SKUNK vs HORNETS nest Yellow Jackets Wasps Nest Destroyed
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- Wasps natural predator, THE SKUNK! My Eastern Yellow Jacket nest on my property was destroyed by a skunk at night time. So in this video, I am showing how a wild Skunk will destroy a wasp nest (European Hornet Nest) and eat the larvae and pupae.
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For those wondering why he wasn’t worried about getting sprayed:
It’s usually easy to know when a skunk feels threatened and might spray; they often paw the ground and hiss to warn you off first. This one showed no signs of feeling threatened or distressed, so there was no reason to think it might use its defensive spray.
Vixen 525 “usually” is a terrible comfort when it smells that bad and like never comes off and can blind you
@@nokiot9 I volunteer at a wildlife rescue organization. Someone there gets sprayed at least once a year and it's not that hard to clean off, and the only skunks that don't display the warning behavior are some of the babies. Last time someone got sprayed on my shift I didn't even know it happened until they told me and they actually laughed about it. Eye harm is rare unless you've leaned over to be right up close to them, and the harm is temporary.
@@nokiot9 it can only blind you temporarily
I have a whole new respect for skunks now. Love the adventures you are bringing to this channel.
Edit: I am watching all the commercials to help you out..
Berkshire Girl does it help the site if we watch the ads? I didn’t know that. If so, will start doing that. 😁
What about premium members who are adless?
@@GrimKeeper9011 That is a great question... I am not sure.
Berkshire Girl thank you for the info.
@@GrimKeeper9011 He gets a bit from your views in that case, not the ads you watch.
Skunks are even better mousers than cats. They don’t chase mice one at a time. They track down nests an eat everybody.
Lol
Oh damn
Skunks are so metal, love em
Damn you learn something new every day....
Really? How's about with rats? Could have used a few at the old farm..
Skunks earned my love for this behavior. I was weeding an overgrown garden bed and found a nest of wasps that were very upset about me clearing out the cover and chased me pretty far. Next day the nest was dug up and gone. Skunk got revenge for me.
"That skunk from Bambi..."
*blush* "He can call me a flower if he wants to. I don't mind"
Thank you! I drew a blank!
Remember, if you see a wasps nest, get your self a wild skunk
Hahaha yes!!
It'd be better if the skunk came with free climbing sessions. Unless they can already climb trees and stuff. Can skunks climb trees?
Lol, no skunks don't climb.
Porcupines climb trees though, bit do they also eat hornets?
This looks like a young skunk, that’s why he was so playful and tame.
The skunk is so cute! And your girls are lovely!
Cute until it sprays you in the eyes
I had a pet skunk many yrs ago. The little fella was adorable! However, not a great house pet and it seldom used the litter box! The little critter would go under the couch and would put up a fight when I tried to pull him out. I was bitten plenty of times. I don't remember any of its bites breaking the skin and I quickly realized being bitten was no big deal. Seeing this little guy almost makes me want another one. They certainly are cute and completely full of personality!
He was so cute and was so playful!
I had a pet skunk as well. My experience was the same as yours.
That sounds fun
I’ve never seen or heard of anyone calling a skunk over for a snack! So flipping cool!!
They're cute, but run like hell if you see that tail go up. LOL
They stomp their front paws to warn you I know from experience.
I saw him, he saw me, I was looking at him, he was looking at me. We both slowly walked around each other then went our own ways.
I'd prefer a skunk infestation to a wasp infestation any day.
Wasps have lots of predators . Different types of birds,dragon flys, prey mantis, bat's, and other things.
Yes. I rather smell than be stung
You really don't want a skunk infestation truuusst me one is enough
My dad lives out in the country and has had to deal with his own share of skunks crawling under the house and he agrees with me.
You don't want a skunk infestation. They're pretty bold because all would be predators steer clear of them. They think nothing of strolling into your house when you leave the door cracked, and you can't get them out without ruining everything you own.
This video is really cool. Shows how calm wild skunks can be. You mentioned them being in the weasel family, but that changed in 2013. Weasels are in the Mustelidae family and skunks were re-classified into their own Mephitidae family along with stink badgers.
They are however members of the musteloidea superfamily. Which does include the weasel family.
I had a roommate who had a pet skunk named 'Stink'. I never heard him make any noises either. You'd be walking down the hall in the middle of the night & you'd hear him scratching at you. He'd throw his front arms out in front of him then drag his nails back towards himself which made a scratching noise on the carpet. But, that's about the only noise he ever made. They are cute! Thanks for sharing!!!
That's really brave pulling up on the skunk like that
Yes lol 😂
Your little friend was really enjoying his snack . It was fun to watch . Good to know that wasp have to watch their back too instead of just being little jerks . Take care of your little friend . He is cute .
I don’t hate skunks, and this makes me like them even more.
Edit: woah, 150 likes.
Edit 2: dang, 222
@Paul Green like musquitoes.. moron
Well the ones you guys are saying are insects really. Like @Paul Green I love animals but hate a few insects: bed bugs, wasps, ticks, mosquitoes
@Lord Brain Animals are anything with eukaryotic cells. Bugs have those, therefore they are animals. They certainly aren't plants or fungi.
@Lord Brain Here's a source! www.earth.com/earthpedia-articles/are-insects-animals/
Cheers!
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Amazing you didn't get sprayed. The skunk didn't feel threatened by you?
Mike Smithson they try their best not to spray because it takes over a week until it builds up again
@@jennabelle3526 I understand. My neighbor's dog got sprayed earlier this year. I've seen them around my house before and they are pretty shy to be around humans from what I've seen.
This was a young skunk and was very playful he said! He was also reading his body language!
@@silkelaika yeah, skunks do a whole dance before they spray you
SilkeLaika yeah definitely only a young skunk, probably a baby from this year that’s recently left it’s mother, hard to tell the scale of his size from the video but the close ups on his face and just how not skittish he is, he’s probably only a few months old
YAY for the skunk. I love them. That is a young skunk. If you have them you wont have wasps, slugs etc.. I cant like this enough!
It's amazing how wild animals there have no fear of humans, here in Serbia you can see only wild animals running off of humans
here, in Canada, humans run away from the wildlife, xD
@@Burboss in Canada you lot have moose. Id bugger off too.
In Australia if you find an animal you’re already dead
in Russia bear run from russian
Taser Face Underrated comment 😂😂😂
Wild Skunks, chickens and crazy hornet facts. Amazing channel!
I love this channel. The videos are so satisfying and it teaches you something new. Congrats on 75k subs, hope you get 100k soon😉
4 years later and he's reached over a million
I had a yellow jacket nest in my front yard....discovered while mowing couple weeks ago.....got popped on the knee. Anyway, I decided to monitor the nest before deciding how to get rid of it before the next mowing. Well, just two days ago, I went out to look and something had dug a hole there and ALL of the wasps were gone! Saved me the trouble of exterminating them!
A couple of years ago, yellow jackets had built an underground nest next to my fence. Every time I tried to mow the lawn near it, I was attacked and stung by the yellow jackets. I tried all kinds of pesticides to get rid of them, but nothing worked. One night I smelled the strong odor of skunk. The next morning I saw a big hole scattered with the destroyed comb of the yellow jacket nest. Not a single yellow jacket remained. I have a newfound appreciation of skunks now!
Your back yard is like mine. I have a skunk I call elvis, he loves eggs and grain free cat food, he's wild but let's me get within 3 to 4 feet of him. My nest of yellow jackets just loved the butterscotch discs I put out for them this August. It kept them from trying to get my coffee all August. I have so many night videos of my backyard Skunk backing the eggs I leave out for him to his den. It's funny the way they move eggs around without breaking them. Love your content.
Great footage! They sure are tough animals to take on the wasps, they must be very tolerant to being stung. Great to know that there are natural predators for wasps.
maybe they gas the nest then go to town? I dont know so just a idea
Don't need to gas it when wasps basically go dormant at night. Even more effective if it's a cool / cold night.
@@deathknight6615 they dig them out at night when they're cold/sluggish
Caught a skunk in Sacramento. A abandoned very young skunk. Raised it and trained it to walk on a leash and crawl all over me. Never sprayed me once. Ended up letting him loose after about a year. He never left my property for about another 6 months and met some friends and never saw him for nearly a year until he showed up on our porch said hello and left with his buddies.
He protecc
He atacc
But most importantly...
He get a hornet snacc
Yummy.
sigh
🤣🤣🤣
BEST
He squirt pure stank from his bacc.
It's amazing how fast they can dig a yellow jacket nest out of the ground literally overnight and just wipe them out. I had a pet skunk when I was a kid. She lived in the house like our cat and begged at the dinner table like our dog. In the winter she would hibernate under our freezer and only come out for food and water. She played like a cat but was a little rough in her play. You definitely didn't tease her at dinnertime as she'd rip a finger open if you got near her food.
I should be getting ready for work but instead i watched this
No regrets at all
Epic McMuffin what is life
Skunks are good to have around. I had 5 babies skunks about 6 weeks ago. Talk about cute! The two adults kept trying to keep them together.
Who knew skunks were so handy to keep around? Not moi You learn something new everyday.. Awesome video🤟🏻❤️
This was so cool to see, amazing that you got this footage!!
Glad youtube randomly recommended your channel to me a bit ago! The chickens are always cute, and the skunk was super cute too
Amazing. Thank you for this! Very comforting to know there are other animals that actually might take out a nest without me having to use chemicals. !!!
What a great video and love your new
Skunk friend he’s so cute ❤️💖😘
How u know it was a "he"?
I don’t just a guess
simon chune well, I kinda hope you know he was on your side.
The skunk is so cute!!!🥰🥰🥰
Riiight!?!?
He is eating that nest like it’s going out of style!! Good we need more skunks to the eliminate the dangerous underground Yellowjackets!! 👍😎
You are awfully courageous with that skunk! I guess he won't spray you because he considers you his knew best friend😊😄😄
Hornet king is a good person.....animals pick up on vibes,energies better than humans. Mr. Skunk knew that HK was not a threat.
If the skunk is related to a weasel you wouldn't want the girls to meet it or any of it's cousins!
So maybe not so cute but amazingly hardy to withstand angry wasps.
I think the skunk just won the snack lottery
Thank you for this video! We have a striped skunk that moved onto my mom's property, and I was able to convince my mom to not call pest control because we also have lots of yellowjacket nests in the ground, and it's a constant battle against mice. She's now happy to let the skunk stay if it will eat wasps and mice!
It's like a all-you-can-eat restaurant for him
This just happened to my wasps nest by my front door. I love how predators help to balance nature. I was never going to get rid of the wasps, but I love that skunks will remove it for you.
Glad I found this channel , really enjoy the content.
Thank you so much!
Thanks for sharing this entertaining video of Pepe Lepuew, thanks for adding the girls too!
Very cool shot of the skunk. Didn't know it was part of the weasel family. Shame about the nest you were watching. But it is nature at its best.
That is literally the STINKING coolest thing !!!!!!!!
Having your own wild skunk!!!!!!!!!!
Wasps bring species together, how great is that
I hope the cute skunk can show up in more videos!!!
It lives under my parents shed!
I had a roommate that had a pet skunk named "Stink". He would scratch his front nails on the carpet & that's the only noise I remember him ever making! They are super cute! Thanks for sharing!
How do they deal with "adult" yellow jackets? Do they get stung but don't care?
i'm wondering the same
Sarah H Their fur or skin is too thick for the yellow jackets to penetrate. Just something I heard from another video
There's a kind of a hawk which feeds on wasps, bees and their larvaes, looks like any other hawk and it's a migratory bird, winter spends in middle east and Africa, summer in Europe
@@lukapopovic6668 I think you're referring to the honey buzzard.
They hunt at night when the yellow jackets are not active basically they just spawn camp at the entrance and disturb the nest eating them one by one as the yellow jackets come out. Their fir also offers some protection from stings.
Lol-The skunk should definitely get it’s very own “DO I MAKE YOU HORNET T-SHIRT”!
For eating as fast as you tweeze😄
I am watch the SKUNK video and am enjoying it a great deal. I am so glad you were able to film him or her. You mention that skunks dont have great eye sight well I think if this skunk would have felt the least bit of aggression from you you would have felt the full force of the skunk. He felt safe or he would have not stayed for you to film him. I believe this will all my heart. I also believe if he was scared he would have never come up to you like he did. Did you see him doing any stomping of his feet? From what you showed us he was perfectly comfortable to eat his meal with you watching. Kudo to you for staying calm.
I saw a video of a mommy and babies go up to a man out on his bike. He stopped to watch and they came right on over to him. I love to watch mommy and babies of different species out side.
@@inspire734 dont you agree if she felt threatened she would not do that
Skunks are lovable. They have very little fear of humans -- great horned owls are their only major predators because great horneds have almost no sense of smell -- and they'll even come around right to your feet to look for food, if they're used to you. They make good pets too if they're descented. Lovely soft fur.
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something is eating our yellow jackets. but I read that their nests can be 1 to 3 ft deep. yikes.
Are you not afraid to get sprayed by the skunk?
Nope! Just reading his body language. He was a young one and was very playful. You should have seen him playing with the garden hose, it was so cute!
@@HornetKingOfficial I'd love to have a skunk as a pet!
@@butterflykisses7280 from what ive heard if you get one, if you have its. Stink glands removed they do make good pets. Not sure if its true just what I heard
Skunks only spray if they get scared. Early in the video when something was dropped the tail shot up, but the skunk decided it could get away without spraying
Getting sprayed isn't really a big deal. If you live where that may happen. just keep a good lot of tomato sauce to wash with. The tomato kills the smell.
I love the stinky boi! He looks pretty young. We only have one type of skunk where I live and they all look like that, but they are twice as big. He probably is just newly separated from his mom which is why he is so friendly and playful. Baby skunks typically don't have very good instinct for avoiding humans.
. That was a cute little skunk. But not as cute as your girls! My favorite of your girls is Angel because when you call them her run is so funny and cute!🐔❤
My favorite part on every video, is seeing your girls and how excited they get for their treats! I wish I had a set up to. Get some hens, I would love it I think!
I loved this. Never seen something like this. So cool!
That is one chill skunk. Sooo cute!!
We have skunks here in PEI, CANADA..... never thought they’d eat a honeycomb like this!
Wow 😵😵
Nice PEI, I'm over in NB
There's no honey... they're not bees.
its a wasp nest not a honeycomb x)
This was a wonderful idea! Good job guy! Hornet king 4 life!👍👍The skunk was made for the camera!Excellent!
We've had three big nests dug out in the last three nights. I didn't know if it was a bear, skunk, raccoon, or possum. Whichever it is, keep it up. The yellow jackets have been awful this season. There are at least 25 - 50 in my hummingbird feeder every other day.
Oh that's the cutest thing I have seen yet I love skunks they are so helpful to us
I think you got yourself a new pet!
I took my kids to Centre parcs and I absolutely loved waking up 4/5 o’clock in the morning to watch the wildlife. It’s nothing compared to what you get to enjoy , It was still mesmerising. I think you’re one of the luckiest person in the world , you get too enjoy all of this , daily. You’re awesome!! It’s so relaxing watching your channel.
amazed by how damn fast those chickens devour their food.....they must produce some tasty eggs
damn, never thought I'd love skunks!!
I think you just found a little buddy!
Oh my gosh, I love your girls, but that skunk was so adorable to watch too! Thanks
Such a cute little wasp eater! Didn't seem to be all that threatened by you being there, which is pretty cool.
He's not having a snack, he's having a meal!
Great video it's awesome you didn't get sprayed
Perfect Shots on that Skunk. Question: have you done any QnA Video?
Thanks! What do you mean QnA video?
@@HornetKingOfficial its where you will usually awnser fans questions in usually either a livestream or from the comment section and make a video about it
Kenneth Agapito Great idea!
I love your voice commentary on these videos. Please keep up the good work.
Bribe your nearest wild skunk to kill wasps
Chickens to Dad- “where is my larvae?”
Dad to chickens- “I gave your larvae to a cute skunk!”
Chickens to dad- “you suck!”
How about a t-shirt with the girls on it?
Great video! Awww skunk friend has the cutest face.
This vid should have mote than only 230 likes
This is cool
My grandad actually had a hornet issue in the front yard for a few years running when I was small. They'd set up residence in an old, sunken stump, and he couldn't get rid of them for anything... then one early fall day he woke up to a crater in the yard with a family of raccoons clustered around and in it. They ate *everything*.
Doesnt the skunk get stung?
@Joseph Johnson no. It did not
That was amazing!! Thank you for showing us.
Love what you do, very interesting
Love to see the girls enjoying your labour
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
* clicks on video & waits for the chickens to show*
Something for everyone.
I had a pet skunk as a kid got her as a baby and had her descented sweetest pet I ever had and yes we lived in the country better than the cats getting mice.
Wow that skunk
When my grandma came to states with my granddad and saw a skunk for the first time she said "look at that odd black and white cat."
Poor Hornets NOT! I would have killed them the moment I found them in my backyard.
Ray Hernandez Why? They don’t eat anything you have to offer unless you have a insect farm in your garden or something
@@jackbudgen8858 they sting multiple times, it hurts and they kill honeybee. Furthermore I just dont like them.
Love this video and the fact that the skunk bit a heart shape out of the nest at one point is even more reason to love! ❤️
That is *exactly* how I eat a chicken pot pie.
Sorry, girls.
This was really cool, I have never seen things like that and it's nice to see a skunk i n a positive view. Thanks
First!!! Yes
Yay
People watching, be careful on approaching skunks. Watch for rabies, not just spray.
Great video!!
Thank you for sharing. I am learning so much from your posts. 🦟 🐓
Stinky really loved the snack that you provided.
Your chickens are well fed and must love you for giving them all the tasty larvae!
Love the skunk video so stinking cute! Thanks
Seeing the skunk was fun, but seeing the girls are even better. I love Pigeon, the patterns in her feathers are beautiful.
Man, I knew I made the right choice to subscribe when I did. Your channel has grown so much in such a short amount of time!
Thank you! I usually just get to see the aftermath, really nice to be able to see a skunk in action.
Wow, look at those claws! I can see how he got into the ground to eat that whole nest.