Huge wasp nest - help!

 A huge wasp nest has suddenly sprang up on the side of my house I don't
regularly walk by...

http://web.blomand.net/~dennmac/waspnest.jpg

I did some poking around on the Web and most people recommend after
dressing accordingly by covering as much of your body as possible, wait
until very late in the evening when they're all in there and feeling
sluggish, spray the nest with a 25' foaming jet spray, then retreat until
the next day to scrape it off.

Alternatively, one fellow says if you can wait until October after the
first frost the nest will be vacant and then you can remove it with no
problem. I have no small kids running around but I do mow directly
underneath it and I don't know if that would provoke them or not.

Any other tips on how to deal with these unwelcome houseguests?

 

Get a can of Raid hornet/wasp spray.  Shoots a super soaker size
stream and will take 'em out from 10'-15' away.  Soaks the nest and
none will return.  Feel free to take a propane torch to the nest a
couple days later, when all the attendent bugs have left.

nb

 I had a paper wasp nest on my rear house window one summer. I could
watch them tend to their nest from the safety of my living room.

honestly they arent aggressive unless provoked, i could cut the grass
under the nest but didnt hang out in the area:)

they basically left me alone and I left them alone:)

they dont reuses a old nest or nest site.

I would leave them be and let them do their thing...............

 

Seems like I can't say it often enough.  

Gotta be smarter than the tool!

nb

 On 7/10/2011 8:22 PM, Dennis M wrote:

I find I can spray them anytime with the knockdown type wasp spray.
Did a yellow jackets nest this afternoon under my deck and didn't even
cover up - tank top and shorts - and I'm somewhat allergic to them.

Your nest looks like paper wasps which I find no where as vicious as
yellow jackets.