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A pest controller has shared a selfie of himself with a gigantic 3ft tall wasps' nest he found in a customers attic.
Ralph Clews, 48, of Coventry, could not believe what he was seeing when he retrieved the nest after treating the attic on October 8.
Despite working as a pest controller for 24 years, Ralph claims he has never encountered a nest as big as this before.
He said: 'This is without a doubt the largest wasps' nest that I have ever seen on the job.
'When I was looking at it for the first time, I thought there was no way it could have been wasps that produced this nest and assumed it must have been hornets.
'On closer inspection the colony was around 75,000 to 100,000 wasps and measured 70 and a half inches round and over 36 inches tall.'
Ralph Clews (pictured) 48, of Coventry, could not believe what he was seeing when he retrieved the nest after treating the attic on October 8
The nest (pictured) was inhabited around 75,000 to 100,000 wasps and measured 70 and a half inches round and over 36 inches tall.
The customer originally called Ralph's company, RC Pest Management, to handle the infestation and bring the nest down so he could show his grandson.
Ralph added: 'The idea was to take it to the school to show the class for educational purposes, but it was certainly a bit too big to do that.
'It was the largest in a series of three nests that were found in the attic which were all sorted using a dust treatment which the wasps carry into the nests.'
Ralph explained that the typical size of a large nest is usually only slightly bigger than a football.
He said: ' In comparison to what was found in this attic, it was almost inconceivable to think it was produced by the
