Could it be a result of global warning, a mild winter, and drought conditions? Farmers are even afraid to take their tractors out of their barns. Will Stephen King create a new novel from this material?
Check out the photograph of the 1955 Chevrolet which is engulfed by a gigantic nest.
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2006-08-23 21:28:21 · 3 answers · asked by In Honor of Moja 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Yes, it could be the result of all those things, or it could be just the natural order of things. I live in the Pacific Northwest, about 35 miles west of Seatle on the west side of Puget Sound. Last year, I had a HUGE hornet (paper wasp) nest hanging from the roof of my house. I didn't notice it up there, I have a 2 story house and I live in the middle of a heavlily forrested area and I don't spend a lot of time in my back yard and this thing was at the corner just under the eave and almost the exact same brown color as the wood siding, almost invisible. It must have been there for quite some time to get so big. I hired a guy to remove it. I wasn't about to try to remove something with thousands of angry stinging insects about the size of a basketball by myself. Anyway, yellow jackets, wasps and hornets survive well in the absence of cold weather. A heavy frost is usually enough to kill off an exposed nest which is why these are more of a problem in warmer climates than in cooler climates where it snows in winter. I do not get weather that cold here very often, so sometimes, these nests appear and survive for several years before they become a problem.The bottom line is this: I don't see why nests couldn't get bigger and bigger as long as the right living conditions continued to exist. The nest on my house was the biggest the guy I hired had ever seen and he has been in the business for over 20 years. By the way, he "bagged" the nest in plastic in the middle of the night when the insects were all inside and dormant and then put a piece of dry ice in the bag to kill the insects. The carbon dioxide killed the insects overnight and he removed the intact nest the next night in case any were still alive, just in case. I think he mounted the nest and put it in a trophy case...
2006-08-23 21:56:14 · answer #1 · answered by rowlfe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi,,, i hate to tell you this,, but ,,, Yellow Jackets,,, they build their nests ... underground......
good luck
2006-08-23 21:34:45 · answer #2 · answered by eejonesaux 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
awesome..... like x-files movie....
2006-08-23 21:37:00 · answer #3 · answered by J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋