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how to kill bald face hornets nest

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John K:
Wait till the first good hard frost and then harvest the nest, if you soak it with 4 cans of spray the thing is going to fall apart on you.

osage outlaw:
Last year we had them build a big nest under the overhang on our roof.  I resisted the initial urge to throw rocks at it to see what would happen.  I watched them build it all summer until it was larger than a basketball.  They never bothered me, and I never bothered them.  I would mow and weed eat right under it.  During the winter the nest started falling apart and they moved on.  Now, if they would have stung me, then it would have been game on!  I thought about getting one of those CO2 fire extinguishers and freezing them if I would have needed to remove them.

Marc St Louis:
Contrary to what some may think Hornets are not stupid, the last time I messed with them taught me that lesson. 

The event that changed my mind on this happened behind my dad's workshop.  There were 2 species that happened to build nests close to each other.  Bald Faced Hornets had built a nest up in a tree next to the workshop and the Bumblebees had built a nest inside the attic of the shop.  By observing them I noticed that the Hornets had a kind of war going on with the Bumblebees, they would come out of their nest and dive bomb the Bumblebee nest.  Well this wasn't happening often enough for me so I thought I would take matters into my own hands.  I went to the far end of the shop away from the nests and gave it a hard whack with my closed fist and backed away quickly.  I stood by another shed not moving, everybody knows if you don't move they can't see you, watching the Hornets diving through the hole that lead to the Bumblebee nest.  All of a sudden one Hornets came out of it's nest and hovered there for a minute then dove down at me and promptly stung me right between the eyes, I was fully 30' away.  I never bothered them again.

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