Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Season of the bald-faced hornet: It's over!
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photo by Jonathan Schechter
Their season in the sun is over.
But before you take down an 'empty' nest for a den decoration know this: Once in awhile a few hornets 'forgot to die' and hang on into November in the papery cells. Warmth in a heated den
will send them boiling out with an attitude and taser like powers of pain, a lesson I learned years ago. If you want to take a nest inside for a natural gift of the wilds before winter winds and chickadees blow and peck the nest apart wait until heavy frosts and then cut the limb and place
the nest in a plastic bag for a day inside to make sure you
don't hear buzzing and crawling.
And where is the queen hornet? She is snuggled up under a decaying log or wood chips in
your garden. She is fertile and ready to start a new season of bald-faced hornets next spring. |
1 Comments:
Beautiful photo. I never realized how lovely a hornet's nest could be. You can see the layering in it. Can humans do anything with the "paper"?
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