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Uploaded by on May 28, 2008

Two Aerial Yellowjacket nests (Dolichovespula arenaria). One is under the second-floor eave of a house, the other is attached to the side of a pool cabana.

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  • What month was this filmed? Nice vid.

  • I believe we filmed these nests in July or August.

  • They were agitated only because we got fairly close to film the nest. Our cameraman, though he was dressed in a beekeeper suit, did sustain a sting on his nose.

  • I think they may have run out of space inside the wall and eventually built their "addition" on the side of the building. There were a lot of yellowjackets inside that nest, as I recall. After filming it, we vacuumed them out and destroyed the nest -- it took a long time!

  • Wow, that first nest is big for this species! At first glance I would have mistaken it for a bald-faced hornet's nest. We had a nest that eventually grew to about this size under our deck it the summer of 2004. You can see a video of it reacting to a disturbance in the related videos column.

  • You're right, it does look like a bald-faced hornet nest at first. Thanks for sharing your video of the Aerial Yellowjackets.

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  • Swat it with a golf club. One wood maybe?

  • fuck if that was my house i'd be shitting my pants,and running to the nearest firework store.

  • why are they so pissed off for?

  • another nice video. did you disturb the first nest or something? i have NEVER seen a D. arenaria nest that active.

  • yellow jackets are a hornet they sting more than twice wasps only sting once yellow jackets make there nest in a hole or aerial or underground there much more smarter than wasps

  • fucking hell you wouldnt want to throw a rock at them here in England we get lots of nests inside lofts,walls, trees(rarly) and underground , sheds , basicly any were the suit making a nest here we get the common wasp,german wasp,european hornet the biggest hornet in england and so parasitic wasps and the potter wasp

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