Do you mean that one insect built all that alone? Amazing.
When we had a wasps nest in our bank there were lots of them excavating away for ages.

Yes just one, well maybe two but I only saw one working away whenever I looked and I am in there a lot as my Tomatoes and Cosmos plants are under there sheltering from all the rain! It is only the size of a golf ball.

I would say wasp

It is the beginnings of a wasps nest. A queen wasp has built this herself and then it will be enlarged as the population grows. This queen will build several 'starter' nests like this but only use one. Unless you are happy with a fully functioning wasp nest in your car port, Neelan, you might want to consider removing this.

Wehad something similar in the stable, that turned out to be what looked like an enormous wasp but was actually a giant hornet (about an inch long!) but relatively benign,
had a wasps nest in the airbricks of the house so I,d remove it asap

Having had problems with wasps and hornets (they can get really bad tempered in late summer and the stings really hurt), I agree with Bulbaholic and Pam...best removed before it gets any bigger...

If you think that it is too clever to spoil, it is, then you could remove it carefully and stick it up somewhere else. The wasp wouldn't use it then.

We get GIANT hornets here, and their nests look like a series of tubes packed close together - if you'd had one of those in the neighbourhood, you'd definitely know about it! Whatever you think about the critturs, you have to admire the craftsmanship of structures like this.

Can I make a plea for the lives of these wasps? They actually do a huge amount of good in the garden for most of the season taking pests like grubs and aphids. They also pollinate quite a range of wild and cultivated flowers and you will always see them on things like figwort flowers.
They only become a nuisance at the end of the season when they are beginning to die out anyway and are looking for a quick fix from sugary things. Then they will be producing their new queens, which will mate on the wing, and seek places to hibernate over winter to set up a new nest.
Unlike honey bees which tend to sting if you go too near the entrance to their nest, wasps generally do nothing unless disturbed.
Unless you or a family member suffer from a severe allergy to their stings, it is best to leave them alone, as with the appalling weather, they are having a hard enough time of it anyway this year.

All very well, Bertie, and you make some good points, but if the carport is close to the house/garden, then come late July, August, and September it will be a no go area, with incoming and outgoing traffic all day long from the blighters. If its anywhere near a barbecue area, you won't be using that for those months either, food outside will be impossible.

True Bamboo but I would be tempted leave it if it were mine all the same. How about getting one of those large imitation wasps nests to hang near it - these deter wasps from building their own nearby - I have a neighbour who has one and says it really works. It would deter the queen from choosing this nest to enlarge later and you could keep it for use in future years.
So there you are Neelan - you'll have to decide which idea to go with!

I saw a programme where a man had a hornets nest in his light over the front door porch. They didn't do any harm and were quite placid. They are incredibly endangered because their usual habitat (dead trees) is becoming scarce - probably because we are so tidy in our gardens. I hate it when people say "it's a hornet - kill it".

We had an invasion of hornets INSIDE the house last summer, and they came out round about bedtime and were zooming around the bedrooms, even in the dark. I tell you, my beliefs about the sanctity of (wild)life went out the window, and the flyspray was kept on the bedside table. Treading on one of those when getting out of bed was not a good prospect. The sting will kill small animals and be extraordinarily painful. I have had too many stings from wasps of every size when minding my own business not to be too upset about killing them. Bees are another matter. I have only ever been stung twice, and both times it was (certainly from the bee's point of view) understandable.

the thing is as said its probably at that size just a queen wasp/hornet whos just started making the first chambers of her nest for workers . knock it down and she will move in plenty of time to one of her other starter nests . they do get rid of pests but also eat spiders so dibateable how much good they do but everything has a right to be here considering us humans are the biggest threat to our lovley rare planet bye far . hornets are rare but people see queen wasps at this time of year and asume there hornets but there not as queens wasps like ants are bigger than the workers . wasps and bees used to be like ants and are closley related .the queens just become egg laying machines after theyve got there first workers out and dont even have to move once this has happend .

Kind of depends where it is and whether you can live with it really, doesn't it?

We've got hornets...one crawled up my trouser leg when I was hanging out the washing once, and stung me...ouch! Two months before the sting finally came out...
The hornets tend to live in holes here.

I have to admit I wouldn't like a hornet climbing up anything of mine!! I am more afraid of May bugs (cockchaffers) when they bumble around at night and dive bomb me from the car to the house or fall down from the light fittings at petrol stations. You can hear my screams for miles.

Oh is THAT what the noise was???

lol Gattina

Wow Thank you all for your answers/comments, what a quandry I now have! it is so perfect but the thought of it been made bigger has me concerned.
I will consider what best to do and thank you all again for your views :o)

queen wasps also have bigger stronger stings and femail honey bees unlike all the all female workers can re-sting unlike the all female workers as like humans the males have know other use once mated and wings fell of but they either live just next to the queen for mating here and there or mating and dying therfore know real use . typical male lol. all nature is amazing like snails eyes you must admit . theres a japanese orange hornet thats 3 and a half " long and raids wasp bees and even normal yellow hornets nests and kills the lot . sposed to be like having a red hot as in gloing 6" nail being hammerd into your body . the european honey bee has a sting but has know chance as it isnt natural in that country so attack in rows so the few japanese hornets just bight them in half as they come out . they can kill a 40,000 bee nest in about an hour without losses and then take the sugar and grubs for thereselves . the natural japanese honey bee is stingless and smaller than ours so youd think they would be a push over . they dont sting the hornets but smother them and smother the huge jap hornets in hundreds and they overheat .just think yourselves lucky lol . them africanised bee thats moving threw the tropics and america actualy get double the yield as normal honey bee so some brave men actual keep the dangerous african bees . they wear a suit and put a long tube in there mouth and smoke as they attack when they smell your breath comming out . the bloke i sore showed what happens as soon as you take the pipe out of your mouth and breath your warm carbon monoxide a . they were on him big time . im full of useless info lol .you should check out japanese hornet on utube there amazing lol .

scarey but fantastick and evil lol .

id knock it down when mums not in there and know harm done . wear theres a possabillity its not worth it when you can just make her go somewear else . sooner rather than later .

actualy having looked at it again id say your going to have lots of workers real soon , they start out not much bigger than the queen . it will grow expanensioly excuse my spelling . hours rather than weeks lol .

Oooh! I'm glad it wasn't one of those which crawled up me leg, Nosey...makes our hornets seem like pussy-cats...

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Well Leigh what a good job I'm in Wales not Japan!! that was interesting and scary all at once!! I guess it has to go but there has been no sign of activity today -sheltering from the rain like me no doubt lol thanks for the info :o)

I'm glad for you too Karen eek the very thought :o)

I can't even bring myself to watch the U Tube bit about it. Uurgh!

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