BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | South East Wales | Wasp smoke-out sets house ablaze
The perils of do-it-yourself pest removal...and talk about adding insult to injury: the wasps stayed even after the house burned.

It is thought the woman had lit a small fire outside the house to smoke out the wasps but timbers caught, spreading the flames to the roof... Although the house was filled with smoke, the wasps remained in their nest until pest control officers were called to remove them.