SUPER NEST! Yellow Jackets MASSIVE nest inside ceiling | INFESTATION | Wasp Nest Removal

so [Music] hey everyone welcome to the hornet king channel and this is the first super nest removal of 2020. this nest was humongous and it was a multi-season nest which was probably at least four seasons of yellowjacket building inside this cavity this client was noticing some yellow jackets inside and various different rooms of her home upstairs and downstairs and upon investigating i told her that it was probably in the soffit between the raptor space but once i started exploring a little bit i noticed it behind this siding where this jutting out window was but this nest is huge and it was probably about two feet deep and about two and a half feet wide and whatever that is 20 inches tall i mean it was just incredible amount of space in there and they filled it all up with envelope so when i first started vacuuming i thought maybe the nest was just kind of caked right to the front here i didn't think it went back as far as it did so when i started vacuuming i was like oh my god this is like for different seasons of building so i was like oh screw this there's no way my vacuum's gonna be able to handle all this envelope so i started just kind of pulling it out with my fingers to try to see how far back it went and it just like went back further and further and further and i was just i was just astounded so you can see the different colors in the envelope and that's how i knew that they were different seasons um the kind of like more tannish color is a separate season than the light gray the light gray is usually the current season i don't know why the envelope does discolors or whatever it could also be where the yellow jackets are pulling their material from each season but this this colony had like several different other colonies in it so it wasn't just the yellow jacket german yellow jackets it was also some different policies nests were in there and then also mud doppers but there was a large amount of different comb so that's how i knew that there was at least three or four seasons of yellow jackets so to explain how a super nest works is up here in pa we have different seasons so by the time it gets cold a yellow jacket colony will start to die down and it's just the end of their cycle so what happens is they release their new males and their new queens which mate and they go off and they winter over underneath of foliage or a bush or in a log and they protect themselves from the elements until next spring when they can re-emerge the queens only not males where they can re-emerge and venture out to find a new place to build a nest but what happens with these cavities that these yellow jackets build in if they're well protected from the elements the queens won't leave the nest so they kind of stay and hunker down inside of the very well protected and insulated envelope so everybody else dies except for the new queens so the following season they just pretty much pick up where they left off they weren't necessarily built in the original cone but they'll build onto the cone and they'll continue to grow a nest from that point and that's what happened here so this nest i'm pulling down i believe would be the original nest because this seat felt like it was the oldest um the oldest comb that i pulled out so you see how large this was is about two feet long and about nine inches wide and about ten inches tall it was a decent sized nest and then all around that was newer and newer and newer envelope so as they progressed each season as new colonies started they just continued to build on in that cavity and that's why we have this massive amount of envelope in here and to think about how many work hours went into building this nest if you look at all this envelope that i'm pulling out handfuls and handfuls of envelope which came out to be about a full black trash bag of envelope and nesting material one wasp goes out and forages for about 25 to 40 minutes to chew on a piece of wood to get enough cellulose to bring it back to literally make a line of envelope that is as wide as a sharpie mark and as long as maybe an inch to two inches that is it for the envelope that one wasp will get in a single travel or single forge and you look at all the envelope in here you know how many millions of wasps that took to build all of this envelope it's just absolutely mind-blowing and what you're seeing here in this video this is a 20-minute video but it took me oh at least an hour to just get all the envelope out because i'm also trying to make sure i'm not pulling out the new nest because that's where the mecca of current adults are going to be and i don't want to open that up prematurely i want to make sure that i'm just getting all the old nest out and then slowly exposing almost like excavating like i do with my ground nest just slowly so that way once i actually do locate where the new current nest is then i can focus that solely at the very very end of the removal because i really don't want all the swarming to happen constantly i want it to just kind of happen at one point and then deal with the swarm at one particular point in the removal i don't want it to just be all swarming the entire time you can see all back in there in that cavity how many police these wasps nests are hanging up inside that cavity further back so if this would have been left to go they would have just cont they would just fill that entire space up with envelope and would and they would eventually start making their way inside with the envelope and it would start making their way inside you know in a different season into the actual wall spaces look at all that it was about the size of a cheese pizza like as far as diameter was concerned and it was probably about four or five layers thick of cone so now they really started swarming now that i picked up the uh the current nest so i just want to spend a little bit of time just kind of batting down some of the numbers but it's really just drops in the ocean i mean look at how many are flying around me german yellow jackets they don't latch on like southern yellow jackets or easterns do they kind of just dive bomb you and they act like i mean they do swarm and they they will i mean they will attack you and they are attacking me but they they just kind of float around like they don't really like man like if you go into a southern yale jacket colony like they just like come right to you and they latch on they do not let go uh until they are either dead or you run away and bat them off but look at the numbers in this thing like now i picked that up they just started like just flooding out of there and a lot of what you're seeing on the bottom here are new males in queens look at that nest the beautiful reveal this nest is just so huge and it was heavy like you wouldn't think that a structure of paper and insects would be that heavy but just chock full with all those bodies all that larva it just made for a very very dense and huge nest i can't even put words to describe it accurately as to like how incredibly massive this thing was so depending on how i'm doing the removal sometimes i'll just hold the comb like this and then i'll just vacuum up the adults as they come back to the colony because they will ones that are swarming will see the common sense the queen and still fly back to the comb and then i can vacuum them up from there but the numbers were just so huge in this swarm that i just decided you know what i'm just gonna bag the nest and put it and get it out of the cavity and then i'll just focus on the swarm right at the original entranceway because they were even though that whole cavity is open they were mainly flying to that where the original entranceway was that they were using between the soffit and the part of the siding bagging this thing up and it i mean it is surprisingly heavy like you can it's made out of paper and it's made and filled with insects but it is so heavy just for those two elements so i spend some time here and i just start vacuuming up as many of the foragers coming back as i can and i do want to get a lot of this envelope out i mean to get 90 of it out um some of it's like cake to the sides of things it's you know i can't get everything but i do try to clean out the cavity the best i can so you'll see the ones that are crawling down the bottom most of those are males and queens and so they released a lot of new males in queens already this this part of the season so i just want to make sure i get as many of those out because i don't want them to do the same thing they did last year where they just released new males and queens and then you start building right where they left off it's a pretty daunting task when you're doing this type of removal because there's so many adults flying back at random different places and going into different little nooks and crannies that when you actually start vacuuming you could be back in one spot where you're getting a lot like right here at the entranceway i can vacuum there but then there could be some that are flying in to the middle of the cavity and i see a cluster of them so i move the vacuum nozzle over there but then they all come back to the entrance way again so it's just like that back and forth constantly see some good shots of them going into the nozzle um spent a lot of time here just just holding the nozzle here and it just looks like they just come in waves and they kind of do like it looks like they just get replaced like instantly after they get sucked up looks like not even doing anything but there are a lot going into that vacuum right there probably in about 10 minutes i probably sucked up like 250 of them like just just like that and i could stand there all day and i would still be vacuuming and vacuuming vacuuming because there'd be that many foragers if there's this many here now there's going to be just as many foragers out there so they'll come back and they'll realize that they can't get in because of the spray that i put at the entrance way and they just they'll venture out and they'll die i do kind of stay here at the client's house and vacuum until the numbers really really decrease and that's when it's a good time that i can i can button things back up and head out so because my bin couldn't hold all of the envelope and comb i decided to put it into this uh big black trash bag and just rake it up like i'm raking leaves and this is all previous season nests so this none of this has any larva or any adults inside of it so as usual with all my removals i like to make sure that i button everything back up so it doesn't look like i was ever there so i put all the soffit back together all the siding and then i spray around all of the openings and cracks and corrugation in that soffit and siding and that way it'll keep any foragers that are coming back from being able to get back in that cavity and i do spray inside the cavity as well so as usual get my nest back from my girls and this nest was great for the for the chickens because they were able to get there was it was just chock full with larvae my jiggies and pigeon's a bully so she's always chasing the other girls around even though ginger's the matriarch they the other chickens respect ginger and they don't they they won't mess with her but they're afraid of pigeon because pigeon chases them around she she bites them and yeah it kind of gets old after a while so i kind of have to tell pidgeon about herself every now and then like right here it was just a soft term it didn't hurt people often ask what my chickens names are because um since i had gotten some new ones on the turkey so it's ginger and pigeon are the originals and um ginger's the the rhode island red pigeon's the one that's still molting you can kind of tell she looks a little bit odd um she's still filling in her feathers from malting uh the turkey's name is goosey but i mainly just call her turkey and call her bike saying gobble gobble gobble she responds well to that seems like she likes that um the yellow amberish looking hen that's daisy and then the two what i call the twins but they're i mean i can tell them apart but the one the lighter colored one it doesn't look like she has a lot of contrast in her feathers that's giblet look they're queen cells come on somebody eat the queen cells here that's it meeting you one turkey one turkey come get some more so i get a lot of times in the comments of people telling me that i should just burn the nest burn the nest burn today well you guys get a treat because i don't burn nests on this channel so i don't light active nests on fire but i'll tell you something right now when you get as much envelope from doing removals as i do if i don't just chop them up and throw them out in my yard or mow them over with the lawnmower i will light them on fire to get rid of all the old nest and envelope and that's what i'm doing here so you guys get a treat today of actually seeing nests being burned maybe not an active nest like you'd like to see but the people who suggest that i burn this what they don't understand is these nests are filled with larvae that are saturated with water i mean they're like 80 percent water so burning a nest is not as entertaining as you might think if i tried to burn an active nest it would just if it even caught on fire it would just sit there and smolder you could pour gasoline on it you could you could put kerosene on it or whatever um and help like ignite it but then you're just burning the fuel you're not actually burning the nest so when people suggest that they're not really anticipating the fact that the nest is not going to burn you can watch youtube videos or people burning nests and it's almost laughable how like like anti-climatic it is because the nests just don't burn so you even see here like even though this is super dry old nest um that i just pulled out of that cavity it like the envelope will burn pretty quick like paper but not really like the way you think it would like you would think it would just like light up like a tinder box a comb especially comb just does not burn very well like it just kind of like sits there and smolders like it really doesn't like take a flame and like take off like you think it would like as if you're burning like crumpled up paper this is a couple old nests that i had lying around so i decided to dump them on there too and people asked me why i don't keep all my nests if you had any idea how many nests i brought home and kept here at my house like this nest i had that from last year and it's just like i have no reason to keep all these nests like my whole house would be filled with nests if i kept all of them even though you know they may look interesting but i mean at some point you just have to get rid of them but even that bald-faced hornet nest that i just threw on there like you can see the outer layers are starting to burn but it really just kind of chars over so that thing had been sitting there probably five minutes and then i go and poke the outside of it to try to like see how much it burned through and it hardly burned through much at all like there was but probably ten layers of envelope and it maybe only burned like the outer shell and just charred and look at it like it's not even like it's not even fully engulfed in flames and that thing is super super dry you have to remember it's made out of cellulose it's made out of wood so it's not like it's you know just like construction paper like that can burn up real quick like look at this i'm poking this it's been sitting there burning for five minutes you would think that it would just like poke straight through and just be like just crumble then but no it's still super structural [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 if you have any suggestions for 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Channel: Hornet King

Views: 2,362,501

Rating: 4.8918366 out of 5

Keywords: Yellow Jackets Nest, Super Nest, Infestation, Wasp Nest Removal, Bees, Hornets, Hornet King

Id: kpcdL01VQNU

Length: 20min 41sec (1241 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 14 2020

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[u/richmanerd]

I like the part where he burns it

[u/badlyferret]

I would have appreciated more cursing at the yellow jackets but what can you do? That was definitely the largest yellow jacket nest I've ever seen.

[u/Sorensiim]

Now I want one of those suits.

And a flamethrower and some chickens.

[u/Gary-Fuckin-Oak]

I’d absolutely watch 4 seasons of a Netflix series called “Hornet King” where every episode is basically this.

[u/Wumbo-Donger]

At first I wanted to despise you for showing me this horror. However, after watching the video I want to thank you because it was very pleasing.

[u/wittiestphrase]

Just move. At that point it’s their house.

[u/_brodre]

in my professional opinion, this video lacks savagery.

[u/IdleOsprey]

Why doesn’t he snuff them out before pulling it out? THEY ARE STILL OUT THERE.