Bee 🐝 or wasp

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Originally Posted by Chops

Just wondering what these little guys are exactly?
They’ve created what seems to be a hive under a false floor at the back patio and I’m wondering about the best way to dispatch them. :bat:

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Nasty critters. At rest they fold their wings back, unlike bees.

http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/ass...opean-wasp.pdf

European wasp alright. Nuke them from space.
I had a goat killed by them a few years ago, he was a great little fella, the kids loved him; found him dead one morning and when I rolled him over there were a few of these things in his fur, sure enough there was a nest nearby within the arc of his tether, it was in a hole I had pulled a fencepost out of previously. Poor little Zero must have stuck his nose in there and the mongrels stung him to death.
I did exactly what Homestar says, although not necessary to cover the nest in if you do them at night as they are all at home and they don't fly in the dark.

The other more fun although less responsible way involves hydrocarbons and an ignition source [emoji41]

Thanks guys, I did wonder (hoped) they may have been bush bee's, but had a strong feeling they weren't.

I'll attempt to deal with them through the week [biggrin]

Bush (native) bees are much smaller. The most common native bees around our way are stingless, especially the ones with the yummiest honey!

Mortein and match does wonders [bighmmm].

...or a bit of home-made napalm down the hole [bigsmile]

I don't think I'd be naplaming anything if it was under my deck. May destroy two nests in one .

Just returned from Vic high country. The higher areas are teeming with European wasps. Apparently it is the long warm dry weather has them going. Warned to be careful if having a picnic because they will invade you looking for moisture. When you pull up in a vehicle they are straight under it and around the radiator looking for moisture. Luckily they are not aggressive. You have to hunt them away to get into your vehicle. They are flying everywhere.

We saw heaps of them around the high country also. They swarmed around my radiator, even though we were pretty close to the Mitta Mitta River. Reckon they might have been attracted to other dead insects on the radiator.