HUGE Yellow Jackets Nest in Basement Ceiling | Wasp Nest Removal | Wasp Infestation

hey everyone thank you so much for tuning in to check out the hornet king channel in this video i'm going to show you guys the process that i use to remove an eastern yellow jacket colony from the ceiling of a client's basement plus i'll be showing you guys close-ups of an adult wasp hatching from the comb plus a little bit of tweezing of the larva to feed to my chickens and my turkey here's the video check it [Music] out oh yeah i can see daylight through this where this pipe comes through the wall you can hear buzzing crawling and carrying on in there [Music] do they breathe also what's that do they breathe oh yeah yeah through their abdomen they don't breathe through their mouth i breed oh yeah yeah there's there's probably at least a thousand in here okay let's start vacuuming them up all right so the first thing i wanted to do was vacuum up as many of the forgers that were coming back into the ceiling space as fast as i could without disturbing the nest what i didn't want to have happen was have a swarm start so you can see there's actually two places where they're coming in from this big pipe on the right hand side of the screen and a large cable for the air conditioning unit outside came through and they neither one of them were properly caulked so that's where they were coming in from so i just tried to vacuum as many as i could since there being over a thousand in this nest i really didn't want them all swarming the exact same time so if i can batten down the numbers beforehand without without disturbing the colony that would be ideal and i was pretty successful at that so as since my vacuum is pretty powerful it could rip that envelope off in a hurry this is an eastern yellow jacket colony and they make kind of weaker envelope and weaker cone that kind of crumbles so getting too close with the nozzle would certainly rip the uh envelope off of that and disturb the whole colony i'll let a couple more come in from outside there's a there's actually two entrance ways there's one where this pipe is then there's another one there's a big heavy cable that comes through oh there's one on your top oh really well she's on the outside i'm fine with that what's your wife think about this stuff she didn't even see it i did that no good that's probably a good thing right but she was interested in the photos yeah the kids are too okay i mean it looks very artistic it is isn't it i mean even just that like it's but it's really like the stuff that i let you hold first yeah it's really strong this stuff is really crumbly if you touch that it starts to fall apart because they're just a different species okay the paper i gave you before is a full face hornet and that one's a like she's she actually stung my glove she stuck on my glove oh man so right now how many you think are in there is it at least at least a thousand right now right now yeah at least a thousand i've already sucked up probably 100 of them so allow a little bit of time for some more foragers to come back in so i can just vacuum them up real quick at this point i'm going to start vacuuming off the envelope and exposing the comb so that is going to cause them to swarm quite a bit and uh i was pretty prepared for that at the time but you as you can hear the homeowner is actually standing not too far behind me and i made a joke with him that i thought was funny that i'm all gussied up in my suit and he was literally standing behind with a short sleeve t-shirt and just like an afghan wrapped around his neck really cool dude i was really we really had a good time removing this nest so just take a little bit of time here just vacuuming off as much of the envelope to expose the comb and as i do this one adults are going to start emerging and as they do i just suck them up as fast as i can to try to avoid too much of a swarm people often ask during my videos uh while watching is how come i allowed the adults to swarm um and you know am i not concerned about them flying into the uh into the living space for the homeowner um but the thing is is that um this being an alternative message to just spraying a bunch of chemicals um i'm physically mechanically removing the colony um allowing them to fly into the room isn't such a big deal because the wasps are gonna fly to the lights or they're gonna fly mainly to the window because they're going to go to natural light before they go to artificial light and you know right as rain it's pretty much 99 of the time that's what they do so that's why the homeowner was safe to be standing behind me because they weren't really going to attack him they're going to attack me and they're going to fly to the window which is virtually what they did it's really hard to kind of get this shot if you could see in some of the other angles from my other camera you can see that i'm holding a flashlight between my pinky and ring finger and i'm holding the phone with the same hand trying to get these close-up shots so and of course this pipe was in a really stupid location for this video but just trying to get the best shots as i possibly could and i actually found myself looking through um the video screen of my phone while doing the actual removal more so than looking at the nest with my own eyes it's almost like playing a video game so depth perception is a little off and i really didn't want the vacuum to just like suck up all the comb i actually wanted to try to preserve as much of the comb as i could and try to extract as much larva later as i could to feed my animals so i try not to waste too much of the uh of the colony if i can help it but you can see my vacuum is really strong to where it pulls on the comb if i get too close and it would literally suck up that entire nest if if i allow the nozzle to be too close to the uh to the to the comb itself so that made a little bit tedious trying to suck some of the adults off the side of the comb just because you know if you get too close you're going to destroy everything um but i did want to suck up all the envelope with the with the vacuum because this type of envelope from the eastern yellow jacket it they don't build super strong envelope like bald faced hornets would so you could literally suck up it'll just crumble that envelope as it's getting vacuumed up so this is a good sized colony i mean there's five combs here uh five layers of comb i should say and uh and there was a significant amount of population within this nest um and this is this is a single season that so there's not it's not like they had a couple years to build i mean this started probably in may and you know look we're now at like the beginning of august and this thing has grown to the size that it is so there's a little bit of swarm happening but they are primarily latched onto my wrists and around my veil but i don't know what it is about wrists it's almost like they know that that's a weak spot of the suit but there was probably 30 of them just just latched on to my to my uh the sleeve to my glove so once i got as many of the numbers down as i possibly could i knew there was going to still give me some between the layers of comb and then i was just going to just pretty much just reach with my hand and grab knock the comb down off of the ceiling and then just put it into the bin that i brought with me but it's incredible to me too is that um sometimes that i'll get calls from customers who had um a pest control company come out and they would they would dust the entrance way outside of a nest like this and that's all fine and good but the thing is if you're not hitting the nest it's not going to be effective so that's why i like to physically remove nests for people [Music] is that the big part of the nest that's the main term yeah now i got that trapped inside like my hands covered in yellow jackets all right so now that i got the comb into my bin any foragers that are coming back or any individuals are left up in that space i can vacuum up and i know that there's not going to be any more just re-emerging from the comb and you know having to i could spend hours just vacuuming up if i left the comb up there so leaving the leaving the entrance way that they're using between those two the cable and that pipe leaving that open and allowing once it's still coming from outside allows me to uh know that i'm vacuuming up all of the adults and there's not gonna be like a big swarm outside once i'm finished inside um and you can see here look at them all over my wrists all over my glove and sleeve and if they if they're left to just like sit there if that sleeve gets pushed against my arm like say a bunch against the wall or something they could easily stinger could easily make its way all the way down to my skin and sting me so i try to kind of get them as i go you can see around me they're flying more to my left and that's where the window is that goes to outside and there's plenty of daylight shining through there so most of them were staying on my left hand side and even though i just vacuumed this up there's still a bunch had come in from outside and some of the ones down in the basement were flying back up into the ceiling space and going back to where they thought the nest was and most people asked too is if the adults are able to fly around would they be flying further through the ceiling space the thing is the ceiling space is dark and they will go to the light so they're not really going to fly like into between the rafter further down through the room like they're going to just pretty much stay in this spot and once they do fly down below the ceiling they'll go right to the window so this is how many that were consolidated on the window which makes it really easy to just vacuum them up there was probably maybe 30 35 that were around the window at this point and that was the most that were actually there so most of were pretty much staying either in the cavity or going right back up into the sailing space right when i took the glove off was it on your glove all the time i guess i don't know i don't know i think you just landed on my hand right when i pulled the glove though so after i got the nest home i decided that i was going to try to break apart and get as many of the adults vacuumed up as i could before doing a little bit of filming of the actual nest and also tweezing larva out to give to my chickens but also i want to get some shots of some hatching adults and it can be a bit distracting trying to get good shots when you have individuals flying off the nest so even though this is uh this is maybe like three hours later and maybe a few more um they are still very active they didn't even know they were in my truck pretty much the entire ride home they stayed very active in there they didn't none of them died that i could tell and uh so you can see the queen there is what i just pointed out on my right hand side um so the thing is there's still quite a bit of adults in between the layers of comb obviously it's still the queen so by the time i get home there could have been 20 or so that have hatched between those three layers of comb and cells so you gotta just be aware that even though you vacuum them all up in a short amount of time there's gonna be new ones hatched this is my setup which i'm pretty excited by trying to get as many of the sounds as i possibly could along with trying to uh trying to get good shots of how i actually do dissect these nets once i get them home so so here's the queen here on the back of this flappy comb and obviously she's significantly larger than her daughter's there people often ask to see the inside of the vacuum this is what the inside of my vacuum looks like it starts out as just a little puddle of water with some dawn dish soap just a couple drops and by the time this is the end of the day after doing a few nest removals and it's just sludgy paper like soggy mess and obviously there's adult wasps inside there too so once i'm finished just kind of take the vacuum out and dump it out onto my compost pile that's what i'm doing here is disconnect the hose and you can see there's a lot of adults in there there's probably over 800 adults or so inside that part of the vacuum and that's between bald-faced hornets from two different removals plus yellow jackets all right so this is an adult wasp that started chewing her way through the silk cap and i wanted to show this to you guys what this looks like to see them hatch a lot of people ask about um trying to get shots of them hatching and so what's really wild about how wasps do this is that they the larva will weave the silk cap when they're ready to go into their pupation state or metamorphosis just like a moth or butterfly does when they start you know making their chrysalis or their cocoon so you see once she's actually fully developed she knows to come out of that cell she hasn't used her mandibles yet she hasn't used her legs her antennae or her wings so she just like becomes aware to emerge from that cell and knows exactly how to chew her way out and then when she gets out she knows how to to walk she knows how to like bat her wings she can't fly yet for two more days but it's just really wild how they're created how they were able to um to go through these different stages and they know what to do once they emerge or even when it's time to merge so she'll chew on this for a while this happened maybe about 20 20 minutes maybe and so i do cut it down a little bit but it's wild to see how effective she is at chewing off this bit of silk cap and once she's actually out other adults would come by and chew off the rest of the silk cap so that way there's a clean surface for the cell because they will relay new new eggs inside those same cells so now she's got both antennae out and she's continuing to clean off that one side now she can tell she's able to kind of fit through there so she'll start trying to squeeze through and push yourself out of that cell it's wild to see how her antenna work look how they're just like little fingers they just kind of feel around and feeling behind her and on the sides and those mandibles don't close exactly like scissors i mean they kind of move uh laterally too it's really cool to see that really up close now she's squeezing herself through and now this is her very first time using her legs and very first time using her antennae and her wings and she kind of has a little bit of like a waxy surface to her to her exoskeleton so just some sped up tweezing for you guys i've filled up pretty much that entire medicine bottle with larvae so i wanted to show a little bit of that process but i didn't want to take up too much time of the tweezing uh since i did include that in the last video and this is when i was all done this is how much i tweezed out just in that short amount of time obviously shorter for you since it was sped up that's a lot of larva some noises that it makes okay moving forward this is a larva just touching her mandibles just to show that her mandibles cannot hurt you they cannot bite people often ask about that hurricane birds hurricane birds come get some pigeons you ridiculous looking creature did you guys go in the barn when it's like this that good turkey bubble i know you still got a cold stay out there [Music] all right everyone thank you so much for tuning in to check out this video from the hornet king channel if you guys enjoyed this content drop in the comments let me know what you think if you have any suggestions for future videos something like see me covering an upcoming video also drop in the comments to let me know if you guys haven't subscribed already to the channel please consider doing so and hit that bell notification down below and that way you guys get an update anytime i do post a video thank you to all of you who donated to the hornet king channel and supporting my cause and helping me grow my channel and growing my 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Channel: Hornet King

Views: 735,122

Keywords: Yellow Jackets Nest, Wasp Nest Removals, Hornet King, Bees, Wasps, Hornets, Infestation

Id: CN1HVLGMlu4

Length: 19min 56sec (1196 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 04 2020