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    Quote Originally Posted by W2IBC View Post
    suprised you got by so long without issues.
    They were biding their time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KG4CGC View Post
    They were biding their time.
    Building up their troops, all the while plotting your demise. Bastids.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    And those bastids WILL sting you without provocation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by K7SGJ View Post
    When we get them, we just scare them to death. Sneak up behind them and yell



    BOO BEE
    ...and they all go tits up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wa6mhz View Post
    I had the old bat who lives behind me DEMAND I have a behive that formed in the wall of my garage REMOVED! That cost me $400. I didn't put the bees there. Then, a year later, she demanded I have the NEW behive that formed in an old paint can REMOVED!!! $200 for that one!!!! HEY, These aren't my @#@#@#@ BEES!!! And SHE is the one with a yard full of bright flowers!!! And she wonders why there are bees!
    You should have donated the hives to her.
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    Quote Originally Posted by W5GA View Post
    You should have donated the hives to her.
    She probably had hives already.

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    Some beekeepers like the "Africanized honey bees" (aka killer bees). I was told that some of them produce copious amounts of honey. But they are a pain to work with and you need to wear a veil and bee suit tied at the bottom because they have a tendency to drop to the ground and crawl up your leg and sting... (OUCH !!). Seriously, I don't know if anyone actually keeps them. I am just going on what I was told.

    My Dad used to keep the much more docile and very common Italian honey bees. It was almost impossible to get stung by them. I used to hold frames full of bees wearing just a tee shirt and no veil and never got stung. Only time they would get a little aggressive was during harvest time. I was stung a grand total of twice.
    Last edited by n2ize; 04-18-2012 at 03:47 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by W1GUH View Post
    Very best tool against yellow jackets is just plain hairspray. And ol' can of it will do. One quick spritz with that and those buggers can't fly anymore! Fun to watch 'em try, tho'. Obviously, works on any flying insect.

    No nasty poisons to worry about, either for you or the environment. No problem with other species being affected, and no danger from fire or anything else. And it works instantly.
    Wrong. This works much better. Get's rid of bees, wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, rats, mice, pesky rodents, etc. etc. etc.

    Last edited by n2ize; 04-18-2012 at 03:52 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by n2ize View Post
    Wrong. This works much better. Get's rid of bees, wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, rats, mice, pesky rodents, etc. etc. etc.

    But not the cockroaches.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    But not the cockroaches.
    If we can just train them to produce honey instead of merely being nasty, we're set.
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