This Bed Was Turned Into A Huge Wasps’ Nest And Looks Horrific

The wasps chewed through the mattress and pillows on the bed.

A pest controller has spoken of his amazement at being called out to deal with a huge wasps’ nest discovered on a woman’s spare bed.

John Birkett, who works for Longwood Services Pest Control, was called to the address in St Cross, Winchester, on Sunday to deal with the 3ft by 2.5ft nest thought to holding around 5,000 wasps.

The Hampshire Chronicle reports the woman had not been into the room for three months and the window had been left open.

Birkett is quoted as saying: “In 45 years I have never seen anything like it."

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“I opened the door and I just couldn’t bloody believe it. It was the most incredible thing I've seen."

“I got dressed up like a spaceman and tried to destroy as many as I could with the workers flying around the room," he is quoted by the newspaper as saying.

It apparently took the pest controller two hours to remove the nest and was made even more difficult when it broke in half, releasing 2,000 wasps into the room.

"I was covered in them. The room was completely full of wasps,” Birkett revealed.

The wasps had reportedly chewed through the mattress and pillows on the bed so as to make their nest bigger.

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However Birkett said he had been able to rescue a hand-made blanket on the bed for the woman, who has decided to remain anonymous.

Despite completing the difficult operation he said he was a bit sad at having to kill so many insects.

"It was a work of art and they had worked so hard, but she looked at it and said, 'no, no, no - you've got to get rid of it'," the Guardian quotes him as saying.

"If they did that in three-and-a-half months, that's amazing, isn't it? They're just little things.”

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