Nature

[bearmick]

Recently when I've been outside around my back door (usually leaving or coming home, as the back door is closer to my garage) I've had a wasp flying around my head a lot. I figured there must be a nest somewhere nearby because I don't remember seeing them around that much in previous years. The wife has noticed the same. Oh well, I figure as long as I don't let any inside, no biggie.

Tonight I get home and a wasp is buzzing around my head right as I have the door open, so I quickly shut the glass screen part so it doesn't get in. Didn't look like it did, so I closed the main door too. Then something made me look again, so I open the main door to see if it's still on the outer glass screen door. Didn't see it, then I looked up, and sitting on the chain at the top of the screen door is this motherfucker and there's a plum-sized ball hanging from it. The ball has little holes at the bottom, almost like chambers of a mini heart.

This ****** is building a nest in the gap between my screen door and main door. Turns out there's a small gap at the top of the door, and this wasp, which I now realize is a queen, has been working on this thing for probably two weeks if not more. Never even noticed it. I have to admit it was impressively crafted. I figure she has probably laid eggs in the chambers and at some point soon they would have hatched and I'd have come home to a small but growing family of wasps.

Thank goodness I saw it before that happened because the whole process of revoking the building permit, evicting, and ultimately killing this invader and destroying its empire was much easier that it would have been if the first batch had hatched before I saw it.

I will say though that I have a new found respect for the construction skills of wasps.

 

[KittiesKorner]

I use this all-natural stuff called web-out to kill the spiders’ nests in our garage and I feel a little bad about annihilating them but i swear to god one of the spider moms saw me do it the other day and then spun down while i was smoking and looking at the cbmb on my phone. I felt bad but i killed her too

 

[bearmick]

I use this all-natural stuff called web-out to kill the spiders’ nests in our garage and I feel a little bad about annihilating them but i swear to god one of the spider moms saw me do it the other day and then spun down while i was smoking and looking at the cbmb on my phone. I felt bad but i killed her too

They say if you let the spiders be, you won't have to worry about anything else because they'll keep other insects in check. I have no idea whether this is true because "they" say a lot of things.

 

[KittiesKorner]

I thought about that before stepping on her but she had slapped me and my wife said she had been bitten by a spider the night before. I felt bad but this is MY house!

 

[Ares]

They say if you let the spiders be, you won't have to worry about anything else because they'll keep other insects in check. I have no idea whether this is true because "they" say a lot of things.

I am running this experiment right now.

Took in a female that laid eggs, they hatched, and I raised up as many of the spiderlings as I could keep in the container or capture in the immediate vicinity.

I am noticing more spiders/webs around the outside of the house, and the big one I released into my front bush definitely murdered fisch and started building a funnel web.

I noticed some ants near my front door the other day and found a spider in that area hunting them.

I am trying to not spray Ortho Home Defense.

 

[Urblock]

My wife has a rule about wasps, bees, spiders or any scary bug. If she sees it I have to kill it.

 

[BearFanJohn]

My wife has a rule about wasps, bees, spiders or any scary bug. If she sees it I have to kill it.

My wife will generally kill those things….unless I am home. Then it’s my job. Wasp nests and such are strictly my problem.

 

[bearmick]

My wife will generally kill those things….unless I am home. Then it’s my job. Wasp nests and such are strictly my problem.

Take the time to admire them and consider relocating them. They would probably appreciate it. Maybe, I dunno.

 

[Tater]

Take the time to admire them and consider relocating them. They would probably appreciate it. Maybe, I dunno.

They'll show their appreciation by stinging his ass.

 

[airtime143]

Wasps are a pain- getting the nests while they are tiny is the way to go.
I keep an eye out for the early stages of nests and just scrape them off.

As for your nest shape... is it possible it was a hornet?
I usually get the paper wasps with the umbrella style nest- visible open cells on the bottom.
Hornets also build the heart shaped smooth nests.

There isn't a ton of difference aside from the fact that hornets are a little more aggressive and pump out more venom per sting.


Anyone looking to get rid of a nest, best time is late night or early morning when the temp is at its lowest point..they are slow and dumb.
Put on some gloves, hold a garbage bag underneath the nest (or coffee can with a lid ready for a small one) and use a putty knife to hit the attachment point and drop it in.

That way you get the whole colony and don't have angry citizens coming back and finding the nest gone.

 

[bearmick]

As for your nest shape... is it possible it was a hornet?

Nah she was smaller and not brightly striped. Just a regular wasp. Don't think it was a paper wasp because the early stage of the nest was more like a little clay pot with a couple of holes in the bottom.

 

[Briggs is GOAT]

Recently when I've been outside around my back door (usually leaving or coming home, as the back door is closer to my garage) I've had a wasp flying around my head a lot. I figured there must be a nest somewhere nearby because I don't remember seeing them around that much in previous years. The wife has noticed the same. Oh well, I figure as long as I don't let any inside, no biggie.

Tonight I get home and a wasp is buzzing around my head right as I have the door open, so I quickly shut the glass screen part so it doesn't get in. Didn't look like it did, so I closed the main door too. Then something made me look again, so I open the main door to see if it's still on the outer glass screen door. Didn't see it, then I looked up, and sitting on the chain at the top of the screen door is this motherfucker and there's a plum-sized ball hanging from it. The ball has little holes at the bottom, almost like chambers of a mini heart.

This ****** is building a nest in the gap between my screen door and main door. Turns out there's a small gap at the top of the door, and this wasp, which I now realize is a queen, has been working on this thing for probably two weeks if not more. Never even noticed it. I have to admit it was impressively crafted. I figure she has probably laid eggs in the chambers and at some point soon they would have hatched and I'd have come home to a small but growing family of wasps.

Thank goodness I saw it before that happened because the whole process of revoking the building permit, evicting, and ultimately killing this invader and destroying its empire was much easier that it would have been if the first batch had hatched before I saw it.

I will say though that I have a new found respect for the construction skills of wasps.

Good man good man.

 

[Urblock]

How about these ******* in your yard. 11-foot alligator kills man in Myrtle Beach yacht club community

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

How about these ******* in your yard. 11-foot alligator kills man in Myrtle Beach yacht club community

I bet you could wrestle a gator and win.