The fireplace vent is located at the uppermost portions of your chimney venting system and wasps don t need to travel far down the flue to find a secluded space for nesting.
Wasp nest in chimney flue.
What can i do about wasps coming out of the chimney in winter.
With luck the nest will be.
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.
You may never cure the.
I have found one live one and one dead wasp since i started doing that.
Wasps become aggressive when provoked so you ll want at least a few.
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.
It must be stressed that the queen wasps are acting individually there are no active wasp nests in the winter.
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.
The nest is in the chimney stack of a 40 year old 2 bedroom semi detached house.
Chimneys lofts and other cavities are often chosen as hibernation sites.
If you have exotic birds keep them away from the spray because if it highly toxic to them.
There are no active wasp nests in the winter.
Or seeing a large beehive or the muffled buzzing sound of a hornet s nest inside a chimney flue.
How to kill wasps in a chimney step 1.
The chimney is not a large one.
Put on a layer of protective clothing.
Using a flashlight look up into your chimney to find the location of the nest.
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.