{"id":42573,"date":"2014-08-28T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=42573"},"modified":"2014-08-28T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:01:10","slug":"woman-finds-3ft-wasp-nest-on-her-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/08\/woman-finds-3ft-wasp-nest-on-her-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman finds 3ft wasp nest on her bed"},"content":{"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.<\/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":[],"categories":[],"tags":[2070,7],"yoast_head":"\n