Re: Bald faced hornets
[Re: Bob Jameson]
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08/18/22 07:45 PM
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I sort of saw something in my peripheral vision then I felt this sting then more stings etc.
Turned out to be a ground nest of yellow jackets. They lit me up good. In a few minutes I felt odd and realized I was having a reaction, sat down called the neighbor, took me to the hospital. Never had an experience like that before or till this day. Too many stings Dr. said, could have been bad had I waited too long. 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!
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Re: Bald faced hornets
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08/18/22 08:17 PM
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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.
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Re: Bald faced hornets
[Re: white marlin]
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08/18/22 08:22 PM
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I sort of saw something in my peripheral vision then I felt this sting then more stings etc.
Turned out to be a ground nest of yellow jackets. They lit me up good. In a few minutes I felt odd and realized I was having a reaction, sat down called the neighbor, took me to the hospital. Never had an experience like that before or till this day. Too many stings Dr. said, could have been bad had I waited too long. 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! 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!
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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Re: Bald faced hornets
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08/18/22 10:01 PM
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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.
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Re: Bald faced hornets
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08/18/22 11:49 PM
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Neighbors house.. she said she's entertained by them 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
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Re: Bald faced hornets
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08/19/22 12:57 AM
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That looks sadistic to a Kansas boy good Grief
Everything the left touches it destroys
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Re: Bald faced hornets
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08/19/22 09:30 AM
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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.
America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
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Re: Bald faced hornets
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08/19/22 09:41 AM
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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.
wanna be goat farmer.
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Re: Bald faced hornets
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08/19/22 10:16 AM
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Neighbors house.. she said she's entertained by them 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 Probably hahaha
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Re: Bald faced hornets
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08/19/22 12:35 PM
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NOPE! I dont get worked up about mud dabbers or carpenter bees but all others I wait until dark and go on the warpath ASAP
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Bald faced hornets
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08/19/22 05:35 PM
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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.
Wollen nicht krank dein feind. Planen es.
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Re: Bald faced hornets
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08/19/22 05:48 PM
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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.
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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Re: Bald faced hornets
[Re: BTLowry]
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08/19/22 05:50 PM
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Cool when they are out in the woods in top of a tree 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.
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