Opened an empty space in my house, what the hell are these ?

its just a bit of foam they have overdone it on a hole that was letting light in, cut it off with a stanley blade and then sand it to a smooth finish.
 
I second buying some of the Wasp Nest Destroyer foam that you can get in DIY stores. If you can get easy access to the nest, then there is no point 'waiting' for the council or calling a private pest controller.

I did it on a nest in the crawl space in my parents place and it was easy.

Just wait until night or very early morning, or bad weather, as that way they are all in the nest. Make sure you protect yourself, just in case.

The foam has quite a long firing range, so you don't need to be that close. It literally melts the nest and kills everything inside it in a sticky toxic death. When I did it, I could hear them, but not a single wasp even had a chance to get out.

I believe though that this time of the year is actually the best time to kill Wasps, as their colonies are small. It's actually in late summer when they are drunk off fermenting fruit and are at their largest that they recommend being careful trying to remove nests yourself.

Should be fine right now.
 
BringTheRain said:
WTF :eek:
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Fact: Camel spiders aren't really spiders

This scary-looking creature (actually, what you see in the photo is a pair of scary-looking creatures dangling end-to-end) is indeed commonly called a camel spider (also a "wind scorpion"), but in fact it's neither a spider (entomologists know it as a solifugid or solpugid), nor is it exclusively found in the Middle East. Camel spiders reside in arid locations all over the world, including the southwestern United States.

Fact: Camel spiders aren't venomous or a threat to human beings

A typical specimen can grow to about the size of a child's hand, but, though they are known as predators and can kill insects and very small animals, camel spiders are neither venomous nor a threat to human beings.

For the record, they don't eat camels, either.
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http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/spiders/ss/Camel-Spider.htm
 
I'm renovating my place and have all ceilings down, I've noticed several of the small, round objects up on the felt in the loft! My builder said it was where the queen hibernates over the winter. We'll be looking for possible gaps and filling them with foam.

I'm boarding the loft so will be leaving an insect zapper on all the time over summer, I think!
 
PianoBasher said:
I'm renovating my place and have all ceilings down, I've noticed several of these up on the felt in the loft! My builder said it was where the queen hibernates over the winter. We'll be looking for possible gaps and filling them with foam.

I'm boarding the loft so will be leaving an insect zapper on all the time over summer, I think!
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Aye its best to remove them. As if not removed, its classed a safe house for each year.
 
BringTheRain said:
Aye its best to remove them. As if not removed, its classed a safe house for each year.
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Yeah we're taking them all down. Found a bird's nest in a corner so assume that's where they are getting in.

Amazing what you find out about a place when you strip it all back to brick & timber.
 
PianoBasher said:
Yeah we're taking them all down. Found a bird's nest in a corner so assume that's where they are getting in.

Amazing what you find out about a place when you strip it all back to brick & timber.
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One of my customers had a garage conversion done, and when they removed the roof. I think i saw about 6 nests :eek:
 
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