Hornet INFESTATION above YOUR bedroom ceiling! Hornet Wasp Nest Removal!

hey everyone welcome to the Hornet King Channel and in this video I'll be removing a European hornet colony from the ceiling of a very scared client's bedroom ceiling these European Hornets had chewed their way through the drywall it was all the way down to the paper and they are sludge and everything was absorbing into the drywall and was creating this funk and the client couldn't tell where the funk was coming from and of course he wouldn't expect European Hornets but he ended up finding that there were European Hornets flying in and out of his home he called me and I came to investigate and remove this nest for him I bring it home and feed it to my animals my two emu my 10 chickens my Ria and my squirrel here's the video check it out I'm the Hornet King and I remove some incredible and insane wasp [Music] nests [Music] towards the end of this video I'm going be doing something a little bit different I'm going to be answering your questions that I get a lot in the comments so stay tuned to the end to get the answer to those burning questions you've been having oh my that's soft soft huh yeah it's a little bit soft the paper's soft try to preserve the dry well the best I can but look at that see it's already peeling I'm trying to be gentle I don't want to stir them all up before I open the cake space up is this exciting or what all right get ready see what's coming out of here the door I don't close it yet you got to see what's happening first there they are all right I haven't Disturbed anybody yet if you want to take a look is it what it's on the dry wall no it's above it oh I'm just trying to be still because I want to show as much of this as I can that is a very very active nest what you talking about how big it's very active it's got a lot of workers in it there's a lot of sludge in here a lot of waste right so this particular species is the European hornet or Vespa crabro which is a cavity nest building Hornet species these are not yellow jackets people will often mistake these for a very big yellow jackets because they have a lot of yellow on them so what's the difference between a hornet and a yellow jacket well both of them are different types of wasps so wasp is the family name and that encompasses Yellow Jackets Hornets cicada killers Mudders Etc they're all types of wasps but when it comes to hornets and yellow jackets the primary difference between the two are the sizes of the individuals themselves so yellow jackets are smaller more slender depending on the different species of yellow jacket but Hornets are more robust and they're very very large so this particular species the best cbro are anywhere from like about an inch and 3/4 to 2 in long and they're very very robust and they're just a very Hardy insect so when you see them flying around they look like hummingbirds they look so big but they're really not that big they just are more intimidating so with yellow jackets they have a lot more in their colonies so like German Yellow Jackets will have about anywhere from like 5,000 to 10,000 in the colony but vesa crabro they'll have anywhere from like 2500 to 5,000 Hornets in the colony now this particular Colony this one wasn't the biggest one I'd ever seen but it was very very active there were a ton of workers inside of this colony and a lot that were out foraging and then the nests themselves were very packed with larvae and Pupa so this was going to be a continuing problem for this client because there's going to be a lot more hatching out throughout the rest of the season so when I come to someone's home they say you know I've been seeing a stain on the ceiling I've been smelling this God awful smell I had no idea what was going on above the ceiling some people actually check they'll go and they'll tap on their ceiling they'll punch right through the drywall into a very active nest and they get stung and attacked and everything else plus they release a lot of the Wasps into the room so with this particular client he just noticed the odor and he saw this saw the stain on the ceiling and he could hear them in there and that's when he went outside investigated outside and could see the activity flying in and out from the exterior part of his home so he put two and two together and decided to call me to come and investigate and get the nest out so I didn't even have to like go into his bedroom fully I could smell them just walking upstairs like it smells like a very sweet like sewy smell so the second I got into his bedroom and noticed a soft spot and then I was just able to get started and start removing the nest so I pull out this nest and I try to vacuum up all the workers and things off the comb itself and also the ones that are left over inside the cavity I did stay here for quite a bit and just vacuum up all the ones that made our way into the living space and all the ones that were coming back from foraging and then eventually I fixed his drywall and patched it for him and then spackled everything so all he has to do is just have a skim coat of spackle put on then he can Prime and paint it so then it' be done this client was very nervous if you can't tell in the beginning of this he was very nervous about these he was afraid of was so he was very happy that I came out and removed this nest for him Dwayne yeah you want to see it there's your nest oh look at that Nest there's still quite a few inside of it but they're oh my God it's okay right you're right you're right she's gone to the light there's quite a few up inside this cavity still coming in from foraging so all right let me get I got to get some of the drywall stuff so I get the nest home at the end of the day this is a European hornet Queen from one of the nest that I removed not this particular one and I was just able to vacuum her right up you can tell the Queen's apart from other individuals in the colony because her colors are much more Vivid and more contrasted as opposed to like ones that just hatched or even workers plus she's more robust and much bigger so I think I did about seven or eight removals this particular day and a couple of them were European hornet nest so I get them all out and then just trying to vacuum up any of the residual that are inside the bag maybe some that hatched out on my way home I can vacuum off all the workers off of a nest but by the time I get home there's about you know 40 or so workers that had hatched out of those nests so I just go around and vacuum up all the individuals that are inside of there there's another queen that I just removed and I think that wasn't an actual matriarch in the nest I think that was just one of the newly hatched Queens but you can see the de nests are just packed with larvae and pupa so they're very heavy and it's it's pretty pretty dense when you pick up these nests even though the comb is a little bit brittle for this particular species they have a very brittle comb um but when you pick them up and they're they're packed full with larva and stuff they're very very dense so that's all what I feed to the animals people ask about like well you do you feed the vacuum contents to the animals with all the workers inside of it no I do not feed the vacuum contents to the animals I dump that out of my compost pile and that gets recycled into back into the soil and then I use it for compost but the nests themselves I take them down and feed them to my animals my chickens my emuse my Ria and occasionally the squirrel so once I get everything vacuumed up everything that's alive put everything back in the bag so that way I can transport it down to the backyard where the animals are in the fence take this down the birds Queen European hornet Queen so where have the squirrels been where's the squirrel in this video why aren you you know many times I get that in every single video if I don't show a clip of a squirrel at least 10 people will comment and say where's the squirrel so here's the thing I've had five squirrels over the course of making these videos the first one was Humphrey I got her as an infant baby squirrel a friend of mine from high school said I found this baby squirrel outside it's been squealing all day the mother's not coming back to it so I figured how hard can this squrl be well it is a pain in the butt it's like having a kid all right I raised her up to an adolescent just about an adult squirrel and then it a soft release where I put her out in my Greenhouse me squ squirrel me squ squirr H squirly squirrel hello squirly squirrel oh the sun beating on your face isn't this nice you squ squirrel you already got one how'd you get one already hey scoy scre and then eventually she leaves the greenhouse on her own and then she goes off and forges and explores and she keeps coming back to the greenhous and eventually she'll be completely released and she'll live out on the Hedge r or out in the woods behind my house um Humphrey was the only squirrel that came back constantly and she actually had a couple litters of kittens in my barn and in my Greenhouse which was really cool um but that's not the plan and that's not the intent when I rescue squirrels is for them to be a pet Humphrey was just a very special squirrel that she always came around when I called for her and she would eat a lot of the nests when I would put them out for the chickens and things she was a real star of the channel squ look at his nipples gry s look at your nipples gry s you got babies on his nipples but she actually died like a year and a half two years ago maybe um and she she got some kind of disease she came back to the greenhouse box and she died in the box so it was kind of sad Bittersweet I at least knew that she died um now I had Miss M and miss Emily which was Humphrey's daughter and miss m had died pretty young um but miss Emily I had her up until adulthood and I released her she left and never came back um she may have gotten eaten I don't know um but I always like to think that she just went off and populated the squirrel population down in the woods um and then there was Lady squirrel which was really sweet she stuck around a lot longer than than say like miss Emily miss m um but then there was Princess Peaches and she was the most recent squirrel that I had and I did a off released on her she ended up going out living on the Hedge R I actually watched her build a nest up in one of the trees on the Hedge R which is really cool she came back for like a month she would come back and come and go and things and then eventually I just stopped seeing her so she may have gotten pregnant and then went off into the woods and had her litter of kittens I don't know so every now and then I would see her come back during removals but I have not seen her for probably two months so who knows what happened to her but that again that's not the goal or the intent to keep her my goal and intent is to rescue them and release them because they're wild animals you can't keep squirrels as pets some people try they are successful if they like their things chewed up and having this crazy animal in their home I love having squirrels but I'm not going to lie to you it is a pain in the butt to have a live adult squirrel living in like say my studio or my office they chew on everything they try to make a nest because it's instinctive so yeah they're not pets they're they're solely rescues that I then release one of the other questions that I get a lot in the comments is do I do honeybees or bumblebees so I it's like my life's Mission never to do any kind of honeybee relocation or removals I hate honeybees I mean I love honey be I like all insects but I hate removing honey be Nest it is the most sticky messy nasty timec consuming pain in the butt you could ever imagine um the second you go and start doing a removal you are covered in Honey instantly you're sticky everything's your tools are sticky my vacuum's sticky it loses suction because the tubes getting all filled up with crap it is a pain it is a total mess I don't know how these apist do it Randy from 628 dirt rooster how in the world are you an apist how do you do removals day in and day out and wake up every morning Say Hey I want to do that again give me the Wasps give me all the yellow jackets and the Hornets I weigh rather have yellow jackets and hornets but anyhow there are times where I do get calls and it's just a matter of hey we need these things exterminated because they're X Y andz they have their own list of things why they need to have them removed this last summer I had a client reach out to me and said they had two different apur companies come out to relocate this colony and they got both got swarmed and attacked and the one guy he was only there for 10 minutes he started vacuuming and he got 50 stings so he had enough of it he left he said these are Africanized bees I'm not touching them they need to be just destroyed so she contacted me to come and remove the colony I went up into her attic it was a 1700's house was really super cool but of course they had to be up in the attic and I had to remove some of the stone off the Gable and expose The Colony they didn't seem very aggressive to me because I'm used to yellow jackets and hornets so maybe they were aggressive for honeybees I don't know but I vacuumed everybody up took the nest out and then brought it home and I actually gave it to an ape friend of mine who I usually refer all my calls to for honey bees and she picked up this big trash bag of honeybee nest and she took it out to her apiary yard and she fed it back to her honeybees and they just went and robbed the nest and took all the honey and took it back to their own colony so nothing got wasted other than the colony itself but if it is an aggressive Colony it shouldn't be left around in C there shouldn't be any risk of there being Africanized honeybees in the area now as far as Bumblebees are concerned any bumblebee Colony that I come across or someone calls me to remove I relocate it so I bring it back to my home or I take it over my parents woods and relocated over there there was one that I actually ended up killing because I wasn't prepared for relocation it was kind of like hey while you're here can you remove this bumblebee nest and I was in the middle of a lot of removals there was no way this thing was going to survive so I vacuumed everybody up I brought the nest back to the house and did a lot of video showing what the Bumblebee Nest looked like and there's tons of comments of people saying that bumblebees don't make honey they absolutely do make a honey I don't think it's the same honey as honeybees cuz honeybees they dehydrate and really kind of control the water content and percentage and it gets really sticky and kind of thick and viscous as opposed to bumblebees which is more like glorified nectar like it's kind of like watery but it's still sticky too you put it between your fingers you get the string you know and I tasted it and I would say it's probably sweeter than honey it is really really good so you think they're going around to clovers and things like that and going to the Clover flowers and it might be a completely different taste than what you get with honeybees I don't know a big question that I get often about my animals is what do I do with my animals and what do I feed them over the winter time obviously I'm not giving them yellow jacket and Hornet larvae cuz I'm not removing Nest this time of year so what I have to do is I give them a lot of produce a lot of store balt Foods so I give them a lot of like grapes apples watermelon and a ton of spinach they love spinach something else I do is actually grow barley grass so I get the seeds off like Amazon and then I grow the grass blades to about 9 in tall and then I feed that to them so I do it in my Greenhouse or I do it in my Studio down here where it's warm grow the grass and then just throw out these like blankets I wish I had some footage of it but throw out these blankets of of grass basic like sod but there's no dirt really um throw that out for the animals and they just love it I do have some clips here of the emuse and the Ria eating a bunch of grass that I pick so if I like do weeding around my yard I can just take those clumps of grass and weeds and take them down to the animals and the emus and the Ria especially will eat them they're pretty much omnivores like they will eat like protein like meat things like eggs um they I'll feed the chicken eggs back to them and the Emu and the Ria will also eat them um but then I also give them like you know kitchen scraps and things and they'll eat that like chicken and and turkey and um other anything I mean birds will eat anything so that's pretty much what I do now as far as I store bought stuff at my local pet supply um I get a chicken feed crumble which the Emu and the r will eat and I also get peanut Hearts which is basically just crushed down and sifted through peanuts um where it's actually like pieces of peanuts not the full peanut and I'll toss them into a big bowl and the Emu and the and the Ria will eat that for good protein content so that's something else that I do and it just keeps everybody fat and happy now the problem with feeding them those kinds of foods is that they're messy eaters so there's always like cracked corn and chicken crumble and um and the peanut hearts on the ground well that attracts Wild animals so I get skunks I always have baby skunks under my under my barn they get inside the horse stall and they go underneath the concrete and they tunnel around in there and they they have babies on I about to say they lay eggs but they have babies under there and then the babies emerge and they're really cute but I don't want a ton of skunks around in my barn so I wish I could get them out of there I'm G to have to try to do like a live trap what I recently had were rats now it's not like I was afraid of the rats or like the pejorative kind ation where it's like they're messy or they're or they're conniving and they're like tearing things up it was nothing like that I didn't even know they were there and so I started seeing these little borrow starting to form underneath the concrete and these like piles of dirt and stuff and I was like who's doing that those holes are too small to be a skunk but too big to be a mouse so I ended up setting up some Have a Heart Traps and I trapped a few rats I I trapped five of them and they were big big brown rats um so I actually just relocated them over to my parents wood so they'll have another life over there I just don't want them under my bar the other thing I get are raccoons so I get raccoons every now and then um I had this baby raccoon that got trapped in the fence and it tried to climb out but it got light outside and end up falling asleep on the top of my fence post which is absolutely adorable um but I don't really care to have raccoons in the barn obviously so um because they can attack the chickens but the emun and the Ria actually keep a lot of those kind of animals um out of the way cuz emus will stomp out a dog I mean God forbid dog comes into my emu pen and I would hate to see certain dogs that bark all the time I hate to see them get stomped out by my emus anyway so yeah so the Emu are pretty protective of the of their environment so a lot of animals like Hawks and things if hawks fly over they go nutty and they'll scare away the hawk so I don't have to worry about my chickens too much with Hawks but but interestingly speaking of hawks I had a nest of hawks right on the pine tree next to my house here and they had babies I think there was like five babies came out of that and I got to watch them grow from chicks all the way up to young adults and the mom and dad stayed with them feeding them and stuff all the way up to Young adulthood which is really interesting um they never bothered my chickens at all they were Cooper's Hawks so they were a little too small to go after my chickens um and anyway they were afraid of the emuse so but yeah so that's the that's the animals I get around here and that's kind of how I take care of them throughout the winter time um it is kind of nice to be a part of the uh the ecosystem here that kind of helps even the wild animals but um so it's neat to see the variety of animals come to my property because I'd feed them The Nest or whatever so but I thought maybe you guys would enjoy getting the answers to some of these questions you have so if you guys have any other questions you got burning questions you want to know the answers to about either what I do here with wasps or what I do as far as my animals are concerned drop in the comments I'd love to do more of these interactive type of videos and just address the things you guys have questions about and anything you're interest go booties he go sweetie booty that's Doris hey sweetie booty do Doris Doris hey [Music] Doris tell sweetie enjoy if she gets on her knees like that oh me we [Music] we for e sweetie booty sweetie booty is that [Music] appropriate well enjoy birdies PJ squirrel came back for a visit she's been living Wildlife on the Hedge R so she can't back for some almonds and peanuts been giving her some snuggles she's been enjoying the fruits of my labor maybe I'll bring a nest down I got a nest she can nibble at we'll go grab that quick come one down here sque come e this sque come nibble it sque goad nibble it come nible this squ here you go take squ oh what a good sque o what a good squ what a good sque thank you guys 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 have any suggestion for future videos or something like you see me cover in an upcoming video also drop in a comments let me know I wanted to let you guys know that I got more t-shirts I have youth 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Channel: Hornet King

Views: 160,949

Keywords: hornets, wasp nest removal, Hornets nest, Infestation, Hornet King, Yellow jackets, Wasp, Emus, Rhea, Squirrel, bees

Id: FJBDLXLVL0c

Length: 26min 53sec (1613 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 17 2023