Lately, strange things had been happening in our house. It all started with quiet sounds – as if someone were rustling or scratching inside the walls. At first, my husband and I blamed the neighbors or the old house. But day by day, the sound became clearer, and in the early morning, particularly persistent.

One day, I decided to listen more closely and realized: the source of the noise was right in the guest bedroom. I pressed my ear to the wall and felt a slight vibration – as if something alive was moving inside.

“Let’s tear down the wall,” my husband said. “I’m tired of this noise. We were planning to renovate anyway.”

I didn’t argue. My husband grabbed an axe and struck the wall with force. With every blow, the rumbling inside only grew stronger. I huddled in a corner of the room, my heart pounding.

Finally, a piece of the wall crumbled, and we saw it. We froze in terror, realizing that all this time we had been sleeping literally a few meters from this nightmare. 

Hundreds of tiny creatures stared at us, ready to defend their home. Inside the wall was a huge wasp nest, teeming with live wasps.

Later, we learned that wasps choose warm, sheltered places to build their nests – which is why they often settle in attics, abandoned buildings, or even inside the walls of houses.

Their nests grow very quickly: in one season, a colony can reach several thousand individuals.

The danger of wasps isn’t just in their painful stings. Their venom can trigger severe allergic reactions, up to anaphylactic shock. It’s especially dangerous if children or allergic people are nearby.

We were shocked that we had been living literally side by side with this “neighborhood” all this time. And imagine – if the nest had grown even larger, one day they could have broken through the wall themselves and overrun the house.