Awl --

Really strange --

In the front hedges, a small round wasp nest (yellow jackets) started to
grow -- and grow, and grow....

What started out the size of an orange quickly grew to the size of a soccer
ball!!
The wife is nagging and nagging, and ahm sayin, Yo, just wait until the
first 32 F night, and I'll get rid of it.

But even I was wondering, Man, if it keeps growing at this rate, it'll be
the size of a dog house by fall!
And a busy nest this was!

Then, one day -- it was gone!!!

Now, it was being built IN the hedges, around/through all the branches, and
I figger if someone "stole" it, there would be evidence from cuts, etc.
But, nothing, just the missing nest!

What do you think happened? Where might I find out more info on this?

The little reading I did suggests that wasps are not without ecological
value, preying on other nuisance insects, etc, altho they can also be a pain
to bees.

--
EA

On Jul 23, 3:21*pm, "Existential Angst"
wrote:
Awl --

Really strange --

In the front hedges, a small round wasp nest (yellow jackets) started to
grow -- and grow, and grow....

What started out *the size of an orange quickly grew to the size of a soccer
ball!!
The wife is nagging and nagging, and ahm sayin, Yo, just wait until the
first 32 F night, and I'll get rid of it.

But even I was wondering, Man, if it keeps growing at this rate, it'll be
the size of a dog house by fall!
And a busy nest this was!

Then, one day -- it was gone!!!

Now, it was being built IN the hedges, around/through all the branches, and
I figger if someone "stole" it, there would be evidence from cuts, etc.
But, nothing, just the missing nest!

What do you think happened? *Where might I find out more info on this?

The little reading I did suggests that wasps are not without ecological
value, preying on other nuisance insects, etc, altho they can also be a pain
to bees.

--
EA

Maybe you burnt it up sleepwalking, or an alien abduction or
spontainious combustion, those things sting. I could understand them
abandoning the nest, but the nest itself will stay quite awhile.

"Existential Angst" wrote in message
...

In the front hedges, a small round wasp nest (yellow jackets) started to
grow -- and grow, and grow....
. . .
Then, one day -- it was gone!!!
. . .
What do you think happened? Where might I find out more info on this?

First, identify the wasp species, then do some homework on its
typical behavior (when it nests, how it constructs nests, how long
they last etc.) Then apply your new knowledge to the environment
(urban or rural, climatic, etc.) to see whether your partial knowledge
matches textbook generalizations.

Identifying the species is worthwhile because yellow jackets are
aggressive but paper wasps are not. We usually have one paper
wasp nest on this rural property every year, anwhere from the
house dormers to hanging underneath the deck, and average
about one sting per year.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:50:43 -0500, "
wrote:


Wasps Hornets.

We used to have a Hudson Wasp. The Hudson Hornet was more expensive.

"Existential Angst" wrote amongst other things:

Well, these were yellow jackets. No animal seems to have gotten to the
nest, as there were no pieces.

A co-worker came up with an interesting notion:
He said these nests were *collectibles*, of all things, and that
someone likely did come by and take it!!


--
EA


My father used to collect the really big hornet nests and hang them on the
front porch. I asked him why; he said "salespeople."

On Jul 23, 4:21*pm, "Existential Angst"
wrote:
Awl --

Really strange --

In the front hedges, a small round wasp nest (yellow jackets) started to
grow -- and grow, and grow....

What started out *the size of an orange quickly grew to the size of a soccer
ball!!
The wife is nagging and nagging, and ahm sayin, Yo, just wait until the
first 32 F night, and I'll get rid of it.

But even I was wondering, Man, if it keeps growing at this rate, it'll be
the size of a dog house by fall!
And a busy nest this was!

Then, one day -- it was gone!!!

Now, it was being built IN the hedges, around/through all the branches, and
I figger if someone "stole" it, there would be evidence from cuts, etc.
But, nothing, just the missing nest!

What do you think happened? *Where might I find out more info on this?

The little reading I did suggests that wasps are not without ecological
value, preying on other nuisance insects, etc, altho they can also be a pain
to bees.

--
EA

Wife got tired of waiting on you to do something about it so she did.
Probably hired an exterminator to take care of it for about $100.
Would have cost you about $5.00 for a can of Sevin dust at the Feed
and Seed.

Jimmie

On Jul 23, 4:21*pm, "Existential Angst"
wrote:
The wife is nagging and nagging...

Then, one day -- it was gone!!!

Look for a bill from the exterminator...

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What do you think happened? Where might I find out more info on this?

The little reading I did suggests that wasps are not without ecological
value, preying on other nuisance insects, etc, altho they can also be a pain
to bees.


Any chance a neighbor got out the ShopVac and sucked it up?

replying to norminn, 1234 wrote:
I had a paper wasp nest under my deck stairs that I had been watching. The
nest is completely gone this morning but the wasps are still hanging out at
the site of their former nest. When wasp nests are close to doorways I
often spray them with water and essential oils, and after the wasps fly away,
I remove the nests with leather gloves in the hope that they will rebuild at a
different location. They may hang around awhile looking for their nest, but
they don't rebuild at the same site. Something must have just happened to
their nest, but I cannot imagine what.

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On Monday, September 25, 2017 at 11:44:09 AM UTC-4, 1234 wrote:
replying to norminn, 1234 wrote:
I had a paper wasp nest under my deck stairs that I had been watching. The
nest is completely gone this morning but the wasps are still hanging out at
the site of their former nest. When wasp nests are close to doorways I
often spray them with water and essential oils, and after the wasps fly away,
I remove the nests with leather gloves in the hope that they will rebuild at a
different location. They may hang around awhile looking for their nest, but
they don't rebuild at the same site. Something must have just happened to
their nest, but I cannot imagine what.

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this will be good, gerbils and wasps
m

1234 wrote:
replying to norminn, 1234 wrote:
I had a paper wasp nest under my deck stairs that I had been watching. The
nest is completely gone this morning but the wasps are still hanging out at
the site of their former nest. When wasp nests are close to doorways I
often spray them with water and essential oils, and after the wasps fly away,
I remove the nests with leather gloves in the hope that they will rebuild at a
different location. They may hang around awhile looking for their nest, but
they don't rebuild at the same site. Something must have just happened to
their nest, but I cannot imagine what.

raccoons may eat them...


songbird