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    Posted: 28 Aug 2019 at 10:17pm
Anybody else over run with the darn pests this summer? I think I've been stung more times by these darn pests than my honey bees. Every time I move something that has set more than 2 weeks I find them. We haven't had many mosquitoes, ticks, or fly's but these silly darn things are all over. I think I've used up a dozen or so cans of the 99 cent wasp and hornet killer.
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I used to have them real bad around the house.  Now in the spring first sign of them I kill them or through gas on them before they have time to multiply.   I have cut down on the the numbers significantly.
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Had to 'shoot' some at the front of church ... someone said there are more around this year, or more people are talking about them.
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We've seen a bunch of them this year too. According to my father in law, if you hold your breath they can't sting you because your skin isn't breathing. He claims he used to do this when he would hit a yellow jackets or wasps or hornets nest when he was doing a lot of grading. Claims when he saw them come up he would hold his breath and put the dozer in reverse and start knocking them off of him. Don't know how true it is. Never tried it
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Originally posted by thendrix thendrix wrote:

We've seen a bunch of them this year too. According to my father in law, if you hold your breath they can't sting you because your skin isn't breathing. He claims he used to do this when he would hit a yellow jackets or wasps or hornets nest when he was doing a lot of grading. Claims when he saw them come up he would hold his breath and put the dozer in reverse and start knocking them off of him. Don't know how true it is. Never tried it

I don't know about the wasps,but that idea has to do with honey bees. In nature bears where the cridder that is the hardest for them to chase away from the hive. So they go after the carbon monoxide/or the warmer air the bears are exhaling as there nose is about the only thing there stinger can do damage to.

I have disced up yellow jacket nests ( ground bees,meat bees) and seen a few that must have been using this idea as they dive bomb the tractor exhaust pipe.  I have held my breath and got lucky,other times not so much.
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I walked around the house last week and killed three nests up under the overhangs. Last time I got stung my hand swelled up for three days. Went to doctor and told him I have never been allergic to them before.   He said "You are now".🙄
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Can relate, had a slight reaction to a Paper Wasp(Bald Face Hornet) a number of years ago, doc told me if EVER Stung again head to the ER and tell them as will most likely have a reaction SEVERE, next time.
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Wasps seem to be greater supply this year.. I kill them every week... Use to you did it a couple times a year........... and we got plenty of SPIDERS also.. Daily chore to clean cobwebs and spray the ones you see.......... Not so may flys, nats, or others.
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I hauled three tractor carcasses to the junkyard today  I will them deal with them  Wasps were in all three.
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I hung 2 of those 99cent store 'paper wasp nest' by garage and NO real wasps in sight !! No bees either !!
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I got chased down bu a swarm of those bald faced hornets the other day.  Not too bad, only got bit 3 or 4 times, and I can't run very fast at all.  I wished they had to put flashing lights on those things!  I've got caught off guard twice now because I didn't see the nest.
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I went and got a back treatment from our Dr. I ask him if they'd had much trouble with them this year. He said people have had a lot of trouble with them.
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Yesterday I went to pull a battery core out of a old suburban.  Stirred up a BIG red wasp nest when I opened the hood.  Got away quick without getin stung.  Went back early this morning in the dark with a flashlight and pulled the battery. I woke up 3 just as it was getting light enough to see them and mashed them to jelly with my flashlight. I figure the $18 for the core was worth the chance of getting stung.
 
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Next time you get stung go get a cotton ball or some toilet paper and put some bleach on the sting. It'll stop hurting and won't swell. Or mine don't anyway. I don't know that it'll do much for those that are allergic but it really helps me
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Fresh slice of strong onion does too, found that out when was a kid.
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 Great post for the info,,!!  I too have seen many more Black Widows this year, so I keep a jug of Home Defense in the garage. Our latest Grandson goin on 4 just loves to stick his hands into any dark hole he sees BUT,,,he come runnin out the garage  SCREAMIMG  one time holdin his hand out and he had a little spider crawlin on his hand so I knocked it off and chewed him out,,,again,,,but it did not bite him as it did not swell up,,,but Chit,,, 2 hours later there he is again,,,he ain't gonna believe me til he gets bit and he experiences the pain I'm thinkin
 Great ideas on the antidotes,,,,ClapClap
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Folks,
Brush hogging with the D17 this morning and made a circle around a tree and drove away when a bee/wasp/hornet nailed me in the back of the head. I have been stung many times and it still hurts! No idea what it was, and did not see a nest in the tree? Maybe ground bees? 
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lots of yellow jackets on the hill this year
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Haven't seen a single one here this year.  Must have all drowned as it has rained just about every day since June 2.  Raining again now. 
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Seems like more here this year too. We bought our house in 2006. Have always had a few show up around the porch every year. Spray em and smash em whenever I see them and has not been any worse than that until this year. I've had the WD and WD45 here since 2015 and not an issue with them either until this year. Noticed wasps around the toolbox and air intake on the WD one day. Sure enough they had a nest built inside the toolbox and inside the air intake cap. Took care of them and their nests then figured I'd better check the same on the WD45. They were in that toolbox too but not the air intake. Thought I was done with them for awhile. Just a couple days later I was getting the WD45 ready for a local tractor show. My preparations included hooking up my utility trailer to the WD45 so that I could haul 2 of my L&G tractors to the show too. As I was doing so, I had placed 1 hand on 1 of the WD45's lift arm latches and immediately got stung on my thumb. Retreated to the house to treat the sting. When I went back out, there was still a couple wasps hovering around the lift arm. Sprayed them and when they hit the ground, they got the blow torch. Waited a few minutes and after not seeing any more, I opened the lift arm latch to discover a nest inside that but no more wasps. Hit that with the torch too. That was a couple weeks ago. Just the other day while walking the dogs, I noticed a couple more flying around the 190XT which has only been here for a month now. I have yet to investigate and eradicate this latest sighting.
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Is it the orange color or what that attracts to these tractors?
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Originally posted by chaskaduo chaskaduo wrote:

Is it the orange color or what that attracts to these tractors?

Wink Must be the color cause the HD5 carcusses I was given all had many wasp nests. The good,Tongue possums or skunks or something has been taking the nests apart.Clap The bad Cry the case one has a 3/8 inch wide crack with wasps going in and out, don't think the other critters will get that nest.
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Originally posted by VirginiaBrandon VirginiaBrandon wrote:

Carpenter bees became a real curse last summer. They spoiled almost all my furniture, damn it.
Never heard of carpenter bees....carpenter ants, yes.  Where do you live that they are a problem?
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Have carpenter bees here, aggressive, look similar to bumble bees but bore into exposed wood to make a nest, absolute brutal on cedar decks.
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Came across this down at the farm over the weekend. Was laying near the road. Amazed at what a bunch of insects can build.
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we always called them BORE BEES.... for drilling holes.
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Bald faced hornets or ‘Paper Wasp’ nest, ugly little buggers built one nest at the farm on a bus window, could see them working in it when first spotted it, then they miraculously went away, used wasp and hornet spray on the nest at first light.
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Pest control is a nightmare. Once we called a special service to get rid of parasites. It seems like all the chemicals should have worn off in 2 days, but half a year later we still smell this terrible smell.
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 Different people used to call my Dad to come get rid of them wasps, yellow jackets and bumble bees,,he didn't have no secret but had a lot of respect for em,,He would wait til after dark and get a coffee can bout half full of gasoline and walk up to the nest and just give em the whole can of gasoline,,!! You could hear them hitting the ground all around and by morning that was all gone,,,,Clap
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spray them with hair spray...it weights their wings down and they can't fly...and if they do fly before you hit them....ad a bic lighter to the spray...that always gits them! 
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