[FRIAM] [WedTech] Bug hive remover needed

Thu Jan 4 12:05:50 EST 2018

Gil, 

These look like Polistes. . Again, bearing in mind that I am an eastern person and these are western wasps, here is my advice:. 

1.        There should be no organized wasp activity at this time of year. Each wasp is out for itself, so little wasp heroics.  

2.       Knock the nest down, and clean the area out.  

3.       Keep nests for forming next year.  AT the early stages of nest formation, the wasps are not very aggressive.

4.       Don’t take advice from Easterners when you live in the West.    Or from former English majors on entomology.  OR is that etymology.  I can never tell the difference

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Gillian Densmore
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 8:50 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Bug hive remover needed

^ Picture of  the Insect/Bug home I simply don't  have much experience removing.

Part of the problem will be getthing the bulb out  being as that breaking would add to the problem.

The other part will be the nest(?) or Hive(?) itself and what ever may or may not be using it.  They bite. That hurts Lots of them biting would be bad.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 8:30 PM, Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com <mailto:sasmyth at swcp.com> > wrote:

Gil -

I don't know what kind of "hive bugs" you are talking about.   The most obvious in our environs would be wasps, followed by bees, with ants and termites burrowing.  I'm fairly confident that *all* wasps/hornets build new nests each spring.   

I know the main contact for honeybee relocation in NNM if it happens you have a swarm of honeybees that settled at your house this summer.   Any "hive" you have (most likely paper or mud) would long since have been vacated (only the queen survives through the winter in hibernation) and will not be re-used next year... you can simply remove it and destroy it or put it somewhere auspicious and call it art.

- Steve

On 1/3/18 5:14 PM, cody dooderson wrote:

I think it depends on the type of bug. Queen honey bees are fairly valuable but red ants are not.  

Cody Smith

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com <mailto:gil.densmore at gmail.com> > wrote:

Other than a bugy house (pun intended): 

I really do need help with recomendations for pros to help relocate nest or hive bugs keep building on place outside.

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