A pest controller said he took on “the biggest job of his career” when he was called to deal with a nest of more than 5,000 wasps.<\/p>\n
John Birkett, of Longwood Services Pest Control, said removing the 3ft (91cm) nest from a bed in Winchester was his most unusual job in 45 years.<\/p>\n
He said it would have been “extremely dangerous” if the homeowner had tried to remove it herself.<\/p>\n
“I just stood back in amazement,” Mr Birkett said.<\/p>\n
The nest was discovered by a woman at her house in St Cross, in an unused spare room, where a small window had been left open.<\/p>\n
‘Wonderful job’<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr Birkett believes it may have taken about three months to build.<\/p>\n He said: “I did think what a wonderful job they had done.”<\/p>\n The wasps had chewed through the pillows and the mattress of the bed in order to make their nest larger.<\/p>\n However, Mr Birkett did manage to save the owner’s crocheted blanket.<\/p>\n He said: “The nest split in two and I have never seen so many wasps and I have been doing this for 45 years.<\/p>\n “I had to go in to the room and close the door, otherwise the house would have been filled.”<\/p>\n It took him about two hours to spray the insects and dismantle the nest.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A pest controller said he took on “the biggest job of his career” when he was called to deal with a nest of more than 5,000 wasps. John Birkett, of Longwood Services Pest Control, said removing the 3ft (91cm) nest from a bed in Winchester was his most unusual job in 45 years. He said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":42577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2070,7],"class_list":["post-42573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-by-laws","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}