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Bee Swarm

Renzatic said:
You know I blame all this on you, right? :mad:
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For the record you are the one who disparaged bees. :eek: I love bees. We love bees. I've got thousands of bees who love me. Look at my bee over here. Look at him. Are you the greatest, bee? You know what I’m talking about, bee? You're amazing!! OK. :eek:
 
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Gutwrench said:
For the record you are the one who disparaged bees. :eek: I love bees. We love bees. I've got thousands of bees who love me. Look at my bee over here. Look at him. Are you the greatest, bee? You know what I’m talking about, bee? You're amazing!! OK. :eek:
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You set me up for my downfall. I'm definite it's no coincidence that they showed up so soon after your Bees vs. Wasp thread. :mad:
 
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Renzatic said:
You set me up for my downfall. I'm definite it's no coincidence that they showed up so soon after your Bees vs. Wasp thread. :mad:
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I'm doing fine with bees. I've had hundreds of bugs come up to me saying bees love me. I've got flowers in my yard that bees visit every day. I respect bees. I do fine with bees and you know why? Because I'm planting flowers. Bees want flowers. Ok? And you know what? I don't understand what this has to do with your piñata.
 
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Gutwrench said:
I'm doing fine with bees. I've had hundreds of bugs come up to me saying bees love me. I've got flowers in my yard that bees visit every day. I respect bees. I do fine with bees and you know why? Because I'm planting flowers. Bees want flowers. Ok?
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Are you actually bragging about being a bee ass-kisser? Man, it takes all kinds...

And you know what? I don't understand what this has to do with your piñata.
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...and I think you're trying to trick me. :mad:
 
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I like wasps too. They eat other bug pests. They are regular guests at our pool, scooping up water for some purpose, mud daubing or something else.
 
I have an irrational fear of buzzing, stinging insects but most honey bees are about as docile as you could hope for(the bright yellow-black paper wasps are pretty much in the same category).

If I had a swarm set up shop, I'd be on the phone with a friend who is a beekeeper. He considers swarms to be a gift, and if he didn't have room for them at the time I'm sure he'd find another beekeeper who would be just as happy to have them and would probably be there in a few hours.

As far as I'm concerned, red hornets, bald faced hornets, and yellow jackets deserve whatever ills you can throw at them-at a minimum a good wasp spray and a flame thrower if safe to do so :) . Like I said, it's not hard to find a home for honey bees, and I can generally peacefully co-exist with paper wasps until the end of the season.

Carpenter bees are harmless to humans but are incredibly destructive. They're big and stupid enough, though, that they can pretty reasonably controlled. It can be a bit intimidating, though, the first time or two in a season that one comes flying toward you and hovers with their obnoxious buzzing a few inches away.
 
I've setup traps around my property and grounds to catch the bad stuff and direct bees away as much as I can. I'm not a fan of bees at all, which may explain my hatred for honey. The best attractant for bees, flies and yellow jackets in my opinion are beef jerky, soda water so any mass produced American beer like Miller, and simple syrup. Maybe throw in some chopped dried fruit. I'll set it out about 100 yards or more from the house and sitting areas outside and they'll leave us alone.

I bought a lot of citronella this year. Just 40 bottles of torch fuel alone. It was near impossible to find the stuff last year. I bought mine during the winter.
 
This is very critical issue to exterminate bees from garden area. After reading this conversation I suddenly got to remember about the incident happened at my sister's house. A rodent was there in her garden area, but she was also confused about the identity of a Rodent whether it is dormouse, rat or hamster. Then one of her neighbour contacted to Professional exterminator Sacramento, CA, to identify the pest. Likewise you can also take some useful reference by contacting Professional pest controller team to find out whether it is a bug or termite.
 
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This is very critical issue to exterminate bees from garden area. After reading this conversation I suddenly got to remember about the incident happened at my sister's house. A rodent was there in her garden area, but she was also confused about the identity of a Rodent whether it is dormouse, rat or hamster. Then one of her neighbour contacted to Professional exterminator Sacramento, CA, to identify the pest. Likewise you can also take some useful reference by contacting Professional pest controller team to find out whether it is a bug or termite.
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I don't think the verb we are looking for, here, is 'exterminate'. Rather, it is 'persuade to move elsewhere'.
 
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I'm inclined to let the mountain lions eat rodents, and the neighbors cats when they're let out each morning to do their business. I recently set up some safe traps for flies, gnats and wasps, etc. Sugar, some raw meat or ripe fruit, bit of baker's yeast, and water, and a bit of sugar. The carbon dioxide attracts everything under the sun except honey bees. 10 traps hanging from my fruit trees have garnered dozens of mosquito, house flies, gnats, a few wasps, etc.
 
Over the years we've had a few bee swarms to deal with. As other's have said normally you call up a bee keeper to come and get them. Sometimes they take them - other times they're not interested.

One of the funniest was when we were kids a neighbour decided to smoke out a wasps nest that was causing him problems in his rockery. As you can guess the wasps weren't too impressed and I don't think we've ever run faster.

The weirdest one was when I was with my dad driving in his car. We had a few bees hit the windscreen then a second or two later there was a rattling thumping like driving through a huge thunderstorm but instead of water it was bees hitting the car. We had to use the wipers to clear them enough to see. When we got home the car had to be washed to get rid of hundreds and hundreds of dead bees. The front was just covered in them. We wondered if we hit a queen to start with?
 
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