> Hail Thee,
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> > High tail it out of there, and in the morning, all the bees will be dead on the ground, and you can take down the hive.
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> Just a local remark on that: it is indeed one of the best ways to get rid of them, but here in Germany it is strictly forbidden. So doing it in the night is a good idea, over here, because it reduces the chance of anyone seeing you :-)
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> For some reason wasps and hornets are protected species that you are not allowed to kill, even if the build their nest within your house somewhere. My parents had a wasps nest in a rarely used room of their house once. The window wasnt completely closed so they had found a way in.

If Germany wants more wasps, they could always import them from abroad. I know the idea of getting rid of a load of them would be popular in Britain, and probably everywhere else.

There used to be a wasps' nest in my bedroom wall. During the summer when they were active, we settled for sealing the entrances to it in my room and putting an open jar of insecticde outside the outside entrances (does that make sense? Good.). This was somewhere you needed to get a 10 foot ladder to reach, so while it was illegal to leave the poison lying around, it was safe enough to do. Come winter, when the wasps were inactive, we had the remains of the nest professionally exterminated. I forget how.

wintermute