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re: How do I get rid of bumble bees in a live oak?
Posted on 7/8/23 at 7:34 am to shoelessjoe
Posted on 7/8/23 at 7:34 am to shoelessjoe
Tie the limb to the back of your truck
1 guy in the truck
1 guy cuts the limb
Soon as limb hits the ground guy driving truck hauls arse
Drag the whole problem elsewhere
1 guy in the truck
1 guy cuts the limb
Soon as limb hits the ground guy driving truck hauls arse
Drag the whole problem elsewhere
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Posted on 7/8/23 at 7:52 am to shoelessjoe
When I bought my house it had a bad wasp problem. I fought them for a while, but finally called the pros and signed a contract for quarterly treatments.
They sprayed that day. I thoroughly enjoyed sweeping up the almost instant dead wasps from the porch and deck.
Never had a problem again. Out of all the shite you have to pay for to maintain a house, I never complain about the quarterly auto-draft to the bug people.
They sprayed that day. I thoroughly enjoyed sweeping up the almost instant dead wasps from the porch and deck.
Never had a problem again. Out of all the shite you have to pay for to maintain a house, I never complain about the quarterly auto-draft to the bug people.
Posted on 7/8/23 at 8:11 am to Sus-Scrofa
Bumbles are the meanest flying insects out there when you get around their hives. You can be walking 10 feet away, throw your shadow over the entrance hole, and they will hammer you. God invented tractor cabs just because of those little bastages.
Posted on 7/8/23 at 8:50 am to shoelessjoe
you don't. leave them alone. they wont frick with you. they will leave after the queen says its time
Posted on 7/8/23 at 8:54 am to AlxTgr
This. I’ve had two different run ins with them. They are mean as shite.
Posted on 7/8/23 at 9:50 am to GREENHEAD22
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Bumbles are usually pretty timid and mild.
Disagree here.
Posted on 7/8/23 at 12:03 pm to upgrade
Going to try the wasp spray this afternoon. If that doesn’t work, tomorrow night I will pour gas inside of the nest cavity if I can get close enough to it.
Posted on 7/8/23 at 12:08 pm to Outdoorreb
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What most people call “bumble bee” is known by most are carpenter bees, what he is talking about are probably a Bombus species. Carpenter Bees look like them, but Bombus species will bust your arse. (They live in the colonies in the ground and cavities, not the carpenter bees that tunnel in your exposed wood on the house)
all this. I've gotten into several yellow jackets nests and one "bumble bee" nest. I still vividly remember those little vicious mini bumble bees clamping down on my legs while I was fleeing from the push mower. frick I hope i never get into them again. I just sorta remember the yellow jacket occurrences.
Posted on 7/8/23 at 1:08 pm to Turnblad85
Get a headlight with a red lense,spray a can of wasp spray in the nest.They will fly to a white light but can’t see the red.
I found this out the hard way trying to eradicate a yellow jacket nest one night,got several stings in the face.
I found this out the hard way trying to eradicate a yellow jacket nest one night,got several stings in the face.
Posted on 7/8/23 at 1:26 pm to shoelessjoe
I doubt wasp spray will kill bees. We had a problem at work with honeybees, yellow jackets and wasp swarming around the soda cans in the garbage. The safety man sprayed the garbage cans with wasp spray and killed the wasp and yellow jackets but the honey bees survived.
Posted on 7/8/23 at 7:29 pm to shoelessjoe
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shoelessjoe
How’s it goin baw?
Posted on 7/8/23 at 7:51 pm to shoelessjoe
Wasp spray won’t do much at all for bumblebees, or even carpenter bees for that matter. The most it will do is possibly temporarily stun them where they drop to the ground. You’ve only got a few second window to rush over and stomp them. Don’t be too late !
Posted on 7/8/23 at 8:01 pm to Outdoorreb
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What most people call “bumble bee” is known by most are carpenter bees,
I remember as a kid if they have a white face they can’t sting. We would try to catch them and tie a kite string around them and pull them back in.
This post was edited on 7/8/23 at 8:02 pm
Posted on 7/9/23 at 7:21 am to REB BEER
I was told that too. Later learned it’s not that they can’t, but that they don’t want to.
Posted on 7/9/23 at 8:17 am to shoelessjoe
There are people into bees that will come move them for free.
Posted on 7/9/23 at 12:33 pm to tigersownall
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There are people into bees that will come move them for free.
Are you sure people do this with bumblebees?
I’m starting to think many of y’all have never encountered bumblebees.
We get a swarm at the camp every few years, and those bastards are mean as hell.
They’re usually near a ditch bank.
Posted on 7/9/23 at 1:30 pm to upgrade
Posted on 7/9/23 at 2:20 pm to tigersownall
Throw Devin dust on the limbs and trunk or tree. It will stick to
their feet and they will carry it into the hive.
They will all be dead in 3 or 4 days.
their feet and they will carry it into the hive.
They will all be dead in 3 or 4 days.
Posted on 7/9/23 at 7:42 pm to shoelessjoe
Spray bifen/talstar in the hole where they are coming in and out. Run away.... really fast. They will all be dead in a couple of days.
Posted on 7/9/23 at 8:02 pm to Canon951
I may have to do this. These bastards are smart. They are dug in like the Taliban in torabora where you can get directly at the nest. That and they are a bunch right over the property lines. Feel like I am in for guerilla warfare.
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