MASSIVE Yellow Jacket Wasp Nest INFESTATION In ATTIC! Wasp Nest Removal!

hey everyone welcome to the hornet king channel in this video i'll be removing a massive yellow jacket colony that decided to make its nest inside of a client's attic here's the video check it out i'm the hornet king and i remove incredible and insane wasp nests [Applause] [Music] whether their nests are underground in a house in a tree or even down a well i'm the person crazy enough to extract them and i do so with my trusty vacuum in this video i'll be removing a massive yellow jacket colony to decide to make its nest inside the attic of a client's garage check it out [Music] hey everyone welcome to the hornet king channel so this particular species is vespula germanica or german yellowjacket our friends that make some of the largest nests that we have here in pennsylvania so this client started to notice a little bit of flying around inside of his garage and he actually noticed a soft spot on the drywall on the ceiling of his garage so that's when he noticed that there was a there was a yellow spot it looked like it was a little bit wet he's like there has to be a leak up there and when he went up into the attic he started seeing all this activity he didn't really know exactly where the nest was but he definitely knew that there was a nest inside of the attic so once i got there i had to move some of his stuff out of the way this is actually just a storage area and you can see where the envelope has like straight line cuts in it and things and that's where the envelope was being built directly against like a cardboard box or some kind of storage bin so once i moved everything out of the way i was able to expose where the envelope was here just on top of this cardboard the cardboard was actually just a placement down to put on top of the rafter so they could put their stuff on top of it so i knew that the nest itself was directly underneath of this cardboard so i spent some time just using the cardboard to my advantage and left it on top of the rafters so i could vacuum up as much of the envelope and get some of the adults vacuumed off as well and and not really exposing too much the nest at one time i knew once i lifted up this cardboard that it was going to be just a mass exodus out of this nest so i wanted to kind of save that for the end you can see here there's a couple creases where the flaps of the original box that is now this this cardboard flooring where the wasps are coming out from so i just kind of kept my nozzle there for a while and just vacuumed up a lot as i could now you have to understand that there's probably about maybe 2 000 to 2500 adults inside of this nest so it's not like that i'm going to be able to vacuum them all up from this crease inside the box anyway so just taking my time and vacuum up a few of them is really only just a few drops in the ocean because as you can see now that i pulled back this cardboard you can see how much of the nest is under there and how many adults are inside of it so now that i have it somewhat pulled back i need to get that box off of that spot as fast as i can well like an idiot i put my vacuum directly on top of the cardboard so i'm trying to like pull it out from underneath my vacuum making more vibration and then causing more chaos from the colony so you can see they're just starting to pour out of there now i'm only holding a flashlight i have my one o light flashlights like 3200 lumens so it's very very bright and any kind of light that's being placed onto the comb or onto the envelope it's going to cause any ones that are on the surface of the nest to fly off and fly towards the light well since i'm holding the light they're coming right towards me there's really no way around that especially in an attic like this where everything is just so confined and there's really not a lot of room to move around i'm really the only target that they're going to come to so even though this is an attic space there's a lot of like storage boxes and things in here them flying around like this is not gonna be too much of a problem because i'm the only light source so they're really just gonna come fly to me and then land on the wall that's being illuminated um while i vacuum everybody up so everybody kind of stays in this one spot like they're not flying around inside of the rest of the attic space or flying down the stairs or anything like that they're pretty much just staying right around me so you can see even even like a lot of the storage boxes and things none of them have any wasps on them they're pretty much just staying right around where the light is but look at them all just consolidating around the top of the envelope there like i mean which makes it easier for me but it's just like the enormity of adults inside this nest was just so daunting at the time because this is actually the last removal that i had to do for the day and i was exhausted like i had done like four or five that particular day and it was hot it was a lot there was a couple addicts so to jump back up in this guy's attic was was not very appealing to me so i wanted to get it done as quick as i could i was really hoping this was a small nest uh but then once i got up in there and i saw this enormity i was excited to do the video but i wasn't really excited to spend all the time having to vacuum everybody up so as usual i just have to just just take my time like any any rush in in this job does not really benefit you like please on the lens um taking your time to vacuum up it really saves you time in the long run if i just go in and just start ripping this nest out and try to bag it up real fast all these wasps are gonna be flying everywhere i'm gonna have more potentiality to be stoned because even though my suit is pretty pretty good for for deterring wasp stings it's not sting proof so the more wasps you have landing on you that's more chances you could get stung that's more chances they could find a way into the suit if you didn't sit for something upright or even the gloves the gloves aren't completely sting proof even though they're leather gloves sometimes wasp can get their stingers in deep enough to touch your skin and give you a nice little zap so really taking your time is your best asset in doing removals like this and that way you can also evaluate how things are going um a lot better if you have you know giving yourself more time to do so rather than rushing through it and realizing oh shoot i poked a hole in drywall or oh shoot i did this or did that um or just being stung so with all the german yellowjacket species they make a ton of envelope so when i give a rough size of how big nests are that's including the envelope and in this case this nest was probably about four and a half feet long inside this rafter space now this rafter distancing is probably about 14 to 18 inches apart and uh it's not the widest um rafter set that we normally have here in pennsylvania but probably anywhere in the states um anywhere from like 14 inches to 20 inches is a typical distance between rafters but i think this one's a little bit narrower it's probably about 14. it's about 14 inches wide at about four and a half feet length and probably about four inches high um at some points you can see that the uh the rafters are two by four and technically it's not four inches it's like three and so many uh points so many inches so there was um there's probably about four inches total of depth to this nest so once i actually pull it out you'll see where they started chewing through the drywall on the bottom side and the reason why they chew and this is actually how a lot of clients will find that they have a nest in their house is as they chew they make a scratching sound on the drywall obviously but they start to chew away so much of the integrity of the drywall that any moisture from the nest so like their extra mint and any kind of waste product from the nest gets absorbed into the drywall and then causes a stain on the ceiling it takes a lot of fluid really to cause a stain through drywall because it has to the drywall gypsum itself has to absorb all that moisture and then and then that creates the stain so if the ger or the the depth of the drywall is narrowed by being chewed away that's less material that has to absorb it to be able to transfer that stain to the paint and that's what this client started to know they started notice it looked like a wet spot on the ceiling because they had chewed away so much drywall it was literally only paint left as the integrity of the drywall on that ceiling so when i actually picked this up you'll see how much of the of the integrity of the drywall was was compromised due to them chewing and they chew trenches i mean it's it's significant amount of like a diameter of area that they chew and that's a way for them to try to excavate they think that they're excavating down into the material to open up more space for them to make the comb bigger and the more comb size that they have the more adults that get laid or get more eggs get laid more adults that hatch and the colonies just get bigger and bigger bigger well in this case they were branching out linearly and vertically and um and then down as well into the drywall so again i'm just vacuuming up as many of the adults because once i pull this comb up i know there's gonna be a lot of adults underneath of it it'll be the queen it'll be some new queens it'll be males and uh since it was this was late in the season there were a lot of males and queens um underneath of this cone and now they're not the ones that are gonna be the most aggressive so the ones that are most aggressive the ones i deal with first so those are the workers and the guards and things and foragers that are coming back um but then the the new queens and the males are not aggressive males especially are not aggressive they try to run away like cockroaches so this is this is majority of the colony that's reproductive so these are the males these are the queens and queens can sting they have an ovipositor or aka stinger um but they're not going to be aggressive like the other workers are they're going to try to get away they're not going to try to attack me so while the ones you see flying like around like my light and and me are workers they're guards they're ones that are trying to attack the ones running away are the reproductives they're the ones that are trying to trying to get out or trying to get back into the comb and those are going to be males and and new queens so people often ask why a nest will have multiple queens in a colony and why there's you know i thought there was only one queen well there's one queen mother so the queen mother is the one initially found the nest and started everything she laid all the new queen eggs that would become new queens and they're reproductive meaning that they will lead the nest and start another colony the following year in another location so the new queens technically aren't ones that are working for this hive they are literally just hatched to mate and leave this hive to them start their own colony and another hive some other in some other place than the following year so you can see all the grooves cut into this drywall if you look right to the right of my nozzle there's a trench cut there and then even to the right of that there's another like large area that was also ground down and chewed away from the lots to try to make the nest bigger so all of that drywall was very very soft and you can see in some of it you can see where it's just paint like it's literally just a soft spot of just paint a little bit of the paper from the um from the drywall itself so even though i just pulled up the comb i still have to vacuum around it and i want to try to vacuum as many of the adults off of it as i can and that way when i do put in the bag that's less wasp that i have to deal with when i get home and when i'm vacuuming up the ones when i get home most of them are going to be dead anyway because i put them in a plastic bag and it's about a half hour drive home and usually by time i get home the ones inside the nest are usually pretty well dead so you can see even though that i vacuumed off probably 90 of these adults there's still a lot crawling around on the comb itself but it's still it's a lot better than having to deal with all them all at one time so this thing just the comb itself is probably about three feet long and probably about 10 inches wide 10 to 12 inches wide so a very very decent sized girthed nest now after bagging up the comb i just hang around inside the attic for a little bit longer just to vacuum up the rest of the adults out of the out of the trench um out of the rest of the envelope get everything pretty much buttoned up so that way the client won't have a bunch of wasps flying around inside of this attic so you can see there a little bit of the drywall or the paint and just torn on that drywall that whole area is literally chewed down and uh and compromised that whole bit of drywall so he'd have to replace that drywall anyway oftentimes people ask me like who rep who fixes the drywall well the client does it's not my house so it's not i didn't compromise the drywall the wasp did so he would have to hire somebody to to come back and fix the drywall [Laughter] [Laughter] so as usual once i get my nest home i feed my animals with the larvae that are inside the nest so i just spread the nest out here in my prestone driveway and let the birds just peck them apart and uh they really really enjoy eating the larvae out of these nests my girls are absolutely spoiled so i have five chickens and that's ginger and pigeon who you see here and then there's daisy giblet henny and then my turkey her name's goosey so all of those animals love to eat the larva my turkey bubble gum oh [Music] all right everyone thank you so much for tuning in to check out this 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Channel: Hornet King

Views: 234,428

Keywords: Yellow Jackets Nest, Hornets Nest removal, Hornet King, Wasp Nest Removal, Infestations, Bees, Comb, Honeycomb

Id: PABZwYt3QgA

Length: 15min 58sec (958 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 11 2021