Bald Faced Hornets 2 Nests Wasp Nest Removal Yellow Jackets

hey everybody thanks for much for tuning in to check out this removal video this is actually tube removal videos and one these are actually within a sleep like the same day both their bald-faced hornet s-- however the one is basically what you're used to seeing me do where i vacuumed up the foragers and majority of the adults and then I removed the nest and take it home and then feed some larvae to my chickens but there was another removal I had to do for a fella there was a little ways away actually he somebody who watches my YouTube videos she's pretty cool and his nest was pretty high up it was about 15 15 feet up above above the driveway and I had to snip it down and there was really no way for me to get my back him up there to vacuum up the forger so I had to snip the nest down in a special way so you guys can check out how that how that unfolds a little bit later on in the video so this nest and this nest was a little bit of a smaller nest it was even though it's pretty close to full term see it's three adults there they're actually laying simultaneously it's pretty cool alright so I bumped the nest and you can see them swarming out I mean just the numbers in this nest was pretty phenomenal even though it was a smaller nest they they weren't short on hands as far as having some adults available to build so how bald faced when it's act is when they go out to swarm they will come out they will swarm the individual of the target which was me in this case in the vacuum and then they could basically fly around a little bit they sting the area they dive bomb they don't latch on like other Yellowjackets and then what suppose to go right back to the hole so even though they're swarming around I just keep the nozzle of the vacuum pretty much great at the entranceway of the nest and that's as soon as they start flying back before they land they get sucked up into the vacuum I know I've mentioned this in my other videos for those of you don't know the vacuum is to suck the adults into the vacuum while they're mid-flight not while they've land and once they landed so as they're taking off or as they're landing that's when the vacuum is effective as effective it's not really to suck them off the nest and also don't want a stronger vacuum because I don't want to destroying the nest when I'm trying to get the adults I don't want the hose clogging up or I don't want the or in this case I just don't want to destroy the nest so so I'm just going around here I kept the vacuum nozzle propped so I could just suck up the adults while I wasn't there holding it the whole time there just kind of went around and started trimming some of the branches that were attached to the nest just so I could get it off and bagged easier so I had my lockers with me today well this day wasn't actually today but so I had my lockers with me and finding the main structure branch that's holding the whole thing up and I'm still trying to be delicate because I don't like to rush around on the branch it's holding the nest because I don't want it to rip cuz I don't know how well they secured the comb to it I don't know how well the paper envelope is adhering to it here you can see the two adults get sucked up right away so I had this running for quite a while and I felt like I got the majority of the adults however there's and it doesn't matter how long you have the vacuum running like the once you take the nest down there's always a returning forager so it's just kind of a gamble how long you leave it on for but you know uh snipping around the nest nut and there weren't any coming out of the actual entranceway so whoever were left inside of the nest were either new adults in the Queen or adults that weren't getting the pheromone response to attack so so this was the that was the last structure piece that need to be snipped I was able to get it down so once the nest is down the returning adults don't really know where to go so they kinda just will fly around and but they usually still go to the the location of the hole where the hole used to be entranceway so what I found that if i put my vacuum nozzle towards where the facing that the same direction of where the whole nest was the entranceway the returning it foragers will actually fly it right into that hole they just see a black hole and they'll fly into it because they even know that doesn't look like the nest around it it's still it's a hole for them to fly into so this was virtually in the same location you can kinda see she's a little bit unsure but I already sucked up to doing this technique but then she she eventually succumbs to her desire to go into the hole OOP that one went in I think I'd change it over the to the next frame then before he see her go I did she went all right so this was actually the next removal so as you can see it's pretty high up in this tree and I'm going to slow it down a little bit so you could get a good glimpse of it I didn't leave it all along up my camera so I figure to get a couple shots of me putting on my suit for those of you who don't really see that much in my other videos we don't expose the nasty so we skip right to the pants being pulled up and shirt sweater being put on one leg at a time for the suit the suit I always leave the pant leg around my heel so that way just give me extra protection around my ankles I've been stung on my ankles and that sucks there's nothing it's year then your ankles being stuff [Applause] so once the suit was on I used the poles kind of like a stood back and just kind of tied up the direction as to how well the nest was gonna fall as you can see what I was going to do just drop the nest directly into the bend with the lid right there and then get the the lid on top right away so that way no adults can fly it out so I'm just kind of eyeing up how plum the bucket is directly underneath the the nest fourth drop into so they were getting the getting my snipper pole right onto the branch holding it and one pole of it and then down she goes I'm really quickly getting the lid on and then strike a rocky pose [Music] it's funny watch hold on who the hell would like it's pretty proud of myself and then a slow motion of the rocky pose [Applause] so then once the adults were majority of adults were in the the nest I needed a way to spray up top because there was still a significant amount of foragers coming back and I couldn't really quite reach with on the top of my ladder even though my ladder gets pretty high so I decided to do the ingenious thing of duct taping one of my black flag cans to the snipper pole and then taking an oil cat like an oil bottle cap and taping that to the center of the piece of tape and then putting that right on to the right on to the trigger mechanism for the spray can then taping it down into the spray position so as you can see there it's already spring and I'll tell you what this worked like a charm they didn't see me coming and I was able to hit a good cluster of them that we're kind of congregating up in one of the branches and there's probably about 20 of them and I was able to hit them pretty good with this and unfortunately this was after the fact after I'd already tested out the trick to see if it worked and then this was kind of just to get a few of the flying around foragers but it worked really well I was pretty proud of that of course I didn't turn the microphone on so you can't hear anything other than me talking the voice cool little method it's gonna relocate it but it wasn't wasn't transferring well enough in other words it was a hot day and the nestin survived the transportation from Newark Delaware up to upper Lititz it's about power and a half drive so unfortunately didn't quite make it that far this nest looked like it had some some damage to it and there weren't a lot of adults inside of it and I was half wondering if it wasn't affected it wasn't infested with something so I decided to cut it open and lo and behold it definitely did have some bug damage to it which turned out to be here wigs as you guys know my spouting us had met its demise from here wigs and that was the first time I'd ever seen that happen to an actual live nest and this is the first time seeing that actually happened so this nest I put in the refrigerator for about a day or so so that way the workers at one side of it would be pretty sluggish and wouldn't come out and attack me so as you can see there there's one sitting right on top of the queen cone and she's still pretty sluggish and kind of waking up it's pretty cool Baldy nest you'll see in the comments where I say Baldy that's short too short the bald-faced warning it's really really wild how they build over that it's branch quite a few inside there I'm still sleeping this is Adam the refrigerator it's still pretty slow but they will wake up and actually start waking up - as I'm starting to pluck them out I didn't want to kill them because I was hoping to have them as it's just a trial to see if they would adopt my other nest that the two relocated nests that I put side by sides now a big conglomerate even at this nest brain food tweezing off the dalts isn't nearly as fun as tweezing out larvae just sticking to their more delicate in the sense that you can you try not to hurt them so you got kind of you yet to be precise about where you put the tweezers you got to get them right between their abdomen and their thorax as I call it their waist I was trying to get all these out of Erika's it's gonna be a mess otherwise definitely some kind of bug damage here I don't know if it's mite earwig I didn't see that your way at first but it was still crawling around the tongue really interesting though see down inside here all those cells are all chewed up dead cells such as parts of like partially formed adults in that it makes me think that there is an earwig or something was eating it and then the adults were chewing the rest of the decay out but there's no eggs laid in there for the Queen was busy pretty calm enough here to destroy it one for these adults start to wake up it's going to get pretty chaotic so this made a lot of sense to as to why there weren't as many adults coming out of the nest and that's because as they were developing the earwig is going in and killing and eating the be partially formed or pue paiting adults and that's why I was finding remnants of like half their bodies and things inside those cells some of these are new adults and some of these are active adults I think he meant mature adults lol mature adults should think I thought of it first I'm tweezing adults the best way to grab them it's right at the waist I don't know if you can see that hang on best way to grab them is right at the waist there's a couple new Queens in this mess that is a tub of pretty angry Hornets Yellowjackets this mess was definitely having problems earwigs told you guys it was earwigs not definitely what it was everyone just crawl there at the bottom of the screen but I didn't notice it till after I moved the pick em to the side these guys were all again it's amazing that that can take down a whole hornets nest what I call the weasel of the insect world there's that little weasel just trying to give a good backdrop for to camera can focus alright buddy off you go I didn't kill it just saying you kill it unlike that spider from the spout mess that I keep getting crap for how much damage to that comb this is a good healthy comb Queen combs damage to the Kali shoot away in here definitely your wig damage and for you larva holux a much awaited larva tweezing portion of the video I haven't included much of this inch because there hasn't been much actual tweezing going on it is very time consuming to spend time tweezing out the larva but this nest wasn't gonna be used for anything and I wasn't really sure how much of this nest that one of the girls to peck at you know as much as I was pretty confident it was earwigs I didn't want there to be anything in here parasite related that could be potentially harmful to the girls so and it's decided to tweeze out the larva that were healthy which were pretty much all over [Applause] interestingly enough whenever I've seen your way damaged in wasps nests like this it seems like the earwigs don't attack the larva it seems like they just attacked the Pew pating adults so I don't know what the difference is there or why they decide to go for that maybe I don't like The Machinist of the larva or something you see a lot it's still a lot of the damaged cells and you know people ask if the Queens will reuse the cells over again after an adult hatched from that particular cell and literature and the research papers that I've read says that they will not reuse the same cells twice and that's just not true I mean I I like to try to believe entomology departments and these colleges and things that studied these but I've seen many many nests where there's like as you can see like where the whites caps used to be on these like top middle you can see eggs laid inside of there so that white cap has been removed by an already Pugh pated adult and then the Queen went back there over that same cell and relayed eggs so like I said as much as I like to agree with research papers and things they're not researching every nest so just like any other aspect of life they don't follow rules 100% you know there's no law that they follow they do whatever they want to do and each nest is very different each colony is very different so you can see different stages of piu patient here there's some partially formed white adults there's larvae that start to have the eyes formed on them as larvae that still just look like larvae then there's one like that where it's it has the color of a larva but it's got all the anatomy of an adult wasp and the the partially formed adults are very very delicate like more delicate than larvae larvae at least have kind of a thick skin about them the ones that start going through that pew patient and they get really morally tender and really hard to pull out with off without tearing it sounds are barbaric but they're gonna get eaten anyway I mean it's not like they're I'm saving them by tweezing them out it doesn't hurt them like the larvae doesn't hurt them to come out like I mean Lang them the in that jar it's it's not like they're in pain or that they're suffering I mean they're it's really no different than them being in the cell people often ask how long they can survive outside the cell they you can last a long time I mean I've had I've had them in little bowls like that for 12 hours I mean they were in the refrigerator just to keep them kind of slowed down their metabolism and slow down their their need to eat but as soon as they warm up they're back to their wiggly self and looking for food the cell doesn't do any protecting as much as it it's just like a place for them to kind of be organized to be fed and and then once they're actually ready to to go through their metamorphosis then it gives them a place to to to pupate another thing to take notice to - in this nest is the the sporadic placement of the white caps and the sporadic placement of the larvae oftentimes with bald-faced Hornets you'll find that the the white caps are in like a perfect circle so the Nats almost look like a bull's-eye this nest it's very sporadic and I think it's just because of the the attack of the infestation of term of earwigs it was causing them to have to attack and probably rip out certain cells and then the Queen just kind of was laying eggs into any spot that there was a free unoccupied and not contaminated cell this was the first pretty much cool term nest I've ever seen that looked this disorganized and I don't think this nest woulda lasted to the end of the season anyway there were Queen combs and and they were unscathed so far by the Year wigs but given a little bit more time that your wigs may have found their way into those and compromised them as well there's some performing adults there I was able to get this one out in one piece you can see the legs everything's formed it just hasn't gotten that hard shell on it yet it's very very soft and delicate pull another one out here so that one kind of broke open is no nice way to do that unfortunately there's a pretty much formed adult there in the center it looks a little bit like hazy and that's just because it wasn't quite it's time to come out yet it's it's formed but it hasn't it's it's hard shell body has a fully formed yet still kind of waxy and their cover colors get more vivid as it's time for them to come out new clips now you guys like to see the the white caps being pulled off and seeing the different stages of forming adults and things something I would like to try to in the future is to get a pretty much like a small cell to put one of these forming adults in to see this is practically a fully formed adult here she's um she was pretty much ready to start chewing her way through in the next day or so but to get make like a little cell very similar to this and make it a little bit bigger and start feeding put a larva in it and start feeding here and seeing if I can get one to grow and then pupate and then make a full adult might be a good winter time project I do have a couple of nests in the refrigerator and I can wake up the adults out of that nest once that I found if I try to recall them down after waking them up once and they they don't survive I was able to do with my queen over the last winter Princess Zelda definitely Queen Marvel but um that was because they kept waking her up and then giving her food and then putting her back in there so she was able to have sustenance so these are Queen or male larva there's really no way to tell the difference between the two other than just being able to tell that they are one or the other because of the size of the cell and obviously the size of the larva worker larva are a lot smaller because they're fed less and they're in smaller cells the larger cells gives them more room to grow and once they're laid the workers will focus their attention on the queen and male larva and feed them a lot more therefore they get bigger because they have more nutrition so larvae are basically external stomachs for the adults the adults will go out and they'll forage and they'll hunt food junk food like plugs and things they bring it back chew it up and then they split it up between the the nursery adults who were the tenth of the larvae and they they divvy it out to the larvae to eat so what the larvae do is they chew on it and crunch it up and then just eat it and then the byproduct of that is like a sugar water that has that enzymes protein in it and what will happen is though the adults have come over and just kind of check on larvae that have already eaten and the larvae sense the adults by vibration and they regurgitate a little bead of clear fluid and the adults will drink that so the they feed the larvae the chunk food that they cannot eat they can't process chunk food themselves their wastes are too small to digest and so they feed the the larvae the chunk food the larvae eat it chop it up act like an external stomach and then regurgitate the fluid like they're peeing and the adults will eat that Tricia's fluid treet and so that's how they get their food now adults will also eat nectar from flowers so if they're out foraging and they're they get really tired or overheated they will stop at flowers and eat nectar I've seen that quite a bit especially around here at my house I have three nests bald-faced hornet nest and I do see the vault based Hornets go to flowers I have a lot of flowers here on my property and a lot of gardens and I do see the bald-faced hornet fluttering around flowers every now and then to get the nectar so they do pollinate everybody for those who think they are just evil for whatever reasons because they sting you if you're around their nest let me just say if you had an intruder come in your house I think you would probably be protective and do what you can to try to keep someone away and that's what bald-faced Hornets do and all other types of wasps they aren't just stinging because they feel like it they're stinging you because you're a threat they think you're a threat you think you're gonna try to destroy their there do they tack another question I get is is that ultra Stingley and forming the bowl another question I get is about the Stingers the stinger is actually called a knobby posit or which is only an attribute or an anatomy piece of the female workers and the female wasps male workers do not have the opposite or the stinger basically the same way is that male humans do not have a vaginal canal virtually pretty much what it is it is a means of Queens and female workers to lay eggs and it also acts as an basically like a hypodermic needle that they can sting their prey and paralyze it while they carry it home or chew it up or do whatever they have to do and in a sense of the male's they do not have a Navi posit or a stinger so this is more queen Kim but these were cells that were built probably last of all the codes that were built and just a few queen eggs were laid and just just a few larvae we're developing and there's one worker sack in there I don't know why there was a particular worker laid in there but there was and it's a worker because how little it is so this particular what could have been a queen if it was fed more but it wasn't so what's its cap to go through it's a few patient it was ready and it was gonna become a worker look at all that grub äj-- and as exciting as this as to see all this and I figured this is a good time is I need to tell you guys I don't know where the shot is of me feeding this to the chickens I looked and hunted and hunted and I don't know if I just deleted it or what but unfortunately I don't have that particular shot but I had other nests that I let the girls peck apart and and you get to see that at least feed on something because I wanted to include the girls in my videos now a lot of you guys are disappointed if I don't include them and say I only came here for the chickens quote-unquote so even though this is a Hornet Channel my girls are taking over and I'm alright with it because I love him so so without further ado Oh from left to right angel pigeon and ginger and this was shot about a week or so ago and right now pigeon looks like depth because she's going through her molting stage so she has feathers all over my yard and all over her coop and she she's all straggly looking and it's better than happens now than during the winter I always feel bad for him during the win when they go through a molting stage cuz they're out in the snow and stuff and they're we're all bald lookin ginger usually moulting the winter not sure why her body decides that's a time for her to do it but it's usually when she does it though her feathers are starting to look a little bit a little bit fringed so I'm wondering if she's not gonna start going through her moulting period as well basically moulting what it is the the the birds will drop their feathers and then they will regrow new feathers it's a very very painful time for them they don't lay eggs and they can actually they can actually bleed the death if they get in a fight with another chicken during that tooth during that period angel for whatever reason seems to have periods of bleeding when she goes there for molting stages and I always have to kind of keep an eye on her because I've had her bleed pretty good at the base of the feather where the quill is it can actually it's actually a very sensitive and and there's a lot of blood flow there so when they drop their feathers that's almost like an open wound becomes very very sensitive for them so I'm glad that she's going through it now and getting it out of the way before the winter time because could you imagine having open sores and being out cold and by mean by meeting out the cold they still come out of their coop and they run around the yard even if it's snowing and they're pretty diehard Birds it's not a much as much out there for them to eat but I do feed them quite a bit of more like table food and stuff that they they eat everything pizza anything funniest thing watching a chicken eat pizza it's really fun we'll eat cheeseburgers eat anything they are not picky about their pecky [Applause] one making the noises at the angel talking saw she had a tick she didn't have one use your enemies I let her go say between that little song and cheep-cheep-cheep those are the two songs that they like excitedly do that make those noises and I'd like to talk to them when they're talking to me so encourages them to talk more to me so Yellowjackets nests the big one in the middle hard to the right that's a bald-faced hornet nest and that was angel pooping they're buttholes called a vent funny word it looks like man lips like it's what her butt looks like and what they poop out of is the same thing the Reg comes out of so think about that the next time you cook up some eggs you'll wash them from now on I bet the best little vacuums I mean they're like little yard vacuums look forget her your how dare her eat a larvae next to you alright guys thanks so much for tuning in to check out this video if you guys enjoyed this content drop in the comments let me know what you think if you haven't subscribed already please consider doing so if your returning subscriber thanks for much for tuning in to check out my content and supporting my channel my GoFundMe campaign is still going on for my crowdfunding and if you guys would like to donate and support my channel you can just go to the link in the description and I appreciate any donations you guys can provide thanks so much for tuning in guys and I'll catch you on the next video

Channel: Hornet King

Views: 622,565

Rating: 4.8845472 out of 5

Keywords: Yellow Jackets, Hornets, Wasp, Wasp Nest Removal, Bees, honeycomb, bee keeping, Bald Faced Hornets, Paper Wasp

Id: MkxzW4lT9qQ

Length: 37min 16sec (2236 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 27 2019