Mid-Atlantic Gardening: What's bugging you, Mid Atlantic? summer 2014, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Butch---

Mamma Mia--my Pakistani neighbor wants to smoke them all to death--gone--
with a smoke torch.
She insists that that is what they do in Pakistan and that they will all be dead.
She says her husband knows how to do it.
I suppose he can do whatever he can do--as we both share this bush to some extent.
And--they do always have their 4yr. old G-=son around.

I had a hard time understanding what she planned to do---I thought she was going to
hold a burning torch somewhere in the lilac bush...
Finally---I "GOT IT"...Smoke them out!!! But--will that kill them? Or just chase them
away for a while and then they will come back.

There seem to be more and more of these hornets in the bush.
I really do not want this to repeat again next year. I still have not seen a nest of any kind.
but there is a lot of interaction between them.

Your help--or, at least, opinion. Anyone else is welcome too.

Thanks, Gita

There are a couple stems that the bark is already chewed off all around--
maybe a band of 5/8"--more than in one place. SO--they ARE building nesting tubes
somewhere. About how big or long would they be? I still do not see any....