A pub landlord in Southampton has reportedly found the biggest ever wasp nest in the UK.The construction was 5ft 3in wide and 4ft 1in in height and is believed to have housed around half a million wasps, Sky News reports.Pest controller Sean Whelan said: "It really was a monster. Nests usually operate from March to September so they're very unlikely to get to be this size."The wasps disperse and bury themselves under about six inches of soil until March when they come out and then build the nest for the queen."He continued: "What we think may have happened this time is that, because of the cold winter, the pub kept its heating on so the wasps didn't realise it was time to move on."The size of it for the time of year was unprecedented. They just couldn't have made something this big, this quickly."Whelan had to squirt the wasp colony with an insecticide after using a pole to crack open the top of the oversize nest. "It was scary as hell but it is what I am trained for," he added.
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