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Wasps and Hornets – Autumn / Winter Season

"why am I getting wasps or hornets in my house when my windows are closed?"

The answer is that most likely you have a nest in your loft.

During summer when wasp grubs hatch they head out of the nest by following daylight. It’s quite dark inside a wasps nest so natural daylight leads them out of the nest entrance / exit point and then outdoors where they can forage for food and nest building.

As Autumn approaches and daylight hours are reduced artificial lighting from inside homes replaces sunlight as a ‘guiding light’ for newly emerging wasps or workers in search of rapidly depleting food. If you have overside bore-holes around pipes heading into the loft, loosely fitting loft hatches, open chimneys, cracks and gaps around the wall to ceiling or wooden beams, light ‘escapes’ from the room and penetrates into the loft. This light then attracts wasps into the habituated areas of you home.

In most cases you can stop wasps entering the living areas of you home simply but blocking these points with suitable materials, sometimes even tissue paper is enough.

The good news is that in several weeks these nests will die off, never to be used again.