What can i do about wasps coming out of the chimney in winter.
Wasp nest in chimney flue.
Using a flashlight look up into your chimney to find the location of the nest.
It s one thing to run across a bee or wasp in the outdoors it s quite another to risk a painful or worse fatal sting in our own homes.
Often these nests are underground or built into rotting wood but the protective space provided by your chimney is also a tempting space for wasps to build their nests.
The nest is in the chimney stack of a 40 year old 2 bedroom semi detached house.
Spray the nest with a.
The chimney is not a large one.
After my nephew removed a wasp nest from the top of the chimney i spray spectricide wasp and hornet spray a couple of feet up on the inside of the chimney from the living room.
You may never cure the.
If we had been asked to treat or remove this wasp nest a few years ago then one person would have done it by putting a ladder up to the gutter level and aiming a jet of insecticide into the chimney pot.
Wasps become aggressive when provoked so you ll want at least a few.
How to kill wasps in a chimney step 1.
Or seeing a large beehive or the muffled buzzing sound of a hornet s nest inside a chimney flue.
Put on a layer of protective clothing.
There are no active wasp nests in the winter.
I have found one live one and one dead wasp since i started doing that.
If you have exotic birds keep them away from the spray because if it highly toxic to them.
With luck the nest will be.
It must be stressed that the queen wasps are acting individually there are no active wasp nests in the winter.
This is because each wasp nest dies off in the winter leaving fertile queen wasps as the only survivors who leave the nest disperse over a wide area and hibernate.