Wife got stung by some ground hornets last spring and had a serious reaction. Like collapse bad. We had to get and carry the shot.. which I saw they are going to make available non-script soon. ? That's good.
I had something like that in my front yard last summer. I don't want to kill bees, so I avoided it and let them bee (mowing the lawn was interesting). But I decided that I will drive them out this year if they return...
I could be wrong but I don't believe any ground hornets are productive for pollination.
busting my balls. Hornets or jackets coming out of the ground are the same damn thing for anyone coming across them
I’m no expert, but whatever was living in my front yard weren’t yellow-jackets.
I'm damn sure working on my house and in my yard over the past 50 years I have but that wasn't my original point.
Sir, thank you for that but as my wife is a Master Gardener I am well versed in honey and bumble bees. I can damn near hold them in my hands flying around my gardens.Scaled comparison:
Our house we had in Mahwah used to get these every year. Our neighborhood was built on an old sand quart so very easy for them to burrow their nests and our trees were loaded with cicadas. First year we were there, over 600 nests in our lawn. We had to hire a company to get rid of them and it took 4 times coming back to do so. Came back every year but never that many again.There's another ground dweller we see sometimes in New Jersey. It's called the Cicada Killer Wasp. They're solitary and live in burrows. They're also enormous - like 2-3" long. They mate, then the females lay a single egg in their burrow then go off to find and kill a cicada, which they carry off to the nest to serve as food for the single offspring.
They're also extremely defensive - they guard their nests and if you get too close, they'll chase you. The sight of that alone is terrifying. The bonus to all this is that they almost never sting humans, which is just as well since their stinger is roughly the size of a brass finishing nail.
but man is the only living thing that murders! sure, the mantis ate it.. but we say don't excuse serial-killing cannibals, do we? and so many murders are for profit.. which can buy food.
There's another ground dweller we see sometimes in New Jersey. It's called the Cicada Killer Wasp. They're solitary and live in burrows. They're also enormous - like 2-3" long. They mate, then the females lay a single egg in their burrow then go off to find and kill a cicada, which they carry off to the nest to serve as food for the single offspring.
They're also extremely defensive - they guard their nests and if you get too close, they'll chase you. The sight of that alone is terrifying. The bonus to all this is that they almost never sting humans, which is just as well since their stinger is roughly the size of a brass finishing nail.
The stings are really bad...the boiling water didn't work so much for us- we had to get a professional to take care of ours. But like I said- the first year- over 600 nests.
You're lucky. We have a tree on my neighbors property that has a deafening amount of cicadas in the summer, so our yard is the most popular spot in the neighborhood for them. Went from a few the first year, which I ignored, to about 30 of them buzzing around every morning the next year when they emerged. It's been a years-long battle since then to reduce the number. Boiling water on new nests, Late night Tempo Dust if that doesn't work, and a treatment on the area to kill the eggs (Bifen LP) so they don't come back the next year.
Those bastards keep wanting to build in my fruit orchard. One year didn’t see a foundation being built, by time harvest season came in July bigger than a softball sized nest. I couldn’t spray or I would have lost that trees harvest. That’s when my Funniest home videos attempt to remove it commenced.
I would never join any club that would have me as a member...
