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RE: Harvesting A HORNETS NEST! - HOMESTEAD BRAVERY
I like living hornets (and actually in general they are not aggressive towards humans) and would neither kill them nor destroy their nests.
I like living hornets (and actually in general they are not aggressive towards humans) and would neither kill them nor destroy their nests.
Actually nothing is destroyed. The queen leaves the nest in late fall and the nest dies. A few dying hornets are left behind and the nest will disintegrate in just a few weeks. They will build a new nest in the spring.
Normally an old hornet queen dies in autumn. The new young queens hibernate and create new states in the coming spring, so everything depends on if they survive or not.