Move WASP nests ANYWHERE!!!!

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Anesthetize wasps and move their whole colony without hurting them. Does that sound crazy? It might be..... but I did it anyway. See how.
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@NewEnglandReptile 10 дней назад

I love my wasp and they can become quite tolerant.

@suburbanbiology 10 дней назад

Me too! What I did is like literal child’s play compared to your work! Thanks for commenting!!!

@Psilly-Spirit 10 дней назад

@@suburbanbiologyhey homeslice, If you’re ever in a pinch and need to cut a glass bottle like in the video, you can do it with just a quartz crystal, a propane torch, and a basin of cold water. Just carefully score a circle on the bottle with the quartz, heat the score line with a torch, and dunk in the cold water and it will pop right off :)

@CrystalNelson-tc9xg 10 дней назад

Thank you for being so decent and kind towards these great creatures. You are so cool .

@TerrySlaven-zd3um 8 дней назад

Try knocking a nest loose in a jar and popping it in the freezer for a few minutes. They go dormant for 10-15 minutes. And its free.

@leonardodalongisland 8 дней назад

You might want to visit a doctor-for that mental malady...

@SpiritAscending 20 дней назад

I’m from New Orleans and we had big problems with wasps. The old folks know that if you paint the ceiling of your porch sky blue, they won’t build a nest there. They perceive it as the actual sky.

@suburbanbiology 19 дней назад

Cool idea!

@l0gic23 19 дней назад

Thanks for sharing

@artokiiskinen1058 19 дней назад

I painted the inside walls and ceiling of my outhouse sky blue . No wasps. This trick works. However it isn't usable in all structures.

@drop830 16 дней назад

I heard the same idea, except you paint the ceiling rainbow. It's a know fact that wasps hate gay people

@shawnkenneth5503 15 дней назад

Yup I am from Florida and tell people this all the time and they dont believe me lol or I guess buying expensive poison is easier I dunno.

@notreal5311 19 дней назад

A coworker told me he kills buried wasp nests by shoving a banana in the hole. The banana doesn't kill the wasps, it just attracts a raccoon. The raccoon gets lured in by the banana and then finds the nest and digs it up to eat the larvae at night when the wasps are lethargic. I told him this was great but then you'd have a colony of raccoons lol.

@suburbanbiology 19 дней назад

Feels like there is a mongoose down the road in that plan 😉 thanks for commenting!

@imwacc0834 18 дней назад

Most ground wasps eat cicadas. They're also good neighbors, not aggressive at all. Assuming you're talking about the real big wasps.

@notreal5311 18 дней назад

@imwacc0834 whatever type comes out and aggressively stings you when you accidentally run over their nest in a riding lawn mower :V

@THEJ0KER8888 16 дней назад

@@imwacc0834You might be referring to the actual cicada killers. Those are huge wasps about 1 1/2 to 2 inches and that’s all they do is eat cicadas. Not dangerous to humans or pets but I wouldn’t be trying to love on one 🤭

@underduress5761 15 дней назад

@@notreal5311likely ground hornets. As long as you find the nests the easy way and avoid them, they are beneficial to have around. When they're in an area I can't avoid, I eliminate them. I prefer to let them live if possible

@plankton50 18 дней назад

**CONGRATULATIONS** You have taken humanity on its first tentative step in the domestication of the wasp

@jordanalexander615 14 дней назад

* tries to pet wasps, still gets stung

@actual5186 13 дней назад

best comment I've seen in a while

@alen7480 12 дней назад

Like cats, they were "domesticated" when killing pests, and occasionally sting, or rather scratch, when you pet them.... sometimes..... But sometimes they are very cuddly.

@alen7480 12 дней назад

@@jordanalexander615Don't try to cuddle them!!! Wait a few thousand years for your progeny to try that.

@Military-gradenutella3068 11 дней назад

@@jordanalexander615 In the wasps’ defense, similar things still happen with house cats.

@greencamaro5924 20 дней назад

Raccoons took the nest. How would I know? When I was young and single, I lived in a mobile home. After a late night at the bar, and an early workday approaching, I was awakened by a loud metalic banging on my porch. Cursing, I got up and opened my door. I was greeted by two juvenile racoons swinging on a large, ancient, sheet metal bird feeder hanging on one of the porch posts. The feeder had no seed in it, so I had no idea what they were after. Angrilly, I rushed up to the raccoons, who were at eye level, and just inches away, began yelling at them to get off my porch. They seemed to have no fear, and just stared back at me. Then in the darkness, I heard the buzzing...

@jayrowe6473 17 дней назад

That sounds like the intro of a slasher movie...

@sylvisterling8782 15 дней назад

That would be what my dear old Dad used to call "an O.S. Moment". You hear the buzzing, and think "Ohhhhh sh----"

@Robert_McGarry_Poems 13 дней назад

Lady, we were doing you a favor, and this is how you repay us? You deal with stingy parts then... hhmph

@barbarapennington9853 12 дней назад

HAHAHA that was SCARY!! LOL

@dalexfilms 12 дней назад

@@sylvisterling8782 That was precisely my reaction when I pulled the foam faucet cover (for winter) off one of my rarely used outdoor spigots a few weeks ago. The flurry of airborne objects took me completely by surprise. Luckily, I'm still pretty fast on my feet, and a hasty retreat prevented any injury. I don't really use that spigot, so I just left the nest there.

@ericcooley9407 11 дней назад

My grandfather use to cut open silk worm tree pods. We'd leave and come back in about an hour. Wasps were absolutely going to town on those worms. He was an old time farmer and hated pesticide when something natural was around.

@suburbanbiology 10 дней назад

Cool!

@Carnophobe 13 дней назад

This is a great example of how we should use our knowledge and ingenuity to live with and utilise nature, rather than constantly trying to subvert and supress it.

@suburbanbiology 13 дней назад

Absolutely!

@Harold_Callahan 11 дней назад

Yeah the first reaction for most people, myself included, was to immediately look for some hornet spray and go to town on a nest. Now I think I'll just let them be.

@realdragon 2 дня назад

I think a lot of times people forget we're animals too

@gaborcsuzi4504 22 часа назад

@@Harold_Callahan I don't. Wasps here still a huge headache simply because we can't have any dinner outside with friends in late spring-summer-early fall because of them. They want our food, they sting you often even if you don't even move an inch (happened multiple times, i was looking at it, not even a single breath, it just stopped walking on my arm for a second and stung me as i was looking at it, wtf??), not to mention that many of my friends are allergic to their sting... Fk my tomatoes, i would get every single one of them if i could. There are multiple types of wasps, and some of them aren't peaceful at all, some will sting you even as an entertainment, other ones you can even pat.

@mayadog2497 14 дней назад

Thanks for the video! When I bought my home there were few plants and no trees....or wasps. Over the next few years, I built a couple gardens, put flower and herb beds all over, planted numerous trees, added a couple of water features. Ive planted almost exclusively native plants and flowers. Soon, I had wasps all over, toads and singing frogs, geckos, praying mantis, lady bugs, rat/ garden/ worm snakes, anole lizards, trees full of birds, squirrels, opossum, raccoons. Eventually a swarm of bees started a hive in an old upside down tree pot- Now, they live in a hive I transferred them to. In the process of transforming my property, I was curious as to what all those "weeds" , "bugs" and "critters" were. Turns out every PLANT and tree support a whole host of LIFE , and every single plant is either edible, medicinal or useful in another way. I have NEVER used a single chemical to control, kill, treat or anything else anything on the property. I leave all the leaves and plant debris well into spring when all the LIFE thats overwintered in it has woken and gotten to work. For 20 years, every year, I get one small paper wasp right over the from door. I started off just taking the nest down, but they always came back. Theyd NEVER bothered us over the years. In beekeeping, old timers would talk to their bees, saying hello, keeping them informed as to whats new...chit chatting. Well, Ive been doing that to all the LIFE on the property. Until a recent really hard late freeze, we had Praying mantis all over our porch plants that we could pick up and carry around. We had names for them all- they all look different. The wasps have let me get some really good close up picture sand videos of them over the years. Cheers!!!

@suburbanbiology 13 дней назад

You have described my 20 year goal. I’m about 15 years into it, in a pretty dry climate but I’m getting there. Thanks for commenting!!!

@rh906 13 дней назад

Happens when you rejuvenate the environment.

@lunasun1738 12 дней назад

This comment has given me hope for the future. It's hard being a bug-lover and huge environmentalist when the world is so cruel to nature just because it can be a little inconvenient at times. Thank you for working to reconnect and revive it!

@peppatheoof 12 дней назад

There aren't nearly enough people like you. Thank you for all you do for the world and all the critters and for taking the time to get acquainted with the magic and beauty of the life around us

@baneverything5580 11 дней назад

I used to sit by the side of my bee hives and watch them, bring them empty honey jars to clean, and they never stung me in 4 years, except one that became tangled in my hair, but they hated my dad. He had to wear a full bee suit to get a frame of honey. Some people can`t get near bees or wasps. I`ve never had trouble with most stinging insects, even bumble bees, except yellowjackets.

@silbo432 19 дней назад

Nice one, thanks! As I didn't have a CO₂ bottle at hand, I used a 1.5 Liter jar, folded some metal wire mesh to form a second bottom so the wasps wouldn't fall into the mixture below, which was *sodium-bicarbonate (2 table spoons) and white vinegar 5% (5 table spoons)* the gas that is produced (within about 2 minutes) is CO₂, I closed the lid and was ready to go, with some long sleeve rain gear and leather gloves on, and approached them in the corner of that shed, opened the lid and put the jar over the nest. The mesh worked nicely and indeed after about 5 minutes they had all fallen down, properly sedated, brought the nest to its new location and placed its stoned inhabitants nearby; they woke up after about 20 minutes and went straight to their nest as if nothing had happened... 🌈🐝👍🙏

@suburbanbiology 19 дней назад

Wow. Cool. Thanks for sharing!

@simonsays5094 9 дней назад

that's clever

@Kadum122 4 дня назад

When I saw CO2 I immediately thought there has to be a simple reaction that people can do without the need to buy compressed CO2. Thanks for the sharing your experience, it would be a pretty good experiment to do with kids as well, lots to learn in a fun way.

@eliascabbio7598 14 дней назад

Many people don't know that wasps are essential to make wine. While they fly on top of the mature grapes, they leave some useful yeasts that are essential for the fermentation phases, enriching the flavors of the final product.

@suburbanbiology 13 дней назад

Cool!!! I dont think I knew that. Thanks for sharing!!!!

@eliascabbio7598 13 дней назад

@@suburbanbiology you're welcome!

@FusionDeveloper 13 дней назад

@eliascabbio7598 yeast used for making wine and bread is selective bred in labs into isolates and reproduce from that. They don't take it from nature any more.

@BillieB. 9 дней назад

Really interesting, I didn't know this!

@echoskelet 5 дней назад

Ano, to je pravda. Yes, that is true .

@obijuan3004 10 дней назад

Great video. When I was 10 yrs old, (50 yrs ago). I would charge 50 cents to remove wasps nests off of peoples porches. I would take the nests home, remove the almost mature wasps from the nest, and clip off their stingers and let them walk on my shirt, sometimes 30 at a time, my mother thought I was nuts. I learned that wasps ate spiders and garden caterpillars but they needed a stinger. Today, I only remove nests off my home in areas close to people. I think this video is brilliant. Nature is a diversity of life that adapted together in a natural balance we need to remember that.

@loredanalinden1958 4 дня назад

When I was 4 I used to pull legs off spiders (always left them with 2 so they could walk), until my Mum hit me (the only time she did!). Now, (60 years later) I save and relocate spiders all the time. I love those little bright green ones we get in England.

@rswow 2 дня назад

You removed wasp nests, how, without getting stung? And at age ten, how did you know how? I got stung a dozen times today after disturbing a nest in our back yard.

@obijuan3004 День назад

@@rswow I got a water hose and dish soap. I sprayed the nest with the water while dripping the dish soap into the water stream. Soapy water clogs up the breathing tubes on insects. The wet soggy nest would usually fall, if not I removed it with a rake. If I got lucky and soaked the queen with soap, she died the wasps would not return. Usually the wasps would be confused maybe try to find the nest location and eventually fly off or die from the soap. I learned this by washing my dad’s car. An insect will die in 20 secs in soapy water.

@tomasjosefvela1 10 дней назад

1:10 you said she was going to chew it up and feed it's regurgitated remains to it's sisters... it actually makes a "meat ball" of sorts and they pass that ball around in smaller bits to the larva which in return regurgitates a glucose substance that the full grown wasps then can eat, it's the reason they are so protective of the nest, without larva it is very difficult for them to eat and stay alive. Awesome video, it's good to spread the word that wasps aren't just annoying stinging pests, they help us in more ways than most know...

@suburbanbiology 9 дней назад

That is indeed a more accurate description. I found a channel called green wasp removal that actually shows footage of what you describe. Thanks for weighing in!!! The world needs more entomologists.

@tomasjosefvela1 6 дней назад

@@suburbanbiology I watch that channel too!! Just want to make sure you know, I really enjoyed your video and channel.

@diagram_sock 22 дня назад

You're the first person I've ever seen who likes wasps.

@brabrabarabra5027 21 день назад

I once offered afternoon sugar-water snack on the windowsill to a colony right under my office window. Almost everyday for a whole season. They really grew on me and I was sad when they all died with the first frost. Never got stung.

@SimonMester 21 день назад

people say wasps as if they were all the same. There are so many varieties. I live a rural forest in eastern europe, and have hundreds of wasps around my well. They are the chillest things on earth. You can sit and move around them, even kill them, they wont hurt you.

@BugsyBugYT 20 дней назад

then idk where youve been looking lol, wasps are pretty cool and ignoring them keeping plants safe and stuff some types also pollinate which can also further help plants if you dont have bees or other pollinators nearby!

@flanny701 20 дней назад

you should check out the hornet king. He has huge wasp nests he keeps around his homie and has even set up glass pans that he got the wasps to build off off so he has a window into the workings of the hives. He's a big lover of wasps, which is ironic considering his main job is as a wasp pest remover and the other part of his content is once he has killed all the wasps in a hive he's removing he'll take the hive nest and tweezer out all the lavae for his chicken to eat.

@nonvoloscireme 20 дней назад

I like them too

@ColoradoTodd 21 день назад

I was definitely at war with wasps until a couple of years ago. That year I had put out two things: hummingbird feeders (with no bee guard) and a bird bath. By early summer, I noticed two things: (1) there were paper wasps everywhere, drinking nectar from the feeders and water from the bird bath, and (2) most of the usual pests were scarce and, when they did show up, they mysteriously disappeared. The feeders had gone dry after a few weeks, and I didn't refill them (laziness), but I noticed wasps patrolling my garden, flying throughout the foliage and crawling around on the leaves. So I made the connection. This year, same thing. No aphids to speak of, no flea beetles, and no white cabbage moth caterpillars on my kale. That last one is amazing! I still have grasshoppers everywhere, but I don't think there are enough toads on the planet to eat them all, so they're just my burden to bear.

@suburbanbiology 20 дней назад

They are definitely ally more than a pest. My one remaining question is how often polistes exclamans attacks bee hives. I hope to have bees soon. Thanks!

@wanderingcalamity360 16 дней назад

Can you have chickens where you're at? We got chickens not long after moving to our 11 acres and we went from having grasshoppers everywhere to not seeing a single one within a year.

@ColoradoTodd 15 дней назад

@@wanderingcalamity360 Good idea, but that particular option has been vetoed in my house. 🙂

@imKas 11 дней назад

@@ColoradoTodd Well yeah Todd, generally you want to keep the chickens outside of the house.

@boytrouble80sgirlpunknewwa88 10 дней назад

@@suburbanbiology In the SF Bay Area, where I live, wasps don't bother my bee hives; but they love to eat dead bees on the ground around the hives, especially in the autumn when drones die off and wasps need protein. I love that you emphasize how beneficial wasps are!

@heraclitus6100 10 дней назад

This is a really cool video. I just sent it to some folks who might actually do this. I personally have never had a problem with wasps. You leave them alone, they leave you alone.

@suburbanbiology 10 дней назад

Thanks for sharing it around!

@melissajensen4901 4 дня назад

The nozzle-nose child-park pesticide-sprayers are a MUCH bigger problem.

@VikingMantis1413 13 дней назад

"I had a fence full of wasps, and not a sting on me." Me at home, hey....Thats a great home defence idea hahaha. I pity the random fool who jumps your fence, accidentally cleans up a large wasp nest on the way over, promptly gets mauled by many nests worth of wasps hahahaha

@suburbanbiology 13 дней назад

Natural defense systems 😂

@theyoftheravens 11 дней назад

Now that's what I'd call the sting of defeat! :0

@brt5273 10 дней назад

Iwas thinking the same thing😏

@goblez5900 18 дней назад

How to be a menace to your neighbours 101

@DurgaUsagi 14 дней назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🎉

@Michael1777-1 11 дней назад

😂😂😂👍👍👍

@someembarrassingLPs 10 дней назад

I was going to say, when he was like "I put the nests on my fence because I can't walk through it and will know to walk around it so I won't get stung 🥰" I'm like this dude's neighbor is going to get the surprise of his fucking lifetime

@--AE-- 10 дней назад

Yeah dude I saw him putting those nests on the fence, and saw the roof right by the fence and was like “seriously?”

@yearginclarke 10 дней назад

Likely the wasps will never be a problem for the neighbors unless they were hammering/banging something on the fence, or something like that.. I have lots of experience observing them in the wild, and even raising a couple of paper wasp nests in captivity, so I've gotten to know their typical behaviors very well. These are paper wasps, which are a little different and more docile compared to yellowjackets and hornets.

@LabelsAreMeaningless 21 день назад

There are at least two benefits to this method. It would lower the amount of pesticides people have been spraying near their food (that on its own makes it more than worth the effort). It also allows nature to work in the way that's intended. Too many have been trying to fight against nature when they could be working with nature and end up with a much better result. Sadly that's nearly impossible to do if you live in an apartment or condo.

@suburbanbiology 21 день назад

I agree on both points. I go into way more detail on Patreon. The biggest thing I would change is that hot glue does not work in my hot climate if a colony gets too much sun. The glue melts and the nest sags. Full sun should be avoided in general. I also show how I to keep the colonies safe from big predators. That part has worked well so far. Thanks for commenting and for your support!

@kewlbud8868 18 дней назад

This has to be some of the best home defense methods I've ever seen! I pitty the fool that tries to jump your fence!

@theusher2893 18 дней назад

If you're having to spray wasp spray anywhere near your friggin food, wasps are the very least of your concerns.

@kyzercube 17 дней назад

You don't need pesticides. You just need soap water.

@wisnoskij 14 дней назад

You are missing the benefit of stinging anyone trying to climb over your fence.

@CatBaloo 9 дней назад

This summer I found that paper wasps built a large nest above my garage door. In search of how to kill it I found that it's too late to remove nest by myself (too large), but at the same time paper wasps are very timid and will not atack you if there are no threat to their nest. So I decided to experiment and to leave the nest where it was. Every day I was watching them very closely, and they were just busy feeding their babies (larvae). They didn't try to chase me away. And couple days ago I noticed that they finally left. I am so glad that I didn't kill them. Because their nests are from paper they always look to build them in shelter from rain, so houses is often their choice. Wasps are not only predators but also polinators and we, humans, just like to exterminate everything without second thought. Thank you for this video to show that it can be a peaceful way to live with nature.

@Gamerkat10 6 дней назад

We had some by our mailbox for a few years. They never did much, lol.

@realdragon 2 дня назад

Move empty nest somewhere else so new colony can move in

@Gamerkat10 2 дня назад

@@realdragon You can also sell them for quite a lot I think

@a.p.5429 9 часов назад

Same, inside a shed door just above my head by inches. Nest was quite large before I even noticed. (Too busy looking down for snakes).

@TerrySlaven-zd3um 10 дней назад

My brother and I found a way to put them to sleep for free. For less noble reasons. Cup the nest with a jar and knock it loose. Cap the jar with a sheet of paper and screw the lid on. Skip the paper if you dig an adrenaline rush. Put the jar in the freezer for 15-20 minutes and they'll go dormant for up to 10 minutes. Remove the nest and poke it with a stick or relocate it if that's what you're into. Reintroducing the wasps should work the same(?). NOTE: Collecting a dozen nests in the same jar DOES NOT make for a spectacular bug war. No matter how many times you try. This free method might make for another great video plus more people might become wasp whisperers if there were no initial investment.

@brendaann727 6 дней назад

Except for the freezing part, that's the way I've been catching them for years, even if it's just a lone one in the house. You have to be careful & slide the paper (or thin cardboard like from a tissue box) in beteen the jar & the surface with as little space opened up as possible so they don't get loose. Great idea to freeze if you're going to transport. I started to advocate for others not to kill them when I found out they were also pollinators & the bees were getting fewer. Sometimes though I kind of wonder if they are too numerous do they harm other beneficial species. A fine balance is needed but in this sinful world sometimes the balance gets out of whack I think.

@TerrySlaven-zd3um 6 дней назад

@@brendaann727 Nice. But when you grow up in a trailer park there's nothing but your sister to pollinate so wasps are just enemies of metal sided/skirted dwellers. We invented a sport. The uniform was a pair of shorts. You could wear flip-flops if you were a wus or a shirt if you were a girl. You get one fly swatter each, short straw had to provoke a nest. Last kid standing and still swatting was the winner. We couldn't afford cable.

@brendaann727 6 дней назад

@@TerrySlaven-zd3um - You did what you had to do. That is why I said sometimes things can get out of balance. We live in wide open areas in a very cold place & they usually do not get to be a problem because the populations stay low. Except in the months where there's alot of rotting fruit from trees people haven't harvested. There can be aggressive ones that will bomb you in this situation, probably due to fruit gluttony. But a much greater threat around here with rotting fruit is bears.

@TerrySlaven-zd3um 5 дней назад

@@brendaann727 Try never to get short straw if you're gonna play wasp swatting with bears.

@Moonboots1655 19 дней назад

Well put together video. I don't usually kill wasps, I used to but now I like to observe them and just be careful if I have to walk past them. I never really put thought into the importance of wasps and the positive outcome they can provide for a garden, thanks for filling that part of my brain without being asked. Take it easy, keep doing what you do.

@suburbanbiology 19 дней назад

Thank YOU for taking the time to watch. I appreciate your support!

@chrissscottt 22 дня назад

Paper wasps are invasive pests and a threat to native species where I live but still a very interesting video. I admire your problem-solving ability and persistence.

@ArmageddonAfterparty 22 дня назад

depends on where you are I suppose, the internet might just be larger than where you are from

@dancarter482 21 день назад

@@ArmageddonAfterparty I think they meant to say _Humans_ !

@quattrocity9620 21 день назад

@@dancarter482 I like to keep invasive humans away from my home also.

@chrissscottt 21 день назад

@@dancarter482 I take your point, humans are possibly the worst invasive species on earth but also the only species capable of clearing up the mess we've made.

@jwm6314 19 дней назад

@armageddonafterparty that's precisely the point they made.

@sylvisterling8782 15 дней назад

Back when I worked for a medico-legal attorney service firm, photcopying medical records for use in court cases, one of our field agents had a bit of a wasp problem. He was mowing his lawn one bright summer weekend, when he saw a wasp or two flying up from an area he had just gone over with the mower. it was a subterranean wasp nest. he squatted down to see if he could find the opening... And the opening found HIM! He was wearing loose shorts... "commando" style. About six or seven wasps flew straight UP... and straight IN. Yes. He got stung. There. He used his "planetary" camera (a type of mobile photo copying camera) to... er... document the... damage! And damage there was! Softball sized damage! Actually, if one wants to be precise, TWO softballs. He was off work for several days because he simply was unable to walk upright! Ouch.

@suburbanbiology 15 дней назад

😂 ouch

@celts3760 12 дней назад

OMG 😵😵... I use to have a pair of them myself until I read this post; now I can't seem to find them.

@JimTerry-rw9pv 12 дней назад

Ouch that's really sad that must've been terrifying and painfull

@Harold_Callahan 11 дней назад

OMG my parts are in pain now just from reading this. That had to be so painful!

@bur_n_t 10 дней назад

dont even have balls and my balls hurt reading this

@underduress5761 15 дней назад

12:45 you forgot to mention the cost of garden pesticides and subsequent associated illnesses

@suburbanbiology 15 дней назад

Touché

@brendaann727 6 дней назад

Yes, definite dangers to people & other living creatures.

@kareninthevalley 13 дней назад

No idea where they're nesting, or if they're aerial/cavity/ground nest yellow jackets, but I'm currently feeding the late August YJs the same sugarwater i make for the hummingbird feeders. I set a large coffee mug with an inch of the syrup among my houseplants' outdoor location, close enough for me to pick up from my porch chair. Keeps the YJs busy, they don't drive away the hummers anymore, and they are more interested in climbing down to sip sugarwater than in whatever i am drinking or eating. Today while I was out on errands, one fell in the syrup and couldn't pull herself out by the time i got home. I helped her out with a leaf and observed her cleaning herself. I even petted her and she made no attempt to sting. Which led me to this video. New subscriber! 😊

@applekoi8639 12 дней назад

Maybe you could put a rock in there? There’s some bumble bees at my house and when it gets real hot we set out a frisbee with rocks and water! They can climb out themselves & don’t drown. It might not be a problem for you since I don’t think an inch of syrup will kill em but if you can’t check on em that often a rock will help them out!

@applekoi8639 12 дней назад

Also: I’ve heard that wasps will remember people! This is mostly used to talk about them holding grudges and stinging people but I’m sure your buddy will remember that you’ve done them a solid! They tell the rest of their friends via pheromones (again, supposedly and this was again said about grudges) so you might now be liked by all of her sisters now too!

@holleymother9026 8 дней назад

I am very allergic to wasp stings but love gardening and have given up on trying to remove all the wasp nests. Knowing they have facial recognition, I introduce myself to the queen and her brood. I tell them they are welcome on my porch and garden. They give me a good long look, and we both work in the garden together after that. I walk right past the nests constantly, and they completely ignore me.

@suburbanbiology 7 дней назад

That has been my experience as well. Thanks for commenting!!!

@waterrmore9060 17 дней назад

Wasps build nests in sheltered areas. They like side walls to protect from wind, driving rain and predators. That is why they love porches, sheds and bird houses. Try making your wasp boxes with side and front panels. Only the bottom of the box missing.

@partimentieveryday 9 дней назад

Yep. This guy built it in a spot where no wasps will ever build their own, and where, if he moves a wasp nest to that spot, will certainly be eaten by a predator.

@Evallin 7 дней назад

Exactly what I was going to comment. They love my birdhouses, which are dark and safe enclosures for them. The glass bottle would attract predators by being too visible as well.

@realdragon 2 дня назад

Would a box that is open from bottom and front work?

@partimentieveryday 2 дня назад

@@realdragon No. The only places that will work are spots where wasps build nests. If you put a box up in a tree maybe they will build a nest, but no, a box wouldn’t have saved the ones in this video

@lorasmith9380 13 дней назад

I'm deathly allergic to wasp stings. We're talking epi pen and hospital within 20 min. Still, I hold them in great reverence, admiration and respect. I. Not really that afraid of them. A couple years ago, we had a nest of European paper wasps that built a good sized nest right above our patio slider door. We paid no attention to them and they weren't too concerned about our comings and goings. We would sit on the patio with no problem, ever. They would look down on us, but there wasn't a reason not to trust us. It was so cool! They ate all the pests in our vegetable garden too.

@suburbanbiology 13 дней назад

You’re an impressive individual for being comfortable and brave enough to coexist on your porch. We did the same for many months but we don’t have allergies that we know of. Well done! 🙏🏼

@lorasmith9380 12 дней назад

@suburbanbiology Well, thank you! I just got tired of being freaked out by them. I started studying them deeply, and as I did, I sort of started to love them and their important place in the world. Now, yellow jackets are another story. Still important, but slightly insane and angry at everything!

@LivingBreathingRedFlag 22 дня назад

I really appreciate that you have decided to take such a gentle approach to managing wasps. We as humans often like to deny that other species fulfill a purpose if they interfere with our daily lives in any way. To reiterate, it's awesome that you regard their ecology as is and don't go for the obvious preconditioned route.

@Youpeeipay 16 дней назад

Oh good lord

@LivingBreathingRedFlag 16 дней назад

@@Youpeeipay ?

@ARockRaider 15 дней назад

Ain't that the truth, for reasons I'm unsure (probably a certain yellow pegasus) I have been wishing it was possible to communicate with all animals and make deals with them. Wasps? I didn't even consider the pest control route, I would keep them happy to provide security for my property! Even rats and mice I'd be happy to prove food and shelter on the condition they don't make a mess of my home, imagine an old work (eg renovations) electrician with a rat buddy helping run wire! Honey bees are already relatively easy for people to handle, but imagine if you could actually ask them what they want more of in exchange for their honey! Crows have also been observed bringing shines to people who offer them treats, imagine being able to explain what exactly you want that they might find or what plants you don't want harmed!

@garyd.goodwin4264 13 дней назад

Great video! Excellently produced. I grew up in Soutgern California out on the desert (dry) and my dad was a dirt farmer. I’ve always admired wasps, been stung enough to respect them. I appreciate knowing more about them, what they eat, how they live, etc.. they are definitely carnivores. They love a bit of raw beef or chicken! At times I’ve had to get rid of them, because they stung friends, children or passerbys. Just FYI, I mix a one to ten ratio of liquid dish soap with water in a spray bottle and it drops them immediately. Sorry for the morbidity and mean sounding, but it seems like a quick and easy way. Thank you for the vid!

@bur_n_t 10 дней назад

this and alcohol are what ive heard work. i dont think its right to kill them without very good reason, but if they gotta go (which they most certainly do sometimes), i'd rather they go quick.

@anna9072 21 день назад

I have a great deal of respect for wasps. They have an important role in nature, and I try to cohabit with them whenever possible. I enjoyed this presentation.

@suburbanbiology 21 день назад

I’m honored that you enjoyed it! And I appreciate your respect for them. Spread the word!!! 🐝

@rh906 13 дней назад

Definitely need less modernity (ways of doing things, not so much the technology... they aren't the same) and more getting in touch locally/cohabiting with nature.

@Papillion24-n1i 10 дней назад

0:17 There is something moving in the nest lol

@suburbanbiology 10 дней назад

One of the larvae was knitting a silk cap.

@bootlegmufasacringe2397 10 дней назад

Little man

@user-xj8wy4uu1q 9 дней назад

@@suburbanbiologycool! I thought it was a pupa eclosing

@--sql 19 дней назад

11:57 Yeah man. Nature is really smart. I bet you this points to a reason why the wasps wouldn't choose that place for a nest otherwise. Very neat project.

@Cirruna 6 дней назад

I love the lullaby music while they gently fall off the nest and fall asleep. Neat idea.

@robertgaines-tulsa 20 дней назад

Wasps like to build their nests where predators can't easily get to them. So, fences are a bad idea. Wasps have a tendency to build their nests around windows. I've had a wasp nest in my window air conditioner, so I spray them in the spring when they are beginning to nest. I've heard horror stories of wasps digging through the insulating foam in window units and entering houses. Window units only have a foam barrier between the inside and the outside. It always seemed a bit cheap not to sandwich the foam in plastic or something. Back in the 80s, my brother built a bird house for Boy Scouts. He attached it onto an old swing set. Instead of birds, wasps built their nest in there. He also used to do weird stuff like throw water on a wasp nest, run inside, and watch the wasps land on the sliding glass door as they chased him. I wouldn't suggest doing that. We didn't have good video games or the Internet back then, so kids often did crazy stuff just to pass the time.

@suburbanbiology 19 дней назад

I do a little water spraying in the final scene With some slow motion shots. I doesn’t hurt the wasps…..so I couldn’t resist. Thanks for commenting!!!!

@jordanalexander615 14 дней назад

My wasps here are pretty dumb then they build their nest in the outside corner of the door frame. And spiders cover it at night and no doubt eat half the wasps at night. The nest doesn't seem to grow but they are always there. And the spiders are getting down right enormous from the extra food.

@hu3rcgtx 15 дней назад

Knew about the CO2. We have a 10th floor roof top garden in downtown Brooklyn for the past 30 years. We have non-aggression pacts with 100s of carpenter beers, cutter bees, honey bees, mud daubers, rare resin wasps, and several varieties of paper wasps. Never been stung. The only wasp we kill are yellow jackets which rarely nest up here - had one in large planter which we had to deal with. One hornet nest in our grill one early spring which we dispatched. The wasps love our cedar deck for their paper supply.

@asktheanimals 13 дней назад

I know it's a typo, but the image of 100s of Brooklyn carpenter beers gets a giggle. 🔨🍻🐝

@holleymother9026 8 дней назад

I love the creaky sound of the wasps chewing on the wood.

@digitalghosts4599 11 дней назад

I love every bit of this video! As an engineer, I instantly had a cheaper solution for this - instead of using a big CO2 bottle, you could use a soda stream cartridge! It is also possible to buy adapters and fittings for those cartridges that let you release gas through a hose. That whole setup should cost $50 at most! And best of all, you can always use that cartridge to chill with some tasty lemonade once the job is done. You can also cheaply refill it.

@suburbanbiology 11 дней назад

Not a bad idea. I think a bike tire inflator is even cheaper!

@digitalghosts4599 11 дней назад

@@suburbanbiology or that! But those usually run off of small cartridges and I'd be worried the gas might run out before the insects are knocked out

@highseassailor 11 дней назад

Had no idea that wasps were beneficial for the garden, I'll never look at them the same again. Enlightened! Thank you for sharing this knowledge openly and freely, I'm 100% building one of these simple wasp relocating devices.

@suburbanbiology 11 дней назад

I would advise watching the Patreon follow up video. Yes that means signing up but you could always stop after one month if you want. The takeaway points are (don’t use hot glue, fortify them with chicken wire, put them in shade). Details in that video though. If there is high demand I may summarize it for RU-vid someday. Depends how well this video does. Thanks!!!!

@donnybrasco6321 13 дней назад

Was hiking in the Superstition Mountains (Az) years ago and followed a stream up to a clearing with a small abandoned (for what looked like a very long time) house. I started walking to investigate and realized - too late (?) that the masses of wall-to-wall, chest high, flowering brittlebush I was walking thru were COVERED with yellow jackets - CO-VERED. We’re talking horror movie style. The next thing I realized was they could’ve cared less about me. I figured it was because I wasn’t threatening them or disturbing their nests. I’ve applied that philosophy since and have had no stings and LOTS of help in my gardens all these years later. Bees are just as chill. Great video. Thanks!

@suburbanbiology 13 дней назад

I didn’t know until recently that wasps almost exclusively consume sugary stuff. Like flower nectar or a sweet substance that their larvae produce. I’ve seen them on plants for years but never realized they were eating much like bees do. Thanks for commenting. I’m glad you weren’t stung!!!

@DjBassatx 20 дней назад

Love to see a kind-hearted person. You've got a new fan!

@suburbanbiology 20 дней назад

Thank you and welcome aboard!!! 🙏🏼

@karenparker7830 21 день назад

Subscribed!!! And I am turning on notifications for the 1st time for any video. I live you idea and may do this if I get brave enough. My favorite class in college was entomology. I also am planting tropical plants and your basic garden plants - tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, garlic, and mosquito repelling bushes. You are funny and I think you sang the beautiful lullaby in German. You are a talented man!!!💙🩵

@suburbanbiology 21 день назад

I am honored to have your support. It means a lot. I wish I could take credit for the lullaby but I pulled that from the RU-vid music library. Maybe next time I’ll try 😉 thanks and welcome aboard!

@taxximaxxi 19 дней назад

5:18 carbon dioxide is heavier than air so if you tilt the jar it will pour out like water

@cest7343 21 день назад

Paper wasps are crazy about scorching heat, thus the love for the I'll ventilated steel cans

@suburbanbiology 21 день назад

And place the new home in the shade. I’ve already made that mistake. Poor wasps 😢

@aunttriciaattic 11 дней назад

This is amazing idea I'd rather see a video of them going to sleep instead of dying I see them in my garden all the time every living thing has a purpose, Thank you😂

@antonnym214 17 дней назад

I like your sense of humor. Very entertaining AND informative. I never thought of wasps as anything but pests, but I now see they can do some good. Thank you. I subscribed a while back, but haven't seen you in a while due to YT being big giant butts and not telling me you've done something even though I have bell notifications on.

@suburbanbiology 16 дней назад

I’m sorry they didn’t notify. But I’m glad you found it all the same 🙏🏼

@MichaelRobinson_Revelation2 14 дней назад

THANK YOU for this! I am a believer that ALL living things are not just valuable, but precious and sacred. I realize that existing without at least inadvertantly harming and killing other life is impossible, but absolutely any time I can avoid harm, I do so. I deal with this situation frequently, even yesterday. I have a wasp nest right above the door to my garden shed, and I generally just ignore it, but sometimes they get a bit aggressive from my coming in and out quickly or moving the lawn mower out, etc. I have been wanting to move them for a couple months now, and just haven't had the time to research it. Your video came up in my feed today, and I hadn't even searched for anything like it! I wanted you to know that it really matters that you care about these things, and it helps others and promotes kindness and compassion. I believe that if we practice honoring life on every level, be kind and consider ways to help other living things as we tend to our own needs, and be compassionate and consider that all living things suffer when harmed, even the smallest, then it can only make a better world for everyone, inlcluding ourselves. Thank you again, and I will buy anything that I need for this from your links 🙏👍

@suburbanbiology 14 дней назад

I am moved to hear that this video helped you on your journey. You speak wise words. Best of luck if you use this method. Pointers: don’t use hot glue if it’s hot where you live. Use epoxy or super glue. Protect the nest with chicken wire and put all nests in shade. I go into more detail on my Patreon follow up but those are the failure points I learned. Take care!!

@bur_n_t 10 дней назад

samesies. every living thing has its place, and being annoying to us is no justification to kill any living thing imo. being dangerous, yes, that's justified, but i absolutely detest how people jump to killing anything that bothers or scares them, regardless of how valuable they are to the ecosystem. they are all just trying to survive. existing near humanity shouldn't be a death sentence, and the fact that it usually is is why our planet is suffering so much from our presence. our priorities are only ever ourselves, and never the bigger ecological picture nor empathy with fellow living creatures. i cant stand it. more people need to open their hearts to the value of nature and the sanctity of life or else

@gmeast 21 день назад

What you have done (and shown) here is RIGHT on so many levels!!!!

@GonkyWonkler 6 дней назад

Glad to know there are other people out there who would rather not eliminate anything and everything that could be perceived as a pest. I'm passionate about the same things as you, my friend. Keep up the good work. Your example is inspiring.

@z0OZ00OOO 22 дня назад

So with all the effort of moving the nests, did they stop showing up in your house? My experience is that there are plenty more to replace them

@suburbanbiology 21 день назад

Only a few came back. I expand on that in the Patreon follow up. Thanks for commenting!

@dancarter482 21 день назад

@@suburbanbiology We had hornets here last year - never harmed anyone but one of them got mangled one evening (indoors) and within minutes two angry fighter planes appeared having squeezed in through a tiny gap and were out for revenge!

@Mad-Duk_Machine_Werkes 20 дней назад

if you paint the outside of your home in Gloss or Semi Gloss the Mud Daubers and Paper Wasps & even Spiders, have a tougher time attaching to the shiny surface, ALSO - if you paint your homes exterior with Latex paint, you can add up to 20% Rid-A-Bug or other water based bug killers to the paint and thin it down a bit and NOTHING will build on it for a cpl years till the stuff loses it's effectiveness

@EclipseOverSalem 13 дней назад

@@Mad-Duk_Machine_Werkesthe goal is not to damage them.. rid a bug..

@Windthin 6 дней назад

I love this. I've had the good fortune to have wasps build nests facing my glass door where I can watch and take video and pictures of them. I am glad you've found a way to handle them without harming them. So many people are afraid, without understanding what they do for the environment and ecology.

@davidhtims 19 дней назад

The gas worked. They recovered but with a hangover headache. Lol

@applekoi8639 12 дней назад

8:08 props to that one fella for holding on till the end!

@suburbanbiology 12 дней назад

😂 that’s one tough little wasp

@staticintheatmosphere 18 дней назад

Wasps: WTF...? Did i dream this up? I don't remember building our colony here...

@suburbanbiology 18 дней назад

😂

@MilesDaffin День назад

Genius. I had the same problem the other day, and didn't get stung, but had lingering questions. This video answers them and others.

@suburbanbiology День назад

Glad it helped!

@MatthewHolevinski 20 дней назад

Dewd, mad props for the gangster ass kindness you showed them hymenoptera

@suburbanbiology 20 дней назад

🙏🏼 🐝

@marias2169 13 дней назад

This is so cool! Thanks for caring enough, not just about wasps, but about problem-solving in a do-no-harm kind of way. Now that I know a method to deal with wasps safely, I am not so afraid of them, and I’m glad nobody at all gets hurt.

@suburbanbiology 12 дней назад

Glad it was helpful! That was my aim. Thanks for watching!!!

@b4by81tch 17 дней назад

That tomato bite 😂😂

@suburbanbiology 17 дней назад

Glad it landed for someone out there 😉

@amicaaranearum 12 дней назад

“And why should your songs be unfit for my halls? Come, sing me a song.”

@robinferdinandsen7122 6 часов назад

i loved this video. a few years ago we had a wasps nest under our roof outhang. it was up high and when i did research it said that wasps only use the nest for one season, so we let them bee🐝 we live in Denmark so we'd have plenty of winter to remove the nest without ruining their productive part of the year. we live in a green area and have a big yard full of flowering plants and trees and we never once got stung. they really aren't as agressive as they're hyped up to be. at least not danish wasps. i've also found that when one gets in our house, if i open a window near it it'll find it's way out within 5 minuttes. they must be able to feel the breeze 😊

@LuckyStone888 12 дней назад

5 years ago, I moved a yellow jacket nest from my back door to my apple tree. My apple tree was infested with caterpillars and nothing was working. Long story short yellow jackets saved my apple tree. I do not mind a few stings if I can find a solution where we live in peace.

@suburbanbiology 11 дней назад

Brilliant idea

@kimknight6776 9 дней назад

So happy to see this! One of my favorite jobs I’ve ever had was the live removal and relocation of flying and stinging insects- we did not put them to sleep, we used a vacuum with a collection chamber at the end of the vacuum hose. Super cool to see it done this way!

@suburbanbiology 8 дней назад

Glad you enjoyed. Thanks for commenting!

@twilightgardenspresentatio6384 20 дней назад

A new method of study and husbandry will come from this Thank you

@suburbanbiology 19 дней назад

Thank you. I hope so

@wasperfly День назад

Wasps will always be my favorite animals. They're such a diverse and interesting bunch.

@Scooter30FTW 20 дней назад

I had no idea wasps were beneficial,TIL.

@suburbanbiology 19 дней назад

Thank you for watching. Glad you were able to get something from the video 🙏🏼 spread the word!!!! 🐝

@philritter9042 11 дней назад

There is pretty much no animal in the world that don’t have a purpose beneficial for nature or us. Except maybe mosquitos i study biology but to this day I have no clue what the purpose of a mosquito could be except maybe population control by transmitting diseases

@WormBurger 10 дней назад

I have clients who ask me to remove wasp nests. I would rather not kill them. I am so happy this is possible! Thank you!!! ❤❤❤

@suburbanbiology 10 дней назад

I went into a lot more detail about how to make the awnings work on the Patreon follow up video. They need more protection and hot glue melts in full sun. Happy this video could help!

@ryanjohnson3615 17 дней назад

Also a good way to package them up for porch pirates.

@jerry-xi4gi 9 дней назад

i can't believe i just watched a guy putting wasps to sleep and moving them to a custom house...and i loved it, what a breath of fresh air 🙏🤘😎

@SilverScythe65 13 дней назад

I let spiders in my house live, if I find them in a spot that won't inconvenience me. Like the spiders that live on the step down to my garage, I leave them alone, because they catch all the bugs that are trying to get into my house from the garage. I don't have a garden to protect, and I have little ones running around that are prone to getting stung, so wasps won't be making any nests around my domain. But I do understand the potential benefits of coexisting with some bugs.

@compubert2 4 дня назад

I am allergic and it is my own fault, when we were kids we played a game where we would attack a LARGE nest of wasps and stand there and fight them with a stick, who ever ran first was the loser, but really no one won. I have a healthy respect for all of gods creatures and only dispatch them now if they are over my front door. I like your moxie and your ethic. I would like to move my nests as well but I cannot take that chance of getting stung and the bills that come after *provided I make it to the kit I have to carry around in time.* Looks like a great way to help with the garden and the bug problem at one time - Kudos to ya...

@davk 21 день назад

The worst lie I heard in my life is, "if you leave the wasp alone it will not sting you". (Do not mistake with bees! They actually do not sting without reason). Wasps are my personal enemies!

@anna9072 21 день назад

That’s interesting. I’ve never been stung by a wasp unprovoked. I do know that honeybees react hostilely to dark colors, though, and wasps might have things that they react to that you might not recognize as triggers.

@kathlenadeles5443 21 день назад

The same happened to me. I was sitting on a porch when an unprovoked wasp smacked me hard and stung me. That was the day I learned I was allergic to the little demons.

@ladmad9196 19 дней назад

depends on the wasp species. in my area theres only one species whos actually ahgressive. the others ones can be poked and annoyed but they will just fly around a bit and calm down again

@IIBLANKII 11 дней назад

Honestly never earned a sting i didnt deserve from a wasp lol. But yellow jackets are little fucks that can burn lol. I was plucking leaves off a hydrangea trying to fix the my neighbors splotches dead hydrangea and a wasp was under one and stung me. Fair play. A yellow jacket? I was in said neighbors sunroom cleaning it for them, and a yellow jacket, completely unprovoked randomly came in, crawled under my shirt without me knowing and stinged my ribcage. Lmfao

@GoofyIracingChannel 11 дней назад

If you wear lotion or fragrance you can be mistaken as a threat, Just look at reasons why Wasps sting. I never get stung and I basically hang out with my wasps every day

@toddwilkinson621 15 дней назад

In my wooden or metal tool/garden shed(s) i have always sprayed a very light quick spray of WD 40 along the interior center ridge. Just a light quick spray, not enough to cause an environmental disaster. Wasps and hornets would never build nests in any part of the interior of the shed. Ever. Only had to do it once, and no problems for years, and since they are just utility structures the odor is no worse than the lawn equipment itself.

@ArmageddonAfterparty 22 дня назад

got shitloads of nests everywhere, I tend to work around them and they don't sting me often so no need for relocation

@WaterholeExchange 21 день назад

Same here, I know the benefits out weigh the risks in keeping them around and like most creatures on Earth are just doing there thing and leave us alone if we leave them alone. Great effort in opening minds to new ideas in a world saturated with poisonous solutions for every problem being advertised without second thought to the real cost of spraying poisons everywhere around the home. And people wonder why cancer is multiplying in the population? Natural Law number 6, cause and effect. Poison the world, it will kill you for trying.

@kuuiporandall8703 15 дней назад

Thank you so much! My dad is a cabinet maker. They have a lot of wasps. They have attacked the grandkids and some of them are allergic. My mom and I couldn't understand why they had so many wasps. I just shared your video. It was very helpful. Hopefully we can lessen the numbers by understanding them better.

@mr.critic 22 дня назад

maybe you can 3d print some nests so they can use them forever

@suburbanbiology 21 день назад

Maybe 🤔

@bur_n_t 10 дней назад

i hear they arent fond of glue, chemicals, and disturbed nests. maybe a shell for them to nest in, but i'm not sure they'd really appreciate a plastic home

@mooloolahmark9807 19 дней назад

Hi, what a great idea and explanation! I'm in Qld, Australia and those critters look the same as ours. Our guys go hyperactive at dusk for some reason. Anyhow, i wanted to share a remedy for stings and its simply very hot water. Dip a cotton bud in boiling water and wait till you can barely touch, then strait on to the sting site. This takes pain away, but not swelling. This works on the stings of wasps, bull ants and jump jack ants, stonefish, paralysis ticks and leaches. Cheers, Mark.

@simonolsen9995 19 дней назад

Down in NSW as an avid home veggie gardener, I've been trying to peacefully coexist with waps for years. But although they look kinda similar, I can promise the ones down my way are 100% meaner. It's live and let live with me, I give them space and respect, but, if a nest gets too big and agressive and I get attacked and stung nonetheless, then its final solution time.

@Watchyn_Yarwood 18 дней назад

I found that if you take a 400°F soldering iron and draw a circle around the sting, you will soon forget about the pain of the sting.

@dancarter482 21 день назад

I watched with fascination as a wasp built her nest in my camper wetroom last year. Most surprising was her curling up to sleep in the very basic little cone the first few nights. I used masking tape to reattach the nest in an abandoned chicken house then caught the wasp in a jar in the evening and took her to the new spot. It took 3 nightly catches to get her to stop coming back to the original spot and adopt the new location. Amazing creatures.

@suburbanbiology 21 день назад

That has been similar to my experience. The first time I considered relocating wasps was when I move a bean can from one rebar spike to another. It took about 3 days for the wasps to stop coming back to the old rebar spike. It’s awesome that you took the time to observe them. Thanks for your support! I go into detail on a parasitic moth that attacks the wasps in a Patreon video if that’s something up your alley.

@evegarcia8829 День назад

I wish people would see how beneficial these little guys are to our plants and realize it's better to move them to a safer place than finish them off. 😞 they also perish during the winter season, and only a few survive to start the next cycle in spring. 🥺 they also know when you try to harm them and, of course, sting when trying to defend themselves. Thank you for such an awesome video!

@suburbanbiology День назад

Thanks for your thoughtful comments and for watching!

@dapeck04 17 дней назад

Easy to say when 5 paper wasps don’t send you to the hospital or have to worry whether your expired epi pen will work or not.

@lunasun1738 12 дней назад

Well yeah. I think anyone who has allergies will learn to live with it??

@bur_n_t 10 дней назад

yeah thing is that most people don't have allergies. i think that this is for people who can relocate wasps without risking their health, and not you. not everything needs to come with a disclaimer for every possible person that might not be capable, and i think that this is still a very good message to be spreading. unless they pose a genuine threat, like they do to you, i don't think we should kill things all willy nilly, and i certainly don't think we should take offense to the suggestion

@bbikermama 10 часов назад

Awesome! Paper wasps have never stung me and I have several right outside my front door. The only nests I kill are the underground ones. Nasty critters and vicious. I’ll have to try this. Thank you!

@suburbanbiology 27 дней назад

If you were a RU-vid member for my channel you could have posted the first comment on this video several days ago.... Just sayin'..... The glory could be yours next time......ALL the glory

@hoperules8874 21 день назад

The humor is good with you.

@Mortified42 15 дней назад

Funny, but being a first commenter is low on my list of priorities, and I definitely won't pay to do it. Times are tight.

@annesaunders3580 20 дней назад

Fascinating and I'm impressed with your kindness towards wasps.

@Josiah1994. 5 дней назад

Love this video, glad someone else realizes wasps aren't pests and can easily be made to help out and not be in the way, I moved a massive wasp nest myself by just getting a bucket, cutting a small slot in the lid the size of the branch that the nest was on and very slowly moving the bucket up around nest and sliding the lid on so the branch was in the slot, then cut branch and took it home 😆 it was at a friends house, who obviously didn't want it, if you are very carful you can pat wasps without getting stung, (some at least) 😂 you can tell how agitated they are the way they move their wings and legs.

@orangefool1527 10 дней назад

I reckon most of y’all will find this weird, I’ve been considering farming wasps for entomophagy and pest control reasons. I was planning on attempting the gourd idea as well, probably will. This idea as a way to safely and gently move wasp nests is mind blowing to me. Quality 👏 content 👏

@suburbanbiology 10 дней назад

I’m glad you enjoyed. Comment again if you’re able to get the gourds to work!

@vannarooski8730 11 дней назад

It’s taken me years but my wasps around my house are sweet. Generations have passed down the knowledge that I’m either not a threat or a loosely accepted part of the hive in a way because I can get as close as I want to my red wasps nests and they fly around me like I’m not there. When they come in the house it’s almost like they know to get in the glass cup because they go right to it most times and I take them right out.

@ArkonArchive 9 дней назад

Thank you very much for making this video. In truth, I love the wasps in my yard and every summer I get a huge mass of them because of my large Fig Tree. It self pollinates so the wasps only eat them and don't ever go inside. Anyway. The point is they are a wonderful sight and have never once stung me, even when I accidentally touch them picking figs! There is much hate for these creatures but I am happy to see some appreciation, thanks!

@brendaann727 6 дней назад

They get used to you being around, and if you don't act like a threat, they will leave you alone. I just move slowly & don't make loud noises near them. Seems like once you make them mad, even accidentally, they don't forget for a while until they are convinced you don't mean them any harm.

@LA6NPA 19 дней назад

The jar attachment, especially, can be primed (filled) with CO2 before you surround the nest with it, as CO2 is slightly heavier than air, making it work faster and there is less chance of escapees.

@Misterz3r0 10 дней назад

Wasps, dragonflie, and spiders are like having mini pest-eradicating robots. I love them.

@dragonheadthing 11 дней назад

Thank you for making a video about being nice to wasps! I've held wasps a few times. They're nice once they get to know you.

@michaelhuang2477 11 дней назад

Thanks for the video. This is either the most brilliant or the most dangerous thing to do. I will try it next time I have a wasp problem!

@joycourier 4 часа назад

that straggler at 8:47 was probably less than pleased to see you pilfer his residence

@nhm7530 10 часов назад

Can you try with dry ice? Make a chamber for the ice with a filter above it and let the wasps fall on to the filter/not touch the ice directly. Would this be a more cost effective solution? If there is not enough circulation you can add a small fan with the dry ice inside the container powered by a battery? Don't forget to mount the holder on the bottom of a broom/stick. Seems like it could be 3D printed. Better yet maybe a clear silicone funnel to help with tight areas like trim?

@hermitholllerhomestead2080 11 дней назад

I save time and money leaving the wasps right where they are. Its very rare that they become defensive due to my coming and going. However, I do think that its a good idea to build nesting structures for them.

@socksman669 12 дней назад

I'm sure your neighbors just love this

@suburbanbiology 12 дней назад

I took the biggest nest off my neighbors porch. This was quite an improvement for them as far as proximity.

@MadamFoogie 22 часа назад

I don't mind these guys. I've got a nest of them wedged in my bathroom window. They're fun to watch, they can't get in, we're cool. I don't even charge 'em rent!

@MaureenTHolland 9 дней назад

Impressive! I also have moved wasps this year to modified bird houses. I really like your method!!! I might suggest adding some short sides to your new nest holder. The nest won’t do well with sun or rain, but you may already be aware of these things. I look forward to watching more of your videos.

@ambergessler1679 День назад

I love the hornets and wasps in my garden. They are the work horses and deserve that respect. They pollinate and consume caterpillars. I watched one take a cabbage looper worm and rip it apart and roll it into a meatball and fly away. Since then, I change the birdbath water and take care of my work horses. Thanks for posting this video!

@YURIIXO-YT 6 дней назад

Im heavily allergic to wasps but ive always been both terrified and fascinated by wasps, they are so cool and although i can be hospitalized by them, they are still such interesting creatures, tysm for the video!! New sub❤

@emilesteyn9483 10 дней назад

Found four wasp nests on my house this morning, and immediately get this recommended. Thanks for reading my mind, Big Brother Tech. 👍

@suburbanbiology 10 дней назад

Nice!!!! I aimed to post this video at the time of the year when wasp nests are the biggest and they are most obvious.

@emilesteyn9483 10 дней назад

@@suburbanbiology Spring day was this weekend down in sunny South Africa, I'm not sure where you are, but you make great content. Your pole fence video gave me the go-to method for keeping some chicken hens.

@billcorr9450 4 дня назад

The German lullaby was music to my ears. Well played, sir!

@IowaKeith 10 дней назад

I've been gardening for years, but only last year did I stop using chemicals for pests and fertilizers and started using compost only. My garden went well but the bugs were quite an issue. This year I made lots of nesting areas for wasps and wild bees and planted all sorts of flowers in and around my garden. Aside from a slight infestation of squash beetles, most of my plants were healthy and happy all year. It's amazing what the bees and wasps accomplished.

@araeshkigal 7 дней назад

I had a colony of paper wasps living under my water hose coil thingie. They were pretty friendly for wasps. I never got stung, and I just let them know I was getting the hose whenever I needed it, and they just sort of sat on the nest and watched me. It honestly never occurred to me to displace them, because they really weren't in the way or anything, and I was hoping that the mosquitoes in my yard would be on their food list.