“Usually it’s a pretty simple task,” Robert said. Not so, this time. Instead of a quiet nest with a single entrance, the Fryers found a wheelie-bin-sized “monster”, with multiple points of entry and “thousands” of wasps filling the sky. MARTIN DE RUYTER Jan and Robert Fryer with their EmGuard bio-degradable plant guards. The pair have been involved in environmental work for many years. “It was probably as big as it gets. This takes the biscuit,” he said. By Robert's estimate, the nest had growing been there for 10 years, and if it had been disturbed by a mower, cyclist or walker it could have been “fatal”.