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My heavy equipment mechanic picked one up a few years ago and brought it home in his pickup. Got about 20 miles down the road and with the heat on, the bald face hornets started coming out of the nest. Abrupt stop, opened both doors and pushed the nest out the door with a shovel.

Had a third-grade student bring one in. Sat in the room for a spell. One night I was up working on papers when I noticed it start to shake. Threw it in the back of the truck and tossed it in a ditch.

Thanks, Bemder - nice to have someone to pull my pants up when my ass is hanging out.

I shot the neighbor lady's ceramic garden gnomes with my BB gun when I was a kid. My mind instantly went there when I read the thread title.

That's a nice bald-faced hornet's nest.
I have four live ones hanging on my front porch right now. Keeps down the foot traffic..

Through it...?

C'mon, man!

https://i.postimg.cc/XYV9s53b/20211015-174111.jpg

Found this while hunting.

Esox357
That's a different species. Nice example of Dolichovespula arenaria, or Yellow Hornet.

Nice no idea. I left it alone. I was thinking about trying to take it but common sense prevailed

Esox357, they are a very early species, meaning if you were hunting in fall that nest you found would most likely have been abandoned. Anyway you had better things to do (hunting) and "most likely" isn't exactly a guarantee..
When they are fully occupied you almost always see workers on the exterior laying down more paper/expanding the nest as in this pic

I would like to report that no hornets were injured or killed in the taking of the nest and nothing emerged from the nest while in the shed.

Thing looks like Norman Bates mother's wig.

longarm - wasp whisperer

Good lord, what an idiot! Thanks for catching it. Mrs. Roberts and Mrs. Mefferd would have my nuts.