A wasp nest buried two feet deep inside a log gets removed with a bee-vac, but the vacuum's battery dies mid-operation, leaving the team to take several stings before finishing the job. They chainsaw the log open to reveal the full tunnel.
This is a little bit scary, I'm not gonna lie. I spent the whole day out yesterday catching thousands of wasps, and it started on this huge wood yard. A friend of mine got a massive wood chip pile that needed moving today, along with a mega stack of logs, and he said, I think there might be some wasp nests there. Can definitely see one, but we think there might be more. And Zane was thinking, what have I signed up for here? Literally standing on some logs taking videos of wasp nests. But that's what we did all day. Look at that bit of gear that Zane's got there. That is our Sony A1. With with a 24-70mm G Master II lens on a gimbal. That is what Zane carries all day. And this is what we're here to film, which is a very big wasp's nest. At least it looks big there. You can't actually tell how big that wasp's nest is because you tunneled all the way back into the log. But check that out, there's another one in the wood chip there. But my job today was to remove this wasp's nest. All of those logs are being moved, and Zane's walking back at this point thinking, oh, can we just go and film the bees? The bees seem way more chilled out.
But no.
need to do the wasp nest. So the first thing we do is go and put our bee suits on, and I got a smoker lit as well for this just in case. And the wasps kind of responded quite well to the smoke, but then it rained and put out my smoker attempt, so we gave up on that. And Zane is back under the umbrella. It is not good. We moaned all summer about it not raining, and, uh, it's raining all the time and we're moaning about that. Zane loves this new bee suit, even though he does sometimes struggle to get it on properly, and we always do laugh about it. But straight in, This is what I got to do. I know this seems horrific, but I've left it as long as I possibly can for the wasp's nest to become mature, and then I'm just going in there with my bee vac, taking out every single wasp. That's the idea. And then I was going to dismantle the wasp's nest, but I had a little bit of a nightmare because what I didn't plan for was the battery running out so quickly. And then— Definitely got a bit of a situation now. I just got stung on the finger by a wasp and it hurt, and then the battery on the vacuum broke and, uh, all the wasps Escaping and going a little bit mad whilst Zane's gone to go get a new battery, which I'm not sure is charged.
No, they don't do that. Nope. Back with the battery thinking you're going to be panicking and you're just sat here filming, just having—
So yeah, I hadn't accounted for the battery running out and Zane obviously went and got it and sorted it for me and we got it back on track. But look at that, the nest goes all the way through the log. We couldn't believe how far it tunneled back. Even this shot here, it went further deep back inside that log and we had to pull it out. It's probably 2 foot deep.
I feel like now the nest's been moved, they're not as bad.
No.
Like, they're still, they're still chaotic but not aggressive.
So we had a brilliant day. It was really exciting. There were so many wasps. I got stung 6 or 7 times and I'm sitting here today like really itchy and in quite a lot of pain. But we also chainsawed through the section to expose what was inside. And I still can't get over how deep they tunneled through this log to create their nest. Now, all of these videos here are just shot on my iPhone, but Zane was there with the A1. Zane was there with the gimbal. So I cannot wait to see the full videos that come out on the channel. They're going to be in full 8K, and you are going to see every single sting. So hit the like button, hit subscribe, and enjoy the wasps.
