Paper Wasp Nest

  • Tom P.
    Whitehall Wi.
    Posts: 3542
    April 6, 2010 at 7:15 pm #1267039

    I have never ever seen a paper wasp nest like this one. I found it this spring in one of our sheds……I think they were on crack or queen bee could not make up her mind.


    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 60010
    April 6, 2010 at 7:44 pm #861290

    That’s pretty HUGE!

    deertracker
    Posts: 9285
    April 6, 2010 at 7:56 pm #861296

    Quote:

    That’s pretty HUGE!

    That’s what she said!
    But seriously that is a big nest. It’s amazing how they are able to make something like that. I hope it’s empty when you take it down.
    DT

    mark-bruzek
    Two Harbors, MN
    Posts: 3903
    April 6, 2010 at 8:09 pm #861308

    Quote:

    I think they were on crack or queen bee could not make up her mind.


    A QUEEN not make up HER mind… Never! -Mark

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    April 6, 2010 at 8:14 pm #861310

    There are 2 things in nature that spook me. Paper wasps and house centipedes. I swear Paper Wasps can smell fear. If I were the one discovering that nest, it might have sent me to the mental ward…

    mbenson
    Minocqua, Wisconsin
    Posts: 3842
    April 6, 2010 at 8:50 pm #861324

    I didn’t look that closely, but you might be dealing with a bald-faced hornet in that one. Paper wasp nests tend to hang down on a single pedicle like structure under eaves and the like.

    At this time, if that nest made it through the winter, the queen should have left the nest. If that is so, there should be no activity in it this year, though bee careful!!!

    Also if you have a fatter/rounder black and white bee, it is a hornet, if you have skinnier black/yellow one, then you have paper wasp.

    If that nest had been outside during the fall the wood peckers would have destroyed it for what was left of the larvae.

    Mark

    jeff_jensen
    cassville ,wis
    Posts: 3051
    April 6, 2010 at 8:52 pm #861325

    That’s crazy…….POKE IT WITH A STICK!

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    April 6, 2010 at 8:56 pm #861329

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    That’s crazy…….POKE IT WITH A STICK!


    Or move.

    John Schultz
    Inactive
    Portage, WI
    Posts: 3309
    April 6, 2010 at 9:02 pm #861335

    You could always give it the old Elin. Try to knock it apart with a 5 iron.

    life1978
    Eau Claire , WI
    Posts: 2786
    April 6, 2010 at 9:07 pm #861338

    Kill it with fire!

    get_hooked
    Dundee, Wi
    Posts: 94
    April 6, 2010 at 9:27 pm #861352

    I would just take my shop vac to it. works great. Nest and anything inside will be gone in 15 seconds. Use a wet vac. and put water in it if some bees are actually alive. Then they will drown. Leave it closed for a day to allow any live bees to die.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    April 6, 2010 at 9:52 pm #861360

    Quote:

    I would just take my shop vac to it. works great. Nest and anything inside will be gone in 15 seconds. Use a wet vac. and put water in it if some bees are actually alive. Then they will drown. Leave it closed for a day to allow any live bees to die.


    I don’t want to cross a wasp that is strong enough to with stand that…move I say.

    Tom P.
    Whitehall Wi.
    Posts: 3542
    April 6, 2010 at 10:42 pm #861384

    Quote:

    I didn’t look that closely, but you might be dealing with a bald-faced hornet in that one. Paper wasp nests tend to hang down on a single pedicle like structure under eaves and the like.

    Bald Face wasp…. Have to do a search on that. That is what floored me was the shape and this thing is about 4 feet long.

    rochelle_peterson
    Minnesota
    Posts: 26
    April 6, 2010 at 11:38 pm #861402

    We just took a paper nest out of the biggest tree in our back yard and gave it to my dad (at his request). He trook it apart and “harvested” the larvae for pan fishing… might want to try that….

    northstar42
    west central Minnesotsa
    Posts: 921
    April 7, 2010 at 12:32 am #861432

    That is some wasp nest. I’m pretty sure it is actually a hornet nest.

    Spray it with insect repellent. That will clean them out so you can remove it. I think the shop vac it a wonderful idea.

    earnit
    Posts: 319
    April 7, 2010 at 1:03 am #861443

    Quote:

    That’s crazy…….POKE IT WITH A STICK!

    and…………RUN LIKE HELL!

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