Getting Rid of Beehives

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Originally Posted by Table 5

Some sweet bee facts.

• 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.

Bees have also been shown to calculate angles and the rotation of the earth. Awesome.

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[krazycanuck]

Originally Posted by Makarov

Oh man, those guys are living the dream.

Someone has a gangbang fetish!

[IntenseFan]

Anyone else like Linkara?

"Bees. My God."

[Hammertime]

Spray the hive at night with some lighter fluid (used to light charcoal BBQ's), and then light it up. Have your garden hose nearby in case the flames catch onto something else.

The little buggers will come flying out on fire and won't know what hit them. They'll be too busy dealing with the pain to worry about stinging anyone.

[redforever]

It is easiest to dispose of bees or wasps in the early morning because that is the time of day when it is coolest and the bees or wasps are the most inactive.

Just dress up covering all your skin, a belaklava works well for the face. You don't need layers and layers and layers of clothes. If the nest is attached to a branch, have some pruning shears handy.

Take a big garbage bag, plop the hive in the bag, and then tie the bag shut. Then take the hive somewhere to dispose of it. If you wish to save the bees, take the hive somewhere and release them.

Then spray wherever the hive was with something like Raid to discourage the bees or wasps from building there again. Repeat for a week or so or until you don't see anymore activity. Wasps are very famous for rebuilding their nest overnite if you don't discourage them.

[Nage Waza]

If it is just hanging somewhere, at night put a garbage bag around the hive and simply snap it off. Tie it up and move it somewhere else. You can try to save the hive that way, but good luck opening the bag!

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Some sweet bee facts.


• Honey was found in the tombs in Egypt and it was still edible! Bees have been here around 30 million years.

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who figured that out.....

"hey Achmed, come and try this"......

[T@T]

The wifes can of hairspray and a bic worked for me.

[T@T]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

who figured that out.....

"hey Achmed, come and try this"......

I saw this on discovery and your not far from the truth, while it was a re-inactment an English archaeologist who found it,dipped his finger in, tasted it, nodded and said "good"!

[Bobblehead]

I hate when people ask for advice then don't report back with what they eventually did.

What happened?

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

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...

I had a summer job painting. Would find wasps nests in random corners of people's property all the time. Usually just a live and let live philosophy, but certain nests would get aggressive and start stinging. My general rule was, as soon as I got stung once, the house was coming out. A well positioned hose will take out any wasps nest easily.

Woudn't try the same strategy with bees though. There must be a way for you to get some free honey from all this though?

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by Byrns

And if you're too lazy to call they're on twitter.

https://twitter.com/#!/YYCbees

This post confused me. I was totally expecting tweets from bees. Clicked on the link, and was slightly disappointed.

[Robbob]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

I hate when people ask for advice then don't report back with what they eventually did.

What happened?

The bees have won.

[albertGQ]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

I hate when people ask for advice then don't report back with what they eventually did.

What happened?

I haven't done anything yet. But I'm probably going to just suit up and get rid of it myself. Wife said its a small beehive so it shouldn't be an issue. I was going to do it last night but it was raining.

I'll do it either tonight or tomorrow. If I don't report back by the end of the weekend, please PM me and I will make sure I report my findings ASAP. LOL

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Peter Griffin: There's only one thing to do - learn the language of the fleas bees, earn their trust, and breed with their women. And in time our differences will be forgotten.

[ignite09]

Originally Posted by albertGQ

I haven't done anything yet. But I'm probably going to just suit up and get rid of it myself. Wife said its a small beehive so it shouldn't be an issue. I was going to do it last night but it was raining.

I'll do it either tonight or tomorrow. If I don't report back by the end of the weekend, please PM me and I will make sure I report my findings ASAP. LOL

Make sure you are aware of whether or not you're allergic first.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by albertGQ

I haven't done anything yet. But I'm probably going to just suit up and get rid of it myself. Wife said its a small beehive so it shouldn't be an issue. I was going to do it last night but it was raining.

I'll do it either tonight or tomorrow. If I don't report back by the end of the weekend, please PM me and I will make sure I report my findings ASAP. LOL

Why can't you just bee friends?

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

I hate when people ask for advice then don't report back with what they eventually did.

What happened?

I still want to know what Brownie did about the license plate thief.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by albertGQ

I haven't done anything yet. But I'm probably going to just suit up and get rid of it myself. Wife said its a small beehive so it shouldn't be an issue. I was going to do it last night but it was raining.

I'll do it either tonight or tomorrow. If I don't report back by the end of the weekend, please PM me and I will make sure I report my findings ASAP. LOL

Will you film this?