^^^^^^^THIS!!!

I hold the land speed record for woodsrunning with a paint gun on my back because of ground-nesting yellowjackets.

still, I'd take yellowjackets over bald faced hornets ANY DAY!

Neighbor warned me one year that he had a hornet nest in the ground in his yard. A week later I was trimming my grass with a small push mower around my back door and felt something on my legs. Thought the mower was blowing sand on me. Looked down and I was covered in hornets. Ran around in the yard, stomping and swatting, and came into the house via the garage. Had about ten hornets hung in a golf shirt. Pulled it off and immediately took two Benedryl. Wife asked me what I was going to do about the push mower that was still running at the back door. Told her it would run out of gas before I touched it again. She got a can of wasp and hornet spray and shot their nest that was in a boxwood bush.

I probably had 100 hornets on me, but only had about 6-7 bites. I consider myself very lucky.

A month later the wife and I had electric hedge trimmers working on shaping our shrubs. Somewhere around the 5th shrub, I remembered the hornet nest that was in the shrub closest to the back door. Looked in the very next shrub and guess what I saw. A softball-sized nest of hornets waiting for me.

Hornets are not good friends with tractors and bush hogs either.

Yep! With yellowjackets all you have to do is keep aspirin in your left pocket and onions in your right and you'll be fine. Hornets, you're screwed!

While doing a bat service one day, I set up my ladder over a bush. The bush was large and had I no choice but to push against it. Went up the ladder and happened to look down. Hornets were swarming at the 3rd rung. I stayed up there for about 20 minutes until they calmed down. It's the stealthiest I've ever come down a ladder. Nest was softball size about a foot into the bush.
Wasps and YJs get me a couple times a year. So far I haven't felt the wrath of the bald face hornet.

I had then build on a light on my grage just like that. Two cand of wasp and hornet spray smoked the thing and no activity the next day. It fell apart after a while. I think it only took them a few weeks to build it. We had not moved In full time yet so I'm not sure but it was fast it seemed.

Have some baldfaces helping keep down the flies in the dog pool bucket out back. They are hunting so not aggressive to me so far.

My folks lived in the desert north of Tucson. They had a swimming pool that became a watering hole for the local hornets. For the most part if you didn't bother them they wouldn't bother you. One day Dad decided to use tile cleaner to remove the calcium buildup at the waters edge. It changed the surface tension of the water. Instead of landing on the water to drink they sank into the water and drowned - by the thousands. We filled an old style large metal trash can 2/3 full with dead hornets.

Id imagine she's entertained by delivery people,other neighbors, and door to door saleman reactions. Thats about the only way I'd leg that situation continue

That looks sadistic to a Kansas boy good Grief

Cool when they are out in the woods in top of a tree. Not cool when they are in the yard, on your house or in your deer stand

I have an outdoor outlet and every year the wasps make a home in the cover

and every year when I need to move the cord I leave plugged in or reset the gfi in that box out comes the wasp and hornet spray

every year when things are frozen up I clean the nest out and every year they come back

the clear plastic outlet weather covers don't last as long as the grey powder coated aluminum but you get less of a surprise.

As long as it's not close to where I am going. I will let it be. I did see a hornets nest in the pasture while bushogging, I simply gave the hornets right of way. I believe the cows trampled the nest. LOL.

Probably hahaha

Hornets suck.

Wasps, yellow jackets and hornets all build paper nests in Christmas trees.

Wasps........ Reach in with a gloved hand and squash the nest. Shoo the buzzing wasps away with your hat.
Yellow jackets....... Generally will start to swarm out of the tree when the trimmer hits it. Nearly ALWAYS they give you enough time to scram. Come back later with bee spray.
Hornets........ NO sense of humor. Sometimes they'll head-butt you at full speed and not sting. Mostly they'll be on you in half a second and sting you 2 or 3 times before you realize what's going on.

all the hornets suck! you can work around the baldies, mow over the yellowjackets nested in the ground every week till august, then they become barney bad a$$ and light you up for any small incringement, kill them all!

I've never received a warning head butt from a hornet. They come like a spider monkey on crack, full on and lit me up.

you'd think so, right?

thing is, they often build about twenty feet up on a spindly little sapling...the SAME ONE you grab to keep yourself from hitting the ground after a stumble/trip.

this has been my experience also.

[LOVE the analogy!]