bees/hornets in ground!OT

[Norm's Coupe]

I know this is late to the thread but someone suggested to close the hole in the ground. When a kid at camp I did this and found out that they will fly up your pants leg and sting you in places you wouldnt want to even imagine. Not to mention the fact you will kill yourself trying to kill them while they are there stinging away. 2 camping trips I'll never forget. That one and the one where I sat on a cactis. Not fun!

Ed, you're not supposed to sit on a cactus. I agree about closing up the hole with your foot. Probably doesn't do much good even if you do manage to do it without getting stung. They will just dig a new hole.

[Ed Griffin]

A couple of years ago i went out to the parts car and lifted up the rear bottom seat. It was leaning against the car for awhile. When I moved it several yellow jackets started swarming and I took off for the house. Three got me, one in the back of the head. They followed me in the house but I took care of them. Soon after I got dizzy, sharp pain in the chest, feet were tingleing, could not breath or holler for help. I layed there on the couch until i could move. By then I was very swollen and sick.

Been stung many times over the years but this was a first. Apparently you can become allergic to the stings even if you havent in the past.

By the way, the seat had a paper nest about 3 feet round embedded in the springs.

[Norm's Coupe]

You have to watch the bees when messing with old cars. There is a guy who owns a P15 club coupe in my neighborhood. He never works on it and it sits outside next to the driveway all the time. It's been like that for years rusting away. One day a few years ago we were standing next to the car discussing an engine swap he had made. All of a sudden several Wasps came flying out the hole in the quarter panel. That car is probably full of bees nests.

[dirty dan]

I saw on the discovery channel or some similar show that the advancing killer bees are actually growing tamer in their advance..I surely want to believe this is so as the European bee we are so use to is slowing dying out to parasitic invaders..without bees our crops will be less and less come harvest..this has me more concerned that gas prices..

We have "killer bees" in Louisiana. They're getting the aggression bred out of them by the domestic bees.

I lost my workshop (no cars inside) to a couple of trees from hurricane Gustav last week. One was a poplar tree that had a honey bee hive in it. I couldn't find a bee keeper who had the time to come get them so I wound up having to poison them to get to my tools. I sure hated to do that.

Since, I've come across two yellow jacket nests in the ground. I think I put them out of my misery last night.

[BloodyKnuckles]

I know this is late to the thread but someone suggested to close the hole in the ground. When a kid at camp I did this and found out that they will fly up your pants leg and sting you in places you wouldnt want to even imagine. Not to mention the fact you will kill yourself trying to kill them while they are there stinging away. 2 camping trips I'll never forget. That one and the one where I sat on a cactis. Not fun!

You are correct but I only did it after I sprayed the holes at night. Man that has got to hurt!!!

I did forget the most important part....You have to kill them at night!!

BloodyKnuckles

[Don Coatney]

You are correct but I only did it after I sprayed the holes at night. Man that has got to hurt!!!

I did forget the most important part....You have to kill them at night!!

BloodyKnuckles

Why at night?

[Young Ed]

Apparently being a busy bee is hard work and they are all tired and sleeping by sundown.

[old woolie]

Found a yellow jackets nest in the right rear fender of my 51 Dodge parts car,they were going in and out of one of the holes where the trim originaly was fastened,they would light on the fender and crawl into the hole. Got a milk crate to sit on,a cooler full of beer,a can of brake cleaner and picked them off one at a time. Great fun.

[Norm's Coupe]

Why at night?

Because, during the day the queen bee is usually out of the nest. She doesn't return until after the sun goes down. So........if you wait until sundown you'll get the queen. The queen bee is the one that builds the nest. If you don't get her, she'll just build another nest nearby and the workers will follow.

[WatchingWolf]

Grandad taught me this... It works

1. find a 2 ltr. soda bottle and cut the top off

2. flip the cut off part over and duct tape it in place

3. add one can of beer and allow to go flat

(foamy beer makes a bridge for the little critters to rest on)

4. place near the hive entrance, sit back and drink the other five beers.

(Grandad loved this part)

In one day the bottle will begin to fill with drowned bugs. When they get thick in the bottle throw it away and make another. Think about how long your queen would hang around it you came home smelling of beer or maybe even not at all...

it's 1:15 am and I'm making a picture of beer trap with Microsoft Paint... I really need a life

[Don Coatney]

Because' date=' during the day the queen bee is usually out of the nest. She doesn't return until after the sun goes down. So........if you wait until sundown you'll get the queen. The queen bee is the one that builds the nest. If you don't get her, she'll just build another nest nearby and the workers will follow.[/quote']

Norm;

You need to read-up on your bees. The only time a queen ever leaves the hive is during swarming season. She leaves and the majority of the hive followes her never to return. They will build a new commune somewhere. Those that dont follow have already developed a replacement queen. And as you should already know a new queen is developed by being fed royal jelly by the workers. Now the worker bees all like the queen but they are not allowed to uh you know, get it on with her. Only the drones are allowed to do that. And the worker bees make the drones by feeding them royal jelly but not as much as the queen gets. The drones dont work. All they do is uh you know, get it on with the queen.

[Plymouthy Adams]

Hey Don..reckon Norm knows as much about the birds also?

[Don Coatney]

Hey Don..reckon Norm knows as much about the birds also?

I doubt he does as he cuts all his trees down:D

[LowOiLer]

I do the gas at night also, less likely to get stung and all the critters in are the hole so you don't get lost bees flying around for 7 days looking for their hole again.

Had to kill a nest tonight actually, this time I did it a little different... I tunneled for the last two nights and dug up under the nest without disturbing the bees in their slumber, and put a big 30 gallon tub under the area of the nest

Tonight I poured the gas into the nest hole, tommorrow I plan to retrieve the gas that leaked through the soil back into the 30 gallon wash tub under the nest and to pour it back into my truck to use.

At 4 bucks a gallon... you gotta recycle...