Woman has nightmares about wasp nest and asks friend how to remove it, he turns to DIY group on FB
A woman discovered a wasp nest in her home at Block 118A Canberra Crescent and asked her friend how to remove it.
Her friend, Stomper Tejs, decided to post a photo of the nest in a Facebook group called Singapore Home DIY to seek advice.
"Anyone knows what this is and how to get rid of it?" he asked.
Several commenters identified it as a mud dauber wasp nest.
A Facebook user named John Lee added: "I normally spray isopropyl alcohol into the nest and let it kill the eggs and spiders inside for 10 minutes."
There are spiders in the nest because they are stung and paralyzed by the mother wasp to serve as food for her babies.
John Lee also suggested: "Wear long sleeves, use disposable gloves, maybe a paint scraper (but may damage your wooden door) or hand brush and dustbin to catch the dropping nest. The wasp parents don't bite to defend the nest."
A netizen named Aden Tan said: "I have a water gun that sprays hot water. I spray it evenly over the wasp nest. Any eggs and wasps will be 'cooked' and burned inside. Then I just use a hose or a stick to break the nest.
"I usually wrap that water gun with a towel to use it because of the heat. Spray close to boiling water through the holes first without breaking the nest, then soak the entire nest with hot water. Everything will die."
Another Facebook user offered a simpler solution: "Just spray Baygon, leave it for few hours and scrap it off. Easy. But careful. It may have some larvae drop off when you scrap off."
A more succinct advice: "Spray, then hide. Quickly."
But one netizen commented: "The inside of the nest holds zombie caterpillars captured by the wasp to feed its young as they hatch from the eggs. Truly nightmarish Alien saga."
Then someone else pointed out: "Got so many holes already nobody home liao. Can just clear without any fear."
One Facebook user recommended that the Stomper use Google to find out what he wants to know.
"The variety of comments were pretty comical actually," said the Stomper.
"I didn't know who were serious and who were simply digging in. But I did a further check on ChatGPT and realised there's a good chance the nest could be empty.
"My first reaction was to advise my friend to get pest control as the nest really didn't look friendly at all. But her financial status didn't allow her to do so. She tried approaching town council for help. But even TC told her she had to engage pest control.
"She attempted to get her neighbours to help, but all the neighbours could offer were words of advice.
"Eventually, she had nightmares about it and decided to rid of it once and for all the following morning. It was a fortunate thing the nest was indeed empty like many of the commenters mentioned.
"I applauded her bravery when she told me that. Who else with no experience of that kind of nest would have attempted that?"
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