MASSIVE European Hornets Nest Removal | SWARM SLOW MO | See Hornets Building Nest From The INSIDE

hey everyone welcome to the hornet king channel in this video i'm gonna be removing a true hornet's nest vespa crabro the european hornet from the soffit of a client's house plus i'm gonna be giving you guys an update on this nest that i relocated back in a previous video to my barn and this nest is now absolutely humongous and i'm gonna show you guys the progression from where it started to where it is today here's the video guys check it out [Music] thank you oh yeah that sounds like a cacophony of noises so the sound that i was hearing up inside the soffit is a mix between buzzing rustling and just a very angry swarm coming out from the soffit and i knew that this was going to be a large aggressive colony because of the sounds that i was hearing so once i start pulling back some of the soffit i was able to expose a little bit of the nest but that also allowed for a lot of adults to come pouring out from around the cracks where i was trying to look through that's what she said lol so pulling this down and you see they just started pouring out of this little tiny opening and it doesn't seem like much in the video it looks like they kind of just like fall out of there but when something that's two inches long starts swarming and helping you in the back of the head and pelting at your screen or your veil and latching onto your gloves and it is a bit unnerving these things don't look like they're super aggressive but since they are a larger lost species they kind of seem like they float but they man they they have a punch to when they when they run into you from flying uh especially when they get a lot of inertia behind their uh behind their flight but look at the swarm around me i mean that is a lot of hornets and luckily i wasn't paying too much of attention to the swarm i mean i was just trying to shoot the camera up trying to get it i wasn't sure how well it was gonna it was gonna get that flight um with the bleed out from the sky but uh these two cameras that i've been using are shooting at 60 frames a second so i was able to get some really good shots of the swarm from both the lower camera and from the camera i'm holding um i was really excited by this slowing down 60 frames a second um frame rate was makes for really good slow motion i know it's not 120 frames at 180 at 1080p but being at 60 frames in 4k it really adds a lot of vivid detail to these hornets that are flying around at a pretty high rate of speed [Music] of course when this is happening to you they're flying around you so fast you don't really get a chance to focus on any one individual so it's neat to see this up close um in the in the shot and this is full speed obviously and all i had to do was just hold my vacuum nozzle just kind of up in the air and they were flying right into the end of the nozzle but they also sprayed venom in my eye in the midst of all this and it's just it's just notorious for that since they're trying to mark where the the threat is they latch onto the veil for a split second shoot gentlemen or they can actually shoot venom up to a meter in distance just from their hobby positor or stinger so last year when i was doing a lot of my removals i would take my time of pulling the envelope out by hand and throwing that into a bin by itself but this season i found that it's just much easier to just use the vacuum just to just chop up the envelope and suck it right up into the vacuum canister itself and along with the uh with the adult hornets it's so much easier that way because then you don't have to like worry about making a swarm and then trying to get the vacuum up in there and sucking up the adults as they come out once you start vacuuming up the envelope you're exposing the adults from inside and they're going right into the vacuum nozzle [Music] i knew this colony was going to be a large colony just by how they were reacting once they pulled down the soffit the first time but nothing really prepared me for how long this nest was going to be it was about probably 14 to 16 inches long and about four stacks high of cone and that was not including the two little satellite queen comb cells that were that were also attached to the bottom here so this had a lot of potential to be a super huge colony by the end of the season it was already large i mean it's probably about 500 volts inside this mess is humongous the client was only standing about 20 to 30 yards behind me sitting underneath the tree watching the whole thing and filming and uh which was really exciting that they were super into the nest and the colony and learning a little bit about them as terrified as they were i give them a lot of credit for for standing back there and uh and checking out the uh the activity and the swarm and everything else and they stayed there the whole time which is really cool [Music] pulling the nest down it was a little bit wider than the hole that was there so i had to kind of just like force it down get your camera ready it probably broke off about maybe a half inch on either side of the edge of the comb but i wasn't planning on saving any of this anyway so it was going to be going right to the chickens showing it to the homeowner they were super excited that's it cool party's over you're still gonna probably see a couple floating around um do you have any hornets sprayed by chance yes i can spritz them up in the caviar deter them from going back in there i have i had that and i have pesticide i'm going to spray everywhere after this [Laughter] you aren't taking any chances are you no these guys are coming back from foraging they're just like wtf yeah where'd everybody go i came back for food i got pizza nobody's here [Music] i have i have stuff that i i can mix up i mean i got it in the entrance away that's kind of the main thing all right so as usual once i get the nest home check for a little bit of buzzing uh buzzing inside so we have to suck up any of the workers that are inside of there and uh let me feed these the chickens and the squirrels i just don't want anybody getting stung or swarmed or anything like that so you gotta break apart the comb and that way i can get any adults that are in between the layers because that's where they like to hide even if they're newly hatched adults especially they like to hide in between the layers of comb [Music] i do this with every nest that i bring home i break them apart and then or separate them and then suck up any of the adults and then that way get them ready to give them to the girls [Music] so these are three colonies that i relocated side by side and they're basically making a condominium up here um anytime i take apart nests near there they give they freak out and they swarm so this is like a common occurrence being swarmed you girls don't scare me just get back to work this week got all these they want these okay keep it deep okay yummy turkey bubbles they do a turkey hey daisy oh be nice everybody be nice you are you free oh squarely squirrel are you gonna have some larvae squirrely squirrel are you gonna have some larvae glowy i know you like the european hornet squirrely well oh oh you want the adult wash glory squirrel it's a feast for everyone defeat for everybody a good screwy square got nothing for you just a nervous glowy squirrel is this no longer good for you are there yummy peanuts [Music] yeah yummy peanuts glue baby oh peanut squirrel oh tigger's name thank you me squeeze glue this is chloe the yummy wash nuts where we grow the head off that opponent slowly oh you just ripped her out of there hey yummy clasp larva and pew painting adults don't mind that chicken [Music] [Applause] [Applause] hey be good tiggers be good tiggers it's [Applause] very [Music] all right this is a european hornet nest that i had removed for a client a few videos ago you can click the link up in the top right corner if you have not seen this removal video so i removed the nest and brought it home to my house and decided to put it in the plexiglas sided box that i had made for my european hornet queen adventure series never ended up using the box so i decided to mount this nest in there and this worked out perfectly so i've had this nest in this box in this in the side of my barn for the last maybe three or four weeks and they have been doing just absolutely phenomenal so this sequence of images you're going to be seeing is a collection of images for weeks of filming um obviously not all the footage that i've gotten so you're going to be seeing bits and pieces here just as an update but i will be doing an entire series just on this particular building and construction of this nest um later on probably in the wintertime once this nest meets its demise so i can show from beginning to end what you're going to be seeing here is a lot of building and a lot of different aspects of how the colony actually functions so what you're seeing here at the bottom is all their waste so they drop out larvae that are dying or have died or something's wrong with them or the queen removes them because their worker uh laid eggs or something there's bald-faced hornet carcasses there's ants this is like its own little ecosystem so there's flies in here there's maggots there's uh ants there's dead bodies and carcasses waste product from the wasps themselves and it's just it's phenomenal how all of this stuff goes together people often ask if i can get shots of wasp building comb well this is what's happening here this particular wasp is actually molding the cells of a starting part of a comb patty and i'm so excited to get these types of shots because i've been wanting to see how they build them i know how they build them by study and research but not by actually seeing it firsthand so watching a european hornet actually laying the envelope into cell material is really cool to see so she regurgitates that cellulose and saliva mixture and then molds it and mushes it with her mandibles to flatten it out and pull it like needing dough and then her antennae glide along the surface of the comb as she's laying it and that kind of tells her how far to go with it which i think is just really cool so this is probably about week the end of week one week two maybe and there's all this envelope that they're laying and all these comb you're seeing here are all since i put it into the box which is so cool the queen right there has just laid an egg she had her abdomen arched over into that edge of that cell and then she laid an egg up in there so these are two eggs that i was able to get good video of after she had laid them super cool to see that just like the middle to the end of week two and they have a significant amount of envelope they have about three more comb patties laid on top of the last two comb patties that they had they had built and it's incredible how fast they build them so these two comb patties started separately and then they joined them together as they developed and got them bigger and bigger so they don't quite match up 100 but they actually turned one of the cells into like a um like a little ladder shoot to go between the layers which is really neat there's obviously a lot more adults inside of here now than what they were they hatched out so many adult workers and things this is the bottom of the box now which has a lot of soilage and things um dead larvae are constantly dropped down in there but they're gone within like a day and a half by the ants and the maggots that are down in the bottom this is an adult worker laying some envelope i get some really good close-up shots of her mushing and molding that cellulose into paper every single line that you see discolorated line is representative of one wasp going out and chewing on cellulose a fence post rotting decaying wood flying back all within about 40 minutes and then laying one tiny little strip of paper so every one of those lines that you see every discolorated line is one wasp working its butt off for about an hour roughly just to come back and lay that little tiny neat line it's really interesting to see really happy with these shots i was able to get seeing this stuff but if you notice that the antennae are really like moving around like little fingers and just you can tell that that's sending signals to her brain as to where her head and mandible should be moving it's not really by eyesight from what i can tell it's by touch with the the tips of her antennae she makes the same motion over and over again with those antennae that touch the sides of the envelope on either side kind of like if you were putting your thumb and your pointer finger together and just feeling it like a like a feeler gauge obviously no ears on the adult wasps everything's by sensitivity and touch and all those little tiny hairs on her body have a sensitivity to them and she's able to sense the slightest of vibration if i tap on that plexiglass they all get all jittery like as if they felt it even if they're not directly touching the sides of the plexiglas look at these close-up shots look how malleable that cellulose looks as she molds it into the flat bit of the paper go ahead and say it this is national geographic quality i'm so pumped with the quality that i was able to get from these videos so this is about week three you can see they even have a bottom part of queen comb coming on here and look at all the workers in there look how big these patties are i mean this is just blowing my mind how big it's getting and the the comb structure almost touches the two sides of the box this is the queen laying some more eggs so she's laying now these are going to become queens because these are larger cells the only thing determines what's going to make a queen is by the cell that it's laid in so if an egg is laid in a super large cell as that larva develops it can grow larger because it's in a larger cell and she will then demand more food she'd be fed more and then as she's fed more she grows bigger and eventually she can develop her reproductive parts just because from the mere fact that she had a larger cell to grow in the queen laying some more eggs some other shots that people always ask him in my videos if i can get some shots of the queen laying eggs you see she'll shove her abdomen all the way down to the very bottom of that cell and then lay the egg down in there and she'd been sitting there for about 15 minutes and she's got the egg laid up inside of their abdomen comes out usually she pees right after she does that just like that and then she'll search around and then go back in and lay some more eggs so this adult worker here in the front she is chewing up food and she's feeding it to a larva so i'll zoom in on that so you'll be able to see her get the larva actually eating and digesting the food that the worker just gave her i had this shot on this larva for about 10 minutes and that little blob of brown food completely disappeared so workers will go out and catch insects they'll chew them up and break them down into smaller pieces and then once they get into the nest they share it with other workers those other workers will then mash it down even further into like a mush and then that's what will be fed to the larva so this is the most recent clip so this is the nest as it is right now it is super huge and unfortunately since the nest is getting larger and there's more adults inside as they as they release their urine and their feces it gets sprayed on the side of the plexiglas so it's really hard for me to find a clear shot to go through to to get good images so unfortunately they get kind of cloudy now just because it's it's really hard to shoot through that even with the light on so moving around to the other side of the box the box has two plexiglas sides so i can shoot from either side if i want to this side's a little bit clearer than the other side but it's not quite as a good angle as the other side is unfortunately so i don't shoot from the side all too often but the numbers in there is just incredible and the light doesn't seem to bother them all that much i mean they're very sensitive to light and they like to fly to the light especially if lights are on outside but uh they don't seem to mind the light being shined up into the into the nest as long as it's not on the highest setting if it's on the highest setting they all kind of get a bit anxious in there so i usually have it on like the medium setting look how large and charged that nest is and they don't bother me at all i walk outside and they they don't they don't fly at me they don't try to go near me or anything so it's a great great colony all right everyone thank you so much for tuning in to check out 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 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Published: Wed Sep 16 2020