[Slyfox]

A gardener friend of mine told me that paper wasps are doing the job honey bees usually do. I have a small paper wasp nest under my patio roof and I see them regularly bringing little yellow globs back to their nests.

[doorgunner69]

So, when are you gonn score some honey? Or are ya chicken?

I still get confused by the difference between wasps and hornets, and which ones come after you...........

[Vigilanteman]

I was doing some landscape work in my yard late last summer. I got distracted by another project and wasn't too careful about replacing the sod when I quit.

When I got back to it about two weeks later, a yellow jacket colony had moved in and claimed it.

I wasn't going to spend money on an exterminator that late in the year when I could employ mother nature and deliver death by a thousand cuts. Shortly after the first hard frost, I bored into the nest with one of those big drill taps.

Anything in the bee family is very lethargic when it is cold. Of course, they got to work repairing it as soon as the day warmed up.

I got up early in the morning for the next several days to repeat the process. The yellow jacket repairs followed. Finally, one morning just before a heavy rain, I dug a channel which drained right into the hole. That drowned most of the colony, but they still were not beaten, so I bought some of that Halloween dry ice to finish them off. Finally, Halloween night, the neighbor kiddies were able to walk into our yard for the treats unmolested.

You've got to admire the persistence of the wasp family. Not as smart as spiders though . . . take down spider webs a few times and they figure out another place to build.

[GraceG]

"A gardener friend of mine told me that paper wasps are doing the job honey bees usually do. I have a small paper wasp nest under my patio roof and I see them regularly bringing little yellow globs back to their nests. "

doing the jobs American bees won't do...