Wasps Nests

[Zigs]

Tetters doesn't like this one

 

[Anniekay]

I love them!! They fly around capturing all the bug larvae on your plants to feed to their young. I never had a better garden than when I had a yellow jacket nest in the ground in the back of the property.

 

[Euphorbia king]

Tetters doesn't like this one

We have no shortage of these here !!! Hornets,yellow jackets and wasps abound here in the Ozarks!!!

 

[Tetters]

Ruddy wasps used to attack the fruit on my plum tree, and always get the ones at the top which I couldn't reach. They went for them as they began to rot and turned into nasty drunk hooligans, out for the attack! In the end I cut down the plum tree

 

[Euphorbia king]

Hahaha!! We have a crabapple that was oozing sap this fall. I was cutting lower branches and noticed I wasn't alone!! The trunk was covered in European yellow hornets!!!! An invasive species. I've been stung before by these, they are no joke!!! There were also bald face hornets lower down on the trunk. I watched as one of the bald face hornets sgot too close and a yellow beat her up!!!! These bald face hornets are wicked in there own right!!! But only half the size of the yellow giants. I slowly backed out and got out from under that tree!!! Leave those mean girls alone!!!

 

[Zigs]

I've watched the hornets dive bombing the wasps, biting the head and abdomen off and flying off with the thorax

I keep my gloves in a sealed bag now, after putting them on in the spring only to find a queen wasp in one of the fingers

 

[Euphorbia king]

I love them!! They fly around capturing all the bug larvae on your plants to feed to their young. I never had a better garden than when I had a yellow jacket nest in the ground in the back of the property.

True!! Die hard predators!!! If they are away from our house, I don't bother them. I leave them alone unless they become a threat. A nest on a home can be dangerous. Being attacked can mean a hospital visit or death. They are very sharp, quick to defend if here is a lot of traffic around their nest. I just let them have our crabapple. I don't see any reason to bother them. They are sheltered within the canopy . What's the saying...let sleeping dogs lye.

 

[Anniekay]

True!! Die hard predators!!! If they are away from our house, I don't bother them. I leave them alone unless they become a threat. A nest on a home can be dangerous. Being attacked can mean a hospital visit or death. They are very sharp, quick to defend if here is a lot of traffic around their nest. I just let them have our crabapple. I don't see any reason to bother them. They are sheltered within the canopy . What's the saying...let sleeping dogs lye.

I have the eaves of my house sprayed with a wasp repellant to deter them from nesting. My house is old with deep eaves, that's how they built them here: deep eaves so that guttering wasn't necessary. I see them flying around under the eaves but they just don't land there; as soon as they come close, they back away.