5 HORNETS NESTS Side by Side! Will They Attack!?

i'm the hornet king and i remove incredible and insane wasp nests [Applause] [Music] whether their nests are underground in a house in a tree or even down a well i'm the person crazy enough to extract them and i do so with my trusty vacuum in this video i'll be removing a massive fall face hornet nest from the roof of a client's house i'll also be adding another hornet nest to my hornet apartment complex check it out everyone welcome to the hornet king channel this is the removal of a bald-faced hornet colony that decided to make its nest here on the roof of this client's house these large bay windows here their clients were starting to notice a lot of bald-faced horns hitting that glass and they were afraid they were going to make their way inside so they decided to have this nest removed this nest was in delaware now i live in pa so i did try to relocate this colony because i wanted to add it to my large apartment complex of bald-faced hornets on my barn however the thing died on its way home it was pretty hot this day i think it was like 95 degrees and being up on the roof that kind of sucks in the heat because the heat just just radiates off that roof now i do have a fear of heights but luckily this roof was pretty well it wasn't a super strong pitch up here so i was able to be pretty comfortable removing this colony so just getting my stuff set up you guys don't often get to see too much of the locations of where i do my removal so i was kind of happy that i was able to have this camera angle from down in the yard so you guys get an idea what the entire scene looked like for this removal so i did want to have one camera up close and i was able to get some good audio of the actual removal plus it was able to get some really good images here this nest was about the size of a basketball maybe a little bit bigger in some areas but that's just the envelope now the envelope is the paper that covers the comb and whenever i'm doing these removals a lot of the adults are in between the layers of comb with inside the envelope so i have to pack i have to pat down and tap on the side of the nest so that way it gets them all stirred up so they come outside and start swarming and when they try to do that they get sucked up into the vacuum nozzle you'll notice here some of them may fly past the nozzle but they just kind of swarm around and then they fly right back to the entrance way and then i vacuum up from there some other ones you'll see flying around that are coming from the outside going towards the vacuum nozzle are ones coming back from foraging and they could be out you know half hour 40 minutes away and when they come back unbeknownst to them their whole nest is being removed so you'll see them fly in kind of nonchalant they're not swarming they're just coming back to get back into the nest and unbeknownst to them they get sucked up into the vacuum so i do just kind of just take my time and just suck off some of the envelope and things and try to expose a little bit of comb and little bits of the time and that way if there are a bunch of them still hunkered down in between the layers of comb i don't disturb them all in one shot where there's no more of just like a small funnel of an entrance way for them to come out of that i can easily get them from now they have a whole big opening that they'll fly out of it i'm constantly having to play catch up and try to catch them all at the same time but for the most part i vacuumed a significant amount of them you couldn't really see at the beginning because the vacuum nozzle was kind of in the entrance way and they were kind of flying directly in there it feels like you're sucking up pennies like if you ever like vacuumed out your car that feeling like when you suck up a bunch of pennies in the vacuum that's what it feels like sucking up ball faced horns so so it is a little bit deceiving right here because it looks like that there's like hardly any adults left but they are there are quite a few that are in between the layers of comb still and ones that are up at the top where the nest connects to the soffit once i pull that down you'll see a bunch start flying around and that's because you'll see some dropping out from behind the nest too so they're kind of trying to stay protected back there so i start to try to pull this down as soon as i do i try to start vacuuming up from the back side and there's quite a few that just fell out the back and start start flying around and this is strongly edited so the removal process takes about 45 to 50 minutes but nobody's gonna sit here and watch the vacuum up envelope in one wasp at a time for 40 to 50 minutes so i just bag up the comb here and i just put it into a plastic bag so i could relocate it however since it was so hot it didn't it didn't really stand a chance especially the long drive that i had to go back home so i just tossed it down here to dan and that's the homeowner he's a veteran he's a really cool guy and i really enjoy chatting with him [Music] they dropped it here in the bush and then just asked him to put it in the shade for the time being and he actually tossed me up a damp rag i wanted to be able to clean off the siding for him so i spent a few minutes just vacuuming up the foragers that were coming back and unbeknownst to them the nestle's been removed i vacuumed houses for a living you need your house back and then i just take that damp rag and one here i caught one and smooshed it up because it was uh already turned unplugged the vacuum i just took that damp rag and just wiped off much of the envelope as i could all right so after getting the nest home this is quite a collection of nests i have in that bin in that bag and right behind me is actually my barn with my hornet apartment complex you guys can swarm but i'm doing this down here anyway well it's just because those nests are relatively new there and they're still exposed they don't have any envelope built around them yet so they act crazy for the first like maybe four days to a week depending on how long it takes them to build envelope around the comb after that they're totally fine i can walk around there without any problem at all so this is the nest i just removed and this nest was pretty much rotten by the time i brought it home it was all soggy and things so i just toss it out into the field and that way any pretty much any wild animals can eat that so that goes for any uh vultures or um we have turkey vultures around here um possums skunks or whatever we'll eat that i don't really want to feed that to my girls because it already started to turn and there was a lot of broken larva and things just from the heat they start to break down this is another nest that i tried to relocate you'll see that there's duct tape on the entrance way and usually i do that to try to trap as many of the dots inside that way nobody escapes so there's more to work on the nest than once i actually relocate it well you can see the white caps silk caps are all discolored because larvae started to fall apart in there from the heat so that also gets tossed into the field now the chickens can go down there and peck at that if they really want to but i just don't want to feed it to them personally because i feel like they deserve to have live food to eat and not something that started to turn from the heat so this nest was one i was able to relocate i had removed that was the last one i'd removed for this day and so everything was still alive inside there were still live hornets in there um which these are technically aren't hornets these are uh called bald face hornets which is a layman's term but they're actually an aerial nest building yellow jacket delica vespula immaculata it's a pretty envelope let it pull off there and when i start pulling off the top here you'll notice there's a lot of adults up inside there and they like to kind of like hunker down on all those little chasms and combs and things up inside so all those ones that fly out they're going to go right around that nest they're going to linger here and they're going to swarm and then when i put that nest and hot glue it up to the platform they will fly up there and then reconsolidate up on the nest itself bald-faced hornets and german yellow jackets are the only two yellowjacket species that i've actually put side-by-side on two different colonies and they've actually accepted each other i haven't done it with european hornets yet or eastern yellow jackets or anything but as a study i want to put all these nests here so that way i can study their behavior and interactions with each other there's a common misconception that that bald-faced hornets are territorial and if there's a nest nearby that other wasps won't build near that nest and that's just not true i've seen bald-faced hornets be in the same tree naturally and then when i relocate nests i can put them 10 feet apart and they never bother each other they don't go over and attack each other so i just take some hot glue and then put it on the back of the comb and then just hold it here now it looks like i only held it here for a few seconds because of the the beautiful editing tricks that i do oh magically i'm done now that took me about five minutes of holding that there in the midst of that swarm so that glue could somewhat set and even then i had to come back over and re-glue certain spots because it started it was still soft and the weight of that comb was starting to pull it down and you'll see here i have to like get up try to flick it one of the the watts wasps starts trying to chew the glue right here they're trying to pull her away but i zoom in on her and here at the top you'll see her kind of chewing at it still and trying to get the the glue apart so she may have been from one of the other colonies and just was kind of disrupted by the whole thing and this was something foreign to her just getting some close-up shots here with my phone um and just seeing the amount of chasms and things in between these layers of cones just so cool to see that and there were a lot of adults on this new nest that i put down here and even the ones coming from the nest behind it that they already started to put envelope on you can see that there's a lot of activity coming from that nest into this cone because there still weren't this many adults inside of this nest when i put it here so they're all kind of going together and making a new large colony out of this situation which is so cool to see and they eventually ended up adopting that new comb as the main structure then just so cool to see that up close and the swarm is crazy but it's it's really neat to see how they interact with each other and again after about four days once the envelope was completely covered these comb i never had any problem with them swarming me after the fact they just can they they would mind their business after this point but they do have good memories so once you do relocate them it does take them a few days to calm down with activity around the nest so i do try to like avoid the areas at least stay back about 20 to 30 yards from those areas and they don't bother the chickens or the squirrel or anything coming around this area but i do try to just usher anybody coming in on my property to stay away from certain points until the nests are adapted and this is the last bit of cone that i put on for this apartment complex as i call it so there are five different bald faced hornet nests here now they all decided to go to the one nest they all pretty much stayed around on the other cones and build on them a little bit but they mainly consolidated into one comb seems to be that's what they decide to do so even though i don't really get to show you guys too much of the nest being torn apart this is when i give the nest to the girls uh the chickens and the turkey and give them some of the sustenance from the removals hey baby 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Channel: Hornet King

Views: 1,026,444

Keywords: Hornets, Hornet King, YellowJackets, Wasp Nest Removals, Relocations, Nests, Infestations, Bees, Wasps, Comb, Paper Wasp

Id: azv9T5LzYtI

Length: 13min 38sec (818 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 28 2021