Fishbonker
Life Member
Muddy, you need to get the emergency number for AirCare tattoed on your chest. It will cut down on response time. Any fall over 20 feet meets Trauma Activation Criteria. Thats why my stands are all 19.5 feet to the top of my head, and thats when I'm STANDING on the platform.
Those nests are way cool by the way.
The 'Bonker
Those nests are way cool by the way.
The 'Bonker
muddy
Well-Known Member
I think they're just cool as heck, one day when I have a big "man garage" or my own archery shop, I'll have them all hanging in the rafters.
This reminds me, I gotta do the preventative fumigation of the ones in the garage. Two of them are pretty gigantor and may have some residents left over.
NebraskaWhitetail
New Member
Very nice.
Are they paper wasps, Muddy, or bald-faced hornets?
Are they paper wasps, Muddy, or bald-faced hornets?
Limb Chicken
Active Member
Bald faced hornets Matt...
jjohnson
Well-Known Member
I never thought about using the sticks for that. Last year I had a pretty good year finding bee hives. We have a few hanging in the shop. I've only gotten one this year.
Muddy what do you use to preserve the hives. I've actually just left mine like I found them and they are staying together fine. But I've heard of smoking the bees out and then covering the hive in some type of lacquer to preserve them.
They definitely are neat though. If you can get them before the birds do.
Muddy what do you use to preserve the hives. I've actually just left mine like I found them and they are staying together fine. But I've heard of smoking the bees out and then covering the hive in some type of lacquer to preserve them.
They definitely are neat though. If you can get them before the birds do.
Ghost
Life Member
DOUBLE LUNG
Active Member
Who needs a coon dog. Just send muddy up the tree to get them. Good way to make a little extra $$$. But your throught might get a little sore from barking.
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deernstuff
Guest
If you're refering to the yellow and black variety, about an inch long and as big around as a pencil...then no. Bald faced hornets are considerably smaller. What you're seeing is a parasitic wasp, commonly called a cicada killer, and that's exactly what they do. If you could dig to the bottom of that burrow you'd find a paralyzed cicada with a single egg laid on it's body. The egg hatches, the larvae eat the cicada and pupate, the next year it starts all over again. Really rather interesting...don't like spiders? Don't kill the mud-daubers on the side of the garage...they do the same with spiders.
Bald faced hornets are slightly larger than the yellow jackets that love your soda can in September. They are background black with yellow to almost white markings. They have a very nasty temperment.
Bald faced hornets are slightly larger than the yellow jackets that love your soda can in September. They are background black with yellow to almost white markings. They have a very nasty temperment.
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tineseeker
Guest
Wait until it gets cold!!! All of the Baldface hornets will be dead except for the queen. She will have left the hive and found a nice rotten stump or pile of leaves to winter in.
In the spring she will start another nest and when her children hatch they will take over the nest building . They build a new nest every year. Don’t kill them unless they are a safety hazard. If you want the nest wait till it gets cold…. Even the insects have a place in this world of ours.
In the spring she will start another nest and when her children hatch they will take over the nest building . They build a new nest every year. Don’t kill them unless they are a safety hazard. If you want the nest wait till it gets cold…. Even the insects have a place in this world of ours.