We have them too but smaller

[jimb]

Well this one was in a park on the next block and after the winter killed the bees I spotted it on the ground and picked it up. There were Yellow Jackets in it. Now I hardly have seen a bee of any kind all summer. The bees are dying out due to a parasite.

 

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[Monty]

Are you talkin' bees or wasps? That looks like the paper wasp's nest we see in the woods all the time here.Maybe that parasite likes fire ants too? We can only hope. Monty

 

[warsawdaddy]

I'm with you monty,looks like wasps! If you need some,I can send them,mud-daubers too.

 

[jimb]

Yes it looks like a wasps nest to me too, but I saw Yellow Jackets all over the thing.

 

[Monty]

Oh, well yellow jackets are wasps in my book, not bees. But come to think of it, what is the difference between a wasp and a bee? Bees make honey is the only difference I see and oh yeah, all wasps can sting! I have seen those yellow jacket nests like that too and sometimes they burrow in the ground. A burrow of them found me when I first started detecting. Talk about pain. I hate when that happens! Monty

 

[jimb]

Wow, monty that is some story. I have dug many strange things but never yellow jackets! That must be a first. Actually bees also nest in the ground.

 

[Burdie]

Try driving over the nest with an open cabed tractor. You can't drive fast enough or run fast enough.

Burdie