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Building my own led organ to direct even more bees to OPs shed
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Two years running I have had a war for the wood of my patio not with carpenter bees, but motherfucking bald-faced hornets. Also last year briefly termites but the pest control service I have a contract with nipped that poo poo in the bud right away. They cannot seem to find the hornet nest, which is loving lovely. (it's probably inside my porch beams or some poo poo)
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Apr 19, 2019 20:00
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I cycled through a swarm of bee's today. They came out of nowhere. A big cloud of hundreds of them and not one stung me. Because bees are COOL!
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Apr 19, 2019 20:24
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Fancy_Breakfast posted:I cycled through a swarm of bee's today. They came out of nowhere. A big cloud of hundreds of them and not one stung me. Are you sure you weren't just properly celebrating bicycle day?
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Apr 19, 2019 20:26
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SeXReX posted:Are you sure you weren't just properly celebrating bicycle day? I was high at the time.... But not on LSD.
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Apr 19, 2019 20:29
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Big Beef City posted:No lie 'copse' is one of my favorite words and I like using it. Same here. Oh, wait, no. Corpse. Corpse is the word I like to use.
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Apr 20, 2019 00:32
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Honey dont
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Apr 20, 2019 00:50
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put a loving donk on it
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Apr 20, 2019 00:57
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"I'm a BEE!" -- Jerry Seinfeld, upon seeing himself in character for the first time at the premier of The Bee Movie
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Apr 20, 2019 01:01
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Big Beef City posted:Don't kill bees.
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Apr 20, 2019 02:57
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OP come back and post pics of the bee mass graves repent your crimes against nature and maybe u will be spared
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Apr 20, 2019 04:27
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I don't have any pictures of the dead bees. I usually just empty the traps into the trash bin in the barnyard each morning. I mean, i guess i could take photos of them, if you wantSniperWoreConverse posted:OP come back and post pics of the bee mass graves i will spare them, if they repent it has been rainy and cold the last couple days, so the bees have been mostly dormant, but I will try to get some pictures next week
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Apr 20, 2019 07:04
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Shoulda cooked em, heard they make a tangy chili
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Apr 20, 2019 10:21
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Those bees do more good in one day than you will do in your entire life, OP https://www.snopes.com/ap/2019/04/1...Cgcm08vQhOS4pVo Hope your story ends the same way
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Apr 20, 2019 10:47
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Statutory Ape posted:OP makes his living on a farm and people itt equating a trap he made to torturing animals with fire Did anyone suggest he make a second huge building? Building something for them wouldn't be that expensive to build out of scrap timber I'd figured but fair point. If they can't be moved on and they can cause serious damage then kill away. Just see a lot of people killing poo poo like bees, spiders, wasps, etc for very little reason and without making any attempt to solve the problem differently - which I think is fair to compare with killing other insects with a magnify glass  Fancy_Breakfast posted:I cycled through a swarm of bee's today. They came out of nowhere. A big cloud of hundreds of them and not one stung me. I think the swarms don't tend to sting - that's mostly a reaction to defend the hive or if you step on them not a bee expert but I have a hive of wild honey bees right outside my door and they throw of swarms most years when it's the right time.Got pics of the hive, it's in an old possum box: https://imgur.com/fwTYEmD https://imgur.com/6JKbz2H e: Missed reading OPs last post cause I'm dumb - would definitely be cool to see some pics of them, weather permitting and when you get a chance! Stoner Sloth fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Apr 20, 2019 |
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Apr 20, 2019 11:02
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yeah i can totally see this guy constructing a building solely for carpenter wasps
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Apr 20, 2019 11:07
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I love bees, killing things with fire is hosed up. When are we gonna get to the
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Apr 20, 2019 12:48
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Bees get drunk on smoke so maybe smoke some weed at these bees
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Apr 20, 2019 15:24
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marijuanamancer posted:yeah i can totally see this guy constructing a building solely for carpenter wasps BRB pulling permits for my beehive
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Apr 20, 2019 15:33
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Close in your eaves and soffits so they can't get to your precious sweet, soft, old growth pine rafters?
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Apr 20, 2019 16:10
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A thing from this thread came up in my thread so I thought I'd share:Sapper posted:No, no, what you gotta do is strike at their heart: their galleries. They'd infested an old shed of mine, tunneling vast galleries through the fascia. I could hear them in there...chewing....chewing...mocking me, content in their cozy little homes they'd made for themselves, even as they destroyed what they could not possibly build. https://soundcloud.com/user-641725526/fuckyoubees2
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Apr 21, 2019 01:41
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smdh just replaced the carpenter bees with carpenter ants
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Apr 21, 2019 02:20
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SniperWoreConverse posted:if the bees can kill a lion they can gently caress u up bad op Oh yeah? Can a lion do this? *sweet capoeira moves*
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Apr 21, 2019 02:26
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I experimented with beekeeping once, and was able to harvest a decent amount of honey one year, but then I just didn't have the time or expertise to keep up with it, so I gave them to a neighbor who actually knew how to keep bees. Beekeepers use smoke when working with the hives because the smoke makes the bees think that the colony is on fire, so they go down into the hive to eat honey, in preparation for evacuating the colony and building a new one. This allows the beekeeper to do things like moving the combs and trays around, check for invading creatures such as mice or unwanted bugs in the hive, check up on what the queen is doing, and so on. Don't know if other bees respond the same way. edit: you could say the smoke makes them "drunk" but it's also just blocking their ability to smell pheromones that trigger a defensive response Zippy the Bummer fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Apr 21, 2019 |
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Apr 21, 2019 02:39
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Zippy the Bummer posted:I experimented with beekeeping once, and was able to harvest a decent amount of honey one year, but then I just didn't have the time or expertise to keep up with it, so I gave them to a neighbor who actually knew how to keep bees. Interesting, I had heard a bit about that - never kept bees myself, love the idea of it but laws here would make it difficult if even one neighbour complained and I'm tired and effort and so on. A friend of my parents when I was a kid had a number of hives and sold his honey... honey straight out of the hive and fresh honeycomb are amazing. Not sure about how smoke would effect carpenter bees.. might work though. Also a few things I read suggested loud noise might drive them off - maybe set a up a speaker near their nests? Apparently they don't like the vibrations.
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Apr 21, 2019 04:19
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rho50JrK1I0
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Apr 21, 2019 13:02
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They don't like to chew through painted wood, so just fill the existing holes and paint the wood and no more bees.
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Apr 21, 2019 13:12
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Happy Easter. ... To Bee. 
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Apr 21, 2019 15:28
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But can you trust the MASONIC BEE 
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Apr 21, 2019 15:32
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Burt Sexual posted:You seem poorly informed. Can’t wait for the bees to redirect an asteroid and destroy his small city.
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Apr 21, 2019 15:57
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Zippy the Bummer posted:I will take this opportunity to explain a bit further why this particular group of bees is such a problem. Two years ago my brother and I determined that the workshop roof was in terrible condition, the rafters were the original ones, and as leaks had formed in the metal roofing, the wood was rotting. The roof was in danger of collapse. As a note, this building is about 70 feet long by 30 feet wide, with room to park cars and tractors. We spent an enormous amount of time and effort, nearly a whole year, replacing the entire roof ourselves, and it wasn't cheap. Carpenter bees are not going to destroy your shed, they aren't termites. They bore some holes and then stop. The next year they re-use the same holes. It's like drilling holes through a joist for electrical or plumbing. So unless you rebuilt your shed with inadequate structure support and did stupid poo poo like space the rafters way too far apart to save money, some bee holes don't matter. Your old shed rotted and fell down because it was poorly maintained. The bees had nothing to do with it.
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Apr 21, 2019 19:37
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Klyith posted:Carpenter bees are not going to destroy your shed, they aren't termites. They bore some holes and then stop. The next year they re-use the same holes. It's like drilling holes through a joist for electrical or plumbing. So unless you rebuilt your shed with inadequate structure support and did stupid poo poo like space the rafters way too far apart to save money, some bee holes don't matter. To the OP, this sounds like something carpenter bees would say 
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Apr 21, 2019 19:39
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Klyith posted:Your old shed rotted and fell down because it was poorly maintained. The bees had nothing to do with it. He didn't seem to suggest that they did?
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Apr 21, 2019 23:52
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Gobblecoque posted:He didn't seem to suggest that they did? His entire excuse for killing thousands of bees is that they're eating his shed and that will harm it. otherwise he acknowledges that they're harmless. The OP, as rain seeps through his shed roof that he's done zero work to maintain for years 
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