ground dwelling bees

texican · #21 08/06/07, 09:12 PM

I've run over nests of ground bees (bumble bees) when bushhogging or baling hay... My pa always told me if I ran into some, to just grab the steering wheel, look straight ahead, and keep driving... to go girlie man slap happy crazy would just make the bees sting all the floppy parts... I've driven over em several times since his wise words, and never been stung... I've had dozens of em swarm around me, but no stings.

Yellow jackets.... arrgghh, killed a nest close to the house yesterday... the guard dogs were investigating and investigated the wrong thing... they got lots of stings... gassed the lil buggers later yesterday evening... none there today when I checked.

sammyd · #22 08/06/07, 10:31 PM

Seen a bunch fly right up into my best friends dads gimme cap while he was cutting hay one day.....actually we didn't see them go up in there, we just wondered why he was flapping his hat all over and not cutting the hay straight..;-)

crafty2002 · #23 08/07/07, 06:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Ninn

We found a nest underneath the end of the slide on our swingset last week. I waited until after dark, moved the swing, and smoked them into a state of near slumber. Then I sprayed about 3 cans of bee spray down there! Presto! No more bees.

I just wish I knew what to do about the ones that repeated build nests on my porch roofs and inside my house. Right now, we are keeping the bee spray companies in business. We took down 9 nests off the front porch the other day. It took 2 days for the bees to stop trying to go back into those areas. Now, they are boring into my roof again. Last night we saw them coming out of our light fixtures. Next stop? Terminex. 100 bux for the initial visit, and they kill off everything. And it's guaranteed for 30 days. If I see another bee, they come back and do it again for free. There are at least 3 types of bees or wasps in my house, and we are all allergic. I think it will be a good investment.

Ninn, you can take a cup of gasoline and just toss it , not the cup, but the gas up there and it burns thier wings off as soon as it hits them.
I have sone ot with cans that the little sauages come in. You can get 3 or 4 feet from them and they just stand gaurd and don't leave the nest and it's too late for them to leave the nest when the gas hits them, but I always run as soon as I throw it and then look back, lol.
They either fall straight down or get stuck on the nest. I think, IMHO, this works better than the bee spray even though you are closer to them. It kills them faster than the spray does.

And anytime I find a nest of yellow jackets in the ground, I do as someone else already said, I wait until dark and pour gas into the hole and the toss a burning piece of paper on it. I have never had a single one excape doing this.

And I didn't know you could not be alergic to be stimks and then become so.
I guess I had better be a little more careful myself. No one likes to get stung by bees, and I have always tried to be careful around them, but since I have been reading about honey bees I have gotten a little more brazen. Like holding my hand up for the one to light on me. Dum huh? LOL.

Dennis

ace admirer · #24 08/07/07, 07:41 AM

The only ground "nest" of "bees" we have in our area is a mock bee which is a fly. it cannot sting. i hit a nest of them yesterday while doing some scrapping around one of our ponds.. they are harmless because of misinformed tv education just about anything that flys is called a "bee" (not say what the orginial post is about is not a bee, just bringing up the bee VS wasp/hornet problem us beekeepers are senisitive about)