Never been held up by hornets but they seem thick this year been splitting and stacking wood this year they are everywhere. Pulled the splitter out of the taller grass a got stung in the elbow they had been buzzing me but I brushed them off unknowingly thinking it was just the tall grass. Started to work on a pile away from that area but still got buzzed and killed several around the splitter. Might be the vibration of the motor running.

I split and stacked a couple good piles of wood earlier this year they seem to of moved into both piles on each side of where the splitter was parked lots of activity. I didn't want to spray that’s my milkweed area so spraying is not an option, I’ll wait for freeze up to work in that area I’ll chip away at the opposite end of the pile until it gets to be a problem again.

Did some research on them they say the workers are active at night I didn’t know that I thought that was a safe time to look around a bit.

There was a thread a week or so ago on irradiating them. Cant remember the recipe..

Haven't noticed any hornets here in years, but boy do we have yellow jackets....They're at full strength right now.
They generally don't bother me unless you find and get too close to their ground nest...then they want to exact some revenge, lol
I never bothered getting rid of them with the fipronel bait. I can go about my business and they can go about theirs and we make believe neither exists, lol

We have the mud dabbers in our storage threads they never bother us but those paper suckers have an attitude for some reason, now I can’t wait to toss their nests into the boiler! They started it lol

They will be drawn to a light at night. They will find every hole in a bee suit.

If they are meat eaters like yellow jackets it's easy to kill off the whole colony. Mix some Fipronil in a can of tunafish and stick it in a cage trap so pets can't get to it. I do it once or twice a summer when they show up and they are all gone in a day or two.

How Fipronil-based Wasp Control Works
Baiting: Fipronil is mixed into a bait, such as canned whitefish or chicken, which is placed in a safe, specialized station.
Foraging: Wasps are attracted to the bait and consume it.
Secondary Transfer: The fipronil is transferred from the treated foragers to the untreated nestmates.
Colony Elimination: The poison ultimately reaches and kills the queen, leading to the collapse of the entire nest.

yup on Figronil, couple days no wasps, bees wont bother. OR you can spray wood pile with permethrin and any wasp even landing on wood will die. Permethrin WILL NOT bother plants. In fact permethrin breaks down after a couple weeks.

These are paper wasps or mud dabbers the orange and black ones with one group in each wood pile from what I can see from their movements. I took 3/4 of the one pile away today and never seen any. Yesterday pulling the splitter out of the tall grass between the wood piles really seemed to upset them they buzzed me 15 feet away from their nest areas.

I’ll wait for it to freeze then fetch the rest of that pile

Kept seeing a tractor and bush hog in a field. Ask the owner and he said he ran over a ground nest and a swarm got him. Tractor eventually ran out of fuel.

I think you mean "Irradicating" them! As I understand it, Hornets/Bee's etc, are drawn to the CO2 in your breath, and maybe in the motor EXAUST.

Waited for a guy today to pick up essence we stood outside in the middle of nowhere talking hornets kept flying around us it was mowed for 50 yards all around us unless they hung out in the ditch culvert.

Might have been yellow jackets....but I was trimming a hedge last week..

And got 2 stings in my throat.

One in each arm

One in my stomach

I ain't be hammered like that evah...

They do smaht too !!

yellow jackets here have been bad

They are bad here this year. I've killed two big ground bee nest (yellow jackets I think) already but there must be another nearby.

I was stacking a pile of split firewood last evening and came across a severed, crushed mouse's head. What a way to go. LOL

Daughter eradicated a bunch last night

Under the floor of one of their sheds

Lucky they didn't get her or my grandson

Last year when we hunted elk the aspen trees were covered in some kind of bee or bee looking hornet spent most of our lunch time chasing them away from our sandwiches trying to eat. You could hear them buzzing I walked over to younger tree and the leaves were covered with the bee looking things. Not overly aggressive but always present it looked like they might of been gathering some dust/pollen off of the leaves it was weird.

Been getting a few yellow jackets in my kitchen. Jordy had a run in with one an hour ago and he hollered a little and the thing ended up on the floor so I could finish it off. He seems okay. No swelling and he is eating normally so I don’t know if he had it in his mouth and it just scared him…
This means WAR

Neighbor got walloped by them pretty good this weekend filling the silo. They are nasty this time of year for sure. I almost think the heat and dryness we've had is making them meaner.

Wait’ll they get a load a’ me…..

When we were kids we'd whack the yellow jackets cruising at ground level with a flat piece of wood, put the bodies on an open spot and other yellow jackets would come around and fly off with the bodies, we'd whack them too, lol
Don't know what they did with the bodies but they always came and took them away unless we got them first....fun times!, lol

That is so funny you say that, GCS, I saw one trying to carry away another ones butt an hour ago. Promptly did away with him.

Interesting stuff