BUSH OF DOOM! Aggressive YELLOW JACKETS Swarm From Bush | Wasp Nest Removal
Вставка
- Опубліковано 11 січ 2023
- August 23, 2022
This client had a AGGRESSIVE Yellow Jacket (Eastern Yellow Jacket, Vespula maculifrons) nesting inside a bush. This colony was super sensitive and attacked and latched on me, and swarmed when I started moving branches. Luckily for my suit I survived!
I brought this nest home and fed it to my chickens, Rhea, and Emus! (This video was taken 8.23.22, so the Rhea and the Emus are still babies)
Animals Names:
Rhea: Rhea-the-Rhea
Emus: Sweetie, Baby, and Doris
Squirrel: Lady
Chickens: Henny, Little Red Birdies (4 young red pullets), The Ronettes (3 black hens), Blondie (Yellow Hen) and Lucy (Orange Hen)
For channel updates and behind the scenes content, Follow me on my socials!
Facebook:
/ hornetkingofficial
Instagram:
/ hornet_king_official
Twitter:
/ hkyt_official
Got Wasps?? Shoot me an email: bretdavislpn@gmail.com
#Wasp #Hornets #WaspNestRemoval #HornetKing #Infestation #HornetQueen #YellowJacket
I felt every bit of that swarm. Back in 1987 I stepped into a ground nest, and being 5, I couldn't get away fast enough. I was covered literally head to toe in stings. Luckily I'm not allergic, but yeah... never fun.
Same happened to me but i was allergic...lets just say i dont remember what happened the rest of the day
@@SproutQueen20 Ah god. I'm glad you're still here, that's no bueno
I had gotten stung by a hornet on my left shoulder years ago.
Same exact thing happened to me when I was five years old! Three of us were walking along a trail, coming out of a woods. My brother and another kid stirred them up and I was the third one through. They swarmed on me. It’s kind of hard to run when you’re swatting yellow jackets as you’re running, but I ran to a neighbor’s house, the closest house to me. Luckily, she was at home and she helped me. When my mother came to get me and walk back to our house, they came after me a second time and followed us into the house. A couple got in the house. I probably got stung 20 or 30 times, at least. My ankles were all swollen up.
I got revenge though, on their descendants over the years. If I found a nest, I would wait until nighttime, when all the yellow jackets were all down in the nest, spray bunch of insecticide down the hole, and plug it with a stick. End of problem. Years later, I got stung by a bumblebee after disturbing one of their ground nests while mowing the grass. I did the same thing with them.
We had hornets in our backyard also and we’d make a sport of it, by going after them with badminton rackets, as they flew around. We never did find a nest. Never got stung by one, either. I was a really good badminton player! They didn’t have a chance! 😂🤣
There was a big nest bigger than a basketball underground under a big ash pile. We got wasp spray with the long nozzle. Sprayed and a cloud came out of the ground. We took off running to the house 200 feet away. A hundred feet away my cousin Dawn who was five at the time just stood there. We yelled run. We ran past her I had thought she was going to run and I had to run back and grab her. She got hit 60-100 times. All in her hair. I would not doubt I was hit at least 50 times. Still rushed her to the hospital and she was fine. We live over 20 miles from town so she to was lucky she was not allergic. Kind of surprised those bees chased us to the door.
I love how much of a contrast beehive removals are to wasp nest removals
When someone is removing a beehive, they're being super gentle and delicate
In wasp removal it's just a war
I know it's because bees are more helpful oftentimes, but still it's hilarious
Bees when moving the hive: "time to move? Ok, ill grab this bit of comb!"
Wasps when existing too close: "FOR VALHALLA!!"
wasps deserve warcrimes
@@derpasoruswrecks2773 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@derpasoruswrecks2773to the death 😂
@@derpasoruswrecks2773 😂😂😂😂 I'm dying-
Oh my gosh when he whistles and all the chickens come running SO CUTE! 😍
Agree
That's my favorite part 😍😍. I love how much the birds enjoy eating the larva🎉❤.
dude mad respect for what you do
Thanks 😁
The end of the video with all the birds huddled together….I’m dead! So cute
Sisters!🐤🐥🦤🐤🐥
Cool
what kind of birds are the big fellas? geese?
Not geese.
Wont the live YJ’s sting the birds?
I've seen birds build nest cavities in those, but I never thought of Yellow Jackets doing that. Amazing creatures. Thanks for sharing another awesome video.
I always love seeing the birdies get their treats, but really nice to see kitties get some too!
The best part of these videos is the joy of the animals that get a larva feast. They are so excited! 🥰
The big bird is totally chill about chickens sitting on its back. Good sport!
Who would’ve known that kitties eat larva too. I don’t remember seeing the kitties before. So cute ❤️❤️
Yup! They've been in a few videos now.
Cats loves to eat bugs too.
@@haseo8244 And random fluffs they find on the floor
I had a rescue cat and she loved to eat locusts. She loved them and was big and fat too. Oh I miss my girl.
All I could think of when seeing the cats eating the wasp larvae was:
Kitties: "I'm gonna be a mighty king, so enemies beware!"
Hornet king: "Here kitty!" **tosses out wasp larvae**
Kitties: "Nom nom!"
The eggs those chickens lay must taste fantastic and extremely healthy for you. Excellent use of the salvage from nest removals!
2 things I didn't expect.
The yellow jackets dying after being sucked up. I thought you were going to have a vacuum filled with angry bees.
And the cats eating larva
Yeah I don’t know how they do? Usually people use a wet n dry vac and fill it with soapy water. Maybe it’s the sheer force of the vacuum inside?
lava*
I thought they were eating cashews for a second.
@@Rosie257. They ain't eating molten rock
Well hate to say it but releasing wasps is very difficult as they have facial recognition and can communicate between each other. If he tried to release them, they’d swarm him and try to annihilate him. So better dead than sorry. Wasps are helpful in gardens (they’ll eat the nasty cabbage caterpillars that eat your plants) but this species is just jerks that always wake up on the wrong side of the bed
Keeping hens happy with nests of wasps. Truly the perfect circle of live you have going on I love how the wasp babies don't go to waste
I liked that shot of the Rhea with the young chicken on its back getting along like they were sharing body warmth.
Sisters! 🐤🐥🐤🐥🦤
My grandfather always kept diesel fuel on hand. If he found a ground nest he would carefully cover it with an old metal screen he welded into a metal frame, dumped copious amount of diesel fuel in it and lit it. He would sit in a chair all night if needed to watch it while it burned. No more bees.
Thank you for reminding me why winter, snow and ice is a wonderful time of year.
Love the birds. Also, your videos get better and better. Keep up the phenomenal work.
Thank you!
@@HornetKingOfficial Thanks for telling us more about bees! I’ve been stung by yellow jackets more than once I actually have a scar from a sting and can say: very painful!
@@JustyYourAverageCommenterthose aren’t bees they’re in the wasp family
@@JustyYourAverageCommenter
These are not bees, they are wasps
Interesting and smart place to have a nest in!
Thanks for the video and keep up the good work!
Thanks Sina!
A vacuum is nice sure, but I have always felt burning the entire neighborhood down with Napalm to be a more effective measure.
Calling Oppenheimer not the hornet king to deal with this
I’ve been horrified of wasps and bees seance forever, you’re helping me without the price of therapy, thank you for the great content
We had a row of 5 of those kind of trees in our back yard. This past season we had at least 2 nests in the hedge. One removed in May like this one was about size of cantalope. Back in Nov. we had the hedges removed and found the 2nd nest. With the hedges gone hopefully they will find somewhere else to nest :) We also had a nest in my oldest son's bedroom wall and it was quite large. Apparently our property was prime real estate :/
I’d move house 😂
That's insane how compact it was. These smaller hornets are very nimble. Thank you for sharing HK!! Happy New Year.
Thank you! Happy New Year!
I love how you always feed the nest to your pets instead of wasting it by throwing it away ❤.
Quick solution: throw a gernade in the bush
Satisfaction is seeing the pet birds enjoying a hornet platter with those chirping sounds 😀👍
Happy birdies!
As always another fabulous video 😊 I find the nest removals are interesting but I really enjoy when you film at home either with your own nests, or with your fantastic relationships with your birds and of course squirrely squirrel 🐿 I could watch them for hours and hours 😊 keep up the brilliant work 👍😊
Thank you, Dave!
Its so nice seeing a content creator go through the comments and engage with their viewers keep being amazing we all love you for it.
Those are some happy birds! Good job keeping all the kids happy Mr. Hornet!
That's an unusual nest location! It seemed like it should have been larger, glad you were able to remove it in spite of their swarm. Great work as always!!
Size is relative to species. This is a large nest for Easterns!
The same thing happened to me once years ago. There was this little tree in the courtyard of my apartment complex and my friends and I used to chop at it with our toy swords. One day, yellowjackets came swarming out and we all ran. No one got stung. Great video my man and a good memory from the old times.
Been following your channel for a few years, and I'm glad to see you grow as a content creator. What you do is very entertaining, and educational. Keep on rocking Hornet King!
The patterns and colors of nest were so beautiful. Shame they are such dangerous things. You did a great job and I love how nothing goes to waste. Blessed Be.
Your fur and feather babies at home are SO cute, the cats and chickens! Hope no stray Jackets stung anyone. Amazing to see the poultry eat the nest with all those (shudder) papery, spooky-looking holes. . . .
That nozzle placement at 12:20 had me 😂🤣😂.
That's all you have to say?? I said "trimmed bush" and you have nothing to say? 😆😅
We would be great buddies in real life my friend! 😎👍
I was dying when I saw that lmao 🤣
I was looking for this comment I was trying so hard to be mature 😂
What an amazing video! As usual, my favorite part is towards the end when we get to see all the kitties and birdies!
That really threw me, I would never have guessed that the kitties would be interested in the larvae! And I love when all the birdies come running, SO CUTE!
Remember something similar with a Juniper bush in our front yard next to the garage in Florida. We were playing with a baseball that landed inside the bush, when my sister went to retrieve it is when they went into attack mode and stung her repeatedly until her arm swelled up to the size of her leg, it was awful. We had no idea they were even in there,saw no warning signs, nothing. Lesson learned!
Awesome removal HK! I'm convinced you're fearless.
I love that I can keep coming back to this channel every few months to watch and you always have new pets !
I love watching you feed your pets. I had NO clue the cats would eat it. I can see the love you have for your pets, thanks.
Great video, lovely cats and feathered friends. The final shot so lovely to see.
Just when you think you've seen it all...
Kitty Treats!
Only the Maine Coons love them! My other three have zero interest 😆
@@HornetKingOfficial I was wondering if they were Maine Coons! Top 3 of my favorite felines!
im not sure what is more enjoyable...... watching the nest removal or watching the birds chew thru the remains of the nest. you have the best office in town.
Gotta love the symmetry of those combs. It’s so precise.
I love watching the birds so relaxing 😌
Your videos are great! Keep em coming! Maybe another one with some closeup/ macro shots? Fascinating!
As a previous chicken hotelier now living in a place I can't have them, 22:18 brings me a good chuckle. Taking care of chickens is good for the soul.
Chickens turn bees into eggs. Not bad, chicken, not bad at all. That's a superpower.
Happy new year to you HK and HQ. Hope your family is doing great. Looking foward to more videos in the future. Rock on!
Happy New Year!
You’re chickens and Rhea are such happy contented little creatures it makes me happy to see because most chickens have a god forsaken life of insanity and misery so to see chickens with a life they all should have helps my heart so ❤ Thankyou! Subscribed. You’re almost to a million 😊
That was an oddly funny position to place the vacuum hose around 11:45-12:10 min! 🤣🤣
Love the format you use, showing the removel followed by the bird feast at the end =)
This is the first video of yours I've seen. Seeing those yellow jackets tucked deep in the thick foliage made me cringe, as I recalled a black widows' (several) nest in the small evergreen bush in front of my parents' home in the Southwest. Fascinating horror, then and now. Thank you for braving into that environment to help the rest of us experience and learn along with you!
Thanks for watching!
Rhea is just the cutest
She's the sweetest Rhea of them all!
Wow! I am so impressed with your work!
Just goes to show nature wastes nothing!
Absolutely find your videos, very relaxing. I love seeing the little birdies eat. Especially like seeing the chicken nesting on top of the Rea. Very relaxing.
Love the video. Makes me appreciate nature even more and how even the smallest creature can be the worlds best engineers. They can build anywhere it seems!
They definitely are! Amazing creatures!
@@HornetKingOfficial do you find the eastern to be the most aggressive?
@@ianmurray2340 Mostly he mentions southern yellow jackets, I'll see if I can't find the video he mentions his list of species ordered by aggression. I'll provide a title, and a link. If you don't trust the link, I get it bc I'm cyber-concious too.
@@ianmurray2340 Well, I didn't find the video in question, it's mostly a reminiscent memory- I feel I'd have to scan tens of videos and I won't have the time. However, I can assure you your answer is southern yellow jackets on average. All species exist on a defensive spectrum though so some colonies are exceptionally more or exceptionally less defensive than what is the mean, or typical.
Then we kill ‘em……😂😂😂😂😂😂
Every time I see Arborvitae shrubs I instinctively start looking for yellowjackets. Frequently they nest in the roots or just under the debris under the shrub. I've removed a few hanging nests in these shrubs but lots more ground nests. I don't get the luxury of removing with a vacuum, something I've wanted to try. I've been surprised how close to these nests you can get without disturbing them. I have literally squatted down next to a ground nest to do my thing and had them ignore me as long as I am suited up and not moving too much. Cool removal!
Usually you need to shake out all the dead needles and rake them out.
I have never been stung by a bee nor hornet. My dad was allergic to bee stings. Watching your videos is an exercise in a living nightmare for me. But, I still watch them.
I've read stories where ants that have been de-colonized will occasionally be accepted by a neighboring colony as one of their own. Do you think that could happen with workers that lose their nest but find another nest of the same species?
The chances of them finding another colony is slim enough, but finding another maculifrons colony, are extraordinarily low.
If I were to take one female from one colony and put her in with another colony, would she survive? Maybe. But I don't belive that would happen naturally.
Your cats are beautiful! Love the birds too!
Thank you!
Your birds are all so pretty and healthy looking. 🐝
Great content and I love that you feed em to your pets.
Using them to feed the animals is just…
Bravo, sir 👏🏼
Another v interesting video. Love seeing the birds. Can we have more close ups of the birds. Also could you split a comb in half. A couple of times I’ve caught a brief glimpse where you can see the larva in their cocoon from the side.
I used to watch you when I was like seven and I forgot about your channel but now I’m back and I’m here to stay
I never knew cats love larvae. But those are some well fed healthy looking animals. They are adorable 🥰
A few years back, I had to deal with an in ground nest that was causing issues in my yard, and it was probably these guys that were the ones that formed the nest. They would come out and sting me anytime I tried to mow my yard or even walked past were they were nesting. Not great when your allergic. Couldn't mow that part of the yard until one day late fall, I decided to move the rock they were nesting underneath and just have them exposed to the cold air. Couple days later when things have calmed down, I decided to pour soapy water on them (learned that from this channel), then decided to just double tap it by pouring boiling water from a kettle directly on the nest. Safe to say they were very dead, and after removing the nest, packed dirt into the cavity, replaced the stone and sealed it up. We didn't have to worry about wasps for quite a while as none had showed up the next spring/summer.
Another awesome video as usual man! Has any of your birds been stung by any of the random bees left over by chance?
Not likely. The leftover adults between cones don’t fly, probably can’t even sting yet, and have no pheromone signaling from defender wasps to go by. They’re just very confused and nommed by giant dinosaur birds 😂
The beginning felt like an epic movie trailer! I'm so pumped to watch this now 😂
You've got beautiful animals, love how you feed them the larvae.
The kitties eat them? Mine said don’t get any ideas Dad!
Thanks for your commentary. Early on in the video I was wondering if you ever had to leave the vacuum and step back for a while. And shortly after that you stated that when they swarm sometimes you have to leave the vacuum in place and step back to calm things down.
Yeah, if I don't, they stay agitated and keep swarming instead of going into the vac. Sometimes I wait until I remove the nest and then step away to get the rest, but the swarm happened so early on, that I tended the swarm before removing the nest.
I really enjoyed watching you make those birds happy at the end. That part of your job has got to be rewarding.
The info as to why the wasps nest in a tree/bush is really educational and interesting. Thank you 😁
Wow those cats have the healthiest coat iv ever seen!!!and his birds are huge and bright !
I love how the nest became a part of the tree
would be awesome if you could attach a go pro camera to the edge of the vacuum nozzle
Definitely a cool one!
Gopros are junk.
I am very afraid of hornets but I try to watch these sort of videos to overcome my fear. And thank you for doing this so no one else have to 👍
I like how you operate, totally organic .
13:52 the way the cat looks at you after you give the fat larvae to the other cat lmao
I'd love to see how rich and orange your egg yolks are with all of the larvae those birds eat.
Deep orange!
I love the baby voice you use for the birds 🥹🥹🥹❤❤😍😍
That one emu sitting while they're eating is adorable
How is this man not at 1 million subscribers yet? Come on guys! I am terrified of hornets and their cousins and I love watching these videos.
Thank you!
I agree! These are in my top 5 of favorites.
Damn I can't believe they burrowed out their tree. Massive effort. Have you ever needed to remove bees before? I just saw a video of a pretty woman who was rehousing a massive bee hive without any protective gear. Seemed insane!
No I don't tend bees. People can extract honey bees without a suit, but not wasps 😉
Maybe one day I will grow blonde hair and get on Joe Rogan too 😆
@@HornetKingOfficial Ahahaha. Thanks for the reply! Keep up the great content.
Thank you for posting
22:23 you asking if she likes that” if you see she turns her head and shuts her eyes, this is a way they show there comfortably and relaxed. If the bird didn’t like the hens sitting on her” her eyes would be wide open and her neck stretched out with a distant look on her face. And she would then try to move. So you can relax she’s very happy.
Great video and thank you for sharing.
👍👍👍👍👍THUMBS UP👍👍👍👍👍
We have similar bushes where I live. One summer my mom was trimming it with the electric trimmer and what looked like European Hornets flew out and stung her. Luckily she only took like 3 stings and isn’t allergic but I am afraid to go near any bush I can’t see into during any season outside of winter.
I was surprised at how many yellow jackets were on the pieces you dropped for the birds. At 16:49 it looks like one attacks one of the birds. Overall another amazing video!
They were newly hatched adults. They cannot fly or sting and are non aggressive. None attacked the birds.
@@HornetKingOfficial wow they can’t sting? I get the wings because they’re sensitive/delicate and need to harden but not being able to sting doesn’t make sense
@PixelPizza77 Yes, it does make sense. The ovipositor doesn't fully develop in the cell. The venom sac and ovipositor finish developing after hatching; usually about 2 days.
@@HornetKingOfficial sorry, I meant to say it doesn’t make sense to me, I wasn’t trying to imply that you were wrong, just curious as to why because I personally didn’t understand it.
@@HornetKingOfficial sorry, I meant to say it doesn’t make sense to me, I wasn’t trying to imply that you were wrong, just curious as to why because I personally didn’t understand it.
I enjoyed watching you interact with the animals.
Thank you for the hard work for dealing these bloody buggers. i really hate em got stung when i was a kid til today i still feel tht burning sensation moment.
It's almost a shame to take this nest down since it just seems so comfy in the tree
I tried to talk her out of it 😆
@@HornetKingOfficial I appreciate it.
@@HornetKingOfficial Yellow jacket queens are divas, there is absolutely NO reasoning with them!
Can't leave dangerous things hanging around
Effectively did it!
This is the most common Yellow Jacket in my area. They are very aggressive and can be very sensitive to people approaching the nest or entry into the ground.
They are actually really mellow in relation to other species of yellow jackets. Here in Africa he have species that attack you if you come within 0.5 km of the nest. We have people die about once every two weeks from a swarm
@@Daveeeeeeyhowyoudoing Shit man, I wouldn’t even go outside if I lived there
This is a REAL big service you provide.
Oh you've got emus, adorable.
What would you say was your scariest hornet removal? Have you ever "really messed up" a removal? What happened?
Are there any nests you cannot get?
Nope
He wouldn't be able to call himself King if a nest defeated him😁
Watching the animals eat it it up is freaking adorable.
I love the automatic subtitles for this
First let's goo
First
Yeah i would've just burned the bush