Bees

[MACPLUMB]

All Bees Live In Dark Nests But They Are Still Nocternal

Macplumb
P. S. I Know This Because I Used To Work With Honey Bees!!!
And Yes I Have Gotten Strung By Both Bees And Yellowjackets

 

[Master Plumber Mark]

things you dont forget

MM, I would had freaked too if one of my kids were stung like that. Someone would be picking me up off the floor.

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Even though my girl was only 2 she stills remembers
being down by the creek and getting stung by the bees and
daddy comming to the rescue....

in hindsight I probably should have just taken her to the
hospital but she seemed ok and with the benedril everything
calmed down and mellowed out after about 10 minutes.....

now her mother was another story...


I think moms jumping up and down and running around
all excited actually made the baby more adgitated than the bee stings.


just pour in that diezel fuel and some kerosine
and have yourself a barbacue....

 

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[Cookie]

I developed yet another inground nest. There are so many bees flying around now that side of the yard is not useable. I might have to go to Plan B. I know this will work.

 

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All Bees Live In Dark Nests But They Are Still Nocternal

I was always told the opposite and have always seen lots of Bees in the daytime. But you have more experience than I want to have, so I'll take your word for it.

bob...

 

[Cass]

I have never seen bees fly at night... they may be active in the nest at night but I dont think they gather nectar at night.

 

[Cookie]

I have never seen them fly at night. I am out there at night checking them out.

I raised the total of my bee stings today. A honey bee ran into my eye, he must had missed my nose.

In my emails today I got 3 more responses. They all asked if I needed more bees, I could go for a record.

 

[pdkpotocki]

I had a nest in a side of a hill tried bee spray, gas, water hose for 8 hours, finally i got the old shotgun out and unloaded on it with buck shot. worked pretty good.

 

[Cookie]

I bet it did.

 

[Cookie]

Come to think of it, a match and a gallon of gas will work better than bullits.

Just like she said in the other thread.

 

[Cookie]

You are begging for it Cass...

 

[Cass]

Try something and your in trouble bud.


Why aren't you moderating, moderator ?

 

[Cookie]

Ok, PAL,

 

[HammerSlammer]

This year in Colorado Springs we had tons of small wasp nest. I found them in the rungs of my ladders, in the tubes of my truck ladder racks, in scaffolding and metal scaffold planks. Seemed to be about a dozen bees per nest. I've lived here 30 years and never saw this... Yellow jackets were about normal. I had a few nest at rental properties and had to call the pros in case they get out of hand and sting one of my wonderful tenants.

 

[Cookie]

Bet that made climbing those ladders alittle tricky.

I bet a match and a gallon of gas would work.

 

[Cass]

I hope you dont get rid of your boy friend like that.

 

[Cookie]

I am thinking...
... ... ...

 

[GrumpyPlumber]

Had my encounter earlier this summer.
Doing a boiler in a short basement, about 5' high when I noticed a humming sound.
Went outside to see them coming out of an abandoned hole for cable.
I got some putty and blocked the hole, dumb move.
They found another way out, and they weren't happy either.
Drove to a local hardware, got a can of bee killer and dowsed the hole.
Go down the basement to discover they had a back door.
Sprayed inside the joist bay where they were coming out, ran off for a coffee break and when I got back they were goners.
Not one sting, knock on wood.
I run fast.

 

[Dunbar Plumbing]

That customer where I got stung twice???

Gave me a glowing report on Angie's List with all A's.


Took the pain right out of the sting.

 

[bozomedic]

This is an unusually bad season for bees. I have had many patients stung this year. Quite a few are allergic to the stings and become anaphylactic (a really bad reaction characterized by swelling, hives, trouble breathing, trouble swallowing and the like). If you are such a person you may not know it. The first sting sensitizes you and each subsequent reaction gets worse until a sting finally kills you when your body goes overboard to counteract the venom. If you are such a person see your doctor for an "epi-pen" which auto injects epinephrine into your muscle, usually your thigh. Epinephrine is just adrenaline that your body produces but just in higher dosages. Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) works well too but may not be strong enough administered by itself.

Last year a wasp flew into the rig and down my shirt. It stung me on my abdomen and felt like hot metal teeth! The pain and swelling was there for a whole week! I had to take Benadryl and Prednisone for two weeks to counteract the reaction.

Take care and give them a wide berth.

 

[Alternety]

Be(e) careful when the nest is in the walls of a house. Obviously the gallon of burning hydrocarbon is a bad idea, but if you plug the hole to the outside they may go inside. When they nest this way there amy be only a thin layer of drywall paper between them and you.