News, Now Wasps Are Forming Massive 'Super Nests' Because Life Just Isn't Scary Enough. (insects, look)

[JD59]

Hail the new insect overlords.

Wasps are forming massive “super nests,” with thousands of insects ready to sting, according to agricultural experts in Alabama.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/wasp-...074615104.html

[adriver]

These aren't new(s). Even in your article it says there were over 90 of them in 2006 in Alabama alone.

[jaminhealth]

What's with Alabama and these super nests.

[Mr. Boring]

Somewhere, on some aisle at Home Depot, is the solution for this problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UiCSvQvVys

[Gerania]

That huge nest on the house took more than a day or two to get that big. I would have been on it before it had become the size of an apple.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by Mr. Boring

Somewhere, on some aisle at Home Depot, is the solution for this problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UiCSvQvVys

I love that the lab scientists wore ties.

In the 1990s when my husband was looking for something in his father's basement, he found a nearly full one pound box of DDT powder. "Hey honey, can you come down here for a minute?"

[tamiznluv]

Originally Posted by Gerania

I love that the lab scientists wore ties.

In the 1990s when my husband was looking for something in his father's basement, he found a nearly full one pound box of DDT powder. "Hey honey, can you come down here for a minute?"

Lmao....stop it!!!!!

[NVplumber]

Originally Posted by Gerania

That huge nest on the house took more than a day or two to get that big. I would have been on it before it had become the size of an apple.

Amen to that. Chemical warfare followed by knocking down the nest and taking my weed burner to it. My weed burner is basically a flame thrower. These nests look like mud daubers.

[SoCal_Native]

The photos of the insects in that link are great.
If global warming is the cause, does this mean in the past there were super nests in more southern latitudes since there was no freezing to kill off the nests?

[Normashirley]

I don't doubt the wasps are building bigger condominiums but:

Back in the 90's I had to call a pest control service to kill a HUGE nest between the exterior wall and interior bedroom wall. I lived in a 1920's farm house back then

I remember hearing a strange sound in that wall one morning, so I hit it with my fist. Imagine my surprise when a jet airliner answered back

When I went to the downstairs bathroom (sort of underneath that wall), here comes several wasps thru the vent fan

Cost me $100 back then to get rid of those rotten soandsos --- pest control was so concerned they came back a few days later to re-spray, just to be sure, and didn't charge me.

While spraying on the first visit, they told me about a family's small portable storage shed that had been completely consumed by a wasp nest --- said that was the worst any of them had ever seen and this was in the 90's

What I have seen the last few years (and been stung by them, is black hornets or wasps, or something, nesting in the bottoms of the creosote posts the gates are hooked to. I have to open those gates nearly every day, so the wasps or whatever must burrow into the creosote posts overnight?

I am 72 --- I have enough Botox in the backs of my legs to keep them looking 22 for the next 15 years, lollol.