Really appreciate the advocacy you have for Wasps in general, and your holistic approach to your nest removal - instead of throwing everything away, you find uses for it in feeding your birds. Watching your content has helped me grow an understanding of how different species can be, their temperaments especially, as I have always been very apprehensive around them.
Same for me. Although, I'm still going to probably go in flight mode if I see one just foraging, much like a tarantula just chilling and wanting to be left alone. It's nice to see channels like this that really shatter the narrative of, "these pests serve no purpose in nature."
My favorite thing about your videos is the more in depth commentary on the lifecycles and ecology of the various species, so this particular video was especially good. Really enjoyed your talk at the end. Also, my cat apparently enjoys hearing the clucking of your chickens and so when he hears you whistle them up, he comes over and hangs out while they are pecking away.
They make some of the most beautiful nests. My mom brought one into the house in the middle of January thinking they were all dead. The next day we had hornets flying at the windows. She has several hanging in the house. They are true architectural wonders. Thank you for defending our native species!!
I like that you aren’t just doing generic extermination or something, you use all of these videos to teach deeper scientific lessons, and I’ve learned a lot about wasp biology from you.
I find this fascinating and horrifying at the same time! I’m glad you’re out there to help people with such infestations. I also appreciate that your livestock gets a meal.❤
The japanese beetle and stinkbug predator stuff actually explains a lot of my experiences with suddenly getting yellow jacket nests sitting right next to my garden after a wave of beetle infestations on my morning glories 😲 I remember being absolutely upset at the fact that I could not even go to my own backyard without getting swarmed by them because they nested within the metal fenceposts nearby, and would hate yellow jackets because I was particularly attractive to them (and to a lot of other bugs, idek why I'm always getting accosted by anything with six legs when outside) but at least knowing they were there to take care of the pests that were eating my plants is something that I never thought of. Thank you for talking more about those creatures, and advocating for them.
The knowledge dump at the end of this was exceptional - never considered honey bees as an invasive before. I live in the north of the UK now, and I haven't seen a single European Hornet since moving here, they were a lot more common in the south east, where I grew up, but I'm going to be a lot more inquisitive over the difference between vespula vulgaris and germanica now that you've highlighted the differences in some of your other videos. Also, as a Brit, it's fascinating listening to your accent, you can really hear the East Anglian / Norfolk influence there.
He has a Southern New Jersey/Philadelphia accent. Its geographic scope is quite limited. My siblings and I are from Northern New Jersey. My sister-in-law is from Southern New Jersey. She speaks like the Hornet King here, while my family, from the Northern rather than the Southern part of the small state of New Jersey, do not. (The main difference is in the way the O is pronounced in words like "home" and "know", and the A in words like "harp", but it's hard to explain in print, of course.) In fact, for a long time my sisters and I did not even know that this accent existed, and would ridicule my sister-in-law (not to her face) for the way she spoke. Hornet King here always reminds me of my SIL (which is not really a good thing, lol, but that's another story.)
I binged your videos today. A little asmr-like with the constant vacuuming and buzzing. Your enthusiasm for what you do is awesome and I love seeing the different nests built within the same species. Natural selection is wild
Bald faced hornets genuinely scare me. I've encountered only a few individuals in my lifetime, but I definitely don't wanna encounter many more of the little monsters. Your bravery in facing these things is admirable to say the least.
I've followed Randy for years. I like it when he teams up with Jeff (aka Mr. Ed). They seem to have the best time. I love watching Jeff doing the rendering of honey from the nests. I'm highly allergic to bee stings so this lets me watch them up close without getting stung.
Very true facts that they are important in the ecosystem. Also I just wanted to say thank you for the content. I believe your videos over the years have helped me immensely to get over my phobia of these creatures.
I live on Vancouver Island and although I’m retired from my actual profession, I now paint houses for a living just to keep me active and make some cash on the side. I am around Yellow Jackets, Paper Wasps and other variants. I usually get stung a few times a year. Especially in late August when the males are basically kicked out to die. I love your videos. Very informative and I also like how you just don’t soak them all in chemicals. Great work.
Thanks! Sometimes I say ee-moo, other times I say ee-mew. Depends on when you see me say it lol. Just like "Wasp"; sometimes I say WasP, and others I say "Wasss". I can't help it.
Have to push back a little bit on the concept of honey as merely an economic concern where we sell pure sugar. Honey actually has a number of medical uses, including as a means of introducing a person's immune system to local flora's pollen and tamp down allergy symptoms and, far more importantly, in places like burn wards where it is applied to prevent infections because it has anti-microbial properties. Honey is more than just sugar, it's a real and important resource.
I discovered your channel about a month ago. Wasps are my ultimate fear, so I love "watching from a distance" if you will. Just found a group of 30ish building a nest in my retracted yard umbrella in my garage! So this will be fun! Thank you for your informative videos! 👍
I love watching the blue mud dauber wasps. Well, any mud-dauber wasps in active hunting. Those guys are fun and won't sting you just for being a spectator. It's not like they'll sit still and let you pet them, but sometimes I feel like they are almost that friendly. Thank you for mentioning the other types as well. I'd enjoy more coverage on these other species, some that are never needed for removal because they are not aggressive. I've learned so much from you, thank you.
Wow Bret! This one is so well done! I love the new routine with the little graphic and text about the species in the beginnning. There was so much insightful educational info at the end of the video! I was curious about which literature has helped you learn over time, along with your indispensable first hand practical knowledge. Thanks for sharing those book titles. I'm not sure if you included affiliate links for those books (I will check now), but that is an idea for you, if you haven't already done that! I feel like you could write your own book with your wealth of personal practical knowledge.
I’ve been following you since you only had three chickens (and I believe a cat). Even though I’ve been away for a couple of years, I still enjoy your educational videos and the birds feeding afterwards. I personally still don’t like wasps (annoying a-holes with wings) and yes I will run like lightning when one’s “hanging around me”. I do appreciate you educating the world! Stay safe🫶🏼
I once watched a dying butterfly out on my parents' back porch. As it lay dying, a wasp (nope...don't know what kind) began feasting through it's back. I thought that was the most amazing thing in nature ever. And we think we're so clever saying "reduce reuse recycle". Thank you for continuing my education!
I'm originally from PA and am familiar with wasps, hornets and bumble bees, but didn't know what all they eat or about their nests that much - so thanks for this video. PS - here in VA I am also familiar now with the wood borer bee - lol - my deck takes a beating every year and its stained. They even use the same holes and I wonder if its an off spring that comes back to it. Bumble bees usually are a white and black where as the wood borer is a yellow and black. Love your videos - very interesting!!!! I remember the "tent caterpillars" - only thing you could do was to cut the limb off the tree or bush and burn it.
I grew up in North Wales where there are a lot of pine forests. So the Giant Horntail Wasp ( Wood Wasp ) ( Urocerus Gigas ) is very common there. They are huge ( 1.5 inches / 4cm ) and look quite scary but totally harmless to humans. They have a long "stinger" which is actually an ovipositor that they used to posit eggs into wood, particularly pine wood. I used to see the larvae in the wood when chopping pine logs for the fire.
No way this is my old play set from my childhood, a couple years ago we put it up on Facebook market place with them showing us a new picture of it looking like this, nice to see it’s still holding strong and well renovated, except for the hornets that thing was a hornet magnet even when I had it. Also we are almost there class of 2023!
You know, most of us don't think past our own particular phobia and don't stop to think that these insects are here for a reason past that phobia we have. Good information coming from you.
My wife wants to know where squirrelie is. Hope he/she is ok an doin fine , we havent seen you feed him/her in a while.. please let us know and thank you for the informative section of this post. I always love to learn new things about these jokers(mostly how to avoid them lol) and the impact they have on our world. Thank you from the PARKER family in Parkton N.C.
Great video here! Thanks for the education on the wasps/hornets/yellowjackets, I didn't doubt they had a deeper purpose that no one bothers to talk about, but this one was a real eye opener. Always had a disdain for these insects from a bad experience as a kid resulting in a nasty phobia that lasted throughout childhood into the teen years, watching your videos made me a lot more comfortable and I can give these little guys a bit more respect than I had before, so thanks to that.
I love that you do humane, ecological removals without insecticides and poisons. The end section was very educational, I hadn't known that wasps are such important pollinators! I've got less respect for the European honeybee now.
Not entirely true, pollen does not stick to wasps very well but there are fig wasps that pollinate figs. Wasps are more important for keeping the insect/spider ecology from going rampant due to their predatory nature. Honeybees and bumblebees are thousands of times more efficient and important for pollenating plants.
Thanks so much for the informative naritive along with the removal. I never realized the birds love the comb so much, I enjoy watching them. Very interesting😊
Good evening and thank you so much for the education and entertainment you provide to us. I've been following you for years. I suffer from Spheksophobia. Your channel along with many different articles I have read over the years has helped me to understand, and deal with this unnatural fear. I'm 64 now, but for most of my life living here in the Midwest and working outside in the warm seasons, I would leave the house and literally be on the lookout for wasps constantly. I do understand them pretty well now, but the fear does continue. I have been stung many times, and I have to say that yellowjackets account for most of the stings. In the Chicago area, we generally don't see too many of them until late summer and into fall. The reading I've done on them explains that they show up publically towards the end of the year because they have finished growing their nests and raising new wasps, and that there is no more food for them in their nest. When they do arrive, they will tend to show up at outdoor events where food and drinks are outside and become very aggressive if you try to shoo them away. I've seen them going into soda cans and actually sting an unsuspecting person that takes a drink of the soda. So while as you say they are defensive I think there is an overlap as to what is ours and what they perceive to be theirs. I've also had them fly up my shirt sleeve get caught between my shirt and my skin, and sting repeatedly. Again I'm not bothering them but it still happens. All that said I have to say that watching your removals and commentary Afterwords has been very helpful in both understanding them as well as taking steps to avoid accidentally getting myself stung. Thank you for posting, and I'll be continuing to watch and learn!
I like that you have a respect for wasps. I saw another removal channel where the dude was squishing the wasps with his bare hands three inches from the camera. 😔. You remove the nests, and educate people about the role wasps play in our world. I truly appreciate this channel for this.
HK I've been watching you from the getgo!!! Many have tried to copy,none have even come close!! Entertaining, educational, from start to finish,and love watching the birds munch out!! Keep on leading the pack!!!
I remember when my kids played soccer in the local rec league-we had an encounter with a wasp nest at the field once! It was the first practice of the fall season, and a local Boy Scout for his Eagle Scout project had built a new wood bridge over the drainage stream between the parking lot and the soccer/lacrosse fields on the school complex (elementary, middle, and high schools) that were also used by this league (this was pre-pandemic). Trouble was, the area had been vacant all summer, allowing a wasp nest on the outside of the handrail to get to a good size, and they found the vibrations from all the new foot traffic to be a bit objectionable! Naturally they swarmed everybody, and my younger daughter was one of the casualties when a wasp nailed her right on the cheek! Being a volunteer firefighter/EMT, I keep a medic bag in both my car and my truck, so I was kept busy treating anybody who’d gotten stung and monitoring them for possible allergic reactions while a soccer dad skedaddled over to the grocery store for a can of Raid. He immediately opened fire on that nest, and the problem was solved!
I’ve come back to channel after a year or so, and what a difference. The confidence and slickness and expansion on the subject was great to see. Fascinating. 🖖
Until I started watching your channel, I hated wasps. But thanks to you I started to understand them better and now I respect them. Keep up the good work
Thank you. No joke. I'm allergic & was SO SCARED (& still am, kinda 😅) till I started watching your videos and understanding why these beauties 😍 do what they do.. ❤
I'm glad I found your channel. I have learned a lot about wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, and bees watching your channel. I also get a kick out of watching you feed the larvae to your chickens, rhea, and emus. I also enjoy watching you relocate hornet nests to your farm.
Very informational. When I was a kid, I watched what I thought at the time was a hornet, catching butterflies, cutting their wings off, and flying away with the body. It looked like a large yellow jacket, but it was about 3x bigger and a bright yellow-orange color.
When I was little, growing up in PA in the early 60s, there was a population explosion of what we called "tent caterpillars"... the guys at 27:22 in your vid. They were everywhere, on everything, by the millions. I remember my dad burning their nests in the wild cherry trees in our back yard using a kerosene torch on the end of a long pole.
What an interesting video. I always wondered if wasps did anything useful and so they do! Watching hornet king’s films makes me feel far more respectful of these insects. They work so hard and their nests are beautiful. It’s a pity we have to remove them. Thanks HK keep up the good work 😊
I love all the information you give, it makes the world so much more informed on information they didnt even know they needed. I knew wasps served a purpose, but I mainly thought they were acting as a waste collector for Nature. Providing a secondary use for fallen wood, disposing of insects to keep them in check, and disposing of meat from dead animals. To learn that they do so much more makes me appreciate them all the more
Okay, I know that this is your job but wow just seeing the hornets and wasps gives me the willies. I guess if I did this every day maybe I would get it. I would just like to thank you for all the information and knowledge. I have found so many opportunities to learn new things on TH-cam and watching your video is one of them. Thank you so much.
My favorite favorite part of your vids is towards the end, and all the cute chickens 🐓 come running! Like they’re all thinking, “Oooooh supper time!!!” 😅
I don't know why cause I'm deathly scared of wasps mainly cause I'd die if I got stung but I love watching your vids helps me relax and fall asleep 😂😂😂 love the birds too great job man keeping me safe 😂👍🏼👍🏼
Dude, I love your videos, but I think this one was my favorite. I love learning new things, and this channel has taught me so much about wasps/hornets. I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos. Thank you, Hornet King, and we can never forget... the tweezing!!!!!!!! 🤤😂
Fantastic video! Thank you for sharing so much of your knowledge of these fascinating creatures with us. I have learned a great deal about and gained a new respect for them from watching your videos. And of course I always enjoy the footage of your animals, and the tweezing was a nice bonus this time.
Thank you. You've changed my mind about Wasps/Hornets. The KOS Order has been removed. Wasp cost me my lower leg this year, but are necessary part of the environment. Thank you for the Education. Continue with your videos please.
I respect you so much more for your compassion to the wasps, removing has to be done and there aren’t other ways sadly. Such amazing creatures though. I’ve always been fascinated by them.
I am seriously allergic to all stinging bees/hornets/wasps but find them immensely interesting. Your channel is very interesting. This particular video is really interesting and informative. And you are in my area, so that is great!
Thanks for the info at the end, very interesting. I had a bald faced hornet nest in a rhody close to the house, before I brought in the spray to kill it, I looked them up online and found that they eat a lot of nuisance insects and do pollinate, so I left it alone. I was just careful when I worked in that area, never got stung and just left them alone and they never bothered me. In the fall after they had left or died, something got into it and tore it apart looking for any leftover larvae (I'm guessing). Again thanks for the info, good stuff.
I’m a utility lineman down in the south. I live along the border of Texas and Louisiana. The constant menace I deal with are red wasps. I get stung 6-10 times a summer 😅 darn things are relentless protectors of their nests. Also seems like the hotter it gets, the more aggressive they become. They don’t make envelopes around their nests, just layers of comb. We also have yellow jackets and cicada killers. Lots of dirt daubers too. I’ve never seen bald faced hornets or European hornets though. Those European hornets look monstrous!
Dude!! Thanks for the shout out!
You dove deep on that talk. What a great educational video.
Thanks brother!
Always enjoy seeing you and Pete wrestling honey bee hives!
@628DirtRooster where hobby bee keeping is a way of life 😊
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@@USlisa50 Fo sho!
Please get heavy duty tripod v
@@HornetKingOfficial Have you thought about a larger diameter hose for more sucking power? Or does that not work better?
It’s been years since I’m here but I’m glad the chickens are still apart of this☺️
They're the best part of the channel! LOL, that and all the hornets/wasps attacking him when he starts the removal.
Something for everyone 😆😅🐀🦤🦤🦤🐤🐤🐤🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔
Where else can you watch dinosaurs get fed by a man who wipes out entire colonies for a living?
@@ImYankeeGG 😂🤣
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Really appreciate the advocacy you have for Wasps in general, and your holistic approach to your nest removal - instead of throwing everything away, you find uses for it in feeding your birds. Watching your content has helped me grow an understanding of how different species can be, their temperaments especially, as I have always been very apprehensive around them.
I appreciate that! Thank you!
Same for me. Although, I'm still going to probably go in flight mode if I see one just foraging, much like a tarantula just chilling and wanting to be left alone. It's nice to see channels like this that really shatter the narrative of, "these pests serve no purpose in nature."
@patluxor2482 does he even sell his eggs?
My favorite thing about your videos is the more in depth commentary on the lifecycles and ecology of the various species, so this particular video was especially good. Really enjoyed your talk at the end.
Also, my cat apparently enjoys hearing the clucking of your chickens and so when he hears you whistle them up, he comes over and hangs out while they are pecking away.
I'm glad you enjoy them! Thank you!
They make some of the most beautiful nests. My mom brought one into the house in the middle of January thinking they were all dead. The next day we had hornets flying at the windows. She has several hanging in the house. They are true architectural wonders. Thank you for defending our native species!!
I like that you aren’t just doing generic extermination or something, you use all of these videos to teach deeper scientific lessons, and I’ve learned a lot about wasp biology from you.
Your love for what you do really shows through. Really enjoyed learning about wasps and hornets through your videos.
Thank you!
@@HornetKingOfficial I’ll also say since finding your channel I don’t dislike yellow and black stripey things as much as I used to. 😆
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I find this fascinating and horrifying at the same time! I’m glad you’re out there to help people with such infestations. I also appreciate that your livestock gets a meal.❤
Thank you!
One of my favorite parts of watching your channel is seeing how your birds interact with you when you feed them. It's actually quite beautiful.
The japanese beetle and stinkbug predator stuff actually explains a lot of my experiences with suddenly getting yellow jacket nests sitting right next to my garden after a wave of beetle infestations on my morning glories 😲 I remember being absolutely upset at the fact that I could not even go to my own backyard without getting swarmed by them because they nested within the metal fenceposts nearby, and would hate yellow jackets because I was particularly attractive to them (and to a lot of other bugs, idek why I'm always getting accosted by anything with six legs when outside) but at least knowing they were there to take care of the pests that were eating my plants is something that I never thought of. Thank you for talking more about those creatures, and advocating for them.
The knowledge dump at the end of this was exceptional - never considered honey bees as an invasive before. I live in the north of the UK now, and I haven't seen a single European Hornet since moving here, they were a lot more common in the south east, where I grew up, but I'm going to be a lot more inquisitive over the difference between vespula vulgaris and germanica now that you've highlighted the differences in some of your other videos.
Also, as a Brit, it's fascinating listening to your accent, you can really hear the East Anglian / Norfolk influence there.
He has a Southern New Jersey/Philadelphia accent. Its geographic scope is quite limited. My siblings and I are from Northern New Jersey. My sister-in-law is from Southern New Jersey. She speaks like the Hornet King here, while my family, from the Northern rather than the Southern part of the small state of New Jersey, do not. (The main difference is in the way the O is pronounced in words like "home" and "know", and the A in words like "harp", but it's hard to explain in print, of course.) In fact, for a long time my sisters and I did not even know that this accent existed, and would ridicule my sister-in-law (not to her face) for the way she spoke. Hornet King here always reminds me of my SIL (which is not really a good thing, lol, but that's another story.)
@@jn8ive60 Thanks for the personal insight! I do love a good regionalised accent.
I binged your videos today. A little asmr-like with the constant vacuuming and buzzing. Your enthusiasm for what you do is awesome and I love seeing the different nests built within the same species. Natural selection is wild
Bald faced hornets genuinely scare me. I've encountered only a few individuals in my lifetime, but I definitely don't wanna encounter many more of the little monsters. Your bravery in facing these things is admirable to say the least.
I've followed Randy for years. I like it when he teams up with Jeff (aka Mr. Ed). They seem to have the best time. I love watching Jeff doing the rendering of honey from the nests. I'm highly allergic to bee stings so this lets me watch them up close without getting stung.
Very true facts that they are important in the ecosystem. Also I just wanted to say thank you for the content. I believe your videos over the years have helped me immensely to get over my phobia of these creatures.
That's awesome! I'm glad!
I live on Vancouver Island and although I’m retired from my actual profession, I now paint houses for a living just to keep me active and make some cash on the side. I am around Yellow Jackets, Paper Wasps and other variants. I usually get stung a few times a year. Especially in late August when the males are basically kicked out to die. I love your videos. Very informative and I also like how you just don’t soak them all in chemicals. Great work.
This was really informative. Thank you for taking the time to explain some things to help others understand more. Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you! I'm glad you found it informative!
I don't know why I keep coming back to these, they creep me out, but I can't stay away.
As an Aussie, it's kinda nice that you look after Emu's. And I appreciated that you pronounced them properly haha
Thanks! Sometimes I say ee-moo, other times I say ee-mew. Depends on when you see me say it lol. Just like "Wasp"; sometimes I say WasP, and others I say "Wasss". I can't help it.
Have to push back a little bit on the concept of honey as merely an economic concern where we sell pure sugar. Honey actually has a number of medical uses, including as a means of introducing a person's immune system to local flora's pollen and tamp down allergy symptoms and, far more importantly, in places like burn wards where it is applied to prevent infections because it has anti-microbial properties. Honey is more than just sugar, it's a real and important resource.
and north american honey bee fossils have been found
Nice, you should start your own channel 😊
Are you crazy
Hornets and wasps don't produce, honey
Wow. What a dangerous place for a nest. Glad you can prevent many stings and some can be allergic
I discovered your channel about a month ago. Wasps are my ultimate fear, so I love "watching from a distance" if you will. Just found a group of 30ish building a nest in my retracted yard umbrella in my garage! So this will be fun! Thank you for your informative videos! 👍
I love watching the blue mud dauber wasps. Well, any mud-dauber wasps in active hunting. Those guys are fun and won't sting you just for being a spectator. It's not like they'll sit still and let you pet them, but sometimes I feel like they are almost that friendly. Thank you for mentioning the other types as well. I'd enjoy more coverage on these other species, some that are never needed for removal because they are not aggressive. I've learned so much from you, thank you.
Wow Bret! This one is so well done! I love the new routine with the little graphic and text about the species in the beginnning. There was so much insightful educational info at the end of the video! I was curious about which literature has helped you learn over time, along with your indispensable first hand practical knowledge. Thanks for sharing those book titles. I'm not sure if you included affiliate links for those books (I will check now), but that is an idea for you, if you haven't already done that! I feel like you could write your own book with your wealth of personal practical knowledge.
I’ve been following you since you only had three chickens (and I believe a cat). Even though I’ve been away for a couple of years, I still enjoy your educational videos and the birds feeding afterwards. I personally still don’t like wasps (annoying a-holes with wings) and yes I will run like lightning when one’s “hanging around me”. I do appreciate you educating the world! Stay safe🫶🏼
I once watched a dying butterfly out on my parents' back porch. As it lay dying, a wasp (nope...don't know what kind) began feasting through it's back. I thought that was the most amazing thing in nature ever. And we think we're so clever saying "reduce reuse recycle". Thank you for continuing my education!
I'm originally from PA and am familiar with wasps, hornets and bumble bees, but didn't know what all they eat or about their nests that much - so thanks for this video. PS - here in VA I am also familiar now with the wood borer bee - lol - my deck takes a beating every year and its stained. They even use the same holes and I wonder if its an off spring that comes back to it. Bumble bees usually are a white and black where as the wood borer is a yellow and black. Love your videos - very interesting!!!! I remember the "tent caterpillars" - only thing you could do was to cut the limb off the tree or bush and burn it.
This has been the most informative video I've seen! You rock!
I grew up in North Wales where there are a lot of pine forests. So the Giant Horntail Wasp ( Wood Wasp ) ( Urocerus Gigas ) is very common there. They are huge ( 1.5 inches / 4cm ) and look quite scary but totally harmless to humans. They have a long "stinger" which is actually an ovipositor that they used to posit eggs into wood, particularly pine wood. I used to see the larvae in the wood when chopping pine logs for the fire.
No way this is my old play set from my childhood, a couple years ago we put it up on Facebook market place with them showing us a new picture of it looking like this, nice to see it’s still holding strong and well renovated, except for the hornets that thing was a hornet magnet even when I had it. Also we are almost there class of 2023!
this is why im terrified of playhouses 😭
They were hidden!
@@HornetKingOfficial thats why im terrified 😭, I love the videos though, keep up the good work :D
Absolutely happy to hear PR for Wasp bois! I always feel so alone sticking up for them. They do lots of good work and they're fascinating.
Natures 3d printers the nest building is so cool
You know, most of us don't think past our own particular phobia and don't stop to think that these insects are here for a reason past that phobia we have. Good information coming from you.
My wife wants to know where squirrelie is. Hope he/she is ok an doin fine , we havent seen you feed him/her in a while.. please let us know and thank you for the informative section of this post. I always love to learn new things about these jokers(mostly how to avoid them lol) and the impact they have on our world. Thank you from the PARKER family in Parkton N.C.
Thanks Tom!
Lady Squirrel lives on the hedgerow 😊
Thank you very much for the wasp lore. I love seeing nest removals, but your educational content is also so important!
Even the hornets wanted to be playful!
Keep up the good work!
Great video here! Thanks for the education on the wasps/hornets/yellowjackets, I didn't doubt they had a deeper purpose that no one bothers to talk about, but this one was a real eye opener. Always had a disdain for these insects from a bad experience as a kid resulting in a nasty phobia that lasted throughout childhood into the teen years, watching your videos made me a lot more comfortable and I can give these little guys a bit more respect than I had before, so thanks to that.
I love that you do humane, ecological removals without insecticides and poisons. The end section was very educational, I hadn't known that wasps are such important pollinators! I've got less respect for the European honeybee now.
Not entirely true, pollen does not stick to wasps very well but there are fig wasps that pollinate figs. Wasps are more important for keeping the insect/spider ecology from going rampant due to their predatory nature. Honeybees and bumblebees are thousands of times more efficient and important for pollenating plants.
Thanks so much for the informative naritive along with the removal. I never realized the birds love the comb so much, I enjoy watching them. Very interesting😊
There's something so satisfying watching your birds feasting.
Good evening and thank you so much for the education and entertainment you provide to us. I've been following you for years. I suffer from Spheksophobia. Your channel along with many different articles I have read over the years has helped me to understand, and deal with this unnatural fear. I'm 64 now, but for most of my life living here in the Midwest and working outside in the warm seasons, I would leave the house and literally be on the lookout for wasps constantly. I do understand them pretty well now, but the fear does continue. I have been stung many times, and I have to say that yellowjackets account for most of the stings. In the Chicago area, we generally don't see too many of them until late summer and into fall. The reading I've done on them explains that they show up publically towards the end of the year because they have finished growing their nests and raising new wasps, and that there is no more food for them in their nest. When they do arrive, they will tend to show up at outdoor events where food and drinks are outside and become very aggressive if you try to shoo them away. I've seen them going into soda cans and actually sting an unsuspecting person that takes a drink of the soda. So while as you say they are defensive I think there is an overlap as to what is ours and what they perceive to be theirs. I've also had them fly up my shirt sleeve get caught between my shirt and my skin, and sting repeatedly. Again I'm not bothering them but it still happens.
All that said I have to say that watching your removals and commentary Afterwords has been very helpful in both understanding them as well as taking steps to avoid accidentally getting myself stung. Thank you for posting, and I'll be continuing to watch and learn!
As someone with a massive phobia of bees, idk how on earth I’m addicted to your channel
I like that you have a respect for wasps. I saw another removal channel where the dude was squishing the wasps with his bare hands three inches from the camera. 😔. You remove the nests, and educate people about the role wasps play in our world. I truly appreciate this channel for this.
The colours on the envelope is beautiful! Thanks for posting.
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Thank you!
5:00 I love how that one peeks out to see ur vaccumn then it goes back in as if to say "OH HELL NO"
Thank you for the ending. It has changed my view on wasps and I learned how beneficial they can be for our ecosystem
Been awhile since I've watched these.. They're oddly nostalgic, and satisfying.
Thanks for all the info on the wasps and the recommendations on the books! This was a great video. Thanks for sharing part of your day with all of us!
Thank you, Mary!
Very good comments about the importance of wasps in the ecosystem.
Gretings from Spain and thank you for your videos.
Thank you!
HK I've been watching you from the getgo!!! Many have tried to copy,none have even come close!! Entertaining, educational, from start to finish,and love watching the birds munch out!! Keep on leading the pack!!!
I remember when my kids played soccer in the local rec league-we had an encounter with a wasp nest at the field once! It was the first practice of the fall season, and a local Boy Scout for his Eagle Scout project had built a new wood bridge over the drainage stream between the parking lot and the soccer/lacrosse fields on the school complex (elementary, middle, and high schools) that were also used by this league (this was pre-pandemic). Trouble was, the area had been vacant all summer, allowing a wasp nest on the outside of the handrail to get to a good size, and they found the vibrations from all the new foot traffic to be a bit objectionable! Naturally they swarmed everybody, and my younger daughter was one of the casualties when a wasp nailed her right on the cheek! Being a volunteer firefighter/EMT, I keep a medic bag in both my car and my truck, so I was kept busy treating anybody who’d gotten stung and monitoring them for possible allergic reactions while a soccer dad skedaddled over to the grocery store for a can of Raid. He immediately opened fire on that nest, and the problem was solved!
I love how one of those emus always sits down for his/her meal.
You are a great insight into the importance of the wasps in our world. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
That opening is so over the top. I LOVE it.
Haha thanks! Some hate it 😆
Something therapeutic watching you vacuum hornets! Love it 👍
Thank you!
I’ve come back to channel after a year or so, and what a difference. The confidence and slickness and expansion on the subject was great to see. Fascinating. 🖖
Until I started watching your channel, I hated wasps. But thanks to you I started to understand them better and now I respect them. Keep up the good work
Awesome! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for another awesome upload, HK! I learn something every time.
Thanks, Nate!
Great discussion about the role of wasps and predatory insects on the ecosystem. Dispelling myths goes a long way to educating everyone. Cheers.
Cool! Thanks for explaining the development and showing the cones in detail! What good protein for the birds.
Thank you. No joke. I'm allergic & was SO SCARED (& still am, kinda 😅) till I started watching your videos and understanding why these beauties 😍 do what they do.. ❤
Your birds are adorable, I love to hear your little ladies "talking", lol
I'm glad I found your channel. I have learned a lot about wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, and bees watching your channel. I also get a kick out of watching you feed the larvae to your chickens, rhea, and emus. I also enjoy watching you relocate hornet nests to your farm.
I had a playhouse like that as a kid. Bugs loved to make their home in there. Glad you were able to remove the nest
Very informational. When I was a kid, I watched what I thought at the time was a hornet, catching butterflies, cutting their wings off, and flying away with the body. It looked like a large yellow jacket, but it was about 3x bigger and a bright yellow-orange color.
Thank you so much for this video! I never knew how important wasps and hornets are to the ecosystem.
Thank you for the knowledge on wasps and hornets. I knew they served some purpose and you explained that in a very specific way.
When I was little, growing up in PA in the early 60s, there was a population explosion of what we called "tent caterpillars"... the guys at 27:22 in your vid. They were everywhere, on everything, by the millions. I remember my dad burning their nests in the wild cherry trees in our back yard using a kerosene torch on the end of a long pole.
Dude your production is so clean and polished
Baldies are the first species I watched on this channel. That baldface hornet window relo was sssssooooo dope
What an interesting video. I always wondered if wasps did anything useful and so they do! Watching hornet king’s films makes me feel far more respectful of these insects. They work so hard and their nests are beautiful. It’s a pity we have to remove them. Thanks HK keep up the good work 😊
I love all the information you give, it makes the world so much more informed on information they didnt even know they needed. I knew wasps served a purpose, but I mainly thought they were acting as a waste collector for Nature. Providing a secondary use for fallen wood, disposing of insects to keep them in check, and disposing of meat from dead animals. To learn that they do so much more makes me appreciate them all the more
Exactly! They sure do a lot of things behind the scenes to keep our world moving!
Oh my god the tweezers are back! You absolute legend!
Long awaited, for some, lol
That education piece at the end was great. Thanks for sharing the books as well.
Okay, I know that this is your job but wow just seeing the hornets and wasps gives me the willies. I guess if I did this every day maybe I would get it. I would just like to thank you for all the information and knowledge. I have found so many opportunities to learn new things on TH-cam and watching your video is one of them. Thank you so much.
My favorite favorite part of your vids is towards the end, and all the cute chickens 🐓 come running! Like they’re all thinking, “Oooooh supper time!!!” 😅
I didn’t know about all what you just said so I’m happy to be educated about the subject! Thanks again for your help!
I don't know why cause I'm deathly scared of wasps mainly cause I'd die if I got stung but I love watching your vids helps me relax and fall asleep 😂😂😂 love the birds too great job man keeping me safe 😂👍🏼👍🏼
Dude, I love your videos, but I think this one was my favorite. I love learning new things, and this channel has taught me so much about wasps/hornets. I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos. Thank you, Hornet King, and we can never forget... the tweezing!!!!!!!! 🤤😂
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Your birds and cats are so cute❤❤❤
Fantastic video! Thank you for sharing so much of your knowledge of these fascinating creatures with us. I have learned a great deal about and gained a new respect for them from watching your videos. And of course I always enjoy the footage of your animals, and the tweezing was a nice bonus this time.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much!
Setting up the vacuum nozzle as the new entrance hole on the other side was hilariously devious and genius.
Tricks of the trade haha
OMG I had no idea of how many different species there were! Thanks for the schooling, I a really love all the info!
Thank you. You've changed my mind about Wasps/Hornets. The KOS Order has been removed. Wasp cost me my lower leg this year, but are necessary part of the environment. Thank you for the Education. Continue with your videos please.
Thank you! Sorry about your leg, but I'm glad you can see passed that to their importance!
I respect you so much more for your compassion to the wasps, removing has to be done and there aren’t other ways sadly. Such amazing creatures though. I’ve always been fascinated by them.
Thank you!
I am seriously allergic to all stinging bees/hornets/wasps but find them immensely interesting. Your channel is very interesting. This particular video is really interesting and informative. And you are in my area, so that is great!
You have unlimited knowledge on this subject its mind blowing.
Thank you, Chris!
I just looooove the way your ladies come running for their grubs!
Dude, for some reason you came through my suggested and this is so dang satisfying. Much love from North Carolina and new sub🤙
Thank you for the really neat info about wasps!!! I feel differently about them now.
Thank you for all the great information you gave us. Loved it
Thanks for the info at the end, very interesting. I had a bald faced hornet nest in a rhody close to the house, before I brought in the spray to kill it, I looked them up online and found that they eat a lot of nuisance insects and do pollinate, so I left it alone. I was just careful when I worked in that area, never got stung and just left them alone and they never bothered me. In the fall after they had left or died, something got into it and tore it apart looking for any leftover larvae (I'm guessing). Again thanks for the info, good stuff.
LOL Yellow Jackets of the World, that was one of the books I carried in my bug truck.
I’m a utility lineman down in the south. I live along the border of Texas and Louisiana. The constant menace I deal with are red wasps. I get stung 6-10 times a summer 😅 darn things are relentless protectors of their nests. Also seems like the hotter it gets, the more aggressive they become. They don’t make envelopes around their nests, just layers of comb. We also have yellow jackets and cicada killers. Lots of dirt daubers too. I’ve never seen bald faced hornets or European hornets though. Those European hornets look monstrous!
Thank you for your videos. I came to see how you remove hornets but stayed for the very informative information.
Love the rundown in the end. 😁 Can't wait for what this season brings ya!
Thank you!
Amazing. Video quality is so clear too. Very educational, thank you for posting !
Well I learned something today, I did NOT know they did not develop stingers until 2 days after emerging. Good info!
I wear an Astro TR40 headset that is full surround sound and the sound of them flying and bouncing off the vail sounds amazing. Good stuff!!
Thank you!