jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jul 20, 2015 12:32:06 GMT -5
Cicadas must be finishing molt; can be heard and seen.
Some being attacked by Yellow Jackets, a bee that can sting repeatedly.
Poor fellow looks like he is going to be dinner.
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 20, 2015 19:53:43 GMT -5
OUCH huh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Rockoonz on Jul 20, 2015 21:01:10 GMT -5
I'd mash the yellowjacket. If I recall they are cannibals so if you kill one you can wait for his bros to stop in for a snack and kill them, patience can net a nice wad of dead ones.
I really don't like the pesky buggers at all.
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Post by broseph82 on Jul 20, 2015 22:42:52 GMT -5
I'd mash the yellowjacket. If I recall they are cannibals so if you kill one you can wait for his bros to stop in for a snack and kill them, patience can net a nice wad of dead ones. I really don't like the pesky buggers at all. Last year while pulling weeds in the garden I got stung in my back. My son got stung a while after while eating dinner inside (we didn't even know the bugger was inside). |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 21, 2015 0:02:03 GMT -5
Watch out for their nests, especially while mowing.
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 21, 2015 8:52:23 GMT -5
Yep, I'm with James. I've hit a yellowjacket nests several tines when horseback or when weed whacking. Unpleasant little buggers and bad tempered too. Nests can run to 50,000 wasps and they have smooth stingers so you can get stung a lot of times. Worse thing is when they climb into your soda can and you drink one. Never happened to me but I've seen it happen. Stung tongue ain't any fun at all.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 21, 2015 8:56:39 GMT -5
Forgot to mention. In Commiefornia venison is the favorite yellowjacket food. If you ever manufacture your own bait to really clean them out of your area, use ground venison in a cage with 1/4 hardware cloth. Keeps non target critters like foxes etc off the bait but slaughters the wasps. Not legal to make written poison recommendations but, if you use the right poison, they drag the meat back to the nest and feed the larvae killing out the entire colony.....Mel
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Post by jamesp on Jul 21, 2015 10:32:31 GMT -5
Yep, I'm with James. I've hit a yellowjacket nests several tines when horseback or when weed whacking. Unpleasant little buggers and bad tempered too. Nests can run to 50,000 wasps and they have smooth stingers so you can get stung a lot of times. Worse thing is when they climb into your soda can and you drink one. Never happened to me but I've seen it happen. Stung tongue ain't any fun at all.....Mel Both wife and I have been stung over 50 times at one time. When it is hot and the mower/weed eater gets near the nest organized attacks are relentless. Have peeled clothes off and had many bees wrapped up in the clothing. Neither of us allergic. Each sting feels like a fresh bruise, just like it. You mentioned meat, I have killed deer in the summertime. It is a challenge to keep the yellow jackets off of them. They about steal the carcass. Poisoning the meat trick sounds like the trick. If the garden hose reaches, flooding the nest for a few hours sure works well. |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 21, 2015 10:36:37 GMT -5
Underground nests are serious  |
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Post by agatemaggot on Jul 21, 2015 10:40:13 GMT -5
If you know WHERE the nest is, wait until dark and pour gasoline down the hole. If there is nothing combustable near, add a lit match for the icing on the cake.
Works the best !
Harley
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Post by jamesp on Jul 21, 2015 10:49:53 GMT -5
If you know WHERE the nest is, wait until dark and pour gasoline down the hole. If there is nothing combustable near, add a lit match for the icing on the cake. Works the best ! Harley Gas is a common approach around here too Harley. a fast one.... |
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Post by gingerkid on Jul 21, 2015 11:21:17 GMT -5
If you know WHERE the nest is, wait until dark and pour gasoline down the hole. If there is nothing combustable near, add a lit match for the icing on the cake. Works the best ! Harley Yeppers, that's what we do, too, agatemaggot. Except for lighting a match. Although I have witnessed watching Rick run like he's been lit with a match when he poured gas in a yellow jacket hole one night.  jamesp, I would've rescued the poor cicada. The cicadas sure have been singing something fierce this year, haven't they? Haven't ever been stung by a yellow jacket, but a wasp sure hurts when they sting. Bumble bees, too. We've had a time with wasps this year. Rick has killed 3 nests in about a week's time, and finally got the one that was underneath our tile saw. ETA: I pushed my younger brother into a bush where I Knew there was a wasp nest. Mean. |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 21, 2015 13:25:32 GMT -5
You cold blooded gingerkid. My older sister could whoop me like a yard dog till I was 15. My friends too. She was tough. |
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Post by gingerkid on Jul 21, 2015 13:33:00 GMT -5
Big sisters can be a terror, jamesp. Thank goodness he didn't get stung or I would have been in hot water. |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 21, 2015 13:47:43 GMT -5
Big sisters can be a terror, jamesp. Thank goodness he didn't get stung or I would have been in hot water. Parents probably had your number, knowing any devious characteristics LOL. |
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Post by ash on Jul 21, 2015 15:03:00 GMT -5
The Cicada might have been done anyway, I don't think they live that long once they molt to adult forms. My bro-in-law had thousands in the ceiling of his deer stand on opening day last year. He emptied a couple of cans of wasp spray on them and then had to go get a broom to sweep them out. He texted me and said he was slaughtering them. I wondered because I had not heard shots. He slaughtered them alright lol. Not bees though, but wasps, same Order different families. Those nests are not to be trifled with. We pour gas on them, no need to light. Get yourself a long 3 or 4" PVC pipe and place the end near the hole, if you can locate it, and then pour baby pour. The pipe lets you get back a bit from the pissed off yellow jackets!
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Post by snowmom on Jul 23, 2015 5:01:15 GMT -5
we had some nesting in the gable of our porch, unusual for them to nest above ground, but once started they stayed. When the guy came to remove the nest he showed us they had been there for years,(before we bought the house) The entire gable was filled with old nests. They die back to a few eggs every winter and supposedly move their nest to a new location when they hatch in the spring, one becoming the queen, the others becoming attendants and drone, the nest multiplies and becomes more aggressive as the season progresses, ending in extremely hostile and protective large numbers in the fall.
because they could not easily find their way out of the gable, they reproduced there year after year.... gone now, thankfully. They are nothing to mess with.
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Post by jamesp on Jul 23, 2015 6:03:59 GMT -5
we had some nesting in the gable of our porch, unusual for them to nest above ground, but once started they stayed. When the guy came to remove the nest he showed us they had been there for years,(before we bought the house) The entire gable was filled with old nests. They die back to a few eggs every winter and supposedly move their nest to a new location when they hatch in the spring, one becoming the queen, the others becoming attendants and drone, the nest multiplies and becomes more aggressive as the season progresses, ending in extremely hostile and protective large numbers in the fall. because they could not easily find their way out of the gable, they reproduced there year after year.... gone now, thankfully. They are nothing to mess with. It is rare to have them nest in structures around here Deb. About always in the ground. Never thought about the large amount of yellow jackets in a nest as opposed to hornets and wasps. Honey bees do have large numbers in a nest. But nesting in the walls of a house in such quantity is scary. |
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Post by adam on Jul 23, 2015 7:06:26 GMT -5
I see kinds of pests and critters around here. I hate hornets and the yellow jackets. And spiders, especially big ones.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2015 15:10:43 GMT -5
Never sit on a yellow jacket nest.
Please don't ask me how I know.
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