[Sopater]

Yikes, I hate Yellow Jackets...

[Arm_Bears]

Not something you want to hit with the lawnmower.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

There have been many reports of very large wasps' nests in the past. That these exspurts aren't aware doesn't make their reports more credible.

There are current reports of fire ants building colonies with multiple queens and extensive nest systems.

[theDentist]

Seems to me a fire solves many of them, but the underground ones... How about a huge container of pressurized FREON and a large hose?

[pageonetoo]

[Graymatter]

It's that incest, I tell ya! They can't smell a stranger anymore, so they don't keep the hive to a natural size.

[Balding_Eagle]

Nature has a way of evening things out:

"The icecap may not be the only thing shrinking in the Arctic. The genitals of polar bears in east Greenland are apparently dwindling in size due to industrial pollutants. "

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689212/posts

[Condor51]

We've got a Yellow Jacket nest the size of basketball in our crawl space - between the floor joists. But its an old 'dead' nest built by the critters before the new siding and insulation went up.

Every winter I vow to get rid of it but keep forgetting. Then when nice weather comes, I don't want to get near it - even though it's 'dead'.

[ClearCase_guy]

"I say we take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

[from occupied ga]

"I'm kind of afraid for the grandkids. I had to sneak down there at dark and get my tractor out of the barn," Coker said. "It's been a disruption."

He never heard of diazinon or malathion or seven or temik or parathion?

[Rate_Determining_Step]

Just killed a Yellow Jacket nest a couple of days ago. In the ground. They got into a hole that started as a removed weed. Got all but three. They must've been out on patrol.

[Red Badger]

I'd rather bee stung by a yellow-jacket than a red wasp anyday!...........

[Tokra]

[Tokra]

but not as big as those in Alabama.A 6-foot by 3-foot nest on a pond stump in Bulloch County, Ga., was featured July 12 on CNN. "I'm not sure people know what triggers it," he said.

Have these people never watched Sci-Fi movies? It's obviously been triggered by atomic radiation!

[kayak]

ping

[mad_as_he$$]

What kind of bug guy says YJ's "sting" - they bite.

[Darnright]

I wonder if the increase in Yellow Jacket activity has to do with the reduction in the Honeybee population:

http://www.justfood.org/farmers/old/beeplague.pdf

[MediaMole]

It's them stem cells, I tell ya...

Somebody used stem cells to cross yellow jackets with kudzu.

[norton]

"A yellow jacket nest engulfs the inside of a 1955 Chevrolet on Harry Coker's Tallassee property..."

Now there is one restoration I'd have to think twice about - even if it IS a shoebox.

(I did have a medium to large bee's nest under the hood of a Falcon once - lit up my day pretty good when I popped the hood and 'discovered' it)

[Safetgiver]

Just get bigger skunks.

[BunnySlippers]

Eeewwwwww ... creepy.