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‘I’m not usually scared:’ Exterminator fought monstrous hornet nest for 45 minutes, video shows
Miami Herald ^ | November 24, 2017 | Jared Gilmour

Posted on 11/24/2017 7:13:52 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain

He was well protected by a beekeeping suit, and armed with a shovel to hack away at the monstrous hornets’ nest.

“We got here, what I would say, is the granddaddy of all hornets’ nests,” Jude Verret, a Louisiana exterminator, said as he headed into a shed in Patterson, La., to clear a nest of Europan Yellow Jackets.

Beyond physical protection, Verret must have been armed with quite a bit of courage, given the sheer size of the nest — and the million or more hornets he said were swarming around inside.


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To: RegulatorCountry; lee martell
According to this article Asian and Japanese hornets are different.

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21 posted on 11/24/2017 7:51:57 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: TStro

There are wasp and bee traps that set out early spring can catch the moving queens and help in your situation.


22 posted on 11/24/2017 7:56:12 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: TexasGator

They look like Yellow Jackets don’t they?
Man, they must have had lot around that whole area.

I got into a Bald Face Wasp nest a few months back, they stung me five times.

The stings seemed mild next to Yellow Jacket stings.

I guess the Bald Faced wasps can sting over and over and live while the Yellow Jacket dies as its stinger breaks off and keeps pumping venom into you.

Cool.


23 posted on 11/24/2017 7:56:33 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

A wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant. The Apocrita have a common evolutionary ancestor and form a clade; wasps as a group do not form a clade, but are paraphyletic with respect to bees and ants.

The most commonly known wasps, such as yellowjackets and hornets, are in the family Vespidae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp


24 posted on 11/24/2017 7:58:47 PM PST by TexasGator (Z)
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To: TexasGator

Pick a winner TexasGator. Pardon me for declining to participate.


25 posted on 11/24/2017 8:02:18 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Or he didn’t have a permit to burn down th she’d and half the swamp.


26 posted on 11/24/2017 8:03:57 PM PST by aft_lizard
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To: TStro
Working in the woods I often have trouble with ground wasps or hornets or whatever they are - slender, mostly black with white heads. Back in Minnesota we called them white-faced hornets.

I came across one ground nest at a government facility and out shot things that looked more like the large black and white bumble-bees; which are usually pretty benign - maybe fly away if you get too close while they are on a flower. But these guys swarmed me.

I called it in as a possible “safety hazard” and in a little bit the grounds crew/bee guy came by in his little cart. I explained it to him. “Afraid of a bee huh? Aw - those black and white bees never bother anybody - but I'll go look”. He motors over and then walks over to where I had put some flagging tape “they are about 20 feet north of the flagging”. I watch him as he is searching for the nest - then he turns and high-tails it flailing his hat. I laughed.

Afterwards he came back and sort of apologized. He'd never seen bees of that type act like that before. He said he used two cans of spray just to be sure!

27 posted on 11/24/2017 8:04:40 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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28 posted on 11/24/2017 8:06:01 PM PST by GSWarrior
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To: RegulatorCountry

They aren’t terms, they are name’s. Secondly wasp is the overriding suborder, their order belongs to the same ones that contain ants and bees. That said the word wasp is therefore correct for both hornets and yellow jackets. Science cannot be argued with.


29 posted on 11/24/2017 8:09:16 PM PST by aft_lizard
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Should have waited till dark when all the hornets are in and sleeping. Then hit it with lots of killer spray. We found years ago that straight gasoline will kill them dead, dead, DEAD! instantly! Just don’t smoke when you spray it or you will still kill them and lose the shed.


30 posted on 11/24/2017 8:11:18 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Yep.

Never attempt a maneuver against bees in broad daylight.

This was an internet look at me!!!


31 posted on 11/24/2017 8:18:39 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: aft_lizard

Calling a hornet a yellow jacket is incorrect, that is what the author did. They are not interchangable and your little nerd swarm won’t change that fact.


32 posted on 11/24/2017 8:18:55 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Az Joe

Off Topic:

Elliot Gould used to be ‘Mr. Cool’.
He starred in Bob, Carol, Ted and Alice.
I think it was about wife swapping. It was pretty shocking for that time. Elliot, with Robert Culp, Natalie Wood and Dyan Cannon. People laughed at it, but also talked about the movie for years.


33 posted on 11/24/2017 8:20:31 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Yep, douse with gasoline.


34 posted on 11/24/2017 8:32:23 PM PST by taterjay
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To: Ciaphas Cain

spray a steady stream of hot soapy water over the nest

it’d kill all those wasps as he was tearing it apart


35 posted on 11/24/2017 8:32:26 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: lee martell

Yes, I saw it way back then. Quite shocking


36 posted on 11/24/2017 8:37:46 PM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: nickcarraway
This seems stupid. Why not wait until dusk, when they go into a torpor?

Because then the swarm will take off, and anyone within a few hundred yards that has (a) an open window, and (b) a light on inside the room, is going to get a swarm inside their house?

With a resulting huge lawsuit for Mr. Verret?

37 posted on 11/24/2017 8:38:47 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: wyowolf

Problem gone, at least. Along with the house.


38 posted on 11/24/2017 8:39:57 PM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: sten

Delta Dust would have knocked them down and then inject into the nest with a shotgun duster.


39 posted on 11/24/2017 8:48:51 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
Big suckers!


40 posted on 11/24/2017 8:51:27 PM PST by Gamecock (God clothes us with righteousness when he justifies us! ~ Martin Luther)
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