Badgers.....

[JohnD]

This nest was hanging from the ceiling of our verandah, so even if we had badgers....       Having no champagne cork to hand, and it being for a paper nest, I elected to use shaving foam to block the nest opening, while I dropped it into a plastic bucket with a sealable lid.     The second part worked well, however shaving foam doesn't stick to paper, and the plug fell out.   But 'er indoors was to hand with the lid, and I escaped being stung that time.

[Gt64fun]

It's a brave man that tackles a wasps nest armed with only shaving foam!

[sparky_spit]

When I was a lad, the go-to "wasp man" in the village was an old bloke called George. His method for killing the wasps before digging out the nest was to place a lighted blow-torch so that the flame was positioned right across the nest entrance.  He'd then thump his spade up and down on the earth above the nest and all the wasps would fly out in a big stream, losing their wings in the process. Very cruel but effective.

[Sprint95m]

Wasps never reuse nests.
Leave them be and and they won't be back next year.

They are actually more considerably more helpful than harmful, 
just consider all the aphid pests they eat.....

 

 

Ian

[JohnD]

Absolutely, Ian!     We had a wasp nest in a tree stump in the garden last year, and I took grandkids to see it, from a distance, to tell them exactly that!

But how can I attract badgers?  I have hedgehogs to offer them!

John

[Nick Jones]

54 minutes ago, JohnD said:

But how can I attract badgers?

Trust me…. You do NOT want them in your garden.

[AndyM]

I've had to lay hundreds of yards of barbed wire and fencing to stop them destroying my garden.

Badgers are viscous destructive pests. Nothing like the Wind in the willows.

[rogerguzzi]

6 hours ago, AndyM said:

I've had to lay hundreds of yards of barbed wire and fencing to stop them destroying my garden.

Badgers are viscous destructive pests. Nothing like the Wind in the willows.

Very True

[Escadrille Ecosse]

19 hours ago, AndyM said:

I've had to lay hundreds of yards of barbed wire and fencing to stop them destroying my garden.

Badgers are viscous destructive pests. Nothing like the Wind in the willows.

Careful, they are friends with Ratty, Moley and the ever busy Mr Beaver. I that lot gang up on you then you're toast

 

[Nick Jones]

If you count “bushy-tailed tree-Ratty” I’ve got the full set already 

[JohnD]

Tree rats? AKA grey squirrels.

They get shot in my garden.

[Nick Jones]

Yeah.... need to get me a gun.....

[JohnD]

They call me ... The Squirrel Sniper.