Find the flight line first
Repeated coming and going to the same spot on a house or garden usually gives a nest away well before you spot it directly. Pick a mild, still afternoon and watch from a safe distance rather than guess, the spot wasps keep returning to tells you what you're dealing with, whether that's near Pinner, where classic Metroland semi-detached suburbia with a village-style high street, or elsewhere in the borough.
Eaves on the borough's semis
Wasp nests in Harrow most often turn up under the eaves of the semis that make up most of the borough, in Pinner, Rayners Lane and Harrow Weald alike, where a gap at the fascia or a slipped tile gives a queen a way into the roof space in spring.
Sheds and garden walls behind them
Behind those same semis, sheds opened only now and then and the tops of garden walls shelter just as many nests as the roofs do. A nest low down against a wall can go unnoticed until hedge trimming or garden clearance disturbs it, so a look from a distance before either job is worth doing.
What to do today
- Keep children and pets away from the flight line
- Keep windows shut on the side of the house where the nest is
- Leave the entrance open and the nest itself untouched
- Clear sweet drinks and fallen fruit from the garden, which draw wasps in late summer
Why late summer feels worse
By late summer the colony is at its biggest, yet the queen has largely stopped laying, cutting off the sugary secretion workers usually rely on from the larvae, much as it does near Wealdstone, where denser flats and terraces near the High Street and the main line station. They go looking for sugar themselves instead, which is why bins and drinks suddenly attract far more attention and why this is the worst point in the year to disturb a nest.
Booking wasp nest removal in Harrow
A standard wasp nest removal in Harrow is a £90 fixed price, guaranteed: if the nest is still active within 30 days we come back at no extra cost, and that applies equally whether the nest turns up near Harrow Weald - where semi-detached streets stretching out towards Bushey and the northern edge of the borough - or anywhere else nearby, so book wasp nest removal and tell us roughly where the entrance is, with the full terms on the Harrow wasp nest removal page.
