Bald face Hornets & Yellow jackets

[toas243]

I don`t know the difference ,what is it ,I could have been attacked by BFH ,not YJ ??????????????,all I know as those buggers would not let up ,and they kept attacking me

[StickFish]

BFH - Black and white
YJ - yellow and black

Google the images and let us know which one

[toas243]

I was pretty sure they where Yellow Jackets ,I must have steped o a ground nest or just irritated them ,I still feel like I been attacked by Fleas now cause I itch alot ,no bad but just enough to bother me ,I guess I`ll have to go get the stop itch stuff

[Weather or Knot]

When thier chasing you the yellow jackets sound like remote control airplanes and the bald hornets sound like Blackhawk helocopters!

[Jedcraft]

Most forest yellow jackets are small but ferocious and do ground nest. The Bald faced hornets are brutes and have the bid paper tree nests- you'll know it if you get stung by them. Bald faced hornets literally eat yellowjackets. While quartering elk the yellowjackets will swarm around the meat and soon the hornets are there attacking the yellowjackets.
Bald faced hornets are big & bad!

[arlie]

If a bald face hornet stings you it feels like you got hit with a baseball bat.

[1eyed]

I stepped on a ground nest last year, man those thing hurt.

A little secret, try taking adoplhs(sp) meat tenderizer, mix it with water (not alot) and form a paste.

Then spread the paste on the bites, you''l be amazed how quick the stinging and itching will go away.

[Big TULE]

I was taught to spit in my hand, take tenderizer and mix it with the spit and put it on the stink site... Pain and itching gone in an instant...

[HawkeyeBilt]

I am a timber feller. I run into those buggers weekly this time of year! They are freakin mean. The only way to lose them is to Haul Ass get as far away as you can Then Do a quick bee check! They Love crawling up ones pant legs!

"Then Suffer The pain and itch for the next 4 days". Good Luck!!

[toas243]

Originally Posted by arlie

If a bald face hornet stings you it feels like you got hit with a baseball bat.

Well I must have been stung by some hybrid ,because ,it felt like I was beat ,I still have some pain ,but I`am sure I`ll live to hunt another day

[Steelie Ben]

In the Heppner unit a couple years ago when the yellowjackets were really horrible I threw a hot do in the empty fire pit to watch the carnage. What I saw was about 200 yellowjackets swarm it and start devouring it. What I saw that I didn't expect was baldface hornets dive bombing the yellowjackets and litterally biting them in two!! We never had a problem with the hornets but the yellowjackets were all over us. We had to eat in the tent to keep from getting them in our mouths.
Ben

[baltz526]

found a nice camp full of yellow jackets monday, sat in the trailer for lunch and sprayed deet on the screens, this worked on 90% of the bees. they stoped buzzing the screens with deet. getting the relief from the buzzing of dozens of bees off the screens was worth the deet expense

[Jedcraft]

I've heard it is gonna be a bad year for bees. Seems like it's worse when it's a dry year.

[retaliate]

I've seen Bald Face Hornet's attacking, killling, & carring off Yellow Jacket's one after another...so they are ok in my book. As far as Bad year cuase It's dry, well last year was Dry, & Yellow jacket's were thick in Heppener/Fossil Units, yet very few to the South in Northside, & Murders Cr. Unit's.

[osulogger]

Originally Posted by arlie

If a bald face hornet stings you it feels like you got hit with a baseball bat.

I'll drink to that one! I bumped a nest with my hardhat three summers ago while hanging a fish buffer. My two interns heard me yell and I think I was 100 yd. down the creek before the first one yelled back, 'what's wrong?!?'

I didn't go back there until November!

From the land of Big Sticks,
Osulogger

[Steelheader]

Originally Posted by toas243

I don`t know the difference ,what is it ,I could have been attacked by BFH ,not YJ ??????????????,all I know as those buggers would not let up ,and they kept attacking me

OH and you are the guy with six deer tags so your post says, now how long have you been hunting? and you dont know what a bald headed hornet is, come on dude get real or stay home. Ha HA just kidding. :grin:

[retaliate]

Originally Posted by osulogger

I'll drink to that one! I bumped a nest with my hardhat three summers ago while hanging a fish buffer. My two interns heard me yell and I think I was 100 yd. down the creek before the first one yelled back, 'what's wrong?!?'

I didn't go back there until November!

From the land of Big Sticks,
Osulogger

I'll attest to that! I was Trout fishing Rock Cr.(Nehalem System) with my Dog some years back, & I ran across a perfect paper Cone, I thought this will make a good Show, & tell for my Daughter...So I tapped on the side to see if anybody was home...they were home, & came out swinging, got me 3 times, I broke my Fishing Pole running away, My Dog got it worse. I will never try that again.

[Rank Amateur]

Just got back from over east, we went to Murderer's creek (aldrich mt.) and Desolation unit (middle fork John Day). Up on aldrich there are a lot of bees, more bald faced hornets than yellow jackets, but the yellow jackets seemed immature so I would count on them coming on strong in a few weeks. I would say trying to eat out in the open is going to be a pain, we had a screened sun shade tent and it worked great. One thing we did notice was that there were very few bees out in the burn. I would camp there if you can find a safe spot (I know of one of our camps that survived the fire).

Desolation had fewer bees but they were there once the food came out. The screen tent made for a great time.

The hornets did not seem agressive, but again I was not trying to eat with them trying to eat as well. Good luck, go prepared for bees.