Near disaster or what

[Ron]

Now the birds have all finished nesting in the hedge I decided to rough trim the hedges in the garden you can see how close I cut towards this wasps nest before Seeing it .Its the first one I have seen

[Roger]

Wooo, close call there Ron.

[rich64]

wasp nests really creep me out for some reason(really dont mind wasps but those nests look almost alien )

Mind you if id struck that nest i think i would have minded the result ....luck escape

[Kaaru]

Wasps try to kill you for no reason, so a lucky escape there....was it an electric trimmer ? That may have sent them wild if you`d really ripped into it.

[saphire]

How about this for a wasps nest this was taken in 2008 when we had the roof re-tiled. It is 3 ft tall and 2 ft wide
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[Perpetua]

That was a close shave Ron! Thank goodness you didn't disturb them.

Amazing photographs Saphire . . . the nest looks like something you'd find on an exotic sea bed, beautiful in a way.

[ChillerVapes]

Cure it with turps and a match

[saphire]

Perpetua did you press on the other photos there is one with a dead wasp emerging. I took loads of photos I wanted the roofers to bring down as much as possible but it just crumbled, I still have some of the centre core in the greenhouse.

[Perpetua]

Jun 30, 2013 16:55:45 GMT saphire said:

Perpetua did you press on the other photos there is one with a dead wasp emerging. I took loads of photos I wanted the roofers to bring down as much as possible but it just crumbled, I still have some of the centre core in the greenhouse.

I did saphire . . . you're a very good photographer! Puts my blurry efforts to shame.

[Karma]

I'm just so pleased I've never came across one of those

[saphire]

Jun 30, 2013 21:26:08 GMT Karma said:

I'm just so pleased I've never came across one of those

My spare bedroom did, the loft opening was in there, the wind must have lifted it. I went to do some sewing and when I opened the door there was thousands of wasps flying around it was frightening. We had to throw a wasp killer into room and leave it for a week before entering, we sealed the loft trap with duck tape and hoovered up all the dead bodies they were everywhere. Because it was autumn we were told to leave them as they would die anyway but we did put smoke bombs in the loft to make sure. We only saw the size of the nest when the roof was done in the January, even the roofers said they had never seen one so big, it was fascinating and frightening all at the same time.

Wasps are not nice, you aggravate them and they have no mercy, Ron you came very close to annoying them you were very lucky.

[Jezarel]

Before I started wiping bottoms for a living I was a pikey. When scrapping a caravan one spring I was inside pulling the roof panels off when the air became alive with a buzzing noise. Half a small static caravan roof. FULL!!! Scared the hells out of me when the roof came down. Awesome things mind.

Regards
Jez

[violetblade]

Very lucky Ron and ewwwwwwwwwww.
That is huge Saphire I don't know what I would have done if that was me.

[kailey]

We had a wasps nest in our garden one year. It did not bother us so we left it and the next year the wasps came back and built another nest in the same place. Apparently they return to the same spot to rebuild their nests or so I was told. I find wasp nests quite fascinating.