Yellow Jacket SUPERNEST | MASSIVE Yellow Jacket Nest Removal | Wasp Nest Removal

oh crap well it wasn't it would they were on the it was turned the other way oh really so they flipped it over yeah oh wow yeah so they were painting i guess and then there were too many bees i guess they looked into it and found that yeah okay not allowed to say where i'm at but this nest is massive and i'm out in the middle of nowhere so oh my god look at that thing look at that freaking thing it's just huge so there's no electricity back here so i have to use a generator let me show you the generator that i got it's actually an inverter generator so it's quiet so i can do my videos and not so i got this inverter here so i can start this up on the back side of whatever this is and i'll even say what it is and uh so that way i can have electricity but not be super loud with like a regular generator so i'm gonna get started and excitingly enough i brought big bertha rest in peace shop back angry i can't really see what's in there but you'll be able to see the swarming i guess no more i'm inside the box here oh my god this thing is freaking huge oh my god they're already coming at me because the lights on trying not to vibrate this thing too much but it's kind of hard not to it's made out of wood i'm just to sit down here and just back him up as much as i can so this is a german yellowjacket colony that built its nest inside of this box this nest was absolutely massive i call this a super nest however when this nest was actually in development it was the box was orientated on its right side so the right side of this nest actually used to be the bottom of the nest but at one point during the development of the colony the client had actually had a closed cab lift and had turned this box over on its opposite side unbeknownst to them that there was a nest inside of it and since it was a closed cab he was apparently the lift was being swarmed but he wasn't being attacked luckily and um so later on they had moved the box even a second time and moved it down towards the edge of this woods and where it's sitting now and they had i guess the yellow jackets were swarming that lift as well while they were moving it and then they realized that this thing was actually a lot bigger than they thought and they called me to come and remove it so this was out in the middle of nowhere this field there's like 50 some acres here and this field was just i mean literally i drove on a dirt road to get to it um but there was a bunch of events that were going to be coming up and they could not have these yellow jackets in this box once the event started to be thousands of people here so they needed me to come and remove it well again it's out in the middle of nowhere so i had to have a way to use my vacuum the very first clip at the beginning of this video was actually the first day that i came here to remove the nest i didn't know how big it was and peering at it i realized i was going to have to vacuum everybody up i couldn't just try to bag it and get it out of there there was there was probably at least 3 500 to 4 000 yellow jackets inside this colony and just bagging it there was gonna be a lot left over that were gonna be inside this box you know looking for the nest and probably even starting to rebuild so i came back the next day with my vacuum and a generator or a generator inverter to vacuum up as much of the yellow jackets as possible so that way there wasn't any instances of anybody getting stung when the event started so i spent a lot of time here vacuuming up i actually cut out quite a bit of this removal it's actually a pretty long removal video but considering the amount of content i actually cut out of it to shrink it down to under 20 minutes was pretty substantial there were so many yellow jackets coming back while i was removing this that i literally sat here and just sucked up a lot of the foragers returning without even touching the nest i knew the second i would open up this nest that there was going to be a lot of yellow jackets flying out and flying around and adding to the numbers you see here there's already pouring out just from me poking the envelope and that was after i'd already been here for like 20 minutes vacuuming the foragers so i knew that this was going to be a pretty involved job and matter of fact i think i had like four removals for this day and i had to cancel two of them because i was so behind by the time i was done this thing um so i just literally just started poking into the envelope and there were probably 10 to 13 layers of envelope even before getting to the comb and just as soon as i actually got to the comb i could see that the mass amount of numbers inside of here was a little bit bigger than i thought it was um so my vacuum luckily i brought big bertha which is my my taller i think it's like a seven seven gallon vacuum and i was glad that i brought that one along um because my other one i had to dump it out at least twice in between uh once i start breaking into the envelope so usually what i do is suck up a lot of the envelope with the vacuum but in this case i just kind of knocked a lot of it off and then i figured i actually had to bag it up separate from the cone because there was so much of it involved i had my pry bar here to break out the envelope and that's just really because it's a nice flat like almost like a blade and it kind of pierces right through the envelope and i didn't want to like i really didn't want to rip into the um i didn't want to rip the envelope into shreds i kind of wanted to keep it one big whole piece because i wanted to show it at the end well unfortunately i had it all bagged up and i had it in my driveway and i left it out until like nine o'clock that evening and a skunk and uh actually a few skunks tore into the bag and ripped the whole thing to shreds looking for larva and eating the yellowjackets by the next morning there was nothing left of this nest like as far as the envelope was concerned there was some comb left over because i put that in the refrigerator but the envelope itself was completely torn apart so i wasn't able to show anybody the cool like girth of this thing roughly this thing was about the size of like maybe two beach balls side by side if you were to have uh that much girth it was just absolutely massive um the the actual adult count the individual count was probably about 3 500 to 4 000 adults uh it's probably about six layers of comb and they were substantial in diameter i think like 18 inches in diameter maybe even a little bit bigger in some spots just chopped completely full with larva just circumcising the nest here with the pry bar just trying to separate the envelope from the comb itself so i can just pull it down in one piece so there's actually two different types of german yellow jackets and they're two different sub-orders and they pretty much do the same thing but only one species a little bit more aggressive than the other this species is that i'm dealing with here is actually the more aggressive german yellow jacket species and they were clinging and they were dive bombing they were shooting venom it was a little unnerving at first because there were so many flying out at one time and i didn't get stung or anything but it definitely it makes you second guess exactly what you're doing and making sure you're double checking your zippers and and your gloves and everything else the the spots that i get stung on the most if i do get stung it's on my wrists the suit itself has sleeves that go up to my like right at my palm and then the glove itself has long sleeves to go over top of that so you get double layer on your arm however when you're reaching into a space the the suit sleeve rolls up a little bit so it exposes your wrist underneath of the glove sleeve and the glove sleeve is like a canvassy type material um but it isn't thick enough that if the if you get it pressed against your arm or if it gets a little bit wet it allows the stinger to get through and get you on the wrist but look at this as i'm pulling this envelope off you see just the girth of that thing i mean it was even even had some weight to it and all it is is paper like that's it but you can see here how the comb actually have two different orientations you have the main patties that are stuck to the piece of wood that are perpendicular to the ground and then there's these offshoots of comb that are parallel to the ground so that just shows you how the orientation initially was and then over time that the um the box was moved over and moved vertical and those uh those comb then were can be being continued to build the proper orientation to the ground so that doesn't really affect the production and the larva can still produce and and develop even though they are not in the exact orientation but they do prefer to have the comb facing directly downwards when they build so at this point i did just want to just try to get the comb off as soon as i could i don't want to i didn't want to break the comb apart because i knew there was a lot of adults in between the layers and that's typical with any removal that i do whether that's inside outside whatever ground nest cavity nests aerial nests it doesn't make a difference i like to try to keep the combs intact so that way if i were to break them apart there's a lot of individuals in between and they would be coming out in a hurry and just more that i have to vacuum up so i prefer to keep the comb the main structure of the comb intact so um i did spend some time even further yet just vacuuming up a lot of the foragers that were coming back if there's comb there the forages are going to go right back to the comb if i remove the comb they'll kind of crawl around in the general vicinity but they won't stay in the original spot so i have to kind of like spend a little bit more time going all around inside the space so but i did end up just pulling the comb down and bagging it up pretty quick and you can see the fury that that released the second that i pulled that off there were so many underneath those layers of comb and then just putting it here in the back you see the girth of that thing i mean like 18 to 20 inches at the widest diameter which is really impressive for for a german yellowjacket nest so the rest of this part of the removal is just vacuuming up all the foragers and sucking up all the envelope off this piece of wood and then bagging up the um the rest of the main chunk of envelope here so [Music] look at the girth of that thing is just massive as like it was like taller than my torso that's wild so that all the envelope and the comb are pretty much bagged up vacuuming up the rest of the individuals becomes a little bit tedious because when they fly in they don't see the nest so they kind of just crawl on anywhere in that vicinity and the vacuuming that with us with a nozzle that's you know circular and smaller and you're just going over all of this wood and it just takes forever because they don't they they will clump but they clump like further up into the box so i have to just like wait there for them to consolidate and then i go back and strike them with the wand and suck them up people often ask why i don't use a wide nozzle on my vacuum or an attachment or whatever i hear that millions of times in the comments and the reason why i don't use that is because so if you were to put an attachment on the vacuum nozzle itself it does not change the angle of suction so even though it's a quote-unquote wide-angle nozzle it doesn't mean that there's a wide angle of suction and where it would actually suck up more yellow jackets if i don't put any attachment on it at all if i leave it just the cylindrical extension wand that nozzle is going to have the most suctions on center and that's going to give me the most power that i can get to suck up the nest inside the vacuum let's go dump it out all of that sludge all i put inside this vacuum is syrupy water and sometimes not even soapy water sometimes it's just water um and what that does is when you suck up the yellow jackets they hit the baffle inside of there and the centripetal force forces them down inside the water and they drown if they don't if they don't die from the blunt force trauma of hitting the baffle they die pretty quick afterwards hitting the uh the water or the soapy water it's not an instant death but it is a pretty fast death naughty birdie that's what you get that's what you get hey good booties there you go birdie you finally made it in here see a queen in here somewhere uh um oh giblet what a nice giblet what a nice a nice booty hi honey a lot of males there's a male oh nice booty a nice booty hey yo honey hi honey [Music] you

Channel: Hornet King

Views: 1,311,705

Keywords: #Yellow Jackets, #Wasps, #Super Nest, #Hornet King, #Hornets, #Murder Hornets, #Infestation

Id: bDvP9Cm44NA

Length: 19min 28sec (1168 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 24 2021