This nest was just discovered last night. It's up in my neighbor's eave. About as big as a beach ball. The removal guys will be here soon and will be working from my side yard to remove it. (the nest is 12 feet from my house).
Just wondering - a lot of them will be out of the nest foraging this time of day. When they come back and get mad as bald face hornets:surprise:- how long do we need to stay in the house??? Summer's been getting stung a couple of times a day by these guys. I think they would see her as a target for their defensive behavior cause she's been chasing them. I'm allergic to their venom.
I have been battling multiple nests for about a month. There were about 8 of them on the pool when we opened it. There is still one there that I have not taken down yet. They are keeping to themselves, at first when I cleaned the pool and banged the net they would come out, now they know what I'm doing and don't move. It's like I trained them to stay put:grin2: I had small ones in my patio umbrella, a bigger one in a storage unit and they keep rebuilding one in my shed that I keep taking down. Midnite chases them and I should have known there were nest under the pool cover then. At this point none of the dogs or any people have been stung, which is surprising. I've taken the nest down with them right there without issue, but they weren't huge like yours.
:grin2:Llombardo and her trained hornets!When I need to get rid of a nest I spray it after dark when they are all in there and remove it the next day.I have no idea how long the stray ones will hang around in the day.You could try to pick them off with hornet spray from a distance as they hover around their missing home.
Well, there was a slight problem. The bee guy used a telescoping pole with a fogger can with a long nozzle on the end. I had a front row seat from my window 12 feet away.
He got the nozzle right into the nest on the first try! Problem is - there was a malfunction and no fog released....but it sure put the hornets into attack mode... they came bombing out of that nest - I stopped counting after 100...
He was able to get it working and fog and remove the nest about a 1/2 hour later. So, where are the 100+ that I saw escape the nest?? I see some in my yard looking out the window. They don't look sick or dying. Will they stick around for days in a really foul mood or will they move on?There's around a dozen hovering over the stuck on part of the nest that the guy couldn't scrape off and some on the side of my house.
I agree with dogma13 that this is best done at night when they have mostly all returned to the nest and the cooler air temperature makes them less reactive.
Even worse to me are the hornets that nest in the ground and are only discovered when you've walked or mowed over their nest.
Ha! agitation service - The thought crossed my mind... this guy poked the nest on purpose then didn't remove all the nest.... another $150.00 fee in late August perhaps??
I really don't know but I guess I'll find out. Just took a walk across the street to the grocery store.... lots of the buggers flying about - then there's the roofers next door on the other side of my house....:surprise: I didn't hear or see them working this morning so I didn't warn them....haven't heard any of them screaming like little girls though.
My boy was poking around a small bee nest last week. The bees came out like, "ah, yo! It's noon-thirty! People are trying to get some sleep over here!" He then stuck his face into their bizz and got snug right on the nose! He sure did not enjoy his first bee sting!
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