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gwstang

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Right out the back door about 100 ft.




Some pics of the backside of my property. I'm cleaning off another of the trails covered up by the tornado a few years back. Dang hard work for an old man...lol.



It goes up the hill on the other side of the creek and then across the top of the hill and then my property ends. Slow work with an old Stihl chainsaw and an older 8N tractor.

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You could take down that nest carefully and take it to some flea market and somebody would buy it!

Now if you are old like your chain saw and tractor, it all sounds like a good combination.

Personally, I've been a flat-lander all my life, so I'm not anxious to go climbing hills anymore.
 
Don't even remind me! Somehow,those miserable things are getting in to the house and especially like to get in the bathroom. One just took a Kamikaze flight in to the shower and stung me right on top of the foot. I just put some baking soda and a band aid on it. That's gonna itch for a while!
 
I have a nest of yellow jackets under the siding on the corner of the house this summer. A lot of big ones, queens for next year I think, have made it thru the windows into the bedroom. Been lucky so far, none have got me.
 
Years ago I was mowing the first round. Went up under a low limb and lifted with my free hand and slid it over my back and while my hand was up hit a big hornets nest and it broke off bouncing off under the mower. Don't think a single one lived.
 
My partner and I had an old scrap battery route, that winded around thru Calhoun and Pike co's Il, in the 1970's. Bob spotted a large hornets nest, like you have, and wanted me to cut it down, so he could give it to one of our coustomers, who rebuilt, and collected hit and miss engines. It was after new years, and bitter cold out, so I cut it, and threw it in the bed of Bobs one ton, When we got over to Golden Eagle, and told the guy, he said that Hornets left the nest in the fall, and it should be empty, and brought it into his heated shop. We loaded up what batterys , he wanted to get rid of, and left. The next time wqe stopped there was in the spring, and he had quite a horror story to tell, about those wintering over Hornets. Apparently they warmed up, and came out, and cleaned house.
 
They bring anywhere from $50-$150 around here. Depending on how pristine it is, and how badly the old boy wants it to decorate his den/office.

I think the best way to get em down is to gather up a big pile of throwing size rocks and wait till the sun is up good, so you can aim good, then let er rip!! :lol:

Gene
 
I posted this photo a couple weeks ago, took it at my parents home, a pretty large nest in my opinion,
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Jim, I don't think that is too accurate. A couple years ago after the leaves fell, I could see one in a tree about 25-30 feet up, about as high as I had ever seen one. We haven't had much snow since.
 
Cut one out of a low tree one time and about had a heart attack
when a mouse came running out and down my arm. Glad it was
that and not a bunch of hornets.
 
just removed another of those white faced hornet nests that I found after the leaves fell. big one
Watched it for days, no activity at all.
curious, so I cut the limb, to get it on the ground.
Cut it open, wow, lots of full 'pods' with almost fully developed hornets in them.
And yes, there were about 10 adults still in there.
very slow moving, but there.
First time cutting open a big intact nest.
I'll be a little more careful battling them in the summer.
Knew nests had a lot of hornets in them, but didn't realize..THAT many. LOL

curious, always have had a lot of paper wasps, and those little yellow ground demons here, but usually don't see the white faced hornets. Now, nests everywhere.????????
 

This one is about 15-20ft up. I'm going to leave it alone until it gets real cold here. At least below freezing a couple of times, so it will be around the end of Nov. or so.
 

"I think the best way to get em down is to gather up a big pile of throwing size rocks and wait till the sun is up good, so you can aim good, then let er rip!! Laughing"...

Maybe when i was about 10 years old and could run like the wind for a couple of hundred yards...lol :shock:
 
I have collected several of these over the years. wait till it is cool and dark. Then spray in the hole with wasp and bee killer. That should get them all. You can also cut it down when it is very cool and gently put it in a big trash bag. Again spray it with that killer and twist the bag shut. No more wasps.hey are very fragile so be careful.
 
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