Hornets around/in rock faces?
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Has anyone been experiencing such a problem lately? I was at two locations in Northern Jersey, both of which were swarmed with hornets. |
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lots of hornets at the gunks this weekend. live and let live seemed to work fine for me. |
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I have never been stung by the fall swarm. it happens every year on warm days before winter.. all the times I have been stung on climbs it was yellow jackets livein in cracks. The hornets and wasps never seem to sting. |
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A yellow jacket is a type of wasp. I think. |
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FrankPS wrote:A yellow jacket is a type of wasp. I think.correct. |
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I have found south facing cliffs have a lot of yellow jackets. Longstack has more this past week then in the summer. |
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whatever.Just seems like every fall there are a few days when the cliffs seem like they are swarmed. I climb anyways and never get stung. even solo durring those fall swarms. I have been stung in the summer by yellow looking hornets/ bees? that have a nest in the crack. |
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Gunks had a billion of them this weekend, I think they are harmless and non aggressive. Wasps are total assholes, but the Hornets seem fine. I have the mud dobber Hornets in my garage, I looked them up and it appears you have to be attacking them in order to get them to sting you. Not sure what species the Gunks ones are but they look and behave similar. |
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I have noticed this as well. Chalking it up to the impending end of the world. Kind of like when my dog knew a big storm was on it's way. I've never seen as much activity as I've seen in the last year. |
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It's going to be a bad winter. |
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Spri wrote:It's going to be a bad winter.You promise? |
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"They" say, acorns = snow. |
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Acorns fall in a relatively predictible cycle (mast years). Snow does not. |
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This year was my first in 5-6 years climbing that I got attacked by a swarm of yellow jackets approaching a cliff. Bit 5 times. Some in my party got bit more. Yesterday bees were everywhere but mostly just lumbering, looking for food. Definitely not aggressively protecting a nest or anything. That's the only time they get aggressive. We must have walked right by a nest and didn't even realize it. |
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Teddy K wrote:Has anyone been experiencing such a problem lately? I was at two locations in Northern Jersey, both of which were swarmed with hornets.I was at allamuchy two weeks ago and they were brutal on the main wall. where else are they buzzing? |
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^ Rick's Rocks and the water gap. Must have been upwards of 1000 of them at each location. |
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those brown f'ers are so freakin scary but I've never seen anyone stung. They were out in force in CT this past Sat. I recall being on high E and about half way to the GT ledge only to realize the entire face was crawling with hundreds of them... sickest feeling in my stomach ever. Them landing on me, all over the holds, every where in every direction, left right up down front back. Two weeks ago my girl and I stumbled into a nest and had hundreds of regular bees attacking us. Luckily I dropped a rope bag and they focused on the bag, covering it completely as we ran. |
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I'm in a totally different location than most of you, but the wasps have been out in force in CO. Gotta say, it makes me really not so sure about putting my hand in a crack when there are wasps wandering all over it. |
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Disturb a ground bee nest and you will get stung! the brown/black wasps never seem to sting when they are simply bounceing arround on the side of a house or cliff. 30+ years of working on houses only stung once when the wasp got stuck under my hat. same day i wne home and ran over a ground bee nest with the lawnmore and got seriously nailed. had to do the benadryl thing. |
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Disturb a ground bee nest and you will get stung! the brown/black wasps never seem to sting when they are simply bounceing arround on the side of a house or cliff. 30+ years of working on houses only stung once when the wasp got stuck under my hat. same day i wne home and ran over a ground bee nest with the lawnmore and got seriously nailed. had to do the benadryl thing. |