Family are shocked after finding three giant wasp nests the size of ‘space hoppers’ in the attic

A family were left shocked after they found three giant wasp nests the size of ‘space hoppers’ hanging in the attic of their new home.

Eve Ault, 25, and her family moved into the Macclesfield home around five months ago, but did not enter the attic until recently after finding a new entrance. 

They were left in disbelief when they poked their head into the tight roof space, only to find three giant wasp nests lurking on the wooden beams.

Ms Ault claimed the nests were at least the size of a child’s space hopper – or roughly 70cm wide – and that they would cost hundreds of pounds to remove.

Ms Ault, an online business owner, said: ‘I live with my family in the family home. Just the other week we went into the attic for the first time – we hadn’t been in yet. 

When the family removed the nests by hand, they found a number of dead insects inside

Eve Ault, 25, and her family moved into the Macclesfield home more than five months ago, but did not enter their attic until recently after finding a new entrance

‘We’d been here five months, none of us had been in there as it’s through a tiny hole. 

‘We didn’t know we could get in through there where we did.

‘It was a bit of a shock. There were these nests that were at least the size of a space hopper, three of them. They took up a lot of the room as it’s such a small space.

‘The other owners of the house didn’t tell us about it beforehand. The estate agents didn’t say, I don’t think they knew.

‘It’s such a small space, we don’t really use it for anything.’

The family, who live in a three floored Victorian town house, braved their fears and removed the nests by hand, only to find a number of the insects dead inside.

Ms Ault added: ‘It was most likely a home that the wasps have lived in and then moved on from.

‘We’ve just taken it apart and found loads of dead ones and no alive ones.

‘It was about two weeks ago now, we could’ve paid a lot to get them professionally moved but my mum and sister went in and moved it.

‘It would’ve been at least a few hundred quid to get them taken out if not.’

Ms Ault claimed the nests were at least the size of a child’s space hopper – or roughly 70cm wide – and that they would cost hundreds of pounds to remove

Ms Ault said: ‘It was a bit of a shock. There were these nests that were at least the size of a space hopper, three of them’