Was knocking out a large wasps nest in a neighbours paddock today. Quite tussocky grass and a fist sized hole where a LOT of wasps were flying in and out of (they just bought this place and this is the fourth nest that I've had to deal with for them). The wasps were bothering one of their (very expensive) horses.
So we rearranged the electric fence to give me a working area and I wend back with net frames, insecticides shovels etc. (Oh and a bee suit!)
Peeled back the turf and the whole got a bit bigger. Probed it with spade and it got a bit bigger still. Wasps were not best chuffed at this point and a good few hundred came boiling out.
Treated the hole and the treatment just disappeared??
Poked the hole with the spade.....and the spade disappeared
Ended up digging away and found a vertical shaft about three of four foot deep.
Very weird - definitely not animal in origin. Not a well nor a borehole or cistern or septic tank. Just a vertical hole about 6" across that the turf had closed over and wasps had moved in.
Treated it with insecticide, filled it with hardcore and backfilled with soil and counted our lucky stars that a horse hadn't put a leg down the hole.
The only likely explanation I can think of is a telegraph / utility pole had been there at some point and been removed but not backfilled.
Real oddball thing to find though!
So we rearranged the electric fence to give me a working area and I wend back with net frames, insecticides shovels etc. (Oh and a bee suit!)
Peeled back the turf and the whole got a bit bigger. Probed it with spade and it got a bit bigger still. Wasps were not best chuffed at this point and a good few hundred came boiling out.
Treated the hole and the treatment just disappeared??
Poked the hole with the spade.....and the spade disappeared
Ended up digging away and found a vertical shaft about three of four foot deep.
Very weird - definitely not animal in origin. Not a well nor a borehole or cistern or septic tank. Just a vertical hole about 6" across that the turf had closed over and wasps had moved in.
Treated it with insecticide, filled it with hardcore and backfilled with soil and counted our lucky stars that a horse hadn't put a leg down the hole.
The only likely explanation I can think of is a telegraph / utility pole had been there at some point and been removed but not backfilled.
Real oddball thing to find though!