Wasp Season

Well I harvested a great big bald face hornet nest out of the bushes in front of my house today,About as big as a basket ball.Should have enough wadding for a while.Got on the wifes good side too. :grin:

Are you over the bag limit for the season this year? :grin:

Do you use the hornets as well as the nest? Seems like they would add lube to the load. :rotf:

Yeah you use enough of em their kinda like poison darts :blah:

Spudnut,
Even though the hornets have left the nest, the eggs have not. Tear it apart and kill the eggs.
volatpluvia

I was wondering if a "late bloomer" or two might make the livingroom a little more lively at the Spudnut household.

I've tangled with white-faced hornets twice and I'd say both times they won.

I remember many years ago a New York City transplant family moved into a house about 1/4 mile from where we lived at the time. The husband was out hiking around the woodlot behind his house one Saturday (during the winter) and found a HUGE hornet's nest attached to a low branch. He broke the branch off and took it back to the house. Thought that it made a rustic addition to their country home. Wasn't long before the eggs started hatching (the house being kept at 72*). In short order, the house was swarming with 100's of those rascals. The wife and one of the children got pretty well stung up, and the husband got put in the hospital. They had to hire an exterminator which cost them over $1,000 according to the wife. Expensive and painful lesson to learn.

Vern

I have the nest "Cureing" in a garbage bag in the garage full of Raid :hatsoff:

I would bet if you put the nest in a black garbage bag and left it out in the sun for the day, everything would be killed; and you don't have to worry about contact with poison. :idunno:

Ya think? I figured them little devils would love the heat and wouldnt that work like an incubater?

Hmmm, yeah it might. But think of all those cute little babies you'll have. :rotf:

Seriously, the heat that would build up in the summer sun would be fierce. Hotter than an automobile, I'd think.

MMMMMMMMm shake and bake hornet

Don't they eat hornet larve in some Asian cultures?

Microwave a few seconds? Just a thought :haha:

volatpluvia said:

Spudnut,
Even though the hornets have left the nest, the eggs have not. Tear it apart and kill the eggs.
volatpluvia

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A freezer will work very well for this purpose and without the toxic residues....

ditto. I stick them in the freezer. no chemicals to worry about.

You lucky rascal! Down here we only got Yellow Jackets with their little one wad sized nests. Don't even get me started on the trouble with Mud Daubers! :rotf:

Tell me how to best make wads from wasp nest

Tell me how to best make wads from wasp nest

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Not much "making" involved. You just tear off a chunk and stuff it down the bore. That's my method anyhow.