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puff puff , Thursday, 12th of August 2010 01:22:33 AM

etting rid of hornets isn’t much different from getting rid

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of yellow jackets. Here in the United States the most common hornet, the

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Bald-faced Hornet, isn’t actually a hornet at all, & is more closely

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related to the Yellow Jacket wasp. The primary differences between the

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yellow jacket & the hornet are size (the hornet is larger), coloring

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(hornets are ivory & black), & hunting behavior. The real reason the
bald-faced hornet is referred to as a hornet because it builds an aerial
nest, while yellow jackets prefer to build nests underground—usually in
abandoned rodent burrows. While yellow jackets are big fans of sugary
treats like soda & syrups, hornets tend to restrict their diets to live
prey—insects mostly

Hornets prefer protein & will eat meat & high protein substances like pet
food. It is best to keep such things as fish remains, pet food, & other
sources of protein out of ur yard. This can include compost piles &
compost heaps where raw fruits & other protein rich materials are left out
in the open. Try to keep compost heaps either buried or kept in sealable
containers. Keep pet food in sealable containers if you have outdoors
pets, or if you can get pet-released food containers, that will work too.

Keeping garbage cans sealed, clean, & taking garbage out regularly should
help get rid of hornets. Even though hornets do prefer to feed on other
pests, there are times when food is scarce & grabbing a bite to eat at the
local dumpster is just easier. Garbage cans that are left outdoors should
have a spring mechanism to keep them closed. Garbage bins should have a
top that seals properly & is never left open during the early months of
summer (while hornet nests are still growing). If you can’t manage to
keep garbage sealed, you may want to think about dusting what garbage cans
you have with Borax now & again.
Vinegar apparently makes a good bait for water traps designed to capture &
get rid of hornets. A company named Skone has designed something of an
adaptation from the original do-it-yourself 2-liter soda bottle wasp
traps. They still use a 2-liter or even a 1-liter soda bottle (so long as
it has a standard mouth, not a “wide” mouth), but what they’ve done
is created an attachment that simply fits onto a bottle, so there’s no
cutting involved. Very smart. Just add 1 cup of sweetened water (sugar
only), one cup of apple cider vinegar, a drop of mild dish soap, & some
raw meat for the hornets, & you’re ready to kill some hornets.
There is another type of non-chemical trap that is useful for getting rid
of hornets, & it’s called a Queen trap. Now, because queen hornets are
solitary creatures in the early spring, looking for food & a good place to
nest, it would follow logically that you could stop the entire process of
colony building if you caught that one wasp. This is what queen traps are
for. Any kind of homemade trap will do, but the key is to get a piece of
raw meat out in the open early enough in the season to gain the attention
of recently awoken hornet queens. Kill the queen, & you’ve essentially
spared yourself & ur neighbors the trouble of spraying ur yard with nasty
chemicals.
Mechanical extermination outdoors is not a recommended means of getting
rid of hornets, but it is a good way to get rid of hornets indoors. When
hornets are killed, a hormone is released that triggers nearby hornets to
attack. It’s a safety mechanism, designed to keep the nest safe from
intruders. Rolling up a newspaper & swatting a hornet outside is what we
call “signing ur death warrant,” especially if it’s remains are
smeared all of over ur pants or something. For those hornets who manage to
get indoors, simply vacuum them up & in a matter of days they should die of
starvation or dehydration if they’ve managed to survived being sucked
through a vacuum in the first place.
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Hornet nest removal isn’t any different than wasp nest removal, except
that you won’t have to worry about underground nests. Hornets
differentiate themselves from their yellow jacket cousins by building
aerial nests. The problem is getting the poison up there. Thankfully, the
companies who make products like Raid have a special kind of hornet & wasp
killer that will project a spray up to 15 feet into the air. You’ll want
to do this at night, wearing protective clothing, & you want to make sure
that you get that spray directly into the entrance usually found near the
bottom of the nest. Try not to break the tissue like construction of the
nest because if you do, & the hornets are mad, you’ll have a bunch of
angry hornets scattering this way & that. This isn’t necessarily a
problem because most sprays kill hornets on contact, so the ones who do
escape are probably about to die. If they don’t, well, that’s what the
protective clothing & the running shoes are for. Oh, did I forget to
mention the running shoes?

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