Hi Guys,
I live in an apartment, and outside my balcony there are these nest growing on the walls.
Are they dangerous? Sometimes I see bee like insects hovering around these nests.
Should I talk to strata? or is this a personal problem?
Thanks
Help, a Nest Is Growing outside My Balcony
kelkel108 on 04/03/2018 - 10:55
Last edited 04/03/2018 - 11:11 by 1 other user
Last edited 04/03/2018 - 11:11 by 1 other user
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Sorry
Don't be sorry, "guys" can be used as unisex.
but can it be used for a bear?
don't say sorry to spambots
im not a girl or a guy.
Congratulations!!
Flick them off with a spatula?
More fun to burn them from a distance with a can of hair spray and a lighter.
Yeah, 'cause that never goes wrong. However, if you do please get someone to video it, we need a good laugh.
Perhaps you only see it going wrong because those videos are more entertaining.
I've used this technique numerous times without issue. The key is to hold the lighter flame near and below the bore line of the nozzle.
The jet only becomes flammable once it becomes turbulent and mixes with the atmosphere to the lower flammability limit. This occurs a few centimetres from the nozzle so the risk of burning your hand is low.
Alternatively, one can ignite the stream from an isolated source such as a candle in a holder set down on the ground.
I remember when I was in high school other students do it all the time with deodorant cans, makes a decent flame thrower (albeit the flame isn't very big though), nobody ever got injured/explosions.
I never had the guts to try it myself.
@Scrooge McDuck: Still though, probably worth mentioning that you should NOT do this if you don't know what you're doing.
@Deridas: Don't know why you were downvoted. Weren't really a teenager if you didn't have Brut (the best cans for this) flamethrower fights in the living room! Out in the country at least.
If the flame managed to travel back inside the can it'd explode though. That was always the worry, although we never saw it happen.
get a can of fly spray and spray it, wear a hooded jumper and a tea towel over your head for protection. use a lighter to burn them if you want a bit of fun.
I think this is a pretty simple problem to solve, ringing your body corp up is overkill
they are probly little wasps that will sting at best.
if you leave them alone they will leave you alone, id personally just leave them, but fly spray if not
There's actually a few of them pretty far from the balcony on the external facade of the building.
Acquire some light weight rod and hit them off.
I used 2 lengths of curtain rod and duct taped them together.
Wasp spray with 4m range as a minimum. Why risk it? What is there to gain with the extra risk?
Is this what Australia has become?
People too scared to deal with insects. Sigh…
They are just asking for advice on whether it is dangerous or not. If you think it's harmless, let Op know!
How dare a wasp nest in OP's WASP nest!!
1st World Problems…
Is Blackie Lawless OP’s neighbour?
People have died from being attacked by a swarm of bees or wasps. Personally I'd rather be safe than sorry. Although asking people on Ozbargain isn't a guarantee you will get a sensible answer.
I don’t know about harden up but if you died you would certainly stiffen up.
People have died from being attacked by a swarm of bees or wasps.
Yes, but they were all weak.
Sounds like you are the sort to flick peanuts at allergy sufferers and then go “what?”.
No, it's that experience has taught me that attempting to talk sense into nonsensical people is largely a waste of time. Ergo a stupid comment warrants a stupid response.
People have died performing all manner of tasks which are obviously worthwhile; from getting out of bed to chewing food. And none of them necessitate elaborate planning nor consultation.
Go find a wasp hive that's the size of a watermelon, stand under it and throw a ball at it by 'accident'.
We can talk about how big and strong you are after that, and how others are clearly weak.
I trust you'd make it through unscathed. ;)
Australia: The land where people respond to legitimate comments and questions with a whinge.
Australie: Has English. ha ha har(Dammit, maybe/probably I have English ancestry. But only some!)
Well what's the land of your other ancestry where they don't whinge?
Dunno, don't care. I'm not my ancestry.
I think a post on Australia's foremost bargains website will sort it out.
Just trying to find a bargain on wasp spray
Wasp Spray is brilliant. Last one I bought had a range of over 3m. Had a full fledged nest with 10+ odd wasps floating around at all times. Went overboard with a whole can when they were all dead by about 1/4-1/2 way. Better safe than sorry :P
he's asking for a bunnings sale on flamethrowers
Elon Musk is selling one, tho
foremost bargains website and most caring online community
They are wasp nest. Just smash and spray them before they get any bigger.
Some of them are pretty far away from the balcony.
Would a broom handle reach? These are easy to smash and in my experience nothing living comes out to sting you, it's usually just the larvae or whatever of the hornet/wasp thingo which gets smooshed.
It's not a wasp nest, they are like a honeycomb hanging from an attached stick.
mud dauber wasp do not make honeycomb they use mud to build their nest like the one in OP's photo.
@freemoneyhunter - That's a paper wasp. These are mud wasps.. Lots of different types of wasps out there mate.
I love this comment…..
Tell the building manager about wasp nests on the outside of the building.
Thanks, already sent an email to him
Better that it is wasps, rather than a flying cockroach!!
That is the most sensible answer.
Not really. They aren't dangerous. If you remove them, they will come back again, possibly in a slightly different location. The wasps will probably be living in a local bushland area and are just using your walls to lay their eggs.
Nuke your apartment from orbit. Its the only way to get rid of them pesky critter.
Serious answer. Report to strata. Could be wasps.
Where can I buy some nuke? Asking for a friend.
The problem is that Australia has become a nanny state. Nowadays you aren't allowed to nuke stuff without getting Council approval first. They'll make you put up a safety fence with a mesh screen to contain the dust, and if you live in a high traffic environment you'll need to hire a couple of workers with lollipop signs to stop the traffic outside whilst you do your nuking.
It's just wasps, pretty harmless..or "Errrmergerrrrd! Nature! "
Still wouldn't like it on my balcony
Why not? have you EVER been stung by a wasp? (one that you weren't hassling?)
They're not like termites that will eat your house so why go around killing everything that you 'don't like'?Because they're annoying? Every time you open your balcony door one might come in and annoy you in your apartment, etc. Have a barbecue on your balcony and they hover around the meat
@zaidoun: Have you EVER seen a wasp hover around a BBQ? If one flies into your house just leave the door open and it will soon fly out again.
Seriously?
Plus the wasps eat spiders! (And birds eat the wasps.) So if you like birds but don't like spiders, more than you dont like wasps - then just leave the nests there until they hatch then hose the empty mud nests off.
Inside each wasp nest is a wasp larvae and spiders for the larvae to eat.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wasp+mud+nest
Smoke Grenade
Where can I buy one?
press B, 6, 5
Fire in the hole!
is this a personal problem
Yes, this is due to latent anger at your parents' breakup when you were a child. ;)
Wasps like the other posts say.
Thanks for stalking me for my whole life, love to have a fan.
Poke your head inside the nest for some sweet honey…. no wait that’s bees 🐝.. never mind do it anyways!
Would you like to buy some honey?
No, and don't call me Honey.
We used to have a wasp nest in our back yard. This is what I did. Went to Bunnings and buy a can of wasp spray. Quite pricey at around $16. Wait till late in the evening which is when the wasp are at their least active state, and also the wasp would all have returned to their nest. Wear hoods protection and at about 2m away, use the spray at the nest. The spray is very effective. The moment the wasp get contact they dropped dead immediately. Then when the wasp are all dead, remove the wasp nest.
Some of them are pretty far from the balcony (more than 2m).
I've already notified my building manager. Thanks for the suggestion.
Wasp spray for paper wasps will fire out a stream about 5-6m .
Mud wasp (or hornet) you can use a hose and/or broom to wash away the nest .
It's a mud wasp they're harmless.
Good to know, will let my wife know so she would stop freaking out
Looks like a Mud Dauber nest. They are big, slow harmless wasps that catch spiders and paralyse them before taking them back to their nests for their young to feed on. We had a big nest right outside a window and it was amazing watching the wasp return with a spider that was barely moving and then try to stuff it into the nest. The spider was actually too big for the nest entrance so eventually the wasp gave up and flew off.
Good to know there's someone here who's got an interest in wildlife
Agree re mud wasps, leave them alone, they'll leave once hatched. Babies will make their nests elsewhere.
We had a mud daub nest that we smashed, all these spider corpses fell out!
Use a hose. Might have to borrow one if you live in an apartment and don't own one.
Set the cladding on fire
I have a (native) wasp nest under an outdoor table, they don't mind people sitting at the table and rarely see any buzzing around. Easy to forget it's there!
Hopefully they are seasonal, otherwise it might have to be gotten rid of.Looks like a mud-dauber wasp nest. Being a solitary wasp it is extremely unlikely to bother you if you leave it alone. There are no wasps living in it or defending it once it's built so you can safely knock it down but they will rebuild it.
It looks like a wasp nest. I remember there was a nest of them in a roll up outdoor blind. It was rolled up and when I lowered the blind several wasps flew out and one stung me. Very nasty.
Strata may cover external issues find out first and it may be possible for them to handle it, especially as it is tricky for you to get to.
You shouldn't be of risk of being stung unless you go poking it but if you are keen to get rid of asap you could get a wasp spray long jet from Bunnings (sprays up to 6 metres) and give it a spray, wait a bit then brush them off.
This type of nest is for a non aggressive type of wasp- the mud wasp.
What you found was probably a paper wasp. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_wasp they can get a bit nasty.
use some silicon spray on them.
they will leave then.
Mud wasps are cool, they catch spiders and trap the lil buggers in there. Sometimes if you break the nest confused spiders come out!
Doesn't look like a European wasp nest. If it's native I'd leave it alone
It's not a nest as such. Mud wasps (large orange/yellow and black and harmless) make individual mud cocoons in which they store small spiders that they have paralyzed. When they have a few spiders they lay an egg inside the mud cocoon and then seal it. The egg hatches and the lava feeds on the paralyzed spiders. The lava will go through metamorphosis and the adult wasp will emerge from the cocoon through a small opening that it makes.
From the pictures it appears that at least some of these cocoons have escape holes, so they would be empty.That is amazing. Poor things, they don't know any better but to build their nests near us. Then we kill them. Lovely.
You have a choice here mate. First of all, its a wasp nest. It does not look like a European wasp nest, in fact it looks like a dauber wasp nest. The benefit is that these wasps are not as aggressive as european wasps AND generally, a european wasp will not start to colonise an area where an existing wasp colony is. So its up to you what you want to do with it, I would take it as a bit of a sacrificial lamb and just leave it up there to prevent a european wasp infestation.
I often find those type of mud wasp nests in the handle bars of bikes I leave out in the barn. Must remember to put the covers on. They put them in other places on the bikes too. No problem- just scrape them off.
Bees are not insects.
Call the bikies and have it sortedReminds me of this: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/316592
Since when are bees not insects?
Also these are wasps, they feed on spiders. Bees feed on nectar and make honey :)
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