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

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Originally posted by: Ornery
I'm going to have to ask for a better pic. Could you get a little closer?
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i already filmed them just resting there, ill put it up when i get home from school, i got up REALLY close
 
Originally posted by: chiwawa626
2 words:
Super Soaker!


Actualy you can go down to home depot and buy cans of this spray stuff (it shoots like from 10 feet away) that is supposed to kill em, my dad and his friend used it on this nest of yellow jackets. They also used a fire extinguisher to make them go away....
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That's funny. When I used to live in Michigan, my friends used super soaker to remove a hornet's nest from my mom's house. They load it with soapy water... They also attack the nest with well-aimed baseball.
 
Those bees may be gone before you can get a real hive set up, but you can order a queen and her workers doubtless over the web. I built my own hives from kits. You put them together and frame the wax templates the bees use to build their comb and add them to the box. The bees lay eggs in the lower chamber, chambers and build honey comb storage in smaller boxes you put on top. There must be a ton of info on the web. Also if you set up an empty hive with the comb templates around swarm time the bees will find it and move in. Have fun. Don't slap a bee that lands on you. They won't sting unless you start to squeeze or crush them. They will die if they sting so they don't unless provoked. You can easily walk around a hive so long as you don't disturbe it. Have fun. Glad to hear your Dad is facinated.
 
that looks exactly like one of my trees in my backyard last summer. Called and exterminator but it's pretty cool looking
 
You can have fun here.

Um, maybe not lots and lots of dead links

Here's something local.

Supplies:

Carrier's Beekeeping Suppliers, (local, but more expensive)
601 S. Baywood Ave, San Jose, 408-296-6100

 
See if you can catch one. If you are able to... then look for a tiny pouch about the thorax... carefully open it and determine the contents... They look like Iraqi sniper bees and if you mess with them and their WMD small scale you might find yourself enlightened but overwhelmed.
 
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