Digger wasps busy busy busy

[hoodat]

There are really a lot of digger wasps in my area this year. Wasp holes everywhere. I doubt I'll have any trouble with cutworms or army worms this year. I often marvel at what large catterpillars they are able to drag down into holes that seem too small for them. I've never seen them sting, even when you accidentally dig up one of their burrows.

 

[majorcatfish]

ah yes the annual digging of nests..

always love the hidden yellow jacket nest after the fact you have mowed over them and they light you up....

 

[hoodat]

The heck with yellow jackets. Did you ever plow up a bumblebee nest? They're generally pretty even tempered but not when you disturb a nest. When I was younger I plowed into a nest of them with a horse drawn plow. That poor horse dragged a whole barbed wire fence across the field behind the plow before the bumplers left him alone.

 

[bj taylor]

when i'm mowing, i'm always looking in the trees to see if there's a bee swarm there. i'm pretty spooked at the idea of those Africanized bees.

 

[MontyJ]

ah yes the annual digging of nests..

always love the hidden yellow jacket nest after the fact you have mowed over them and they light you up....

Oh, I really hate that! I was raking hay on a friends farm some years back. I ran over a yellow jacket nest and didn't know it until the next pass. They tore me up pretty good. We usually find a nest or two in the yard every year. They get the gasoline treatment.

 

[majorcatfish]

ah yes the annual digging of nests..

always love the hidden yellow jacket nest after the fact you have mowed over them and they light you up....

Oh, I really hate that! I was raking hay on a friends farm some years back. I ran over a yellow jacket nest and didn't know it until the next pass. They tore me up pretty good. We usually find a nest or two in the yard every year. They get the gasoline treatment.

after licking my wounds will drag a water hose over and pass the nest and then drag it back till the end of it is over the opening and then turn the water on and drowned the whole nest, it takes about a day for all of them to die, it is alot safer then gas it's amazing how big their nests are. 1st year out here found one that was bigger than a basketball...yup i got light up