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Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
The bee is the traditional goon mascot. Don't declare war on bees!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-m-0RlqMHM

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Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Jose Mengelez posted:

narc spotted

Whaaaaaat?! No! C'mon man. You know me better than that. All I'm saying is, If you or anyone here HAPPEN TO KNOW WHERE SOME EASILY ACCESSIBLE WOODEN STRUCTURES ARE LOCATED THAT BEES MIGHT BE ABLE TO FIND ARE, where THEY COULD BE FOUND?
Like we're just talking, dude. You can just tell me. I really just like knowing THE EXACT LOCATION OF EASY TO BURROW INTO WOOD STRUCTURES WHERE I CAN LAY MY EGG CLUTCHES AND HOW TO FIND THEM, SPECIFICALLY. Like. Just talking like normal dudes do.

Failson
Sep 2, 2018
Fun Shoe
Bees still cool and good. Don't kill the bees.

Hairy Busey
Jan 5, 2019

by FactsAreUseless
Just some bees buzzin on the airwaves looking for some cheap wood snacks

Zippy the Bummer
Dec 14, 2008

Silent Majority
The Don
LORD COMMANDER OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES
I looked up some videos on youtube that show bees doing their communication dances, and tried to imitate these maneuvers in front of the workshop where they swarm around. I could perceive no response from them other than to hover menacingly around my head. Efforts to open a diplomatic channel remain unsuccessful.

I see from a previous post that bugs don't like cedars. drat. Nevertheless, there are other conifers in the vicinity, as well as dead trees with no bark.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Zippy the Bummer posted:

I looked up some videos on youtube that show bees doing their communication dances, and tried to imitate these maneuvers in front of the workshop where they swarm around. I could perceive no response from them other than to hover menacingly around my head. Efforts to open a diplomatic channel remain unsuccessful.

I see from a previous post that bugs don't like cedars. drat. Nevertheless, there are other conifers in the vicinity, as well as dead trees with no bark.

Zipp-dog just lookin up how ta dance beezy

Android Apocalypse
Apr 28, 2009

The future is
AUTOMATED
and you are
OBSOLETE

Illegal Hen
Maybe you need to make your workshop unappealing for the carpenter bees to call their home. Maybe some treatment of the wood to make it gross for them to burrow through. Or maybe have other, fancier bees move in and let their gentrification increase property values to the point the carpenter bees have to move out.

The Real Amethyst
Apr 20, 2018

When no one was looking, Serval took forty Japari buns. She took 40 buns. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.

EorayMel posted:

Is this a sequel to that one goon who trapped a wasp under a glass for the hell of it then it escaped when he wasn't looking?

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3835134

Why are there no answers to this? How could such a thing have happened?
:wtc:

Zippy the Bummer
Dec 14, 2008

Silent Majority
The Don
LORD COMMANDER OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES

Android Apocalypse posted:

Maybe you need to make your workshop unappealing for the carpenter bees to call their home. Maybe some treatment of the wood to make it gross for them to burrow through. Or maybe have other, fancier bees move in and let their gentrification increase property values to the point the carpenter bees have to move out.

The wood is chemically treated with preservatives but apparently this doesn't bother them. The fancier bees (honeybees) stay in their nicer gentrified hives in the woods, the workshop is "the other side of the tracks" apparently

redm
Feb 20, 2016


Sugartime Jones
gently caress you bees rule

Failson
Sep 2, 2018
Fun Shoe
Use this:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Giles-and-Kendall-8-oz-Cedar-Oil-OIL008/203522859

The Dregs
Dec 29, 2005

MY TREEEEEEEE!

Big Beef City posted:

No lie 'copse' is one of my favorite words and I like using it.

I thought a copse was managed woods for making straight poles? You're probably using it wrong. You bastard.

(edit) I guess that is what it was originally. Now it's just trees.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

The Dregs posted:

I thought a copse was managed woods for making straight poles? You're probably using it wrong. You bastard.

(edit) I guess that is what it was originally. Now it's just trees.

What did you think I thought it meant and how was I using it wrong? Ordering poo poo off the dollar menu or something?

The Dregs
Dec 29, 2005

MY TREEEEEEEE!
If you're actually managing the woods to make straight poles..well, can I have one?

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
beez.... huts?!?

P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

I thought I had bumblebees in the yard but then my six year old daughter pointed at it and said "silly dad, that's a carpenter bee!" She read a book at the library and is a bug expert now.

In my case they seemed to be focused on one particular fascia, I sprayed it full of crap but we'll find out soon if I actually got them all or if a new batch is gonna hatch this spring.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

P-Mack posted:

I thought I had bumblebees in the yard but then my six year old daughter pointed at it and said "silly dad, that's a carpenter bee!" She read a book at the library and is a bug expert now.

In my case they seemed to be focused on one particular fascia, I sprayed it full of crap but we'll find out soon if I actually got them all or if a new batch is gonna hatch this spring.

It was probably a ground bee and your child was wrong AGAIN

Zippy the Bummer
Dec 14, 2008

Silent Majority
The Don
LORD COMMANDER OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES

not sure how much i'll have to buy to coat all the rafters in the workshop but i will investigate this, thanks

I emptied the bee trap this morning and it was nearly full again this evening. While effective, and working as advertised, it does not seem to be making a dent in their onslaught. I plan to get more traps

Grem
Mar 29, 2004

It's how her species communicates

Replace bees with little robot bees.

Bees are dumb and not complex. A person working a grocery checkout is more complex. If we can replace the checkout clerks with robots surely we can replace bees with robots.

Worf
Sep 12, 2017

If only Seth would love me like I love him!

SLICK GOKU BABY posted:

Maybe you should mind your beezness OP

lol

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Orchids trap bees in goo then deposit these big weird old pollen seeds on them meanwhile the bee is trying to get out.

Free Cheese
Sep 16, 2005
Come on, it's free
Buglord
WHAT THE gently caress is going on in here, carpenters are gentle beasts that excel in buzz pollination and can fly in cold or inclement weather that would knock lesser insects out of the sky. They are also extremely long lived for bees and have unique semi social nest structures- along with being smart enough to find their way home after being moved up to 7 miles away. You should be honored to share your lovely rear end house with them op wtf

Hairy Busey
Jan 5, 2019

by FactsAreUseless

Grem posted:

Replace bees with little robot bees.

Bees are dumb and not complex. A person working a grocery checkout is more complex. If we can replace the checkout clerks with robots surely we can replace bees with robots.

The biggest problem is battery technology

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Free Cheese posted:

WHAT THE gently caress is going on in here, carpenters are gentle beasts that excel in buzz pollination and can fly in cold or inclement weather that would knock lesser insects out of the sky. They are also extremely long lived for bees and have unique semi social nest structures- along with being smart enough to find their way home after being moved up to 7 miles away. You should be honored to share your lovely rear end house with them op wtf

This guy right here? This guy tucks in and kisses some serious bee.

Zippy the Bummer
Dec 14, 2008

Silent Majority
The Don
LORD COMMANDER OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES

Free Cheese posted:

WHAT THE gently caress is going on in here, carpenters are gentle beasts that excel in buzz pollination and can fly in cold or inclement weather that would knock lesser insects out of the sky. They are also extremely long lived for bees and have unique semi social nest structures- along with being smart enough to find their way home after being moved up to 7 miles away. You should be honored to share your lovely rear end house with them op wtf

so I should just let them get all up in my poo poo then?

maybe i should let them make a "gallery" in my butthole and lay eggs there i mean why not, i'm not into that sort of thing but if the bees require it who am i to gainsay mother nature

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

Zippy the Bummer posted:

so I should just let them get all up in my poo poo then?

maybe i should let them make a "gallery" in my butthole and lay eggs there i mean why not, i'm not into that sort of thing but if the bees require it who am i to gainsay mother nature

some on-brand posting from the guy who has the last silent majority av

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Zippy the Bummer posted:

so I should just let them get all up in my poo poo then?

maybe i should let them make a "gallery" in my butthole and lay eggs there i mean why not, i'm not into that sort of thing but if the bees require it who am i to gainsay mother nature

They sell kits to help foster bees, carpenter bees, actually. The kits have these little pre-bored holes for the bees to live in that are about the size of those thicker, nicer straws you get at some fast food places. Not like, boba-tea straws, just the nicer non-flexy kind. You know what I mean. Anyway where I'm going with this is, no reason to rush things and maybe hurt the bees or whatever. What you want to do is get one or maybe a few of those straws and start by getting those stuck up your bee-hole to get it nice and ready. Probably just keep them up there for a week, week and a half or two, and just try living a normal life like that. Whatever you do, just keep those straws wedged up your rear end and just go about your business like normal. Once you get used to it, then start inviting those bees to begin boring their future abodes in that money-maker of yours by waving it about for them where they normally live.
Sometimes you need to make a real show of it, so some real vigorous and lively presentation is good, and make sure that there's plenty of lighting and exposure so they can see it from wherever they might be at the time, even if they aren't home at the time.

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Zippy the Bummer posted:

so I should just let them get all up in my poo poo then?

maybe i should let them make a "gallery" in my butthole and lay eggs there i mean why not, i'm not into that sort of thing but if the bees require it who am i to gainsay mother nature

Yes cuz gently caress you!!!

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

Big Beef City posted:

Kiss every bee and tuck it into a tiny bee bed and tell it you love it

i read every single post itt and this is easily my favorite

Zippy the Bummer
Dec 14, 2008

Silent Majority
The Don
LORD COMMANDER OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES

Big Beef City posted:

They sell kits to help foster bees, carpenter bees, actually. The kits have these little pre-bored holes for the bees to live in that are about the size of those thicker, nicer straws you get at some fast food places. Not like, boba-tea straws, just the nicer non-flexy kind. You know what I mean. Anyway where I'm going with this is, no reason to rush things and maybe hurt the bees or whatever. What you want to do is get one or maybe a few of those straws and start by getting those stuck up your bee-hole to get it nice and ready. Probably just keep them up there for a week, week and a half or two, and just try living a normal life like that. Whatever you do, just keep those straws wedged up your rear end and just go about your business like normal. Once you get used to it, then start inviting those bees to begin boring their future abodes in that money-maker of yours by waving it about for them where they normally live.
Sometimes you need to make a real show of it, so some real vigorous and lively presentation is good, and make sure that there's plenty of lighting and exposure so they can see it from wherever they might be at the time, even if they aren't home at the time.

are you saying i should just give up trying to dance with them and instead entice them to live in my dead butt? Carpenter bees don't live in dead animals, this has already been established.

I have tried many methods of trying to get them to leave in a peaceable way. These methods have all failed. I appreciate the effort you put into this post, though

Stoner Sloth
Apr 2, 2019

Grem posted:

Replace bees with little robot bees.

Bees are dumb and not complex. A person working a grocery checkout is more complex. If we can replace the checkout clerks with robots surely we can replace bees with robots.

Counterpoint - people are actually dumb and by complex you probably mean melodramatic since most of human "complexity" basically boils down to that. It's much easier to replace humans with robots than it is something as useful as bees, look how many people get fooled by chat bots.

Most people could be realistic modeled from a relatively small stock of banal phrases and porn searches. Plus a robot bee would have to be highly sophisticated in terms of sensors and the ability to fly with some measure of agility... meanwhile most people are clumsy fucks who don't even have pilots licenses.

Bees also aren't destroying the planet's ecosystem to make crap that they don't need and won't make them happy.

Face it, bees aren't the problem, they've never been the problem.

Replace OP with a robot that likes bees is what I'm saying.

We Got Us A Bread
Jul 23, 2007

Grem posted:

Replace bees with little robot bees.

Bees are dumb and not complex. A person working a grocery checkout is more complex. If we can replace the checkout clerks with robots surely we can replace bees with robots.

Bees can be taught to do math. Therefore, Bees are awesome. Source: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/2/eaav0961

Katamari Democracy
Jan 19, 2010

Guess what! :love:
Guess what this is? :love:
A Post, Just for you! :love:
Wedge Regret
I like to punch bees right in their little b-balls.

...Do bees even have balls?

bloom
Feb 25, 2017

by sebmojo
op you fool, bees have powerful allies. you have no chance

https://www.pornhub.com/cares/beesexual :nws: obeeously

FlimFlam Imam
Mar 1, 2007

Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams
Zippy is not someone I'd consider the bees knees :colbert:

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.
gently caress anything that flies and stings

kill em all, OP

Worf
Sep 12, 2017

If only Seth would love me like I love him!

I wonder how many people that are wildly against the OP protecting his assets actually own anything themselves or how hard they worked for what they own.

If you don't like it petition your congressmen to set up a fund that protects both homeowner and bee

Or, idk, don't choose the bee over the guy that is just trying to protect the integrity of his livelihood

naem
May 29, 2011



*slow heavy metal music*

GPF
Jul 20, 2000

Kidney Buddies
Oven Wrangler
Kill the gently caress out of those goddamned bees.

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Free Cheese
Sep 16, 2005
Come on, it's free
Buglord

Statutory Ape posted:

I wonder how many people that are wildly against the OP protecting his assets actually own anything themselves or how hard they worked for what they own.

If you don't like it petition your congressmen to set up a fund that protects both homeowner and bee

Or, idk, don't choose the bee over the guy that is just trying to protect the integrity of his livelihood

Im petitioning every goddamn lawmaker in the US to keep you from posting again

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