still many alilve but they were totally f*cked. They couldn’t even stand on their legs. I even carried my vacuum up there to suck all the contents up and to get right into the corner. So now i am nest free and wasp free. I'm going to try and block up the eaves at that part of the loft as I’m told they probably will return. The nest itself had loads of hexagonal cells with some populated with dead larva. There must have been around 300 of these cells in different layers. According to the web the queen hides in the nest over the winter period but i never found her (wasn’t exactly looking).
I have a photo of the nest taken on the Saturday before the war between man and wasps took place. I will post it on here as soon as i've got it on the web. Hope this was an amusing read as some know i have a BIG phobia of wasps and bees.
p.s. Well done Hippy Dave
