OCUK Bug fans, could you tell me what this is please?

[Moredhel]

I was looking around my room today with an eye for redecoration, and tucked away under the wooden things the curtain rails are attached to is this scary looking structure:

I've been googling around trying to play insect through the keyhole (just what lives in a house like this) and I'm stumped. People on IRC said it looked like a wasps nest, but it doesn't look like paper to me, nor does it look like any of the wasps nests on google. It looks like some kind of excreted stuff that's hardened, almost like a termite mound thing. I'm loathe to touch it in case some kind of alien vampire zombie insect jumps out and eats my brain, so some reassurance as to what it is would go a long way.

Over to you guys.

 

[Stretch]

Poke it with a stick, preferably not you own

EDIT: I think it is a wasps nest

 

[Bri]

Looks like a wasps nest to me too :/

Edit, [enter obligatory 'Kill It With Fire' picture here]

 

[Abraham]

trying to work out what angle that picture was taken at is making my brain hurt!

just looks like some kind of fungus/mould to me

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Looks like a mud wasp's nest to me. I always get them on the eaves of my house in the summer time. You know, just in time for using the outdoor tables.

Seen anything go in or out of it? Is it populated? Is it abandoned?

 

[Bri]

Found one on google images that looks a bit like it

I'd speak to your local council tbh.

EDIT, just spotted what I think looks like a wasp stuck in the spiders web actually, just under the piece of metal. That's some ballsy spider making a web there

 

[Malt_Vinegar]

Stolen from google

Mud wasps are some of the most easily recognised wasps due to their large size and bright black and yellow colouring. These wasps have a long thin waist and long slender legs and are usually seen when they stop by puddles to collect mud which they roll into a ball and carry off to construct a nest. Although these wasps are quite large and are capable of stinging they are not very aggressive and tend only to sting if they are accidentally stepped on. Their nests are often seen attached to the walls or under the eaves of houses. Many sphecid wasps also construct mud nests in natural or man-made openings, including infrequently used taps and pipes or the handles of tools left outside.

http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_wasps/Palmdart.htm

That link is very informative too

 

[bingham67]

Ive heard of wasp nest in the loft but one in your room stone the crows.

 

[Aod]

camel Spider-hatchery tbh

Kill it with Fire.

 

[^TANK^]

Looks like a wasps nest to me keep welll away from it and ring the council first thing in the morning

 

[Aod]

or go to the hardware store tomorrow morning and buy a can of RAID, then fill the entire thing with the stuff.

<edit>
they're deffo wasps btw </edit>

 

[jegz]

Wasps tbh. not the old school metal band though

 

[Hybrids]

camel Spider-hatchery tbh

Kill it with Fire.

rofl, just burst out laughing in work

edit : Looks like wasps

 

[chimaera]

Surely you must have noticed wasps in your room? outside the house i can accept but inside and still not noticing is bizarre

 

[wesley]

your poo?

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

Smack it off and fill the holes with Silicon Gel.

 

[singist]

These are travelling huge distances it seems.

 

[delta555]

It is a mud dawbers (i think thats how its spelled) nest. We get them where i go in america (Kansas). They can be pretty nasty when provoked, and the nest isnt easy to remove with a stick, but keep poking and it will come off. Just run a while if they chase you, they go back to the nest eventually.

 

[brocksta]

chuck some thermite on it...sorted!

 

[Scuzi]

Tin of Lynx and a lighter. Light the lighter, spray the Lynx and aim it at that thing. Sorted.