NEVER smash them.
It release chemicals and gets the other ones excited.:rolleyes: View attachment 1715370446
They are all over my humming bird feeder.
Birds can't get to it.
(Birds, get it?)
One year I was cutting sod and moving it from the front to back yard.
Put the shovel in pine straw and moved one cut to the back yard.
Went back to the front and discovered there was a nest in the ground there.
They say me before I saw them.
I was taking cloths off running around the house and got in the back door without getting stung.
It's a good mascot for an engineering school.
Had a big nest in some rotten cross ties.
Tore the wood up and discovered they had engineered a paper nest inside of it.
I didn't know they were "paper wasp".
P.S. Would have been a much better name than "Hell Cat".