[TowerTalk] Hornet Nest on the End of the Boom - How do you safely get rid of this?

[Steve65]

My dad had honeybees. On occasion he wanted to move them around. But 
never in the daytime because worker bees that were away would not be 
able to find a relocated hive. Even if moved just a few inches. Or so my 
dad told me.

Wonder how accurate a hornet's navigation capability is? What if you 
were to rotate the antenna to the opposite direction at midday when many 
of the insects are away from the nest foraging for food? Perhaps the 
returning hornets will be unable to find the nest at its new location 
24ft distant from where it was when they left? Give the "lost" hornets a 
few days to die off and then rotate the antenna again and lose some more 
of the worker insects. Over the course of a few weeks one might largely 
depopulate the nest of its worker bees and perhaps the entire colony 
would die off.

Good luck with it.

Steve, K8JQ


On 7/25/2019 4:51 PM, Bob Shohet, KQ2M wrote:
> This is a first at my station....  a large Hornet Nest on the end of the Boom of my lowest Hygain 105CA (5L 10 meter Yagi) on my 100’ Rohn 45 tower.
>
> The nest is located on the underside of the end of the boom (24’ long) and 1st director, which puts the nest about 12‘ from the center of the tower and 23’ above ground.
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> Does anyone have any experience successfully dealing with this situation?  I would appreciate learning how you killed the hornets and got rid of the nest without getting hurt or doing anything dangerous.
>
> Tnx & 73
>
> Bob KQ2M
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