HUGE Yellow Jacket Ground Nest | How To Remove A Ground "Bee" Nest | Wasp Nest Removal

hey everyone brad here with the hornet king channel in this video i'm gonna be removing an awesome subterranean yellowjacket species for a client plus let me take you guys a tour around my property to show you all the nests that i've relocated this past season including six bald face hornet or aerial nest building yellow jacket species one subterranean species and one european hornet nest inside my barn here's the video guys check it out [Music] this is an eastern yellow jacket colony vespula macula fronds that's a subterranean species that had made their nest in the ground next to this retaining wall vestibulomachula fronds queens in the beginning of spring will suss out mold tunnels or any kind of rodent tunnel to start building her nest so that's what happened here this is it was originally either a vole or a mole tunnel and the queen had started her nest inside of that tunnel as the colony starts to develop and more adults start hatching they will start excavating out that tunnel to grow the comb and the nest structures larger so by the end of the season you can have a very very large hole dug simply by wasps chewing little bits of dirt and carrying it out bit by bit they're excavating is absolutely incredible so you can see the numbers coming out of this hole this was a nest with probably about 1500 adults inside of it and as you can see when i'm pounding on the ground they just pour out from the entrance way so oftentimes people suggest in my videos about just gassing the entrance way and then that'll kill the nest and this and that this is a prime example as to how that's not always successful this tunnel went completely horizontal for about eight eight or nine inches and actually had a dip in it before it actually got to the nest so if you poured any sort of fluid down in that hole either a would have ran right back out or b it would just kind of stay in that lower dip in the tunnel and would have just absorbed into the ground from there so mole tunnels have multiple different branches and swoops and angles and things so you never really know where the tunnel is going to end up getting into the nest so in this case this nest was right to the left of where the entrance way was so i was actually pounding on the ground and i could hear the hollow sound underneath of the grass where the nest would be that's a queen right there in front of us so queens and males were hatching from this colony so you can actually see a lot of males coming out you can see queens coming out males typically aren't aggressive but they will try to leave the nest if the nest is disturbed so that's what's happening here there's a lot of males that are coming out to the entrance way and it's merely just to escape they're not going to go to attack you know they're they're freeloaders and they are escapees um and then the queens are coming out too because they're they're trying to escape as well they typically won't attack so i spent a lot of time as a queen i spent a lot of time here just vacuuming up as many of the adults as i can from the outside of the entrance way and that way when i start digging into the nest there's going to be few that are going to start swarming swarming individuals are not leaving the nest they are swarming me to attack and then they'll go back to the nest itself you'll see here that the ones that are that are crawling past the vacuum they're being actually pretty smart because they they don't want to get sucked up they can feel the turbulence so with the vacuum process i put the nozzle perpendicular to the entrance way and waiting for adults to try to fly so i can vacuum them up so there i just located where the nest was and i can hear that hollow spot in the ground so that's where i'm going to shove my shovel in to pull up this sod and expose the top of the nest a couple latched onto my glove here i like to pull them off even though they can't sting through the glove because i just don't want to give them that opportunity the longer they're on me the longer they have a chance to to sting me so you start to see some of the adults flying out of the hole i just made and less coming out of the entrance way they sense that disturbance and instead of going out through the tunnel they're going out through the top of the nest so as with any of my ground nest removals as you've seen i use my vacuum as an excavating tool so all the fine pieces of dirt and things that are landing on the nest i use the vacuum to just suck them off instead of trying to use my fingers to brush them off and potentially damage the top of the nest it's always a personal vendetta to try to get nests out all in one piece specifically with groundness i don't like leaving anything down in the hole or having things break apart when comb breaks apart then there's tons of adults in between the layers of comb and that just releases them to fly the comb structures stay intact they typically will stay in between the layers and the key here with a ground nest removal is just taking your time the more hasty you get the more they're going to swarm and not necessarily that that's a problem as far as them getting away or quote unquote escaping like some people may assume it's more just the fact that that's fly flying adults that you then have to try to batten down later or wait for them to go into the original tunnel to vacuum them up so i try to make it as time efficient as possible if that makes sense even taking my time doing it so need how that the vacuum just exposes all the different layers and gaps in between the the the nesting material so the outside fluffy stuff you're seeing was the envelope so just like a bald face hornet nest builds envelope around a nest from the outside these nests will have that same type of structure from inside of the hole and this is a massive nest i mean this is a really good size all those white caps were going to become adults so those were actually become queens or males depending on who laid the egg if it was a worker it would become a male and if it was the queen it would become a new queen it's a beautiful structure and i was able to get that all in one piece and get it into the bin pretty much without incident and show it to the camera here so you can see from inside the bin and then covering it up pretty much right away because any of the adults that are swarming from the outside are going to sense the nest and sense the queen in there and they're going to fly into that bin and that's just more that i have to try to take a take out later so just put the bin back on top or lid back on top so i want to show you guys the inside of the cavity here so all of this space was dug out by the wasps themselves this was not a cavity that was here before this cavity was made by the wasps so one digger had to go through and pinch with their mandibles and pinch out a little tiny less than a pea-sized amount of soil mush it together and then carry it out the entrance way and drop it in this guy's yard look how pretty that envelope is so that envelope is laid just like bald faced hornets they they lay it from the inside layer out as opposed to the outside layer in there's a there's the queen at the very bottom there to the right of my nozzle and she almost went up in the nozzle but then i i saw her i wanted to grab her this is the queen for the hive you can tell she's more robust more mature and has a little bit more of an orange color to her than the new queens had people often ask why i don't release the queens she would just die anyway she can't fly anymore so she going into the vacuum is really the most humane thing to do and once i start pulling out this envelope you start to see how clean the pebbles are at the bottom a lot of these adults here at the bottom are males and some new queens look how clean the pebbles are they not only dig out the soil around the stones but then they actually pick all the soil off the stones so they're left with the super clean pebbles just really wild you i mean to think that those were underground it's ridiculous and that root was picked completely clean all the way around it so it was basically circumcised of soil from inside of a dark cavity you don't get to see it in the video because i didn't have the foresight to keep the cameras running when i when i filled back in the hole but the client had a bag of store-bought soil and it took three quarters of the bag to fill that in look how clean those stones are i mean it looks like someone like put them in a rock polisher so the hole at the right here that hole there just below the root that was the original mold tunnel so the entrance way to there is what the original tunnel looked like and then they excavated all that soil around it from top to bottom so i just take some time to fill in the soil with what was left on the outside obviously it's not enough to suck up the rest of the foragers that were coming back and foraging and also getting the rest of the swarming adults that were attacking me as they made their way back to the nest so so so so so so so so [Music] on turkey oh skipper oh tigger's your name is a master cleanup out here okay come on birds i got some yummy what's new oh me all right so this is one of the first nests that i relocated this past season bald-faced hornet derelict vespula immaculata which is actually an aerial nest building yellow jacket for all of you have been with my channel for a while you are tired of hearing me say that but for my newer viewers it's probably new information for you these are yellow jackets not hornets lot of misinformation especially on youtube itself so we got to make sure i clarify this nest is absolutely humongous i relocated this probably at the middle early july i wanted to make sure i got it on the glass so that way as it grew you'd be able to see it from the inside pretty much like a large ant farm so let's go inside and see what it looks like from behind the glass stinks up here because of the european hornets european hornets are just down to that trap door there and they stinky that smell anywhere all right since the inside of the nest and as you can see it's phenomenal so all this in here that there is all comb and they built the envelope around the comb initially so i couldn't see into the nest but then as the season progressed they chewed down the layers of envelope to then expose the back of the comb to the glass now i can see in so every one of these lines is a layer of envelope that they had laid on there as the nest gets bigger it's not just one outside layer it's actually about 10 or 13 layers it's a good size all right let's check out the next nest what jewish all right let's go check out that next nest all right so this nest here i think is pretty much done for the season you can tell that because it has a lot of perforations in the envelope and the perforations are from not being repaired frequently so this envelope gets holes in it throughout the season and then the adults come on focus and then the adults actually repair that as they go throughout the season so this nest is pretty close to the one up there as you can see never gave me a bother this season at all all right let's get on check out the next one all right so the next one we're going to check out is the european hornet nest that i relocated into a box and put it inside the wall of my barn so this is them here they're doing very well and i'm usually around them pretty much four times a day checking them out getting video and they don't mind me at all the fringing that you see that was chewed out along the outside was something they did to make the hole bigger see if we get her fanning the audio [Music] they're not used to me holding a microphone up to them there she goes good job going inside and feed somebody all right so let's go inside and take a gander all right so this is the box here and that's the nest it's hard to see up inside of there right now because they got so much fluid on the sides let me take damp that's a whole new bottom layer of comb since i think i showed you guys the last video that thing is huge so i'm gonna be replacing this plexiglas while they're in there and i'll be having that in an upcoming video so that's the nest so we're going to button them back up they like it dark when they do their thing so these are another colony of bald-faced hornets aerial nest building yellow jackets that i had relocated here in the barn well on the barn so i could see through and they're very temperamental because they have good memories of when they were relocated but i put three different colonies side by side and they pretty much all decided to build in that one that one structure so i'll be having a video of that coming up all right let's go back outside european hornets all right so let's check out the other ones that i got going on here um i'd relocated these probably the second nest that i relocated which was back in like mid july so we'll check them out so another colony that's doing really really well still booming they're still building you can tell that there's the active or the colony still active inside because the envelope is still very much intact once the colony starts to die down that's the first thing you notice is that the envelope hasn't been repaired in a while let's go around the tree it's a beautiful nest so when i put this nest here is about the size of a cantaloupe and then [Music] as it grew it weighed down the branch that it was on that branch was initially straight out and now you can see it's bent pretty hard so let's check out this next colony so these are actually the nests that i had relocated you just saw inside the barn so i'm going to show you guys from the outside they are very temperamental they they have a good memory of what happened to them so they they get pretty unhappy with me being out here around the nest but since they put the envelope on they become less temperamental that's actually queen right there on the inside i don't know if you can see her a new queen so it's cool to see new queens coming out so we'll leave them be so we have two more nests to go check out let's go check them out so i'm a wasp nest removal expert i'm not an exterminator i don't do mice and termites and beetles and everything else i just do wasps and that encompasses yellow jackets hornets cicada killers mud daubers etc so usually with my relocation videos i get a lot of questions as to why do i relocate well see the thing is is that not every nest can be relocated so with like the 50 nests that i remove for in a couple weeks only about maybe two or three of them can actually be relocated if it's even possible so really depends on a few factors whether or not i can actually relocate it so wasps are super beneficial yellow jackets hornets cicada killers mud daubers all of them they're beneficial in their own specific ways so i like having them all right property because i hate pests i hate flies japanese beetles aphids spotted lanternflies and these ones take care of all of those plus makes for great content to watch it's like coming home in the evenings and watching them build on the nest i like watching to see how what their behavior is like how they act inside the nest in the colonies late at night i love seeing all that stuff and i love sharing that with my viewers so let's check out the latest nest here all right so unfortunately i never actually kept the footage from this particular removal the numbers are starting to go down you can tell because they're starting to lose a little bit of their envelope i'm starting to lose some construction pieces here but they're still working there's still a few in here so i know i don't have the uh removal of this nest but i know i have the uh relocation oh she's checking me out what's up girlfriend you're good in the hood girlfriend just keep doing what you're doing all right let's head on over to the other nest so this nest is done it finished up uh about a week ago all right so you see this nest here there's a lot of disrepair a lot of the envelopes starting to fall by the wayside because nobody's there to repair it and fix it it's a good nest though when it was there all right so this nest was an eastern yellow jacket nest that i relocated back in the spring and a freaking possum got to it not even three days ago so i wanted to show everybody what that was gonna be like when i dug it up at the end of the season but unfortunately this is as big as the nest got a little bit of kim here i could dug out a good bit [Music] all right everyone thank you 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 i know i haven't been posing too many videos lately but i have gotten so much content but i just haven't had enough time to really work on the videos from doing all these removals so just wait patiently as the 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Length: 25min 34sec (1534 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 24 2020