O.T. hive or nest?

I took 2 pics of this thing I found in a pine tree near the house ( sorry for the distance shot, I have no zoom on the tablet camera). It doesn't look like any nest or hive I have ever seen. The hole is on the side and it appears hollow. Can anyone identify it?. Thanks

White face hornet, most likely. Though there is a yellow variety that I believe builds these as well, around here, I'd still bet on the white faced hornet.

The nests are listed on ebay sometimes, funny what people will buy, empty of course!

I would not like to meet the hornet that built that nest, the hole is an inch and a half in diameter!

I got one that looks just like it... The hole is not right out the bottom, it is out the side, at the bottom. We call them bald face hornets, but the other guys are right, for sure a whit face hornet.

They started this on on a Wild Rose Bush Limb and 4 feet off the ground, as it has gotten bigger and bigger it has bent the limb all the way over and is now about 2 feet off the ground in the tall grass, and is very hard to see unless you know what you are looking for.

Mine is not nearly as big as yours, probably only 6 inches around and maybe 6 inches tall... Big enough for me though! Bryce

I was at an auction yesterday and they had one in the line of small stuff. I cannot imagine what one does with such a thing. Sure not putting it in my house.

I have seen people hang them inside their houses for decorations and believe it or not, I know the Cherokee did and probably other wood land Indians did also, make masks out of the bees nest.

Our neighbor has one hanging above his couch on the ceiling... And I have already sold the one I have on the Rose Bush, $50!!!!

Yesterday we had the tractor club meeting at my place, and we had to walk past the rose bush to get to where all of my equipment is, one guy saw it, and said that he wanted to come back and get it in January, when it was "safe"...

SURE is said, more power to ya!

We have something like that in our neck of the woods. We call them paper wasps. I've seen them attached to the side of buildings. At work one time there was one that was attached to a window and you could watch the wasp do their work inside of it. I also had a large one attached to the side of my house under a deck light. In the winter I left the light on long enough for it to warm up and the wasps came out and then they froze,

another vote for white faced hornet.
other wasps/hornets make similar, but that one looks just like one I recently removed....in an evergreen too.

....after re-tying the wind rope on the tree with the hornet nest a few feet over my unknowing head....
appreciate the 'break', sorry I couldn't return the favor.....

Hornets nest is what we always called it.

They'll disappear after a good frost, but don't go fooling with it before then. They'll chase you and they can sting!

Hard to see, but White Faced Hornets built around a bird feeder, under the clear cover. Took a lot of doing to get to it and lots of spray.
Hole was on the side. Built amongst a bunch of white pine branches.

We call them hornets, sometimes bald hornets, yellow jackets also build similar nests, although not so big. I have one hanging in my JD-hunting trophy room that is almost 2 ft. long and 14 inches through. most of the time the crows and ravens tear the nests apart to eat them when the are cold and cannot fight back. They freeze out in the fall and the queen bee will hibernate in a protected place and start a new nest in the spring.I sprayed mine with clear shellac , several coats to perserve it.In a perfect nest the hole is in the bottom tip but can be anywhere near the bottom. When they are active there is always a bee on guard near or in the opening.

We always called them bald-face hornets nest and learned at an early age to leave them alone. Classmate and his brothers threw rocks at one; kid now wears a metal bee allergy tag. The stung the sierra out of him.

Larry

Seems to me I have heard of a fella bringing one of those things inside during the winter and having a few hibernating hornets wake up above the couch...

Its a Hornet's Nest great to have around they catch flies,mesquitos and the like.

Just noticed this one at my parents this evening, pretty large for ones I have seen in the past.

Hornets building high! Must be lots of snow coming your way.

Large hole so they can get out fast.

Definitely Bald Faced Hornets. Dad had a nest of them behind his shop years ago that was about half that size. We lit a smokey fire under it one evening to kill the ones inside. By the time the fire was out, and the hornets were on the ground dead, we could see, and count close to 120 of them. I know I got hit by one of them when I was about 10 or 11, and it hurt like blue blazes. I surely wouldn't want to be hit by more than one.

Potentially, what is, or was in there, now that its cold or will be, (it don't take too long before they dwindle down) but get a nest at its peak, the link to the video shows it well.

They do leave a sentry out at all times, not sure about when it cools off in the fall, but when its warm, nest is full, peak etc., they are immediate if disturbed, yet if not, you can stand near their flight line not far from the nest and they just go around you if in the way. I encountered one in a bush I was mowing around, was that close, later on went for a look at this late summer full size nest, basketball size, was no bother to them at all, then tossed a stick on the nest from a safe distance, instant reaction, then calm and back to work, not long after you can stand near the nest again.

In this video, they mark the camera with pheromone and then assault it violently, they have a hard shell body, you can hear it. Apparently, thats what signals them, they go to it and attack, so if one gets you, its likely all the rest are too if you get that pheromone on you.

These things when disturbed, are by far the worst to deal with we have around here, always have to be on the look out when clearing brush. I stepped on a ground hornets nest not long ago, humbled by natures finest little yellow jackets, those white faced ones, given the same number of times I got nailed, that would have been some misery, these and those brown paper wasps pack a punch, I'd rather voluntarily stomp on a nest of those ground yellow jackets, then deal with either of the previous. Those maroon wasps down south, they do not look like much fun either, all best to avoid !!!
Hornets attack camera

Friend of mine took one down and put it in his house for decoration. Several days later the hornets warmed up and out they came mad as all get out. We had a heck of time getting rid of them. I wouldn't put one in my house for anything after that experience.

I parked the tractor on a yellow jacket nest this weekend while baling hay. I had to have the local bee guy bring his suit over just so I could move the tractor off the nest.