Posted on 07/29/2021 3:44:52 AM PDT by Libloather
Lots of ground hornet nests in the Pacific Northwest. You are usually okay if you just stay away 5 feet or so. Have stepped on them, stung, but let them settle down for 10 minutes and you can go back to working near them. Although I’ve run into a few where they are just nasty and you can’t get close again.
I recall the bald-faced hornets in Minnesota - feared.
I was at one site and got too close to a nest and chased by big black and white bumblebees which was really odd, they are usually so passive. Called the facility people (government site) and he poo-pooed the idea that I got attacked but he would come out. I had flagged the area.
I’m doing my work 200 feet away by now and he drives up, walks over to the flagging. All of a sudden he’s running back to his truck, waving his hat, etc. It was pretty funny, and me thinking “I told you so!”
He’d never seen such a thing either.
LOL. Could it be aliens?
"he drives up, walks over to the flagging. All of a sudden he’s running back to his truck, waving his hat"
I blamed it on the nuclear research they did at the site!
Harmless but I never liked them. Get powdered Sevin and sprinkle in their holes towards evening. After a week or so, they’ll be dead as they carry it to the nest.
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