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needrain said:It's always a shame when you feel you can't accommodate things in nature, Stone. It's sort of like if I put my hand on the nest they attack because it's an invasion of their territory. I've set up my own territory and sometimes when I feel I can't co-exist well with something I attempt to remove it. Weeds, poisonous snakes, Differential grasshoppers and occasionally black widow spiders and wasps can all fit in that category at times. I'm not much different than any other animal who builds a nest or lair in that respect. My space is relatively small compared to the area around me and as often as not I'm not exactly a winner much of the time anyway. Most people I know wouldn't tolerate much of what lives here that I don't bother at all.

I agree with everything in your post, Donald; I'm all for living with nature, but not wasp/hornet nests where I'm likely to walk into them, or where visitors would be likely to get stung, or the dogs, for that matter. The nests we had last year I originally thought were paper wasps but actually turned out to be some kind of hornet (bald-faced? mostly black, at any rate), and very aggressive. They have plenty of other places around here to build nests!