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Preserving a bee nest

Postby wawhitey » 07 23, 2018 •  [Post 1]

So i found a really nice, big bee nest. Some sort of nasty yellowjacket suckers. Any bright ideas on how i should go about evicting the occupants and preserving the nest for use in some future taxidermy?
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Re: Preserving a bee nest

Postby jmez » 07 23, 2018 •  [Post 2]

Just climb up and knock it down ya pansy. Oh and video that as well please!

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Re: Preserving a bee nest

Postby wawhitey » 07 23, 2018 •  [Post 3]

Dont even have to climb, its at eye level. And knocking it down would damage it anyway. Need to get the damn critters out of it.
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Re: Preserving a bee nest

Postby Lsb » 07 24, 2018 •  [Post 4]

Build a fire under it and smoke them out?
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Re: Preserving a bee nest

Postby Tigger » 07 24, 2018 •  [Post 5]

I am wondering if you could get it in the winter when they are hibernating and then somehow use a freezer and plastic bag to kill them. Take it out of the freezer in the bag and then plug the hole so they cant get back in. Then freeze the suckers. Might have to think about it a little, but I think it might work.
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Postby >>>---WW----> » 07 24, 2018 •  [Post 6]

Saturate the entrance with wasp & hornet spray.
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Postby wawhitey » 07 24, 2018 •  [Post 7]

Thinking ill just go the garbahe bag / freezer route. https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/ ... rnets-nest
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Postby Tigger » 07 24, 2018 •  [Post 8]

I didn't know they would freeze in the nest. Less steps than I thought!

Step 2 is to shoot a P&Y or B&C wasp and have it mounted on the nest!
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Postby Treestandgoatman » 07 24, 2018 •  [Post 9]

If you wait until winter the nest might fall apart with the first rains? I have killed them before by wrapping the nest in a garbage bag during the night, tape it up tight. When the sun comes out they all become well done..

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Postby Lefty » 07 24, 2018 •  [Post 10]

What kind of wasp or bee?
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Postby Lefty » 07 24, 2018 •  [Post 11]

What kind of wasp, hornets or bee?
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Re: Preserving a bee nest

Postby wawhitey » 07 24, 2018 •  [Post 12]

Pretty sure bald faced hornets. Screw those things.
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Re: Preserving a bee nest

Postby scubohuntr » 07 24, 2018 •  [Post 13]

It's all in the Zen of the thing. Put your "Yanni's Greatest Hits" CD on in the background, strip down to your skivvies, gently take the nest down and place it in your lap. The hornets will realize the nest is compromised, and calmly go elsewhere. Oh, and as someone else suggested, please, PLEASE video it! :lol:
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Postby wawhitey » 07 24, 2018 •  [Post 14]

For you guys suggesting i record video of this... no. Ive seen enough stupid crap on the internet to know that the most surefire way to make sure that this goes very wrong is to record it. I want no shenanigans. There will be no "hold my beer, watch this" type action.
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Re: Preserving a bee nest

Postby saddlesore » 07 24, 2018 •  [Post 15]

Get after it when it is dark. Use double thickness of garbage bags and carefully slip it up over the nest and tie it off good. Then freeze it for several months.I wouldn't spay pesticide in it or on it as the smell might carry over to you taxidermy project.
I would at least wait until fall when nights are cooler and the bees are not active at night.

If you screw up,you will be in a world of hurt though.
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Re: Preserving a bee nest

Postby wawhitey » 07 24, 2018 •  [Post 16]

saddlesore wrote:Get after it when it is dark. Use double thickness of garbage bags and carefully slip it up over the nest and tie it off good. Then freeze it for several months.I wouldn't spay pesticide in it or on it as the smell might carry over to you taxidermy project.
I would at least wait until fall when nights are cooler and the bees are not active at night.

If you screw up,you will be in a world of hurt though.


If i wait until fall, the nest might be damaged by weather or something. I think this is going down thursday night. Ill be using a thick husky contractor bag.
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Re: Preserving a bee nest

Postby Lsb » 07 25, 2018 •  [Post 17]

wawhitey wrote:For you guys suggesting i record video of this... no. Ive seen enough stupid crap on the internet to know that the most surefire way to make sure that this goes very wrong is to record it. I want no shenanigans. There will be no "hold my beer, watch this" type action.

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Re: Preserving a bee nest

Postby WapitiTalk1 » 07 25, 2018 •  [Post 18]

wawhitey wrote: There will be no "hold my beer, watch this" type action.


Bringing back memories Dean ;). I had beast of one on our property last year, right up and off the trail we walk our dogs. We decided to get rid of it so I blasted it with a can of that 15' hornet/wasp spray and then knocked it down the next day with some carefully placed rocks; it's amazing how well built and tough they are.
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Postby Tigger » 07 25, 2018 •  [Post 19]

You know.....the medical personnel responding to your accident may benefit from the video. :lol:
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Postby Lefty » 07 25, 2018 •  [Post 20]

wawhitey wrote:Pretty sure bald faced hornets. Screw those things.

A bit more aggressive than say any other bug out there :lol:
should bee fun.
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Re: Preserving a bee nest

Postby lamrith » 07 25, 2018 •  [Post 21]

There is a dust you can use on them, but usually it takes a single entrance and the ability to put the dust there. It kills, them, but not until after they track it in to the nest which kills the entire nest. Taled Tempo dust or Delta dust depending on the manufacturer.
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Postby Treestandgoatman » 07 25, 2018 •  [Post 22]

I knocked on of those nest down a few years ago while wearing a bee suit. They get PISSED FAST! A little scary, and am use to being in Honey bee colonies. Had about 100 of them bouncing off of my face shield, and they followed me when I was done. They go straight to the face! 2 things, video [GRINNING FACE WITH SMILING EYES], and wear some kind of a face net that won't let them in if it goes wrong.

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Re: Preserving a bee nest

Postby lamrith » 07 25, 2018 •  [Post 23]

Reading back on it, yeah you have baldface, GOOD LUCK. Chances of you getting the dust in there are slim, but might be able to get done in middle of night when it is coldest. Unless you have a bee suit I do not think I would risk trying to preserve the nest or attempt to when it is a live colony.
Yellow jackets are cranky, but as mentioned baldfaced are flat out MEAN when you mess with the nest. Big fast, aggressive and they hit hard. They laid claim to my bear last year within an hour of me shooting it, I got tagged a couple times just trying to grab a leg and drag him to a better spot, and that was thru a shirt. Had to come back the next morning.
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Re: Preserving a bee nest

Postby Elkhntr08 » 07 25, 2018 •  [Post 24]

Bee suit and a long stick sounds like a hoot. Personally, I’d leave it alone until the first frosty morning, then go after it. Got a hornets nest in a tree between the house and barn. Don’t know if it’s bald faced or not. A 12 ga turkey load will be my solution in a month or so.
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Re: Preserving a bee nest

Postby ishy » 08 07, 2018 •  [Post 25]

I stepped in a ground nest stepping over downfall couple years ago. I actually had stopped one leg on each side clearing branches when I heard the jet engine starting. I looked down to see a black and yellow cloud climbing my leg! That was pretty spooky, I was solo about 3 miles in I felt pretty helpless other than running on very steep slope covered with downfall. Only got hit 4 or 5 times thanks to thick enough pants, but makes you think about how quickly things can go wrong if I had any reaction.
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