Removing 2 Yellow Jacket and Hornet Nests! SWARMED AND STUNG! Wasp Nest Removals

hey everyone Brett here with the horny King Channel thank you guys so much for tuning in to check out this video this is a removal of two yellow jackets nests that I removed for clients one is a bald-faced hornet which is technically an aerial nest building Yellow Jacket the other one is best Bill of scormosa or the southern yellow jacket and remove that one from the ground for a client both of these removals I got stung and it's pain in the butt to get stung well sometimes it's pain to the wrist or painted the leg which is where I got stung but I was able to dig up this Nest or clip out this nest out of a bush and remove it from my clients and bring it home and feed it to my animals my two emus my chickens at my school video check it out all right so we have a client here who has Southern Yellow Jackets vascular squamosa they are inside this stumper down in there get them out of there so the species is the southern Yellow Jacket vegetable squamosa and this Colony decided to build its nest inside of an old tree stump the Heartwood of this tree stump was so rotten that the workers were able to excavate away a lot of that old wood material to build the nest bigger and bigger by making the cavity in there bigger and bigger there were actually two entrance ways that the workers were using to get in and out of that space and one of them is about the diameter of a baseball and the other one which was the main entrance way is about the diameter of a quarter and you could tell that was the main entrance way because they were caking it with envelope to get down into that space what I wouldn't give to have two nozzles on my vacuum right now stinging me there foreign vacuuming up as many of the workers as I can with ground Nest you want to be as methodical as you can in getting many of the foragers coming back from foraging as you catch that's why I set the vacuum nozzle perpendicular to the entrance way and not just shoving it straight down into the nest and start vacuuming from there because I want them to be able to take off and try to fly the second they try to fly they get sucked up into the vacuum any vacuum you use is not going to be strong enough to just sit it at an entrance way down into an entrance way and just have it pull them straight out of the nest it's not going to work so you have to be able to make it accessible for the returning foragers as well as the workers that are coming out of the nest to get both of them at the exact same time if I just plug the entrance way you'll have hundreds of foragers coming back and they'll start swarming all over the place because they can't get into the entrance way of the nest and most of the time they're just flying autopilot as they come back so they're not thinking to attack anything they're thinking just go right down that hole so if you set the vacuum nozzle kind of off to the side they get sucked right up into it so I was kneeling there I accidentally pushed a worker that was attached to my leg I pushed her against my skin she was able to sting me through my pant leg which was really really annoying but I wanted to set up my camera and she was still stinging me while I was setting that up so finally I'm just kind of investigated and I did find her a little further up so she stung me and then she tried to climb up my leg a little further so I was able to get her off so just continuing to back up as many of the foragers as I can there was a lot of them floating around so what I don't show here so what I would do is stand back away from the nest for a little bit and let the workers calm down and try to go down the entrance way which is where they would get sucked up from so the entire duration of this removal usually takes anywhere from 35 minutes to 45 minutes this particular one took me about 45 minutes just to make sure that I get all the foragers that I can all right letting the vacuum pulled her out it's supposed to your stairs stuck in my glove all right so let me settle down there's quite a few around the vacuum so got the vacuum in the top hole there's two holes there's the actual entrance way which is like right right here and then this hole which actually goes straight down to the nest kind of see down in there looks like everybody's pretty well settled down I got stung on my leg through this through the suit which is fun Southern Yellow Jacket man there's things the most painful I think of the yellow jackets I deal with so all right let's let them do their thing for a little longer and hopefully about 10 more minutes and I'll start digging up the nest so quite a few of the workers have died down there's not nearly as many now that I let the vacuum run for a little while so now I'm getting ready to actually excavate out in space so with Southern Yellow Jackets I don't like to just start digging right away because there's going to be quite a few that are down inside the nest so I pulled the nest out and this thing was a great size for this time of year and the cavity being a nice open cavity there so I just filled that in with some soil and packed it in so that way any returning forwarders wouldn't be able to go down into a space and kind of hunker down in there another Yellow Jacket they wouldn't try to rebuild but they will linger in a space if there's a nice cavity to protect them so by filling that up that kind of mitigates the amount of potential they have to hide anywhere so nobody will get stung if they come near this spot so just bag this Nest up and I reuse these bags over and over and over again so I just put this Nest down inside of here and get ready to move on to my next appointment this particular day I had about nine appointments so this was actually I think the first appointment of the day so there was only one Nest to be in there at this time and then I'd be moving on and fill up the bag by the end of the day as you can see there's no more foragers flying around as you can see there's no more foragers so I got to pack up and head to my next appointment pack up and get out of here there's where she got me keep an eye on it let it pop up I got a baldy Nest inside this bush this happens a lot to get nests inside these bushes and I'm gonna watch the activity in and out just to show the back and forth just in and out in and out so what I do is I come in and I'll vacuum everybody out that's definitely a good sized nest think it's huge so set up the camera and start sucking them out of there here we go so this particular species is dolika vascular maculata aka the bald-faced hornet which are not really Hornets they're actually aerial nest building yellow jackets so with this particular Nest I had a longer wand on my vacuum nozzle and I was just trying to kind of stand back a little bit so they would just to go after my phone and the nozzle will not go after me but what I couldn't see was that the vacuum nozzle wasn't directly over the entrance way of the nest so a lot of them are crawling out and going past that and then they were coming out to swarm and attack and one of them landed on my wrist which I didn't notice and since I was reaching forward with the wand my suit sleeve wrote up underneath my glove sleeve a little bit and was made that sensitive area of my wrist exposed to a sting so since bald face Hornets typically don't latch on this particular one was latched and she was able to get me down through the uh the glove sleeve which is just like a it's just like a canvassy type of fabric it's thicker than a t-shirt but it's not as thick as my suit but I go over that at the end of the video if you guys are interested to see how they I can get stung through my suit and my gloves and things check out towards the end of the video uh after the removals [Music] thank you I actually walked away from the nest for a couple seconds and uh went over and got another vacuum nozzle and I came back over and started vacuuming everybody up you can see they're swarming all around my phone they were more around my phone than they were around me because I was kind of standing off to the side but um they were still pelting into my veil and when they come out of the nest and attack they're not flying away they're literally flying out which is what I want them to do anyway I'm I'm disturbing The Nest on purpose so they come out and they go right into the vacuum nozzle [Music] all right it's a lot less going on now they were not happy Venom Venom on the counter Steam throw them up see if there's any more in there let that sit for a bit really just getting returning foragers now okay today got stung on the wrist by bald-faced hornet that one actually really hurt it doesn't hurt now it actually doesn't really hurt at all it's just kind of feels maybe a little bit itchy but I got stung there a few days ago so that one's still itchy this one hurt a lot at first and you can see it's pretty swollen maybe you can't see that it actually kind of hurts when I turn on my wrist but the actual sting itself doesn't seem like it hurts but still vacuuming up over there so give it a few more minutes [Music] and that's it and more activity thank you I had this in the fridge overnight and that's the ground nest I gotta get that taken care of too this is the calling of the one that stung me still whatever still alive see if we find the queen all right a bunch of pesky booty no sweetie hello Doris Doris when have I ever chased you all right booties look at all these booties we got some nests here booties do you have everything around go Doris is it good booty right down the gullet I mean she's not scared all right let's find you another good one Doris oh TV [Music] you're puffed up for it really trying to cool off [Music] hey thank you Doris hello sweetie booty [Music] all right a good booty oh you want it sweetie booty so you don't like the nests oh there you go oh sweetie booty really good booty oh you patiently waiting Darth a problem you guys want to take a puddle bath thank you all right booty one down here squeal come here Squibb come niblet squeal can you please here you go take a square oh what a good Square yeah good pupil Square have this morsel screw you got a good pupil Square where you going will you you got fleas squeeze is that a good pupil Square oh enjoy it Queen two days actually this is two days later it's a little pustule that's it you've seen that swollen I guess maybe a little bit all right so two days later doesn't itch doesn't hurt just a little red spot all right so I know I'm gonna get a lot in the comments so I figured I'd just address it here how I get stung through my suit and why I get stung through my suit so a couple of things so my suit is a ventilated three layer mesh suit which means that it is not a solid fabric that is Sting proof it is Sting resistant and what that means is that the mesh the three layers of mesh keeps the Stinger far enough away from my skin that it can't penetrate or get into my skin so when you look at this suit you can see the light shining through the suit so it's a three layer mesh and I'll get a close-up of the fabric so you see what it looks like so it is a very fine mesh then a intermediate foam grid and that's kind of a little bit thicker spongy and then underneath of that is another layer of mesh fine mesh how I get stung through my wrist is when I put this suit on and I put my hand up here hold my wrist like this before I put my glove on my glove now this is an old glove it's got a tear in it the glove has a almost like canvassy style fabric sleeve now it is thicker than say like a t-shirt but it's not super thick so you can see looking at it here on the edge it's not super thick um but it's thick enough that if it's layered over top of the suit it's going to give me added protection so when I slide this on I hold my sleeve like this on my suit and then I slide the glove over my hand and over my sleeve and then I put my fingers up into the glove now this is goat skin leather it's it's definitely protecting against Yellow Jackets I've only been stung a couple times through the glove itself and that's usually when the glove gets wet like either if I'm sweating really bad and it's so any kind of moisture will soften the leather um it's not this it's not the gloves fault it's just the nature it's the physics of the leather sometimes I have gotten stung through the seam so I don't know if it's just able they're able to get underneath it or just perfectly through that the only ones that have done that were European Hornets so now the sleeve of my suit is about right here underneath the leather which is great that's what we want that's good so I got good protection I won't get stung on my wrist that way problem is when I reach forward into a space right now so just assume the glove is on right now so when I reach forward into a space and I do this I'm reaching my hand isn't holding the sleeve anymore the sleeve comes down just a hair to my wrist and where the glove leather is you can see there's a space between where the glove leather is and where my sleeve of my suit is so this fabric gets a little bit crinkled and when I'm bending my wrists and things and this starts touching my skin and if there's Yellow Jackets latched on say Southern yellow jackets or Eastern yellow jackets or in the case of this video bald-faced hornet they were latched on and they were just jabbing until finally the fabric touched my skin and their stinger was able to get down into my wrist as for my leg since this is a mesh suit when I got stung on my leg there was a yellow jacket that was on my leg say this is my leg so it was on my leg and then I where my say this is my knee and where my butt came down and pinched the Yellow Jacket hard against my skin so it squished the fabric down to touch my skin and the yellow jackets Stinger got through and poked my skin same thing happens sometimes if I'm like laying down like in a crawl space and I lay on a yellow jacket I can get stung on my arm or something where my t-shirt isn't covering so I'm only wearing shorts and a t-shirt under my suit so that's how I get stung now sometimes they can get up through the veil if I don't zip this tight enough or if the fat or if the velcro kind of gets loose around the the opening sometimes they can get up in I got stung on my ear a couple days ago it just it's just the way it is you kind of go into a removal expecting to get stung there you could take a lot of different precautions to kind of try to keep like say try to keep my wrist from getting exposed like that underneath my gloves sometimes I'll put duct tape on my wrist like if I'm doing European Hornets I really don't want to get stung by European Hornets so I'll put duct tape around my wrists um sometimes when the suits are brand new they have like an elastic band that you can go up over your thumb and and kind of like hold the sleeve in place but I actually get really sore on my hand because of that constantly pulling it kind of irritates the muscles under here and I get really crampy in my thumb so I prefer not to do that I'd rather just try to keep my sleeve up or have duct tape on my wrist it's a lot easier that way I don't like getting stuck but it's the nature of the Beast it's a occupational hazard as they say so I'm going to shamelessly promote my new t-shirt the new design that I have on my t-shirt thank you to all of you who have donated to the channel that I've able to send you guys awesome shirts there were a couple people that donated to the channel but then specified either a size that I don't have which is extra large or they didn't specify a size at all so I didn't know what to send them I sent them emails so if that was you thank you so much for the donation but please email me back and specify what size you'd like me to send you um and if there isn't a size that you want aside from the one that you asked for that I don't have then I'd be happy to reimburse you back for your donation but either way please let me know because I right now it's like hanging in limbo I don't know what to send you and I don't know what you want me to do at this point so but thank you to all of you who have donated to the channel and I hope you guys enjoying your new t-shirts so if you guys like to send twenty dollars donate it to the channel and I would be happy to send you a t-shirt so we just hit a million subscribers on the horny King Channel which is freaking awesome um I appreciate all you guys support and encouragement throughout the years those who've been here for a really long time which has only been five years since I started the channel thank you guys so much for tuning in to check out this video and I really appreciate you guys supporting my channel and I'll catch you on next one [Music]

Channel: Hornet King

Views: 110,033

Keywords: Hornet King, Hornets, Wasps, Yellow jackets, Wasp Nest Removals, Hornets Nest Relocation, bees

Id: vkTxOyu4agM

Length: 25min 19sec (1519 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 06 2023