Hornet Busters! A 'swat' team with Murder Hornet-sized protective suits and equipment (Page 2/3) Patrick OCT 28, 02:05 PM quote Originally posted by fierofool: A quart of gasoline that night took care of the beasts. quote Originally posted by Boondawg: I immediately adopted a scorched-earth policy and drownt them with Dawn dishwashing detergent on a garden hose sprayer. The gasoline method sounds much more rewarding! fierofool OCT 28, 10:46 PM Boondawg, were they the black and white Baldfaced Hornets? We have Baldfaced Hornets in Georgia. They're about 3/4 to an inch long and can be very aggressive if their huge strawberry-shaped paper next is disturbed. They usually build on tree limbs and make a nest that's sometimes larger than a basketball. It has been confirmed that they will align with the path of a projectile fired into their hive to find its source and they can recognize faces so if someone has disturbed their nest once, they shouldn't return to the area. cliffw OCT 29, 06:36 AM quote Originally posted by fierofool: It has been confirmed that they ... recognize faces so if someone has disturbed their nest once, they shouldn't return to the area. fierofool OCT 29, 08:44 AM quote Originally posted by cliffw: https://www.pestco.com/9-re...20of%20the%20crime). 4) They Have A Very Good Memory Bald-faced hornets can remember faces, and unfortunately there is no witness protection program to help disguise identity if a human inadvertently returns to the nest area (or from the hornet’s perspective, the scene of the crime). Once an intruder is within their sights, they will wait with all the patience of a hired hitman for their target to make another visit. They have been known to fly past other people in order to sting the invader to their nest. This has implications that go far beyond pain and emergency rooms, as insects are not usually thought to have that kind of social intelligence. This adds a new and horrifying dimension to their capabilities to harm humans. According to Reuven Dukas, an evolutionary biologist who studies insect learning at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada: “This quality shows how we used to underestimate insect learning and cognition.The biased view that you need a giant brain to be smart is not fully correct. Animals with small brains can do much more than we used to attribute to them.” LitebulbwithaFiero OCT 29, 09:28 AM We had a bald face hornet nest this year. Jonesy OCT 31, 08:35 AM quote Originally posted by Patrick: The gasoline method sounds much more rewarding! Yeah that's a good way to get rid of ground nests. Of course you don't have to actually ignite the gas lol.. Just pouring it all over the nest is enough, it basically melts them. fierofool OCT 31, 01:07 PM quote Originally posted by Jonesy: Yeah that's a good way to get rid of ground nests. Of course you don't have to actually ignite the gas lol.. Just pouring it all over the nest is enough, it basically melts them. You really have to be careful if you ignite it. We had one in an embankment on the edge of our driveway. After dumping the gasoline and waiting a bit, when we ignited it, the vapors had traveled down the ditch, through a culvert, and beyond, igniting the side of a pasture. Patrick OCT 31, 01:31 PM quote Originally posted by Jonesy: Yeah that's a good way to get rid of ground nests. Of course you don't have to actually ignite the gas lol.. Where's the fun in that? I want to hear the... Patrick NOV 11, 09:55 PM An update... 82-T/A [At Work] NOV 12, 02:05 PM quote Originally posted by LitebulbwithaFiero: We had a bald face hornet nest this year. That is horrifying looking... like something out of a horror movie.