Hornets
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GWG8541 Regular Contributors Cast Iron Sous Vide Canning Team Blue Power User Military Veterans Ohio
This morning the wife texted me this pick. Don’t ask me how or when these mean little boogers showed up, but a bald faced Hornet nest about 20 feet from the smoker was unacceptable. One good thing about keeping bees is having a bee suit for these situations. I donned the bee suit after dark and went to war with them. They were not a friendly group and thank God for the bee suit. The nest now resides in a trash bag, which was sprayed and tied shut. Nature can be amazing. They built that hive since spring and concealed it well. It was about 4 feet from the corner of the house and about 5 feet off the ground in an ornamental bush. I love my honey bees, but hornets are A holes with wings and even rob and kill honey bees. So they had to go.
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YooperDog Team Orange Masterbuilt Big Green Egg Dry Cured Sausage Sous Vide Canning Power Userreplied to GWG8541 on last edited by
GWG8541 no disagreement with you here. Out in the wild I will leave them be, but not on the property. Pretty impressive nest.
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Wasp, Hornets,… anything that attacks from the air. I stay as far away as I can. Good thing you had the suit.
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lkrfletcher Sous Vide Canning PK100 Team Blue Power User Colorado Military Veterans Veteranreplied to GWG8541 on last edited by
GWG8541 Wow. Glad its out of there now.
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cdavis Masterbuilt Canning Kamado Joes Regular Contributors Power User Sous Vide Oklahoma Team Camoreplied to GWG8541 on last edited by
GWG8541 I have one that was abandoned.
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johnsbrewhouse Team Blue Regular Contributors Traeger Power User Sous Vide Canning Washington Gardening Veteranreplied to GWG8541 on last edited by
GWG8541 We have that problem with ground hornets, it seems they just show up and aggressive in late July or August. You’ll find the nest walking by it. I feel fortunate not having allergies to stings, but my wife and other family members have reactions that are life threatening to those little nasties. Hornet spray and a rock after dark takes care of the nest.
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ND Mike Big Green Egg Team Blue Regular Contributors Cast Iron Power User North Dakotareplied to GWG8541 on last edited by
GWG8541 I’m with you. I will never kill a honey bee or bumble bee. But every wasp, yellow jacket, or hornet is fair game.
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bocephus Team Orange Power User Canning Masterbuilt Regular Contributors Veteran New Mexico Sous Vide Gardeningreplied to GWG8541 on last edited by
GWG8541 Glad you had the suit to handle the problem, would have been risky without it.
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GWG8541 Regular Contributors Cast Iron Sous Vide Canning Team Blue Power User Military Veterans Ohioreplied to cdavis on last edited by
cdavis I had to evict mine. They were not happy about it.
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GWG8541 Yikes!
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I don’t like those Yellow Jackets (AKA Ground Hornets). No picture to take as all you see (hopefully) is a hole in the ground. Those are the devil if you don’t see them when mowing & mow over them. Once you locate them though, you can typically avoid them. I used to git rid of them right away, but have held off in the past several years & try to put up with them for a while in the Summer as I heard they eat spiders, etc. & we have enough spiders I figure. The trick is to keep any visiting kiddos away from them though. You have to be on the lookout for that.
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GWG8541 We found another honey bee nest in a CMU wall on a building we inspected. I just always hope that that whomever they call to get them, extracts them instead of the other route. Now getting the hive out of a CMU (Block) wall is not going to be fun. We have found whole walls, in wood frame with Gypsum board or Shiplap on the inside, turned into a hive before. I wish I was doing bee keeping that I have always wanted to do & I could recover the bees & the hive myself. Never have been able to get around to it though. That is fantastic that you have the suit, very handy for more causes than one.
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I had a couple of hornets flying around by me today and one flew right into my deep fat fryer. Poor move on his behalf!
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ND Mike Ain’t nothing like it, nothing like it in the whole wide world, Deep Fried Hornet!
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ND Mike Big Green Egg Team Blue Regular Contributors Cast Iron Power User North Dakotareplied to calldoctoday on last edited by
calldoctoday lol!
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GWG8541 Regular Contributors Cast Iron Sous Vide Canning Team Blue Power User Military Veterans Ohioreplied to calldoctoday on last edited by
calldoctoday I agree. We call those A holes with wings. If a honeybee stings, its a one time deal and they die. Wasp, yellow jackets and hornets can sting multiple times. They will also attack honey bees and rob them. Not a fan at all.
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GWG8541 Regular Contributors Cast Iron Sous Vide Canning Team Blue Power User Military Veterans Ohioreplied to ND Mike on last edited by
ND Mike I’ve eaten some crazy stuff in other countries, but never that one.
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ND Mike Big Green Egg Team Blue Regular Contributors Cast Iron Power User North Dakotareplied to GWG8541 on last edited by
GWG8541 lol I bet! I tossed the little sucker into the grass. I think the weirdest thing I have eaten was chocolate covered grasshoppers or a thirteen lined ground squirrel.
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bocephus Team Orange Power User Canning Masterbuilt Regular Contributors Veteran New Mexico Sous Vide Gardening
Hate hornets, I think my dog got stung. Working to keep him from scratching at bites on head.
