Hornets
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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.
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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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.
GWG8541 Glad you had the suit to handle the problem, would have been risky without it.
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cdavis I had to evict mine. They were not happy about it.
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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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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.
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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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.
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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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!
ND Mike Ain’t nothing like it, nothing like it in the whole wide world, Deep Fried Hornet!
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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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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.
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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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!
ND Mike I’ve eaten some crazy stuff in other countries, but never that one.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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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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Hate hornets, I think my dog got stung. Working to keep him from scratching at bites on head.
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