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gundog870

gundog870

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me and a buddy got a wasp nest last night. with the cold and everything i figured it would be fine. well went to put it in the attic tonight and wasps started to fall out everywhere. not moving or anything. So i dont know if they are alive and dormant or dead. I thought they moved into the ground in the winter. Can you guys help me out. what should i do. i didnt climb 15 foot in a tree for nuthin.

Thanks
Nick
 
If its a paper nest I think there illegal to take. If not put it in a plastic bag and put some rags soaked in starting fluid and leave for a few days they will be dead.
 
They are not wasps. They are bald-faced hornets.

Paper wasps make a honey comb type paper nest that you will find under the roof sofit of your home.

Put the entire nest in a deep freeze for several days. They will all be dead and you will have a nice nest to display.
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Bald-faced Hornets
 
yeah ghost, thats what i am talking about. I have found a few before. never cut them down. but there were no wasps in them. this one was perfect!! its pretty cool. I believe they are all dead but am not sure. i put a few in a bag and set it on the radiator.
 
I didn't know what they were called. I just was told you were not supposed to take them but I didnt know if it was true or not. Those are so cool looking. I would love to have one in some sort of Taxidermy setting.
Is it ok to take them? I know where one is but thought I could get in trouble for taking it. Do you have to spray them with a some sorta shelac or something?.
 
Yes, they are legal to take home. The nest usually will not survive the winter. The hornets move underground to survive the winter. With no hornets to maintain the nest it begins to deteriorate and they make a new one in the spring. I have not sprayed anything on the one I have and it looks good after a couple of years. If you do spray yours with something be careful, they will soak up the spray and start to fall apart if you over do it.
 
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I didn't know what they were called. I just was told you were not supposed to take them but I didnt know if it was true or not. Those are so cool looking. I would love to have one in some sort of Taxidermy setting.
Is it ok to take them? I know where one is but thought I could get in trouble for taking it. Do you have to spray them with a some sorta shelac or something?.

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Why would they not be legal to take?
 
Freezer or seal 'em up in a big contractor garbage bag with some raid fogger, gotta be left somewhere warm for 'em to come out though. Freezer is smartest, and less stinky!
 
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Why would they not be legal to take?

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I don't know thats just what somebody told me couple of years ago when a nieghbor had one in a tree. I was trying to see how to get it and the guy who told me to wait till winter said wait till winter and don't get caught. So I left it.
 
Thats pretty weird that they would be illegal to take. I would think that if you wanted one, getting stung would be enough price to pay, if you were stupid enough to take one while still active. We had one on the back side our house in a lilac tree. Those were the biggest baldies I've ever seen. They were almost 2 1/2 inches long! The nest was huge! I hated to mow around it! Then I bombed them with 4 cans of Raid! There was a pile of hornets laying on the ground.
 
Nastiest of nasties next to the ground hornet... Kill em all.
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Congrats on the find. I would personally freeze it for two years... Can you tell I had a bad experience...
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about 5 years ago, I entered my hunting spot early in the morning while still pitch black. I didn't realize until sunrise, that I picked the same tree to sit in as a bunch of hornets. As soon as the sun appeared and started to heat things up a bit, I had those pissed off little guys all over me. That's the only time I was thankful I wasn't wearing a safty harness, because I got out of that tree in a hurry. I still don't know how I escaped with only a few stings and a scraped up chest and belly from bear hugging the tree and sliding down. I had to go back later to retreive my self climber and to cut down the hornets nest, which by the way looked pretty cool hanging in the corner of my garage. I wish somebody would have been recording me, because I bet I looked pretty funny running across that bean field with a swarm of angry hornets hot on my trail.
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I;m assuming the winter there doesn't kill them.
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Wowsers on that and double wowsers on them being illegal to take.
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The only way I could imagine that it could be illegal to take would be if it was some sort of state ground that you can't legally take anything off of. The type of place where you can't cut anything or use anything that screws into a tree if they allow hunting. If its on private property fair game.
 
Take the nest soak it in starting fluid and throw a match to it. That way you know all them little bastards are dead. &^rocket

I have seen paper nest used in taxidermy mounts before. Usually when they do a bear mount. The Sportmans Warehouse in St. Cloud MN has a blackbear cub on a piece of wood reaching out on a branch for a nest with a hornet on the tip of his nose.
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Neat looking mount.

Dean
 
JJohnson now that is cool.. well i took it outside and shook it out the best i could. A ton fell out. the ones i put on the heter never wwoke up. i think im safe. thanks guys
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