If you go back a few weeks on this blog, you will see a couple of entries about some big ass hornets that I've had buzzing around. We had a few weeks of cool nights and I didn't see any more, then we had a couple of very warm nights late last week. Sure enough, I came home one night to find two of them buzzing the light on my back porch. I got past them and into the house and grabbed my handy can of Raid Wasp and Hornet killer and cut down on them. Usually, when I hit 'em, they fly off somewhere to croak. Well, these two dropped like rocks onto the porch. One of 'em was big enough that I thought it might be a queen. Have a look:
Not the best picture, but I only had a cell phone camera available. I figure that when all the bajillion leaves I have here drop I will be able to finally find the hive and kill it, although supposedly the queen dies each winter and the next round of queens find a new place to nest.
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