War Has Been Delcared

[Mtneer]

Oddly, this is the first summer we didn't have any. Typically they go after our hummingbird feeders and chase the birds away. Probably be back next year with a vengeance

[Bailey Guns]

They're really bad here this year. And they seem unusually aggressive...maybe because cooler weather is near and food is a priority.

[ChickNorris]

This past weekend I nuked a nest in the base of my neighbor's crap-apple (you read it right). Took 3 applications (7 cans of chem) before the tree stump finally stopped vibrating. The last of those jerks trying to escape were as big as my thumb.

Yay, I've had an entire humming bird family frequenting my feeder this year. Before this, never had more than one passing by in the spring & fall.

[sellersm]

This topic was covered today in the Survival Blog post: https://survivalblog.com/guest-post-...patrice-lewis/

The author mentions that this is an especially 'bad' year for these foes!

There are other solutions in the comments of the article, mostly variations on the same themes.

[thvigil11]

Its no joke, I'm sitting on a fire just south of Ol' Bailey Guns. (Rattlesnake Creek Fire). We have had more medicals due to bee and wasp stings than anything else. At least a half dozen a day and that's on a fire with 350 personel. Its been hot as hell around here too (I mean Hells Canyon is just a few miles away). The main power pole here at the ICP (base camp south of White Bird), swarms with those damn buggers every day. It's also where port a potty row is, so you have to run through the swarm just to take a dump.

[Bailey Guns]

Oh, yeah...you're not far from me at all. Maybe an hour and ten mins. Be careful!

[thvigil11]

Oh, yeah...you're not far from me at all. Maybe an hour and ten mins. Be careful!

10-4, pretty country up here and not an IKEA in sight. Have to drive a long way to get some rancid meatballs.

[ChickNorris]

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[Irving]

I killed some wasps tonight. Three nests right next to each other in my gutter.

[MrPrena]

Just saw this on the news.

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...responsibility

Aurora great-grandmother seeks out Contact7 after city told her hornet nest was her responsibility

Jaclyn Allen
10:03 PM, Aug 24, 2018

AURORA, Colo -- Contact7 is getting results for an Aurora great-grandmother who was being terrorized by hornets in her front yard. The insects built a nest in a city-owned tree by her garage, but the city told her it was her responsibility to hire an exterminator.

Eleanor Ware says she is worried she is about to be stung by one of those hornets.

"I had grandchildren and great grandchildren here this summer," she said. "Getting in and out of my car, I have to make sure I park a certain way because if I don't, I end up with bees or wasps or whatever they are, in the car."

But things really started buzzing when she saw the large nest in the tree outside her house.

"I looked up and said, 'Oh my goodness, It's really big,'" Ware said. "I couldn't ignore it anymore after I saw that and said, 'we need to do something.'"

She said she called the City of Aurora, because about two decades ago, the city planted that tree and most of the trees on her street.

"Any time I need to have the trees trimmed, I call, Aurora comes out and trims them," said Ware.

But this time, the City told that the nest was her responsibility.

"I have a granddaughter that's (sic) Down Syndrome that I take care of, and just having to add another fee to my income would not be very good," said Ware. "And I told them I'm set income, I'm soon to be 75-years-old. And I said my climbing a ladder is not going to be the best thing for anybody."

So she reached out to Contact7, and we found an exterminator willing to come out for free next week.

But we also reached out to the City of Aurora, and a spokesman responded, saying, as a city tree, they will take care of the nest, and that Ware was given incorrect information. Someone with Forestry will be at her house on Saturday.

"They never would have done it, if it hadn't been for Contact7," said Ware. "Thank you so much!"