Stunned pest controllers find HUGE wasps’ nest in a loft containing up to 10,000 stinging insects
The enormous home to a colony of wasps was found as the firm were called to treat a woodworm problem ahead of new owners moving in
PEST controllers were staggered as they found an enormous wasps' nest in an empty attic - which could have contained up to 10,000 of the stingers.
North London firm Pest Professionals stumbled upon the next in the attic of a Northamptonshire home they were treating for woodworm.
Workers who found it described it as "beautiful" as they also noticed a carefully constructed tunnel had been built from the outside of the house for insect access.
The sphere shaped nest is thought to have been created by a colony of the common wasp.
Pest controller Gary Wilkinson, who found the nest, told the : “It's an impressive wasp nest alright - much bigger than a barrel.
"Normally we get called in at the first sign of wasps causing a problem to people.
“This community has been allowed to go about its business undisturbed for a whole summer season.
“Although you wouldn't want it in your own loft, you have to say it's a very impressive and in its own way a very beautiful thing.”
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The nest was one metre in width and had been able to grow so large undetected as the property had been vacant for two years.
The tunnel, allowing the wasps to move in and out of the house stretched out to 1.4m in length.
Luckily for the pest control team and the person planning to move in, the nest had gone to its full life-cycle and there were no alive insects left in it.
In 2013 a wasps' nest the size of a lorry was found in the Canary Islands.
Recently there have been warnings for people in the UK to look out for the large and dangerous Asian Giant Hornet, which has been heading north across Europe.
A suspected Asian hornet was spotted tearing apart and eating a wasp outside a pub in Bristol this week.
The winged predator – whose species is notorious for eating honey bees – is thought to be part of a colony that has flown over from France.
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