Safiel
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I feed trapped pests to my chickens. 
I have never had enough of a Yellow Jacket issue to try the chicken baited trap.
Oh, that’s pretty cool. I never would have thought of chicken.
All of my yellow jacket nests have been on flat ground, so I go out at night and put a glass fishbowl right over the hole, and then pile some dirt around the sides. Then get to watch them for days helplessly flying around in the fishbowl, hopefully cooking in the sun. They’re too stupid to dig another way out, because they’re still able to fly out of their hole. I feel no remorse.
conan
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Cruelty…
I don’t like wasps and hornets. It’s their attitude that I don’t care much for, Bees on other hand are wonderful peace loving insects that I love having around.
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Actually the reason I started doing what I did is because they found another way out. I used to do the bowl trick too a long time ago. It usually works. But I guess if their hole isn’t too deep then can find another way.
I used to like the bowl because they weren’t flying around all over the place. I used to put something very heavy on top so they couldn’t easily dig underneath. But one day these bums found another way out and it pissed me off. I constantly get stung by these things and I demanded vengeance!
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I love my bees too.
But the yellow jackets are not pollinators, and they get so vicious in the fall. I’m willing to let them be, but if they are in my gardens or where people, pets, and kids are trying to be, they need to go.
I get stung too, and those suckers hurt, a bee sting usually doesn’t hurt very much.
conan
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I issued kill on sight order for wasps and hornets. The don’t get fair trial in my district. 
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nuisance bees - good to hear
Maybe. But I don’t think many people are actually panicking over this. I see a lot of jokes and memes. Not much else in my circle.
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I know. A bee sting is close to nothing IMO. Slightly worse than a large mosquito.
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If the wasps & hornets sting, unless you’re allergic, get yourself some Adolf’s Meat Tenderizer. Works like a gem neutralizing the sting & burning pain.
An Asian giant hornet, the largest pest of its kind, was found near the US-Canada border. It’s fearsome, but it’s less of a risk to humans than it is to honeybees.
They’re actually more threatening to bee populations. But it appears that even they have a defense mechanism that can kill this newer in the U S species.
The European honey bee, the one’s we have here in the US have absolutely no defense against these hornets. What your article is referring to are Japanese honey bees, and what they do in defense. But they’re not here.
Here’s a video of what the hornets do to European honey bees. Then follow up with the Japanese defense.
I used to keep a bottle in my dive bag for jellyfish stings when I was on Guam.
Guvnah
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In a sense, that makes you the Government picking winners and losers.

Guvnah
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This ^^
The only panic is in the media.
And the current “murder hornet” issue isn’t new. Last year I joked about them in a “build the wall” thread, suggesting that maybe we need the wall more on the north because these things were invading from Canada.
But for some reason, NOW the media decided we need panic.
Guvnah
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My mother used to put a paste of baking soda on the sting site. (Mosquito bites too.)
I just do benadryl.
Guvnah
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We should be importing the Asian honey bees.
They may have to if these large hornets take root. Just as long as they don’t try to make any more hybrids. That’s how we got the African really angry bees.