What a saga!!!! We finished three cans that had been previously started to kill wasps nests in his and her houses! My friend wore a plastic decorator suit with a clear plastic bag over his head, pegged together and rubber gloves. He managed to do the deed without suffocating himself, nor getting stung. Another bonus was that he couldn't breathe in any of the fumes. That was good! I borrowed a ladder so we could put wooden planks over the plastic corrugated roof to tread on, to reach the crack in the house wall, which is above the roof, above the exit door. You can see that there is cement on this wall! Not good!!!!!
The wasps came from east and west, swooping over the rooftop but most got sprayed. It was lunchtime, not the righttime, but needs must! The vital task was to spray directly into the crack and this he managed. Within the afternoon there were 50/100 wasps in the salle de sejour, yet with all windows and doors closed. Attracted by daylight, they met their end by shoe and flyswat as they collected on the French doors. Then an equal number fell dead or almost so, into the atelier below the roof outside the exit door.
Some sprays destroy wasp nests, others kill only wasps. Although expensive I didn't have to pay the wasp man. Fortunately / Unfortunately he is too late. I expect he will be annoyed! He came and looked, then had to order the powder but meanwhile it rained a lot. He didn't come at the weekend because this is France although he knew I needed them to be removed urgently!
My friend suggests that we fill the crack with mousse foam to be doubly sure that surviving wasps do not return to the nest even though I have read that the queen flies and starts a nest elsewhere.
Now, another job will be to go around the external house walls, filling cracks and holes with chaux render! However, it is easier to own a French property when one has a pragmatic and skilled friend.
Ah!!!!!!
No humming now!
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