Got to LOVE skunks!

[Mmathis]

Oh my! Is that something skunks normally do?

 

[MoonShadows]

I hate:
Wasps
Yellow jackets
any bug that makes a "buzz"
etc

I don't mind the bees that much, but I do hate anything that slithers!

 

[j.w]

I don't like slugs, actually don't like their slime

 

[sissy]

dislike stink bugs and lady bugs both black ones that smell like stink bugs and regular ones that land on you when you are sweating outside and bite you .Japenese beetles up there on my list also

 

[j.w]

Never have I been bitten by a ladybug, the ones w/the red w/black dots. I have heard they can tho.

 

[sissy]

We get invasions of them in the spring .When I mow the grass they seem to always try to bite me and they leave welts .I had them getting in the house and in my car .

 

[addy1]

Oh my! Is that something skunks normally do?

Yes they love digging them up, eat the brood.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I thought bees were stripped and wasps were black! I feel so ignorant!

Yeah, that's very false. All sorts of bees, all sorts of wasps.

I hate:
Wasps
Yellow jackets
any bug that makes a "buzz"
etc

Most wasps aren't aggressive and are too busy living their lives. Same with bees, plus their stings are less painful and most don't live in colonies so they have no reason to defend anything.

Hornets and Yellow Jackets are considerably more aggressive. They can be very dangerous if they feel their colony is under attack.

 

[HARO]

Over the years, skunks have cleaned out at least thirty yellowjacket nests on our property. Love 'em!! I never spray the remains of a nest.....the little stinkers will come back the next night and finish what they started. Wouldn't want to poison them.
John

 

[addy1]

.the little stinkers will come back the next night and finish what they started. Wouldn't want to poison them.

I waited two weeks they did not come back, darn them. So I finally sprayed the nest.

 

[HARO]

I waited two weeks they did not come back, darn them. So I finally sprayed the nest.

Well in THAT case, I would too!
John

 

[IPA]

I've been using a solution of dish soap and water to kill paper wasps. I have a spray bottle that shoots about 6 feet. It works really great. The soap breaks the electrostatic charge that repels water, or something like that, and they drown.

 

[j.w]

I waited two weeks they did not come back, darn them. So I finally sprayed the nest.

I didn't know a human had that ability @addy1 ...........................you little stinker

 

[addy1]

I leave paper wasps alone. If they are somewhere we don't need to interact. They eat beetles, grubs, garden pests, tend to be non aggressive if you don't bother their nest. I have more than once gotten close to a nest, they just fly out and if I move away they fly back to their nest.
There are two nests where I store my tractor, I pulled it out they totally ignored me.

 

[addy1]

I didn't know a human had that ability @addy1 ...........................you little stinker View attachment 103604

lol wellllllllllll it was time to mow again, grass was tall, so I had to zap them. Kept hoping the skunks would come back. Now I want to dig up the nest and check it out, it is neat looking.