Wasp nest disappeared?
Existential Angst
Really strange --
In the front hedges, a small round wasp nest (yellow jackets) started to
grow -- and grow, and grow....
What started out the size of an orange quickly grew to the size of a soccer
ball!!
The wife is nagging and nagging, and ahm sayin, Yo, just wait until the
first 32 F night, and I'll get rid of it.
But even I was wondering, Man, if it keeps growing at this rate, it'll be
the size of a dog house by fall!
And a busy nest this was!
Then, one day -- it was gone!!!
Now, it was being built IN the hedges, around/through all the branches, and
I figger if someone "stole" it, there would be evidence from cuts, etc.
But, nothing, just the missing nest!
What do you think happened? Where might I find out more info on this?
The little reading I did suggests that wasps are not without ecological
value, preying on other nuisance insects, etc, altho they can also be a pain
to bees.
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EA
ransley
wrote:
Maybe you burnt it up sleepwalking, or an alien abduction or
spontainious combustion, those things sting. I could understand them
abandoning the nest, but the nest itself will stay quite awhile.
Don Phillipson
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> In the front hedges, a small round wasp nest (yellow jackets) started to
> grow -- and grow, and grow....
> . . .
> Then, one day -- it was gone!!!
> . . .
> What do you think happened? Where might I find out more info on this?
First, identify the wasp species, then do some homework on its
typical behavior (when it nests, how it constructs nests, how long
they last etc.) Then apply your new knowledge to the environment
(urban or rural, climatic, etc.) to see whether your partial knowledge
matches textbook generalizations.
Identifying the species is worthwhile because yellow jackets are
aggressive but paper wasps are not. We usually have one paper
wasp nest on this rural property every year, anwhere from the
house dormers to hanging underneath the deck, and average
about one sting per year.
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
hibb
wrote:
I've seen where raccoons have taken out bald faced hornets nests when
they are close enough to the ground but the nest is just torn up and
the tattered bits are scattered around.
k...@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz
<UNfi...@UNoptonline.net> wrote:
>Awl --
>
>Really strange --
>
>In the front hedges, a small round wasp nest (yellow jackets) started to
>grow -- and grow, and grow....
As Don suggests, find out what they really are. Yellow Jackets are not wasps.
They're Hornets; a *very* different beast. I'll let wasps live, mostly. I go
postal on *any* hornets around my property.
>What started out the size of an orange quickly grew to the size of a soccer
>ball!!
>The wife is nagging and nagging, and ahm sayin, Yo, just wait until the
>first 32 F night, and I'll get rid of it.
>
>But even I was wondering, Man, if it keeps growing at this rate, it'll be
>the size of a dog house by fall!
>And a busy nest this was!
>
>Then, one day -- it was gone!!!
>
>Now, it was being built IN the hedges, around/through all the branches, and
>I figger if someone "stole" it, there would be evidence from cuts, etc.
>But, nothing, just the missing nest!
>
>What do you think happened? Where might I find out more info on this?
Scotty transported them into a Klingon Battle Cruiser?
>The little reading I did suggests that wasps are not without ecological
>value, preying on other nuisance insects, etc, altho they can also be a pain
>to bees.
Wasps <> Hornets.
Red
wrote:
If it was low enough I'd suspect an armadillo got it. They will root
out a fire ant mound so I doubt they'd be discouraged by wasps. They'd
eat the nest along with the grubs.
Red
Existential Angst
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Well, these were yellow jackets. No animal seems to have gotten to the
nest, as there were no pieces.
A co-worker came up with an interesting notion:
He said these nests were *collectibles*, of all things, and that someone
likely did come by and take it!!
I guess at night these 'jackets are quiescent, and someone who knows what
they are doing can extract one of these nests. This type of nest seems to
have just one entrance/exit hole, so if that is plugged, you can then deal
with the spherical nest.
I was thinking that mebbe someone complained, and the City took it, and
would be sending me a bill, but I'm sure I'd have gotten some notice to
remedy first.
Still, the "extraction" was super clean. Mebbe if I look closer, I'll see
the trimmed leaves/branches.
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EA
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mm
<k...@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote:
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>Wasps <> Hornets.
We used to have a Hudson Wasp. The Hudson Hornet was more expensive.
harry
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Here in the UK, anglers collect wasp nests. They use the grubs as bait
apparently.
Nelly
"Existential Angst" <UNfi...@UNoptonline.net> wrote amongst other things:
> Well, these were yellow jackets. No animal seems to have gotten to the
> nest, as there were no pieces.
>
> A co-worker came up with an interesting notion:
> He said these nests were *collectibles*, of all things, and that
> someone likely did come by and take it!!
>
> --
> EA
>
My father used to collect the really big hornet nests and hang them on the
front porch. I asked him why; he said "salespeople."
JIMMIE
wrote:
Wife got tired of waiting on you to do something about it so she did.
Probably hired an exterminator to take care of it for about $100.
Would have cost you about $5.00 for a can of Sevin dust at the Feed
and Seed.
Jimmie
mkir...@rochester.rr.com
wrote:
> Then, one day -- it was gone!!!
Look for a bill from the exterminator...
nor...@earthlink.net
>
> What do you think happened? Where might I find out more info on this?
>
> The little reading I did suggests that wasps are not without ecological
> value, preying on other nuisance insects, etc, altho they can also be a pain
> to bees.
>
Any chance a neighbor got out the ShopVac and sucked it up?
1234
I had a paper wasp nest under my deck stairs that I had been watching. The
nest is completely gone this morning but the wasps are still hanging out at
the site of their former nest. When wasp nests are close to doorways I
often spray them with water and essential oils, and after the wasps fly away,
I remove the nests with leather gloves in the hope that they will rebuild at a
different location. They may hang around awhile looking for their nest, but
they don't rebuild at the same site. Something must have just happened to
their nest, but I cannot imagine what.
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m
songbird
> replying to norminn, 1234 wrote:
> I had a paper wasp nest under my deck stairs that I had been watching. The
> nest is completely gone this morning but the wasps are still hanging out at
> the site of their former nest. When wasp nests are close to doorways I
> often spray them with water and essential oils, and after the wasps fly away,
> I remove the nests with leather gloves in the hope that they will rebuild at a
> different location. They may hang around awhile looking for their nest, but
> they don't rebuild at the same site. Something must have just happened to
> their nest, but I cannot imagine what.
songbird
buzzed off
I just had a nest disappear overnight also. It was in my greenhouse which I
close up every night. The only creature in there might be a mouse or vole. No
birds. There was no trace of the nest; no pieces; just gone. The wasps were
still in the greenhouse, but seemed disoriented. Their is another nest close
by and it is still active. I am wondering if the other wasps in the other nest
ate the whole thing. Both nest are up high so animals are not likely the
culprit.
Don
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micky
>My hornet nest the size of a grapefruit has totally disappeared. It was high in the roof rafters. Not even a mud stain is left. I'm baffled. Paramount. CA