Are These Hornets?

[TNTreeHugger]

Found these last night when I put something on the shelf next to the gourd.
What's the best/safest way to get rid or/kill them?

During the day when they're out? At night when they are resting? Call a professional?

I was thinking I could cover the top opening with a piece of duct tape and then quickly pick it up by the vine and drop it in a large garbage bag... but what to do with it then?

 

[derwoodii]

that looks like a big bitey hornet i deal with wasps in a bee suit and insecticide dust but your critters look mean and tuff and if things go wrong & they get grumpy your in tight jammy spot so suggest ask for chap with the experience and gear

 

[TNTreeHugger]

that looks like a big bitey hornet i deal with wasps in a bee suit and insecticide dust but your critters look mean and tuff and if things go wrong & they get grumpy your in tight jammy spot so suggest ask for chap with the experience and gear

I think you're right... after looking closer at that last photo, "picking it up" won't be an option as it looks like it's been built around that piece of the shelf.
Will call a pro.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Why, they're out of their flippin' minds!
Orkin wants $293 ... and they don't even remove the nest, they spray it.
Hell, I can do that... in fact, with the extra hole at the top it should be real easy to saturate it with the right insecticide.

I'm waiting for a callback from two other pest control places.

But, it looks like it's up to me.
This could get interesting.

 

[old guy]

Just buy a can of bee spray and let em have it.

 

[kybob]

Have multiple cans ready. Just sayin.


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[CentaurG2]

Yup, looks like the work of hornets. You can tell the difference by observing one of your new tenants. Hornets look more or less like dangerous honey bees with a round abdomen. Wasps have very skinny abdomens. Both are predatory insects which do consume a lot of problem insects. Unless they are giving you trouble, they are handy to have around.

 

[lone wolf]

Do it at night, tonight will be good its cooler. Put on a raincoat , use layers of heavy clothing so they cant sting through wear a hat, eye protectrion, gloves, everything and blast the SOB"s to Hell!

 

[Ted Jenkins]

A bug zapper at night will do it. I put fresh chicken skin on the bait tray with plenty of chicken. I found up to six inches of bees in the morning. Thanks

 

[Mad Professor]

Suit up and spray at night with permethrin. It don't knock them down fast, but you can make a 5% solution and apply with a pump up sprayer. I'd hit the bottom outlet and the inside.

Handy stuff, works on ants, ticks , most any insect, fairly long residual action. A $20 bottle at TSC will make 5-gal of spray.

I use it to treat my clothing for ticks. Make sure it's just permethrin and let the clothes dry out before wearing. Not very toxic to most mammals, except cats, keep cats away from wet treated areas

 

[StihlaHuskyFeller]

Like said above, have two or three cans ready; don't run short in the heat of battle. Attack them at night when they're all home. Everybody everywhere seems to have hornet, wasp, and yella jacket trouble. In my area, we're sold out of any and all hornet and wasp killer, from 3 small towns to the closest city. I was lucky enough to grab the last six cans at a Canadian Tire a couple weeks back. I was out until 1am raiding hornet and wasp nests last week. Even had a nest behind the wooden box liner by the wheel well in my truck. Found out when I slammed the tailgate lol.

There was a video on YT about a guy mixing dish soap and water and spraying on wasps, and it killed them. Dish soap has trouble washing dishes, I'll try it out sometime and see if it actually works.

 

[holeycow]

this is what ahornet looks like in these parts

 

[Clyde85]

Drop the nest in used motor oil at night.

 

[holeycow]

wasp

 

[holeycow]

honeybee

 

[holeycow]

I could only see one out of focus bee in tnt's pics

ps, unless they are bothering you leave them alone. They are generally only nasty near their nest.

 

[holeycow]

Yup, looks like the work of hornets. You can tell the difference by observing one of your new tenants. Hornets look more or less like dangerous honey bees with a round abdomen. Wasps have very skinny abdomens. Both are predatory insects which do consume a lot of problem insects. Unless they are giving you trouble, they are handy to have around.

I agree with your last sentence wholeheartedly. The other stuff, not so much in these parts. Our hornets are black, our wasps are yellow and our honeybees are fuzzy and various shades of brown and black, depending which hive you're looking at. The wasps are the smallest and the hornets are the biggest here. Honeybees somewhere in the middle, size wise.

 

[Del_]

Raid wasp and hornet killer knocks them out cold.

Don't be afraid to do it. Try around midnight. Have two cans, one in each hand.

One can is going to do it though.

Go into kill mode and reclaim your property!

 

[holeycow]

Or just let them live if they aren't bothering anything.

Tho raid does work good on problem nests.

it's about night and day and weather and has naught to do with time. Just get them when they are in the nest. You'll know if you watch them. Sometimes there's stragglers. Thems the ones that'll get you.

 

[Del_]

Or just let them live if they aren't bothering anything.

Tho raid does work good on problem nests.

They are right there on a shelf and highly likely to be disturbed by someone who would then get stung.

One of the worst things about nest like these is the person often doesn't know that they are disturbing the bees until they get stung multiple times.

I don't like those kind of surprises.

It the next was out in the woods or the yard that is another story.

I was moving some spare tires the other day and some red wasp had nested between them, probably about 50 wasp total.

I hate surprises!