Hi Guys
Hopefully you are OK with me using this forum for my question but it is all for the greater good of bees.
whilst my wife and I don’t keep bees we love having them in our garden and take every opportunity to create an environment that encourages and sustains them.
Unfortunately we also get our share of wasps and hornets and as well as being a nuisance they chase away the bees.
To add to this I recently went into the loft over my garage and found an large abandoned wasp/hornets nest which I assume was the source of most of the critters from the summer.
Question(s)
1. Do Wasps / Hornets return and reuse old nests, in which case I will remove it.
2. As the loft has numerous places small insects can get into it. Have any members had experience of devices that deter wasps from entering (Ultra sonic / Chemical etc ). As a rider to this question, I looked on the web for wasp deterrents and found one option that was hanging up dummy nests around the garden. That being the case and assuming they don’t use old nests, should I leave the old nest in place to deter a new brood?
Sorry for the convoluted post but I thought you guys (and girls) would be able to give me some thoughts
Regards
LesW
Hopefully you are OK with me using this forum for my question but it is all for the greater good of bees.
whilst my wife and I don’t keep bees we love having them in our garden and take every opportunity to create an environment that encourages and sustains them.
Unfortunately we also get our share of wasps and hornets and as well as being a nuisance they chase away the bees.
To add to this I recently went into the loft over my garage and found an large abandoned wasp/hornets nest which I assume was the source of most of the critters from the summer.
Question(s)
1. Do Wasps / Hornets return and reuse old nests, in which case I will remove it.
2. As the loft has numerous places small insects can get into it. Have any members had experience of devices that deter wasps from entering (Ultra sonic / Chemical etc ). As a rider to this question, I looked on the web for wasp deterrents and found one option that was hanging up dummy nests around the garden. That being the case and assuming they don’t use old nests, should I leave the old nest in place to deter a new brood?
Sorry for the convoluted post but I thought you guys (and girls) would be able to give me some thoughts
Regards
LesW