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Wanna pick some peaches...? :twisted:
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They are the best crop we've had in years, as far as very few rotted, no bugs, etc...
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...there is a certain reason this is posted on Leverguns; it has to do with 'situational awareness'...
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Maybe another picture will help...
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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We had one in an oak tree by our house years ago, white faced hornets. We went out one night and put a garbage bag around it and cut the branch to free it. Then we took a can of wasp spray and put the entire contents of the can into the bag which fumigated all inside. Then the kids were able to take the nest to school. Ours was the size of a basketball.
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:shock: We`ve had to destroy three nests this year , two ground nests and one like that under the bumper of the MH.

That puts meaning to the saying , eat and run. :lol:
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Guess they like peaches too! :shock:
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If I had a hornets nest like that I'd put a buzzer in it, some plastic hornets around it and hang it under my front porch.

That might keep the solicitors and near-do-wells away. :twisted:

As far as picking peaches with that in the neighborhood .......... not a chance.

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Pitchy wrote: That puts meaning to the saying , eat and run. :lol:
better would be run and eat
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When you see one of those closed-in nests like that one and you know there are nasty and aggressive hornets ready to go on the attack. I cleared out one of those from the side yard about 10 years ago but have encouraged nests of "paper wasps" that make those open-faced nests: I have a large nest of them in one of my gable vents right now. My theory is that you have either one or the other around and the "paper wasps" are very non-aggressive toward humans.
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My neighbor had a bumper crop of peaches this year as well. They were too lazy to thin the tree out so ended up with a number limbs breaking off due to the weight.
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Firstly, I'd like to say that I wish I could get peaches to grow that well in Aridzona. :( We tend to have wasps and yellow jackets vs. hornets though. One hornet we're supposed to have is the bald-faced hornet, but I don't know that I've seen one:

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Yellow jackets are common as flies and wasps too, but they pretty much just leave you alone! Our Africanized bees are more dangerous than anything else we've got. :?

Our scariest wasp is the tarantula hawk. With a stinger that is over a quarter of an inch long it'll put the hurt on you BIG TIME if you were so unlucky (reportedly the second most painful insect sting in The Americas), but they are not usually aggressive towards humans. I see these quite often, but not usually this large: :D

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olyinaz wrote:Firstly, I'd like to say that I wish I could get peaches to grow that well in Aridzona. :( We tend to have wasps and yellow jackets vs. hornets though. One hornet we're supposed to have is the bald-faced hornet, but I don't know that I've seen one:

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Yellow jackets are common as flies and wasps too, but they pretty much just leave you alone! Our Africanized bees are more dangerous than anything else we've got. :?

Our scariest wasp is the tarantula hawk. With a stinger that is over a quarter of an inch long it'll put the hurt on you BIG TIME if you were so unlucky (reportedly the second most painful insect sting in The Americas), but they are not usually aggressive towards humans. I see these quite often, but not usually this large: :D

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That's a mid-size mosquito in MI.
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tom deinek wrote: That's a mid-size mosquito in MI.
Northern Minnesota too. :lol:
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Brushing line surveying, and getting into meter boxes, and other water utility vaults, I've been stung so many times I can't remember how many :evil: Those bald face hornets carry a grudge, and chase you forever and a day......
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olyinaz wrote:Firstly, I'd like to say that I wish I could get peaches to grow that well in Aridzona. :(
We had good luck with Peaches Apricots Plums and Almonds about 20 miles S of Tucson.

The only problem we had with the Peaches was June bugs.we had to pick them a few day's early and let them finish ripen on the porch, other wise the June bugs would get em.

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J35nut wrote:
olyinaz wrote:Firstly, I'd like to say that I wish I could get peaches to grow that well in Aridzona. :(
We had good luck with Peaches Apricots Plums and Almonds about 20 miles S of Tucson.

The only problem we had with the Peaches was June bugs.we had to pick them a few day's early and let them finish ripen on the porch, other wise the June bugs would get em.

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Almonds I can see, but the fruit just doesn't seem to like the heat we have these days. We set a record this year for consecutive days above 100 before the monsoon, and we're getting days in the 100s during the monsoon now. I've never seen anything like it in Tucson. Reminds me of Phoenix in the 1980s.
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J35nut wrote:The only problem we had with the Peaches was June bugs.we had to pick them a few day's early and let them finish ripen on the porch, other wise the June bugs would get em.
That's why we run our chickens under our fruit trees. Hardly any bugs that way. We let them into the blackberry patch in the winter, and they stay under the brambles and safe from hawks and owls.
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BlaineG wrote:Brushing line surveying, and getting into meter boxes, and other water utility vaults, I've been stung so many times I can't remember how many :evil: Those bald face hornets carry a grudge, and chase you forever and a day......
they do carry a chemical grudge - they release pheromones when angered, and the entire hive will never forget
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JB wrote:My neighbor had a bumper crop of peaches this year as well. They were too lazy to thin the tree out so ended up with a number limbs breaking off due to the weight.
We could be neighbors 8)
Not lazy , but my wife refused to thin out the early peaches . :roll:

Some branches propped up , we did more after these pics. Also thinned out some of the fruit .

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Those peaches in the OP ...... unless we had a sub 40 degree night and I was brave enough , well there is always next year :wink:
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Rusty wrote:We had one in an oak tree by our house years ago, white faced hornets. We went out one night and put a garbage bag around it and cut the branch to free it. Then we took a can of wasp spray and put the entire contents of the can into the bag which fumigated all inside. Then the kids were able to take the nest to school. Ours was the size of a basketball.
I need to find one about that size to drop on a certain neighbor's front porch.
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