Non-aggressive nest of ground insects?

BarnyardEngineering · Jul 5, 2019

I was moving stuff around in the shed when I disturbed a stack of blocking next to the wall. Stirred up a nest of something because the angriest buzzing I've ever heard started coming out from under the stack.

Figuring yellow jackets or "ground bees" I beat feet, but they never attacked. Just made the angriest racket of buzzing you'd ever want to hear.

Any ideas what they might be? How to get rid of them?

RobCons · Jul 5, 2019

I suspect some more aggravating and you will see what it is. Try looking for an entry by watching for them to fly in and out. Sprinkle 7 dust in the hole and around.

leroy in ne · Jul 5, 2019

If you are in the right part of the country could it be a Rattle Snake?

grandpa Love · Jul 5, 2019

Stack of blocking? Wood blocks?
Maybe those big wood boring bumble
bees. They make a racket when you
disturb the wood they live in.

BarnyardEngineering · Jul 5, 2019

Western NY state so no rattlesnakes.

I could see some sort of insects, but didn't get close enough to really see what's going on.

Sevin dust deployed.

Crazy Horse · Jul 5, 2019

Digger wasps? This link says 110 species in Britain, I know their cousins on this side of the Atlantic for are here as well.
Digger Wasps

Josh-nhihguy · Jul 5, 2019

Had bumble bees do the same thing. They
can build a nest in some pretty strange
places.

ss55 · Jul 5, 2019

Cicada killer wasps are huge and look intimidating, but are not at all aggressive.

fixerupper · Jul 5, 2019

(quoted from post at 07:09:13 07/05/19) Had bumble bees do the same thing. They
can build a nest in some pretty strange
places.

We used to have bumble bees in the twine pile beside the hay stack. Every day when I dropped some new twine on the twine pile the pile would buzz.

aFORDable · Jul 5, 2019

Bumble bees will do that which is a warning before the attack.

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