4 August Wasps in Wall

We've had Ian hard at work today in the garden. One had been planned and the other not!

The planned event was putting gravel down. I'd managed to drag 2 bags from the boot of Mum's car the other day and it had been waiting to be spread around. Ian made a good job of it.

The unplanned event took place later on in the afternoon. We were sitting in the lounge when Ian commented about it raining. He said it sounded like it was. It wasn't! But I knew exactly what he meant as having slept on the fold up bed for the past fortnight in the lounge I'd noticed that noise. I had also originally thought it was rain, dismissed that idea as it wasn't and then thought it was the plants on the outside wall moving backwards and forwards. Then thought nothing more about it. The sound was coming from the ceiling by the outside wall.

So we went and investigated looking for water sources in case there was a leak. Our search took us outside where we spotted wasps flying in and out of a hole in the brickwork. And then upstairs in the main bedroom with our ears to the floor we could hear a humming noise in the floor!!

Ian has been squirting wasp deterrent stuff in the hole but it seems like it's going to have to be a job for the professionals.

We'll review the situation in the morning. I've found details of a local pest controller so we might have to get them in if there's no change in the wasp activity.