How to preserve yellow jacket nest?

[boneaddict]

Seriously.....  don't really need to do a damn thing.  I have several.   The one in the living room has been hanging for years

[scout/sniper]

Funny thing is we got our butts handed to us! But i will laugh about that attack for years to come. Priceless...

Man those things are mean!

[Becky]

Here's a pic I just took of our 10+ year old hive.

[scout/sniper]

Here's a pic I just took of our 10+ year old hive.

That is so cool! 

[scout/sniper]

Seriously.....  don't really need to do a damn thing.  I have several.   The one in the living room has been hanging for years

Do the hornets leave, or stay inside and rot?
 I have never messed with a hornet nest.

[seth30]

I had a huge one in my man cave and it stank like urine, it was horrible.

did the smell go away or did you toss the nest?

[Becky]

Seriously.....  don't really need to do a damn thing.  I have several.   The one in the living room has been hanging for years

Do the hornets leave, or stay inside and rot?
 I have never messed with a hornet nest.

ours stayed.. They kind of rattled out over the years. We plucked it in cold weather and stuck it in the freezer until we knew for sure they were dead.

[scout/sniper]

Freezer, great idea.
Thanks!

[KFhunter]

If you kill the nest, then the eggs and live crap in there will rot and stink.

If you wait until the nest is abandoned and used up then it won't stink.  If you wait too long a bird will rip it up.



I've collect a lot of them.  One like Smossy's I collected when it was very full of bald faced hornet bee's.   

I carefully cut the branch and gently set the nest in the back of the truck then hurried up and slammed the door shut.   10 miles down the road and the bees were mostly gone