Wasp nest

[martinbb 0]

Ive just had a call from a new customer asking me to clear a wasp nest from a loft tomorrow.

Now i could be wrong but i thought the main time for wasp problems was between late march and november, also with the weather being as cold as its been i would have thought its far too early for wasps.

I am unsure what to expect but the customer is convinced that the nest is live, have any of the pest controllers on here come across wasps nests yet.

ATB

[comanche 2,990]

Ive just had a call from a new customer asking me to clear a wasp nest from a loft tomorrow.

Now i could be wrong but i thought the main time for wasp problems was between late march and november, also with the weather being as cold as its been i would have thought its far too early for wasps.

I am unsure what to expect but the customer is convinced that the nest is live, have any of the pest controllers on here come across wasps nests yet.

ATB

Just before Christmas had 2 calls for same thing .Customers had gone to get decorations down from loft+ found dopey wasps.Both nests were 99.9% dead but a few wasps were creeping out of the pupation cells and half a dozen were droning about the rafters.They were so sleepy I just put on gloves + squashed the nests into sacks(one nest filled two bin bags so I was quite relieved it was past its "best by" date!).Late developers?,affects of central heating?,pupation process slowed but not totally prevented due to temperature levels in the loft?... Dunno. I've come across it occasionally so when a customer phones I never give em the "No no madam far too late for active nests ",textbook speak.Nor do I rip em off by giving em a scare story and removing some dusty,long-dead nest. Out of interest is does anyone else know wasps as"Jaspers" or is it a Sussex thing?

[Tikka T3 0]

these are young queens that have not left the roof.hibernating for these bloody short winters

we had a great year in south wales last year on them lets hope its the same this year.

 

regards t3

[stephen58 1]

Hi Comanche it must be a Sussex thing!! talking to a mate of mine from Surrey a fellow pestie"ask;s me what I;ve been doing?" Jaspers I reply! "pardon" WASPS mate "oh okay!" I would love to know the oringin of how they got this nick~name!!! where about;s in West Sussex are you from? Hi Martin the nest is probaly dead mate but don;t take any un~necessary risks! could be what Tikka T3 said " young queens" I;ve had a semi active nest in December in a loft mind you the whole house was like a sauna!! best regards to all Steve

[RatSnatcher 0]

Out of interest is does anyone else know wasps as"Jaspers" or is it a Sussex thing?

 

I am in Hampshire ..........We call them Jaspers too

[comanche 2,990]

Hi Comanche it must be a Sussex thing!!

Hello.I'm in Horsham-the town with the fountain that looks like a papier -mache hamburger(that's if you are being polite).Twas a jolly fine year for wapses+ I'm sorry to say hornicles.Ever there was an insect deserved a better press it's the hornet .Not so nice in the wrong place of course.Now we know" Jaspers" is a Sussex +Hampshire thing.Come to think of it ,i had a pal from Southsea,Gaites his name,used to write about stuffing in the old Shooting News.He knew about "Jaspers" but I think he'd lived in Sussex as a child.

[Lennard 10]

Could be honeybees. Flying on a mild day.

 

L

[martin 332]

'JASPERS' down here in Somerset too!!..........I used to dig the nests out for the grubs,for fishing matches,but,they are mostly banned nowadays.I could get a £5 for a small nest on a match day,so I did make quite a bit of money on the side.We got to a point that we had to drive between 5 & 10miles to actually find any wasps,believe it or not

[Spike01 0]

Would be really good if the Jaspers are as active this year.(only just down the road from horsham)

LOADS A MONEY!!!

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Comanche; I've personally long since figured that " Jasper " is most likely a bastardisation of the scientific name which is, as ye'd know, of course; Vespa. Slap forehead? Penny dropped and the light come on?

 

I really do believe it's probably that simple. A misheard, phonetically attempted reproduction which has fell into common usage. Perhaps the 'local accents' helped disguise the error? Don't forget, a century ago yeself and RatSnatcher there would have had clearly differant, regional accents. Nowadays, of course, all swallowed up in the melting pot of swirling demographics.

 

But anyway; Bettcha that's where it comes from

[proper job 1]

Used to refer to them as Jaspers in Cornwall. I did two nests in December, definately not young queens, both nests were still very active, not summer numbers, but regular traffic, toing and froing.

[RatSnatcher 0]

 

I used to hear of both rats AND pheasants referred to as 'long tails',...and the various species of deer as 'chat',..we also called signing on as being 'on the chat',..confused ?,..well I was...probably still am....

 

All the best to the POMPEY contingent,...

Roll on the Summer,...Ficam Rules,....OK Ya.... [/color][/size]

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On the CHAT They call it "Scratching" now I believe

 

......"can you here the Millwall sing, I cant here a facking thing"

 

PLAY UP POMPEY......POMPEY PLAY UP

 

 

Ditch will be back in a mo ......you know he was head of the 6.57 dont ya

[Tikka T3 0]

hello comanche

 

you said earlier that you seen these young wasps comming out of the pupation cell

did you notice the size of the actual cells as end of season the cells will be much bigger in several layers as the queen produces young queens .it would most certainly of been young queens

just out of interest did you fellow pesties get more honey bees last year we did in south wales

great to see an increase ,around here anyway

only dealt with two hornets myself .dont get that many really around my way

 

all the best t3

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Ditch will be back in a mo ......you know he was head of the 6.57 dont ya

 

 

Aaah, that was Years ago, mate! I still have the aggression, but the old cardio vascular system just can't keep up these days! I have to sit down now just to have an arguement!

 

 

My old dear Always refered to rats as " Long Tails ". She'd shudder if ye so much as said the R word around her. But I imagine that's a more a taboo from her upbringing. Like my cousin who was Liturally scared to death to enter the shed where I'd told him I was keeping an owl. Portent of death, see? His Dad was more of the old ways.

 

Most of the 'odd' words I ever heard though weren't odd at all, to me. There's so many settled Gypsys in Portsmouth that there's still quite a hang over from the old days there ~ or was, in my life time. Ye sort of knew who ye friends were by the words they'd come out with. Simply learned from within their own familys. I genuinely grew up thinking " Mui " would be found in the OED!

 

I also remember, in primary school, my teacher being completely at a loss as to how I should spell my Uncles name. I knew it was pronounced " Albi " (NOT 'Albert', nor an abbreviation of that), just I didn't then know how to spell it and she'd simply never heard the name. But that was his given name. And that's how it's spelled.

[proper job 1]

Does any one here know what a "grammersow" is.