Yellow Jacket Bee Nest Removal Question

[Sir Kenyth]

A ground nest of tiny bees would be what we call "sweat bees". I'm not sure if that's the proper name or not. They're the lightweights of the bee world and their stings aren't that bad.

Now paper wasps, yellow jackets, and hornets are a different story!!! I had a problem with paper wasps at a place I lived once and got stung continuously. I hate the little bas#@&%$!!! I accidentally brought into the house an item with a sizable nest in the middle of it. THAT WAS FUN! I wound up stomping the item to bits to kill those remaining in the nest (8-12 of them)and chasing the stragglers with a flyswatter (6 of them)!

Use chemical warfare and a healthy distance as your weapons of choice when fighting these buggers! I like to keep a flyswatter handy to smack down the kamikazi ones that will invariably try to attack you.

[quietman1920]

OK...funny bee story time. My least favorite brother in law invited me over to the apartment he & my sister were moving out of (think red brick 'garden' style apartment). He asks me to help him move an Air Conditioner out of the wall. (It was a tenant dispute thing. The original broke, he replaced it, and the landlord wouldn't reimburse him, so he was taking it with him.)

This style of apartment had a chest-high rectangular hole in the den wall where this went through to the outside, above the garages. So, he undoes the bolts, and we pull. It moves about 4 inches and a Wasp flies out. We stop & kill it. He might have even said "wonder how that got there." We get back into position & pull again.

Its out of the wall before we can see that in the space it used to occupy is 1/2 of a grey paper Wasps nest with about 50-75 of the little flying b-st-rds just looking for trouble. (The other 1/2 was still attached to the air conditioner.)

Well, we both dropped this 100 pound behemoth 2 feet to the floor and dived for the den door. I got out first, and he shut the door behind him. Later, he blamed me for dropping my end and that it was 'probably broken now'. (grrrr!) I'm pretty sure that when they moved out, they left it there, in the middle of the den, for a 'landlord surprise'.