Literally.

This is in an oak tree where I'm putting in a new field for a client.

It's center of the photo. About 2 1/2 feel long top to bottom, and 18 inches across. Biggest one's I've seen...

Holy schit!

You're supposed to throw a rock at it and run away

Thinking some 3 1/2 inch 2 1/2 ounce turkey loads are in order.

Bonfire time !

Youbube is full of DIY flamethrower builds.

Please film it, Barry. That would be epic.

Climb up there on a ladder in your underwear and whack it with a baseball bat.....that's how I get rid of them....

I looked at TAMU (Texas A&M) and this is what they say they are... Baldfaced Hornets.

And again, the situation begs for a few pounds of tannerite!

That is why those Hornet spray cans have a range of 30-40 feet....

Spray it with Gas and fire it...Done !

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Oh, and run

I am NOT getting out of that tractor cab!

You know the stuff Barry. It'll kill those guys too.

That is flamethrower worthy!!

Flammenwerfer

You could just wait until winter, below freezing, and bring it inside. All good then!

I wonder if the blizzard hurt them?

Probably not.

It killed the good stuff, but left the bad stuff stronger for the experience.

call your ag. dep. down here some body will come out at night and suck them out for anti venom . they got 12lbs. hornets out of one on our lease

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Don’t forget the 12 pack of Busch Light

Haha. Beat me to it.

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We have a lot of bald-faced hornets here in Minnesota and that oblong nest is odd. I don't know your location in Texas, but the distribution map shows they're not real widespread. Also, bald-faced queens start new nests each year, so one that size would most likely be last year's and dead.

Have you looked at Mexican Honey Wasps? They're south Texas, but the big oblong nest seems a better match.

I've always known them as White Faced Hornets but that's just another name for the same thing. They range all the way up into Canada. Back in the 70's I helped eradicate a nest of them that was too close to the cabin my buddy lived in up in the woods. Nest was about 2 ft. high, and about 15 or 20 feet up in a tree. We got 5 or 6 guys with shotguns and fired into it all at once and ran like hell. It worked and they never returned.

I found a massive one hanging from a branch overhanging a bayou off of the Pascagoula River. I with my Redhawk 44 magnum, and my buddy with his 22, went to work on it. It took a while, but we dropped it.

We need a close-up. 😮

Hate those evil bastards. Bald faced hornets have the nastiest venom of them all, at least IMHO.

I'd ruther have half a dozen yellowjackets bombing me than just 1 of those pricks.

I concur with previous posts, a video would be most excellent! Wear a GoPro so viewers get the full experience.

If your sprayer will reach it lorsban will take em out. And doesn’t seem to piss em off..

Could be Mexican Honey wasps. I've seen those down by Monterey Mexico, but not in Texas. Even tasted their honey. Wasn't bad.

Grab a ladder, trash bag, 12 pack of your choosing, and a buddy. Drink till dark, have the buddy climb the ladder and slip the trash bag over the nest and pull it down...... Film the event...... 👍

Dynamite. Just in case they are those Murder Hornets.

And a big hive can be worth some nice cash on flea bay.

The Bald Faced Hornet is one of the orneriest critters on the planet, out done only by the Africanized Honey Bee.

Naw, put that sumbich in a briefcase and put the briefcase on the side of the road and film..........

Redneck pinata. Some tequila w/ Lone Star chasers and a slingblade.


mike r

Glad you have a cab. Had a customer hospitalized when he dozed a tree with wasp in it. Nearly done him in. His wife told to sell the dozer and get one with a cab.

Dumb hurts as it should boys. I’ve got some very good dumb hurts experience when it comes to those damn things. I’m like the little boy and the mud puddle when it comes to the hornets and just can’t leave them alone but I always win the war. One of the best was putting a garbage bag over the nest and cutting the limb off and taking it to the park and ride. One of the employees was in a pissing match with a guy there and was losing so I packed the bag back in my canopy to the park and ride. Nobody left anything in the vehicles and didn’t lock the doors or they would break the window to steal nothing so I opened the door and set the bag in the front seat ripped the bag and slammed the door. I wished I could have saw his reaction and he decided to call a truce.

What about one of those cute little yellow salt pistols we read so much about on an earlier thread...

Damn! That’s a big one Barry! Never seen one like that here in N. TX. Glad you didn’t get stung.

Leave it on the sidewalk out in front of negro beer joint


The ole ‘wildcat trick in a suitcase’ trick

lmao

My girlfriend was stung by a hornet while out golfing. She ran into the Pro Shop and cried,
"Help, I've been stung by a killer hornet out on the golf course!"

"Where?", asked the Pro? "Between the first and second holes, replied my girlfriend.

"Hmm..." says the Pro, "Sounds like your stance is too wide."

That’s what mailboxes are for. Works with cats, shut em in the mailbox and beat the [bleep] outta it before the mailman gets there.

If your mailman is a prick, I guess.

I dealt with one recently. One shot to the branch with 20 gauge 1 oz #4 shot. Came back a day later picked the trophy up and hung it in a shed.

That’ll look good in your living room. 🤣😂

Bahahahhaaahhaaaa! Well played!!!

The bald face hornet is pretty common NW Calif and Southern Oregon timberlands. We disturbed nests a few times while high lead logging, they immediately go after the rigging crew with a vengeance. The amazing thing is that they attack on a straight fly-in homing path, right between the eyes at the bridge of your nose. They don't alight and then sting, they bore in at high speed and in some feat of gymnastics instantly drill the victim at speed. If the brim of your aluminum hardhat is pulled low, they hit above the rim, you can actually feel and hear the hit, tink, tink. Well, sometimes you can hear it, over the screaming of four grown men acting like girl scouts as they scatter like quail (including me). The only good thing is they are hell on yellowjackets, knock them out of the air, wrestle them down on the ground and kill them.

We had one years ago that completely covered a window at our N.C. mountain house. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing!

That’s last year’s nest, I’d be surprised if it’s still active.

I had one behind a rehab a few years ago, 12 ga with #8 fixed that problem. It disintegrated the nest from 40’. I hate those little buggers.

you could be sporting about it,get a few friends with tennis rackets and see how many hornets you can swat before the first person panics and runs

As far as I can tell, bald-faced hornet die off in the winter, fertilized queens starting from scratch every year.

Our tanager species are wasp specialists, eat em like popcorn. A few winters back I saw an out-of range Western Tanager around here, which should have been down in Mexico for the winter, vainly checking out a hornets nest high in a tree. Empty.

Very cool. After learning that I had to read up on our Scarlet Tanager - apparently they beat and rub the stinger out of the wasp on a branch before gulping them down. Badass bird.

I laughed at that joke back in '84. LOL Tell the one about the hooker.

Now see, this is the kind of brilliance that keeps me coming back to this place! I am in.

I vote a few guys with shotguns.

That's what we always did. We don't see them as often as we used to. They sure do WHIZ around when that nest hits the ground.

Wow.

Now that would be the best 👍

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We have them here. Mean nasty bugs will chase you if you disturb them. Usually several of them. Hear the sting is painful.

I shot a nest like that once with my .22 magnum....I was surprised, blew it all to shreds... I didn't realize there'd be enough mass in there for that to happen...I just expected a pass-through

If you had an open cab tractor, you could see it better. So says the Campfire tough guys...