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Bee hive fun - with pics! and a video! and a new house for the bees!

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LOL...All you guys talking about the 'Africanized' honey bees keep making me have flashbacks to "Bowling for Columbine"...😉
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
Bees breathe through their bodies. Make some really soapy water and spray the hive with it - from a safe distance. Spray for no longer than 10 seconds or so, then run inside for about 10 minutes before going back out to do it again. They'll all suffocate and fall to the ground, or fly off (if you missed them), and come back for more when you come out a second, third, or forth time.

I used to do this when I lived in another city where we had problems with bees, but I haven't done anything like that for a while. No bees around here to complain about. 🙂
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did you do this to africanized bees or regular honey bees going about their business?
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I did that to bees of all kinds who were making hives ON my house or under the eves of the porch, etc. I usually say that if bugs are outside, leave them alone. If they're inside, they're fair-game. But when it comes to wasps, mud-wasps, and africanized bees, I give em hell when they're trying to nest inside my bird houses.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
This bring to mind all the bad disaster bee movies from the 70s for anybody else or just me?
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What about the one where the bees were clogging up the EMA sirens? That one was fvcked up.
 
Here in AZ, all the bees are africanized. Take the advice and don't mess with 'em.

I've had to have the bee folks out here a couple of times at $150/per. It sucks.

Every year someone's kid or dog gets killed by them.

Someone mentioned soapy water. That works - it sticks to their wings so they can't fly. Don't use raid, that just makes 'em mad.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
This bring to mind all the bad disaster bee movies from the 70s for anybody else or just me?
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actually the thing i was thinking off was when the bees were nesting in the hood scoop of the wrx 😀
 
Originally posted by: jw791
Here in AZ, all the bees are africanized. Take the advice and don't mess with 'em.

I've had to have the bee folks out here a couple of times at $150/per. It sucks.

Every year someone's kid or dog gets killed by them.

Someone mentioned soapy water. That works - it sticks to their wings so they can't fly. Don't use raid, that just makes 'em mad.
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Yep, soapy water is the most effective against Africanized honeybees.

 
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: jw791
Here in AZ, all the bees are africanized. Take the advice and don't mess with 'em.

I've had to have the bee folks out here a couple of times at $150/per. It sucks.

Every year someone's kid or dog gets killed by them.

Someone mentioned soapy water. That works - it sticks to their wings so they can't fly. Don't use raid, that just makes 'em mad.
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Yep, soapy water is the most effective against Africanized honeybees.
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I keep a spray bottle in the backyard. 1/4 Dawn liquid detergent, 3/4 water. When bees come in ones and twos they get it! It's very effective.

 
Originally posted by: Jgtdragon
Attack of the killer bees!

You going to keep them to guard the yard?

What cam you use to took those pics?
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I was waiting for someone to ask that... cant bee a geek forum until something around that nature is asked.

As for the bees. We used to get rid of yellow jacket hives with store bought smoke bombs. You piss them off and then use a good ole hose to beat them back. I wouldnt recomend that. I got stung lots of times. It doesn't work. We were just stupid.
 
ugh, reminds me of this huge yellowjacket beehive we had in the shelter last yr. It was a size of my freakn 17" monitor!! both width and dimension wise.... it housed about 2000 bees at least.

dad and i bought 4 cans of beesectides and calmly waited for the dusk. We armed ourselves from the head to toe:

1. face
nike facial mask + shower cap + baseball cap + plastic goggles

2. body
long sleeve shirt + a thickass sweater + a trenchcoat :Q + heavy work gloves


we were basically invincible really. We went into shelter and my dad threw a fist sized rock to crack open the hive.. :Q:Q:Q With a loud crunch, bees swarmed EVERYWHERE and we sprayed them all to death.. until we no longer heard the massive buzz of thousands of bees flying around... it took us about 15 mins...

And the next day.. wow.. thousands of dead bees everywhere in the shelter and piles of dead bee larvae.. lol

Who needs professionals? As long as you're crazy enough like me and shield yourself from top to bottom.. we got 0 stings.
 
piss them off, get them worked up. and when they all swarm out, run inside your house and shut ALL The windows/doors etc. and watched the disaster begin....😀 😀 😀
 
Disclaimer:
Don't listen to any advice here.
With that said here is my suggestion. 🙂

Get a fine meshed net and make some kind of tent out of it. Now put that over the plant and then hose'em down with soapy water + whatever other fun chemicals. Should be reasonably safe
 
Originally posted by: Jgtdragon
Attack of the killer bees!

You going to keep them to guard the yard?

What cam you use to took those pics?
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i used a nikon cool pix 2500, FULL zoom, i didnt wanna get anywhere near those insanity bugs
 
Take a jar of honey and chuck it in your neighbours lawn. OR

Blind fold yourself and bang away at it like a pinata (spelling?).
 
somehow capture all of them i na box, or bag.

then put it in your neighbor's mailbox. spy on them and hear them scream after they walk into their house 5 min. later
 
This is when you need my pneumatic spud cannon, was putting golfballs through 3/8 inch plywood at around @50ft, with about 30 PSI of air. Load a big cup full of soapy water and fire away😀
 
nah, go with sweat clothes about 5 sizes too big. then get out your big ass boots. socks, and all that crap. along with a face mask... you want to use nylon straps to cinch all your wrists and ankles closed (over boots and gloves). you want to get some awesome face mask, then another over the top of it. the hardest part to secure will be the neck. try and figure something out. that should give ya some survivability out there. then take care of them with a hose blowing thru a outdoor window washer thing filled with soap and bleach.



or, if you want to have some fun, fill a 5 gallon bucket with water soap bleach combo, then dump it on the plant, then use the hose to knock down everything else.


OR, if you want to have more fun, find a couple gallons of laquer, a spray nozzle, and a air compressor, and have some fun making little bee figurines as they try to shake off this laquer. i guess poly uretyane would work too...


OR, get WD -40, in the awesome big can, use a nozzle, and a match, and spray the fvckers...

OR, get some gasoline, some styrafoam, and make napalm, douse and burn...

OR, build a small fire underneath the bees, making sure the smoke goes into the swarm... smoke relaxes the bees, makes em super lazy... then kill with any of the above methods 😉
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
that looks like an africanized swarm. i wouldn't go near em. call a beekeeper and they'll know
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LMAO. It's nearly impossible to tell a single africanized honeybee from a european with the naked eye, nonetheless a blurry photo of a swarm from yards away.
 
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