[Hot Tabasco]

I have a huge one hanging off my gutter in the back yard...

If it's as big as you say, it's likely a bald-face hornets nest and those suckers pack a wallop if they sting you. They are very territorial and will chase you down if you go near the nest.

As much as I hate to say it, they are actually good bees because they prey on those nasty yellowjackets and other unwanted garden bugs....

[goat granny]

I hate yellowjackets. Had one sting me 3 times as it fell down the front of my shirt...once on the neck, then on my stomach and finally on the top of my foot before I got to stomp on it....they are nasty..did a little yellowjacket dance to get it out of my clothing...screamed also...

[goat granny]

Interesting that you say they kill yellowjackets...I usually have lots of little yellowjacket nests all around my house. Under the railing at the front porch, behind my shutters etc.....this year I just found my first one in a bell hanging off my porch....

I wonder if those in the hive killed all the yellowjackets...if so they deserve to live a few more weeks...I even had yellowjackets make a good size nursery in a old bird feeder I hadn't used in a while...just about filled up the feeder.