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Title: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: Rufous on September 19, 2013, 12:54:02 PM: I found a couple yellow jacket nests today and would like to keep them in my trophy room as a nice display feature. I am wondering if I should spray them with some type of shellac? One of them got snagged a bit during the extraction and needs repair so spraying on a glue or shellac, then laying down the torn part might do the trick. Never messed with this before so some advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Rufous
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: boneaddict on September 19, 2013, 12:55:36 PM: I leave mine natural. Just make sure they are dead before you haul them off.
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: muzbuster on September 19, 2013, 12:59:44 PM: I would think that you wouldn't have to do anything to them but I have never messed with one so :dunno: :twocents:
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
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Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: Becky on September 19, 2013, 01:06:01 PM: Lightly with aerosol hairspray is what I've always known.
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: scout/sniper on September 19, 2013, 02:49:37 PM: I have a giant Bald Faced Hornet nest on my house that I want to preserve.
How do I kill the hornets without ending up like rtspring?
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: jackmaster on September 19, 2013, 02:58:29 PM: i have done a few, i kill them first of course :chuckle: if your not gonna do that i want to watch, i hang in a dry place and after its dry all the way i spray with scotch gaurd, it hardens and protects the paper yet it looks 100% natural, i even took a few of the bald face hornets and stuck them to the outside and scotch gurded over them, they are still there to this day
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: Smossy on September 19, 2013, 03:00:33 PM: Quote from: scout/sniper on September 19, 2013, 02:49:37 PM
I have a giant Bald Faced Hornet nest on my house that I want to preserve.
How do I kill the hornets without ending up like rtspring?

Wait until winter, Smoke it up and see if there's any activity, Cover the nest with hairspray. Good to go.
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: jackmaster on September 19, 2013, 03:08:26 PM: Quote from: scout/sniper on September 19, 2013, 02:49:37 PM
I have a giant Bald Faced Hornet nest on my house that I want to preserve.
How do I kill the hornets without ending up like rtspring?
wait a few weeks they will be dead on their own knock them down and smashem up :tup: otherwise spray them at night while they are sleepy and cold :tup:
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: scout/sniper on September 19, 2013, 06:25:29 PM: Awesome! Thanks
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: Elkstuffer on September 20, 2013, 10:32:24 AM: Wait till it cools down at night or first thing in the am. Cover with a garbage bag and lay it carefully in the freezer for a couple weeks. This will kill the bees. Then don't spray it with anything. Moisture, among other things, is what ruins these.
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: rtspring on September 20, 2013, 10:40:01 AM: I would blow them up with C4 then dynamite, then gas powered flame thrower with jelly flame balls , then hand grenades with exploding projectiles! Then sink it in the ocean to a depth of 50, 000 fathoms!!

Damn them things!!!
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: scout/sniper on September 20, 2013, 10:46:56 AM: Quote from: rtspring on September 20, 2013, 10:40:01 AM
I would blow them up with C4 then dynamite, then gas powered flame thrower with jelly flame balls , then hand grenades with exploding projectiles! Then sink it in the ocean to a depth of 50, 000 fathoms!!

Damn them things!!!
:chuckle: and I would not blame you :chuckle:
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: CAMPMEAT on September 20, 2013, 10:50:34 AM: I had a huge one in my man cave and it stank like urine, it was horrible.
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: rtspring on September 20, 2013, 10:51:46 AM: Funny thing is we got our butts handed to us! But i will laugh about that attack for years to come. Priceless...
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: boneaddict on September 20, 2013, 10:58:16 AM: Seriously..... don't really need to do a damn thing. I have several. The one in the living room has been hanging for years
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: scout/sniper on September 20, 2013, 11:00:46 AM: Quote from: rtspring on September 20, 2013, 10:51:46 AM
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!
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: Becky on September 20, 2013, 02:47:13 PM: Here's a pic I just took of our 10+ year old hive.
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: scout/sniper on September 20, 2013, 02:50:38 PM: Quote from: Smossy's Girl on September 20, 2013, 02:47:13 PM
Here's a pic I just took of our 10+ year old hive.
That is so cool! :tup:
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: scout/sniper on September 20, 2013, 02:52:07 PM: Quote from: boneaddict on September 20, 2013, 10:58:16 AM
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.
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: seth30 on September 20, 2013, 03:05:19 PM: Quote from: CAMPMEAT on September 20, 2013, 10:50:34 AM
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?
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: Becky on September 20, 2013, 03:15:50 PM: Quote from: scout/sniper on September 20, 2013, 02:52:07 PM
Quote from: boneaddict on September 20, 2013, 10:58:16 AM
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.
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: scout/sniper on September 20, 2013, 06:27:37 PM: Freezer, great idea.
Thanks!
Title: Re: How to preserve yellow jacket nest?
Post by: KFhunter on September 22, 2013, 10:16:04 PM: 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 :tup: