In the early months of the year when the nests are small you can get away with knocking it down with a stick or a shovel, as some people have told me they have done, but as you get towards August-September this is really not advisable, as you can tell from the information above.

When nests are small, buying an insecticidal powder in a puffer pack and dusting the nest yourself is feasible, but as the months progress and the size of the nest increases it also becomes busier. Wasps have flight paths to and from the nest, so one bad idea is to stand in the wrong place, as you will get dive bombed and stung. Wasps also know when the nest is under attack and will marshal their forces from the nest and attack you. If you are stood outside the nest and you kill a wasp, say by batting it one, that wasp will give off a pheromone (scent) which will penetrate the nest giving the alarm and bringing the rest of the workers out at you. Some people have told me that they have used petrol and that it wouldn't get the better of them, and I'm not paying that much just for a wasps nest, and I'll do it myself there's nothing to it......weeeellll best of luck.

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