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Post by ashepabst on Aug 3, 2015 8:55:21 GMT -8
hey guys... I live in middle Tennessee and the house I've owned for the past four years is a hotbed of yellow jacket activity. I had no less than 4 active nests at once last summer and I've already found one this year.
last summer there was one directly in front of our living room window that proved especially pesky to mow around. one day I walked around out front to find the nest had been dug up with comb all around the entry. this week I found the same thing happened to the new nest.
I know bears do this, but we don't have bears in Nashville. who else would do such a thing, I wonder. I'd like to buy them a beer, or something. |
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Post by zeke on Aug 3, 2015 8:57:25 GMT -8
Raccoon or skunk, most likely. If that is a bee's nest in the ground, why can't you just park the running mower over the top of the outlet and wait a while?
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Post by FamilySherpa on Aug 3, 2015 8:58:15 GMT -8
ashepabst, in a residential area, probably a groundhog would be my guess.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2015 8:58:52 GMT -8
I did once. It tasted like fermented honey.
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Post by johnnyray on Aug 3, 2015 9:03:27 GMT -8
Raccoons, maybe badger.
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Post by FamilySherpa on Aug 3, 2015 9:04:40 GMT -8
yep I bet it is raccoons.
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Post by BlueBear on Aug 3, 2015 9:06:53 GMT -8
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Post by ashepabst on Aug 3, 2015 9:17:33 GMT -8
interesting! so I guess lots our neighborhood critters dig up yellow jacket nests. I know we definitely have skunks, raccoons, armadillos, groundhogs, moles and foxes. maybe a I need a trail cam.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Aug 4, 2015 3:39:10 GMT -8
Skunks. I've seen them do it.
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Post by packdad on Aug 4, 2015 7:32:06 GMT -8
Chickens don't dig them up but will eat every one they can catch flying in and out.
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Post by no_granola on Aug 4, 2015 11:22:51 GMT -8
Skunks or raccoons
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Post by leafwalker on Aug 7, 2015 20:29:55 GMT -8
Eat nails for breakfast, Yeti for lunch, and and orange for dinner and tough it out.
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Post by Crockett on Aug 8, 2015 8:58:48 GMT -8
When I was about 7 or 8 my little brother and I were stung when he disturbed a nest while up at our cottage. I was stung 48 times. He was stung 52.
We know how many times because my aunt made a game out of counted them to help calm us from the pain as she dabbed them with something or other.
Today, a kid would likely be rushed to the ER but in our case we were simply put to bed for a nap. We slept through the afternoon and evening right through to the next morning due, I suppose, to the amount of venom in our systems.
I had a phobia for the next few years of wasps and bees. Last time I was stung was a few years ago while gathering firewood in the backcountry. Up my shorts and 4 stings right on the jewels! Now that hurt!
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