yellowjacket protection

[Ivan49]

A mixture of dawn dishsoap and water will kill them. I have an 1/8 mile west of our drive I brushog once a year and twice the bucket on the tractor just missed a bald face hornet nest. Next day the nest was all tore apart.

 

[stuckmotor]

When killer bees move into my area, I'll pyobably enclose my tractor's drivers platform with some kind of screen they can't get through.

 

[gwstang]

I've had those ground dwelling yellow jackets get me while bush hogging in my front fields. I learned to watch where I cut, when coming back around, to see them. They buzz around the hole in the ground just waiting for some poor sap to come back around. Three or four of those get you and it feels like someone poured liquid fire down the arm. Yeowch! A couple of years ago, I was bush hogging in the front field and had an area where the bushes had grown out more each year. I was trying to get really close to hack it back some. While swinging around, I came face to face with my worst nightmare....Big hornet nest. I was up in some limbs and my nose was about 6" away from the hole. The sentry was buzzing his wings at me in a warning. I slowly eased the old ford into reverse and gently back out. Quietly! I had just witnessed a friend at work getting torn up by those things when he was cutting some of his trails. His head and face had knots all over it....big knots. Made an impression on me. I found another one up in the bushes the next year. Those nests are really hard to see when they are camouflaged like that.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

This nest was out by my mail box,

I spent quite a bit of time up close, just watching them build it.

They are quite interesting to watch...

SR

 

[HCJtractor]

Thanks guys. I bought a bee jacket with zippered hood. Wore it today as I finished seeding where I hit the nest yesterday. They were still buzzing around but this time I was more courageous, as I was covered. I even purposefully ran over the nest just to stir them up! The jacket worked great!

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[japody]

Thanks guys. I bought a bee jacket with zippered hood. Wore it today as I finished seeding where I hit the nest yesterday. They were still buzzing around but this time I was more courageous, as I was covered. I even purposefully ran over the nest just to stir them up! The jacket worked great!

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What did you get and where?

 

[two_bit_score]

What did you get and where?

And a pic?

 

[oosik]

Now that you have the "bee jacket" - you should work on eliminating the nest. I've often found that no matter how well protected - a couple will always find a chink in your armor.

 

[two_bit_score]

This nest was out by my mail box,

I spent quite a bit of time up close, just watching them build it.

They are quite interesting to watch...

SR

Was the mail carrier aware of it?

 

[Powerhorse]

Those bald faced hornets are nasty! I unknowingly almost hit this one with the backhoe arm while doing loader work for a patio we built. It was 6' off the ground. I got attacked by them last year when cutting back some Forsythia bushes. Nasty!