poldies4
Silver Member
Does anyone know of a good way to dispose/remove hives? A week ago my brother and I were doing a little clearing out in the woods, when he was suddenly swarmed. I yelled at him to jump off the tractor, he was trying to back out as I watched the swarm grow. I assumed it was a ground hive, the yellow jacket seem to prefer to be in the ground in my woods for some reason. He only got stung twice, not bad considering the amount of them swarming around him.
Yesterday we were riding atv's in the area of the assumed ground hive, when one decided to fly into my chest. Felt like a rock, as I decided to take a break I heard something, a buzzing. What I thought was a ground hive, was a football sized nest hanging 5 feet off the ground with what seemed like hundreds of yellow jackets flying around. One of my atv's has a loud pipe, since we stayed clear of the area I'm wondering if the vibration woke them up? As luck would have it, my 5 year old was with me and said, that looks just like the one in the front yard. I never knew that we had one in the front? He showed it to me, bigger than the one in the woods, how have I never seen it? I mow right by it once a week, how fast can these little guys build? And as builder, how can I get my guys to build that beautifully and quickly?
In all seriousness, in the ten years that I have lived on my property I have not had nests like this. My concern lies with my kids. My 7 and 5 year old are always outside, and know not to mess with them, but I am not sure what to do. I don't care to kill them, but also don't want to keep finding hives via my children. The big hive in the front seems to have appeared overnight. Of course it didn't, but we as a family spend time in that part of the yard, and never saw it.
Any advice/suggestions to avoid this in the future would be helpful. Any fun comments about my brother getting swarmed are good too. As the younger brother I might have gotten a tiny bit of satisfaction from that experience. Of course it was only funny because no one got hurt.
Yesterday we were riding atv's in the area of the assumed ground hive, when one decided to fly into my chest. Felt like a rock, as I decided to take a break I heard something, a buzzing. What I thought was a ground hive, was a football sized nest hanging 5 feet off the ground with what seemed like hundreds of yellow jackets flying around. One of my atv's has a loud pipe, since we stayed clear of the area I'm wondering if the vibration woke them up? As luck would have it, my 5 year old was with me and said, that looks just like the one in the front yard. I never knew that we had one in the front? He showed it to me, bigger than the one in the woods, how have I never seen it? I mow right by it once a week, how fast can these little guys build? And as builder, how can I get my guys to build that beautifully and quickly?
In all seriousness, in the ten years that I have lived on my property I have not had nests like this. My concern lies with my kids. My 7 and 5 year old are always outside, and know not to mess with them, but I am not sure what to do. I don't care to kill them, but also don't want to keep finding hives via my children. The big hive in the front seems to have appeared overnight. Of course it didn't, but we as a family spend time in that part of the yard, and never saw it.
Any advice/suggestions to avoid this in the future would be helpful. Any fun comments about my brother getting swarmed are good too. As the younger brother I might have gotten a tiny bit of satisfaction from that experience. Of course it was only funny because no one got hurt.