tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post7633978112557842072..comments2024-03-28T19:35:24.365-07:00Comments on Rural Revolution: Bald-faced hornetsPatrice Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06012022335047974670noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-15309002718339845462013-01-13T10:38:42.413-08:002013-01-13T10:38:42.413-08:00This summer we had a scary almost fatile encounter...This summer we had a scary almost fatile encounter with bald face hornets. My hubby came out of a outhouse and was stung 6 times. We where 30 miles from the hospitol when he sent into shock and had a seizure. No Thanks, I go on a war path now against these things.<br />CandyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-82662928292318545552012-09-11T12:36:02.366-07:002012-09-11T12:36:02.366-07:00I leave wasp nests up if I find them late in the s...I leave wasp nests up if I find them late in the season. If the nests survive the winter, my hope is that the next spring new wasps will think a colony has already claimed the spot and move on. Haven't had a nest re-used yet.KarenBChttp://www.backwoodshome.com/forum/vb/index.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-74384740455337046822012-09-09T09:32:35.648-07:002012-09-09T09:32:35.648-07:00Hi Anonymous --- I really enjoyed this story.
Jus...Hi Anonymous --- I really enjoyed this story.<br /><br />Just MeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-77473431694560564722012-09-09T09:31:15.317-07:002012-09-09T09:31:15.317-07:00I'm a little late to this party...
EWWW! I j...I'm a little late to this party...<br /><br />EWWW! I just hate anything that can sting me, but especially hornets. (Bees are forgiven.) <br /><br />I cringe just looking at them with their long legs and oddly jointed bodies.<br /><br />BTW: It's good to see Major out enjoying life.<br /><br />Just Me<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-45844115673639082212012-09-08T19:50:43.348-07:002012-09-08T19:50:43.348-07:00Hornets eat flies? I didn't know that fact.Hornets eat flies? I didn't know that fact.Megannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-8379459366922248792012-09-08T18:41:14.017-07:002012-09-08T18:41:14.017-07:00Those bald=faced hornets invade my honey bee hives...Those bald=faced hornets invade my honey bee hives and kill honey bees. I hate them. I'm happy to kill them every chance I get.<br /><br />Xa LynnXa Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10542611446828065852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-51405917982022709292012-09-08T17:11:04.143-07:002012-09-08T17:11:04.143-07:00Maybe so far no one's been attacked, but don&#...Maybe so far no one's been attacked, but don't know if I'd want to see how long my luck might hold out. When the leaves fall off the trees I bet you could find an abandoned one to cut open. It is fascinating to take one apart. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-18177153735284726452012-09-08T15:16:13.520-07:002012-09-08T15:16:13.520-07:00we get a hornets nest built every summer in the sa...we get a hornets nest built every summer in the same spot on the ceiling of our back porch...right over the porch swing..and every summer my hubby goes out there armed to the teeth to get rid of the hornets and their nest. i have been stung very badly by hornets and i say good riddance.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-50962740517292163352012-09-08T06:37:47.926-07:002012-09-08T06:37:47.926-07:00Have you seen "The Hunger Games" movie? ...Have you seen "The Hunger Games" movie? I just thought the hornet's nest was part of your "homeland security". LOL!Diane in TXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-32305217130598555982012-09-07T18:08:35.953-07:002012-09-07T18:08:35.953-07:00Actually its a work of art when you can look at it...Actually its a work of art when you can look at it like this.... and not running flat out looking back over your shoulder! It looks like its paper thin but I have a feeling its stiff and firm. Thanks for sharing and I hope you pots photos when you cut it openKatididshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15568618127371786808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-30820404706749311412012-09-07T17:58:46.795-07:002012-09-07T17:58:46.795-07:00I would be really, really nervous to have them on ...I would be really, really nervous to have them on the porch. I think I would have to go out there after dark with two cans of Raid Wasp and Hornet spray and let them have it. Then I would run to the back door screaming like a little girl!Swamp Doghttp://doublebhomestead.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-56340103988084257432012-09-07T17:49:28.917-07:002012-09-07T17:49:28.917-07:00About 1952 my great grandfather and I were alking ...About 1952 my great grandfather and I were alking around my grandfather's place in late fall and we came upon a hornet's nest under a barn eve. He then told me a story about when he first got married in the winter of 1894 and he was hunting rabbits on his farm and found a fornet nest. He cut it down from the bush it was in and took it home and hung it in the parlor. That evening as he and great grandma were sitting in their rockers on each side of a table with a oil lamp between them, in front of the woodstove he heard a buzzing. Picking up the oil lamp he found hornets all over the ceiling. They quickly went to bed. The next morning after the woodstovehad gone out the hornets had froze so they swept them up and threw them in the stove along with the nest. Don't do that yourself he told me. Also he said that hornet nest makes very good wadding for your muzzel loading shotgun or in your shotgun shells.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com