If they are Bees (don't kill them) soak a rag in Varsol or (paint thinner) and place close or on the hive (at night). They will actually move. It takes about a week..so no smoking......
If they are not bees, kill the #######s with chemicals
If they are Bees (don't kill them) soak a rag in Varsol or (paint thinner) and place close or on the hive (at night). They will actually move. It takes about a week..so no smoking......
If they are not bees, kill the #######s with chemicals
Interesting... In the past I have simpy got dressed up in about 4 layers of clothes including my ski pants and jacket, goggles, touques hoodies etc... Wait until the middle of the night, then either grab and remove the nest if you are courageous (and like bees)... or mash it with a broomsitck/spray it with bug killer.
I never got bit, but I did end up with a bunch of them in the folds of my clothes... Oh... and don't leave the porch light on by your (open) sliding deck door lest you simply move the infestation into your home...
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Bee fear is so irrational, at least in Calgary since our hives aren't Africanized. Bees here are peaceful and will not bug you unless you swat at them or step on them. My mom is an avid gardener, and she works in her garden and on her flowers inches away from bees, and they never sting her. All they care about is collecting their pollen in peace. I love seeing a big giant bee working away in a patch of flowers, it is really fascinating.
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Bee fear is so irrational, at least in Calgary since our hives aren't Africanized. Bees here are peaceful and will not bug you unless you swat at them or step on them. My mom is an avid gardener, and she works in her garden and on her flowers inches away from bees, and they never sting her. All they care about is collecting their pollen in peace. I love seeing a big giant bee working away in a patch of flowers, it is really fascinating.
anything with 5+ legs, 3+ eyes, venom, is evil.
Fearing that is not irrational. It may leave me alone, that doesn't make me not afraid of it necessarily.
It's never in the bee's best interest to sting you. So, like Pylon said, unless you stepped on it or are pestering it, you have nothing to fear.
Having said that, if you can't coexist peacefully you should call the bee relocating people. I almost had to do that last year, when bees found our compost pile cozy and came out in large groups everytime I went near it to add some new material. Eventually they found somewhere better to go, and we got another compost bin to keep them out.
Bee fear is so irrational, at least in Calgary since our hives aren't Africanized. Bees here are peaceful and will not bug you unless you swat at them or step on them. My mom is an avid gardener, and she works in her garden and on her flowers inches away from bees, and they never sting her. All they care about is collecting their pollen in peace. I love seeing a big giant bee working away in a patch of flowers, it is really fascinating.
I have been stung in my sleep and just walking along a path.....peaceful my @$$
Also, I was stung when I was about 3 years old, so childhood trauma would make fear of bees very rational for me.
I agree with Mr.Coffee. Bees are pure evil!
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Bees are even more amazing than spiders. Please do your best to solve the issue without killing them.
I've noticed that the people who are stung are always the ones who freak out and start panicking as soon as they see one. Ignore it and go about your business and they will leave you alone. Live and let live.
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It is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.
Honey is the only food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and water; and it's the only food that contains "pinocembrin", an antioxidant associated with improved brain functioning.
Honey was found in the tombs in Egypt and it was still edible! Bees have been here around 30 million years.
The honey bee's wings stroke incredibly fast, about 200 beats per second, thus making their famous, distinctive buzz. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour.
The average worker bee produces about 1/12th teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
A hive of bees will fly 90,000 miles, the equivalent of three orbits around the earth to collect 1 kg of honey.
A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.
The bee's brain is oval in shape and only about the size of a sesame seed, yet it has remarkable capacity to learn and remember things and is able to make complex calculations on distance travelled and foraging efficiency.
A colony of bees consists of 20,000-60,000 honeybees and one queen. Worker honey bees are female, live for about 6 weeks and do all the work.
The queen bee can live up to 5 years and is the only bee that lays eggs. She is the busiest in the summer months, when the hive needs to be at its maximum strength, and lays up to 2500 eggs per day. Click here to learn more about the Honey Bee Life Cycle,
Larger than the worker bees, the male honey bees (also called drones), have no stinger and do no work at all. All they do is mating.
Only worker bees sting, and only if they feel threatened and they die once they sting. Queens have a stinger, but they don't leave the hive to help defend it.
It is estimated that 1100 honey bee stings are required to be fatal.
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My parents know a doctor with a beekeeping hobby and he uses a chunk of their property to store his hives. If bees were mean at all I think one of them would have been stung at some point during the last 2 years. All they seem to do is buzz and pollinate the hell out of everything.
Bees are even more amazing than spiders. Please do your best to solve the issue without killing them.
I've noticed that the people who are stung are always the ones who freak out and start panicking as soon as they see one. Ignore it and go about your business and they will leave you alone. Live and let live.
Easier said than done.
When I was young my cousin was showing me how rotten a tree stump was. He stomped on it and half of it collapsed. The problem was there was a yellow jacket nest inside and they were instantly in attack mode. I was 4 or 5, he was 3 years older and could run faster so I took the brunt of it. When I made it to the grandparents place (we were visiting the grandparents farm) everyone had come out to see what all the screaming was about. My father pulled the shirt off me as wasps were all over it. I have no idea how many times I was stung. Good thing I wasn't allergic.
But as a result, when any bee or wasp is near it almost instantly triggers a panic response. I know I should ignore it. I know to stay still. But the sudden and immediate stress is always there and no amount of "Live and let live" will ever make that feeling go away. I need to get away or them to go away.
That said, I think everything possible should be done to save honeybees. Colony Collapse Disorder is terrible. The world would be a much poorer place without them. But they will always stress me out.
But wasps and hornets are nasty. Tactical nuclear offensive strikes to take out any and all of their nests is an option I would be 100% in favour of promoting.
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My parents know a doctor with a beekeeping hobby and he uses a chunk of their property to store his hives. If bees were mean at all I think one of them would have been stung at some point during the last 2 years. All they seem to do is buzz and pollinate the hell out of everything.
Actually, I had 2 neighbours who kept hives on the corner of their properties. Honeybees are not aggressive. And honey right from the honeycomb is awesome.
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Larger than the worker bees, the male honey bees (also called drones), have no stinger and do no work at all. All they do is mating.
Oh man, those guys are living the dream.
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When my parents had a wasps nest i dressed up in my full ski gear in +25 weather. started spraying crap into their nest and when they flew out i went Roger Federer on their ass slicing them to bits with my tennis racquet.
I got 2 bites out of that...
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