Birkett said he got a call from the homeowner’s son on Sunday about a nest that had taken over a bed in a spare bedroom in the home in Worchester, Hampshire. The colony was devouring the bedding.

The nest had grown so large because the family rarely uses the room on the second floor of their five-bedroom home, he said.

The wasps snuck in through an open window and used the bed as their home for nearly three months, chewing through eight inches of the mattress and two pillows.

The exterminator was a little remorseful about having to remove the nest: “That would be quite nice to keep. They’ve worked really hard at this. But [the homeowner] didn’t think that was a great idea.”

Humans. You guys are such damned spoilsports sometimes.

Via ABC News.