Wow, you freepers are slippin'! This whole thread and no one realizes that these nests are because of Bush and Global Warming?
I HATE Yellow jackets. I can see no useful purpose for these pests. Another reason not to move South...just don't let those multi-queen suckers move up here. September is bad enough with these things hovering the garbage cans. C'mon first frost!
A gathering of Jihadist Wasps. No doubt it is all Bush' fault.
>>> That nest was about the size of a tire in the rear floor seven weeks ago, but quickly spread to fill the entire vehicle, the property owner, Harry Coker, said>>>
OMG!!!
I read the other day about the lady who's mobile home floor was bucking from a growing next that took up the whole end of her trailer. I had a hornets nest the size of three basketballs year before last (I'm in middle Georgia) and you couldn't even walk outside without getting divebombed. I had to call a bee keeper who had a bee suit to come spray it and knock it down. He kept the nest (for whatever reason, novelty I guess).
I just had someone kill the yellow jacket nest that was being built underground in my backyard just last week. They found a gopher canal and set up home in it. These things were HUGE. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I'm a pansy when it comes to stinging insects.
SO, just get a colony of Bald-Faced Hornets nearby and they'll soon take care of the local Yellow-Jacket population.
Here in east Tennessee I've noticed two different types. The first is the ordinary full sized yellow jacket. If I leave them alone, they leave me alone and I've never had any real problem with them.
Then there are the smaller ones, about 2/3 the size of the others. Those are yellow jackets from Hell. They're highly territorial and don't need to be directly molested to attack. I first ran into them about two years ago when a trades person was visiting and remarked on how many "bees" were flying around my front porch. I went out, looked, and they started stinging me. Fortunately, I was able to get into the house and call an exterminator. The second time I was mowing the lawn beside a patch of bushes in my front yard. They came out and stung me several times before I was able to get away.
You definintely don't want to get near one of those nests.
Ok, that just freaks me out.
That could ruin your day.
They are all female. There is also a wasp infestation in Fairbanks this summer. They have no purpose except to sting people.
"Jose Grecos del Muertos"
bttt
I left a piece of carpet on my porch for about 3 months (I know, I know) and damned if there wasn't a HUGE jacket nest in there. How I got away with only 3 stings is a miracle.
Creepy looking too.
"I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves." -- Kent Brockman
mark for reading after work.
This is NOT something I want my state to be famous for!