Bee nest

HuckleberryHound · Jul 23, 2018

So i found a really nice, big bee nest. Some sort of nasty yellowjacket suckers. Any bright ideas on how i should go about evicting the occupants and preserving the nest for use in some future taxidermy?

Solodawg · Jul 23, 2018

Is it the gray sorta cone shaped paper type ? Try a smokey citronella candle to smoke em out and away from the nest only if safe to do without burning the forest down. Excellent taxidermy prop

HuckleberryHound · Jul 23, 2018

>Is it the gray sorta cone
>shaped paper type ? Try
>a smokey citronella candle to
>smoke em out and away
>from the nest only if
>safe to do without burning
>the forest down. Excellent taxidermy
>prop

Yeah, thats the type. Its about basketball sized, and hanging right at eye level. Forest fire danger is extremely high right now. Dont think its a good idea to be playing with a candle in the woods.

264mag · Jul 24, 2018

Hornets nest , get some flying insect killer and spray the entrance hole at dark and repeat again if they are still flying around

HuckleberryHound · Jul 24, 2018

Think ill go the garbage bag / freezer route. Seems pretty straightforward. https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/preserving-and-displaying-hornets-nest

Bowdeadly · Jul 24, 2018

Or you can take pictures and make your own out of paper mache!

Millsworks · Aug 4, 2018

Go at night. Put a heavy duty garbage bag around it and drop a bug bomb inside. The type used for de-bugging a house work fine on all wasps and hornets.
Tie the bag tight around the branch it is attached to and saw the branch off the next day , or after it's all quiet in the bag.
Spray the nest with a matte finish acrylic to seal it and make it more durable.