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Depending where the nest is, we buy the aerosol foam from our agricultural merchants, stand back, squirt into the nest entrance and give it a few hours.
The one in my back garden was dealt with with ant powder! It was an underground one though...
Consider whether you really need to rid yourslef of the wasps nest? They are a vital part of out garden eco system - and are suffering as much as bees - the loss of one nest is a relative disaster for the microsphere they were inhabiting.
They rarely attack, and you really do need to provoke them -
This year my tally is 3 found - all left in situ, and none have caused me problems - I have to carry an epi-pen mind you - I may die from a bee or wasp sting - but Id rather leave them in place!
Yes we had a wasps nest in a Choisya last year, didn't see anything until I almost chopped into it and then ran like hell.
It was obvious that we couldn't carry on until we removed the nest, so I got this can of foam from the suppliers (£6) and got my son (who does pest control) to give it a squirt with this foam. We left it overnight and it killed the whole lot in one go.
The can does have quite a long range about 10' and if you wait until dusk when all the wasps are in the nest and they are all dozy will get them all.
I chickened out, and got an expert to do it but now I have seen it done I could manage it myself as there is such a long range.
It cost me £6 and a bottle of whiskey instead of about £60 if we have called out someone.
Obviously if it's in a very confined space or your really not sure if you can deal with it get someone in but if it's just in a shrub and open it's manageable.
Thanks chaps.
It goes without saying that as a gardener and a sensitive soul (and practising Buddhist) that i would rather not do this but the nest is underground right next to the garden gate and the wasps fly across the path to forage in the hedges. The client that lives there has been stung three times and so have passers by and the daughter claims to be allergic. So it has to go.
So just to be clear, there are no requirements on me as a gardener working on a clients property to have any training, certificates or special insurance to use pesticides to destroy a wasp nest?