A family were left shocked when they discovered giant wasp nests the size of 'space hoppers' lurking in the attic of their new home.

Eve Ault, 25, and her family moved into their Macclesfield home over five months ago but this is the first time they've entered their attic after finding a new entrance.

They were left shook when they poked their head into the tight roof space only to find three giant wasp nest lurking on the wooden beams.

Eve claims the nests were at least the size of a child's space hopper or roughly 70cm wide and that they would cost hundreds of pounds to remove them.

Eve Ault.

Eve, an online business owner, said: "I live with my family in the family home. Just the other week we went into the attic for the first time, we hadn't been in yet.

"We'd been here five months, none of us had been in there as it's through a tiny hole.

"We didn't know we could fit in through there.

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"It was a bit of a shock. There were these nests that were at least the size of a space hopper, three of them.

Each nest is about over 27 inches wide.

"They took up a lot of the room as it's such a small space.

"The other owners of the house didn't tell us about it beforehand. The estate agents didn't say, I don't think they knew.

"It's such a small space, we don't really use it for anything."

The family, who live in a three floored Victorian town house, braved their fears and removed the nests by hand, only to find a number of the insects dead inside.

They were removed a fortnight ago.

Eve added: "It was most likely a home that the wasps have lived in and then moved on from.

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"We've just taken it apart and found loads of dead ones and no alive ones.

"It was about two weeks ago now, we could've paid a lot to get them professionally moved but my mum and sister went in and moved it.

"It would've been at least a few hundred quid to get them taken out if not."

No wasps were found living.