Women: Call a professional
Men: Where's the shotgun, dynamite or sling shot.....
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yikes :shock:

How cold is it where u live? waid 4 a cold freze. Remove the nest pop it in a bucket slap on a cover and put it in an area where there are no people....some bees revive after they warm up. We need bees for life to survive and we do have a shortage because of bacteria. calling a local wildlife person is the best idea pest control makes money by destroying things...period :D

Do bees live in something like that?

There was a documentary about the date (fruit/tree/plant) that needs wasps (or hornets?) for the fertilization process.

Most creatures do have a useful purpose -

Mice, for one thing Great food for owls, coyotes, foxes, and wolves. I just don't want to share my living quarters with them.

As long as they aren't causing you problems right now, leave it alone. Those things really pack a wallop! Have you seen them going in and out of the nest?

According to an article here:
http://www.pestproducts.com/hornets.htm#Baldfaced Hornet Control
the nest may already be abandoned, since workers do not over-winter.

As far as I know, hornets don't pollinate anything, but prey on other insects.

LOL!! looks justs like what was in the attic at the cabin this year. Only there were dozens of them. :0 It felt like we were crawling into VanHellsing's cave. We had to spray and close the door and wait. Gives me the creeps just thinking about it. I got stung by one of those devils. It put me in the hospital! Those hornets don't need to be provoked, they just sting the heck out of you for no good reason. Good luck!

Yup. That sounds about right. LOL :lol: :lol: :lol:

If it is cold enough they will go to sleep. Then you can do something about it.

Yep, it's hornets.. wanna know how I know? The little buggers built one of their paper nests under MY seat in our dune buggy this spring.
I saw them swarming but later found out that it was hornets. I did lots of reading on them and info said they would die out in winter and not return to that nest. We killed ours with hornet spray but you should do it at dark when they are all inside but.. and it's a big one.. don't use a flashlight or they will come out after you.. they follow the light .. My roommate put on heavy layer of clothes then put his motorcycle rainsuit over it, we taped the ankles and wrists over his boots and gloves and he wore his full faced helmet, so they couldn't get to him if they came out... OMG was it funny!!! He looked like a big blue Pillsbury Dough Boy with all of the layers on.. but it did get rid of them.
I would try to preserve the nest and just kill the critters as those things are worth a good bit of money on e-bay... hundreds last one I saw.. decorators pay big for them.
Good luck

My husband is a professional bug man.....He says that they sting over and over again.....They will put you in the hospital. CALL a Professional! It is cheaper than medical bills.....