Any (safe) ideas?

[kpinnc 15,825]

Found this Saturday. My hat is there for size reference. Bald faced hornets. Any suggestions how to rid this place of these things?

 

 

[ebinmaine 74,757]

THE most effective bee 🐝 wasp hornet killer we've found is brake clean. 

 

Two or more cans. Done at night.  

[Bar Nuthin 1,541]

4 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

Done at night.

 And try not to shine a light at the nest. They will head for the light if they feel threatened and the need to attack.

[Ed Kennell 43,224]

[JoeM 8,977]

Last one I used water hose and knocked it down later in day, evening they bugged out. 

Starting to get colder now, might wait for colder weather to clip it down if possible. I don't think they use the nest over, just thinking. 

[Treepep 868]

 

Cypress?  Mechanical is the most environmental approach.  Reachable, when cold and dark ish.  Glove up and squish.  Otherwise.  Bifenthrin with a solid propellant.  Good distance.  

 

Learn something new every day here.  I am not aware of balding hornets

[ri702bill 10,148]

Oh, yeah! White faced hornets. VERY territorial & nasty. Odd to see two adjacent nests....

Unlike bees, these do not have a barbed stinger - they can pull back and sting you multiple times.

True fact - the aggressive ones are all females - that explains a lot... 

 

Silly me - I thought this topic was going to be about safes - like where we store all our precious rare WH parts & options....

Edited 21 hours ago by ri702bill

[Pullstart 68,363]

26 minutes ago, ri702bill said:

Odd to see two adjacent nests....

 

7 hours ago, kpinnc said:

My hat is there for size reference.

just one nest 

 

I have seen the ways of clipping the branch, wrapping the nest in plastic of sorts and asphyxiating them.  Brake clean, gasoline, etc.  that would be cool man cave art to clear coat and hang up somewhere!

[ri702bill 10,148]

6 minutes ago, Pullstart said:

 

just one nest 

 

I have seen the ways of clipping the branch, wrapping the nest in plastic of sorts and asphyxiating them.  Brake clean, gasoline, etc.  that would be cool man cave art to clear coat and hang up somewhere!

What if they are napping inside and then wake up??!!

[Pullstart 68,363]

5 minutes ago, ri702bill said:

What if they are napping inside and then wake up??!!

that’s why we give them the gas treatment inside a plastic barrier 👍

 

even to drop the nest into a tote with a cup of gas inside then snap the lid for a few months would be easy-ish!

[c-series don 10,620]

I know how I’d deal with that. I’d call my pest control guy and let him worry about how to safely remove them. I got stung once by one of those hornets and don’t want to ever experience that again. If removal goes wrong, it could go terribly wrong. 

[953 nut 62,399]

Once you have a good hard freeze you can safely bag it with a garbage bag, insect spray in the bag and close it up for a while. Like @Pullstart said, 

1 hour ago, Pullstart said:

I have seen the ways of clipping the branch, wrapping the nest in plastic of sorts and asphyxiating them.  Brake clean, gasoline, etc.  that would be cool man cave art to clear coat and hang up somewhere!

[Horsin'round 322]

If you were a bit farther north,  I would recommend my neighbor,  the hornet king.

 

 

[squonk 44,702]

Got this big AHU at work.  It's like a submarine when you enter but opens above to a couple 40 HP motors and big filter racks. Takes 3 of us to PM the thing. Once I had 2 guys on the intake filters and I was up on a ladder on the opposite end doing the return filters. I hear screaming and these 2 guys come out of their like their pants are on fire. Which is quite a feat in itself as there are many big pipes you have to duck or step over. BEES!!!! 

 

I grabbed a CO2 fire extinguisher and let them have it!  ( Also good for knocking down bats in a high ceiling!) 

[peter lena 9,483]

@kpinnc   encountered  that  set up numerous times  while  fishing , typically  in a shady cove set up ,  instantly  give it  a lot of  get away room ,  do not challenge or enter  their  space,  pete 

[rmaynard 16,609]

If you can get your hat up there, it must be pretty accessible. When I was younger and faster, I would wait until evening, clip the branch with an extendable pruning tool, let it drop to the ground, and then run away. If you are a good aim, you may be lucky enough to have it fall into a large trash can. If not, wait until the next evening, carefully put it in the can, and put the lid on it after they have settled for the night. Hornet spray will do the trick after that.

[oliver2-44 11,006]

10 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

This is my vote too.  I'm wouldn't be one to try to clip it.

 

When my two older brother were little, a large bee hive formed in the tree by the back porch. 

So my older brother waited till the younger brother was under it. 

He stood at the porch so he could run in the door and threw a ball at it when younger brother was under it.

Needless to say younger brother got bit up by bees and older brothers rear end got bit up by a belt

[kpinnc 15,825]

3 hours ago, Pullstart said:

that would be cool man cave art to clear coat and hang up somewhere!

 

If I can take it in one piece? Agreed 100%.

 

2 hours ago, 953 nut said:

Once you have a good hard freeze you can safely bag it with a garbage bag, insect spray in the bag and close it up for a while.

 

That was my thought exactly. 

 

2 hours ago, c-series don said:

I got stung once by one of those hornets and don’t want to ever experience that again.

 

Same here. I got stung on my lip over the summer because that particular nest wast 10 feet off the ground near my outdoor faucet. It bled for a few minutes and looked like it lost a bar fight. These guys are stupid aggressive! 

 

41 minutes ago, rmaynard said:

If you can get your hat up there, it must be pretty accessible.

 

Yeah it's eye level. I found it while mowing. Rounded the tree and almost injured myself. Luckily it was early and not warmed up so they weren't really active. If it had been warmer I might not be making this post. 

 

3 hours ago, ri702bill said:

wake up??!!

 

Had a friend find one on a hunting trip early one morning who decided to take it down and stick it in his car. When he returned to the car he couldn't see in the windows. He had to leave the car until the next night and come back. 

 

Somehow I think I'd be paranoid of every sound it made for the next few days no matter how much bug spray had been used! 

[kpinnc 15,825]

Just now, oliver2-44 said:

Needless to say younger brother got bit up by bees and older brothers rear end got bit up by a belt

 

My father would have ended me and just made another one... 

[formariz 12,288]

I had many encounters with those things over the years. The last one overseas with Asiatic Hornets. Those things are over one inch long. I am highly allergic to any hornet or bee sting,and almost died a couple of times. I have EpiPens in each of the vehicles, one in my wife’s purse, one in the shop, and one in each shed. Wherever I go I carry one. As per the emergency room doctors over the years I have less than ten minutes to deal with when it happens. It immediately stars lowering my blood pressure and I go into shock. Not a fun occurrence with each one resulting with a stay in the hospital.

  I suggest that you get a professional to deal with them. 

[Handy Don 14,787]

12 hours ago, kpinnc said:

Bald faced hornets. Any suggestions how to rid this place of these things?

I had a pro come to take my nest (I discovered it by accidentally brushing against the tree and getting stung in three places--I nearly fainted from the shock).

That evening, the tech, fully garbed in protective clothing, “smoked it” similar to what beekeepers do. He then very carefully removed it intact by cutting the branch and placing it in a heavy clear plastic bag. He said the bees would suffocate and starve within a few days whereupon his company sells the intact nest to a supplier of high school and college science labs!

[Treepep 868]

 

 

Never had any sort of reaction except  two encounters.  One with cicada killers that made me kind of blotchy.

 

The other was when I was a young arborist.  Removing a storm damaged silver maple.  About 2 story house up and cut through hollow wood.  Drenched in foul smelling water then a zillion

 

honey bees boiled out.  NOT happy.  I got stung on every part of my body except kevlar boots and where my climbing saddle was.  Got out of that tree quick.  Guys called my lady and an

 

ambulance because I wasn't making and sense and could not stand. Ambulance came.  EpiPen benadryl (that junk makes my hair grow) and some chemicals sprayed from our truck and I

 

finished the job. I had all but forgotten about that day.  Thanks @kpinnc   

[Ed Kennell 43,224]

It may not work with hornets, but 70 years ago I saw my grandfather lure swarms of honey bees from trees.

 

He spread a white canvas near the tree and placed a clean empty hive on the canvas.

Then he sat beside the hive and called the bees by tapping a metal pot with a wooden spoon.    

           Voodoo, magic        but I saw it happen.

[adsm08 3,669]

20 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

THE most effective bee 🐝 wasp hornet killer we've found is brake clean. 

 

Two or more cans. Done at night.  

 

And a lighter!

[kpinnc 15,825]

3 hours ago, adsm08 said:

And a lighter!

 

Clearly you have not experienced my genetic luck line...