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[quote=Anonymous]I've had some landscape/gardening professionals confidently tell me that the gigantic bee-like things I've seen around our house are Japanese Hornets.  Other sources are mixed on whether we actually have Japanese Hornets in this area, or could be European Hornets. Either way, they are huge and terrifying, and I'm not normally afraid of bees.

We had one nest near our front door.  It took multiple cans of that wasp-killer stuff that can reach 20 feet, sprayed from a protected location, to kill them.  That nest is now thankfully gone, I still occasionally see one at a time buzzing through our yard but can ignore it.

I understand the live and let live approach, but my kids and the neighbors kids play soccer and other games in our yard.  Can you imagine the scene if a wayward soccer ball bounces into one of these hives??? My 6yo has already stepped in one yellowjacket hive while running around on the lawn, poor kid had stings all over his legs.  I don't go overboard protecting the kids from injury, but removing bee/wasp/hornet nests is an easy step to keep our yard fun, not painful or scary.[/quote]

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