Find the flight line first
Repeated coming and going tends to give a nest away well before it's spotted directly - the same pattern holds near Kennington, where georgian and Victorian terraces close to the park. From a safe distance, on a calm afternoon, watch for wasps repeatedly heading back to one spot on the house or garden, as anyone near Herne Hill will recognise, where victorian villas and terraces near the railway station and Brockwell Park.
Terraced roof eaves near Brixton and Kennington
The Victorian and Georgian terraces around Brixton and Kennington give a queen plenty of gaps at the fascia where a tile has slipped or a gutter has pulled away, and a nest built high up in a terrace like this is not one to tackle from a ladder yourself.
Sheds and walls behind converted flats
Where a house has been split into flats, the garden is often shared or left less tended, and sheds opened only occasionally as well as gaps in old garden walls both shelter nests through the spring undisturbed.
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 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's at its biggest, yet egg-laying has slowed right down, leaving fewer larvae to produce the secretion workers rely on, true near Tulse Hill too, where residential streets and estates on the rising ground between Brixton and Herne Hill. They go looking for sugar themselves instead, which is why bins near Brixton Market suddenly attract far more attention.
Booking wasp nest removal in Lambeth
A standard wasp nest removal in Lambeth 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 Herne Hill - where victorian villas and terraces near the railway station and Brockwell Park - or anywhere else nearby, so book wasp nest removal and tell us roughly where the entrance is, with the full terms on the Lambeth wasp nest removal page.
