Bumble bees in the ground
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I gave my John Deere Green lawn mower to my son-in-law. For $ 27.50 my yard is cut, weeded and edged. They get-her-done in less than 30 minutes. My cold beer tastes just as good when they are done.
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I've always used the foaming insecticide in the spray can. They also have bottles of insecticide that you can attach to a garden hose and spray hard to reach nests. It probably works just as well to soak the ground where they have their nest.
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I've already been nailed this year by a wasp and a yellow jacket. The yellow jacket stung me just last week right behind my right ear.
I got no love any of them sumbiches, kill em all except the honey bees.
I got no love any of them sumbiches, kill em all except the honey bees.
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A guy I knew had a HUGE yellowjacket nest in the ground at his place, he observed 5 entrance/exit holes, waited till dark and sprayed expanding foam down 4 of em' to seal em', then took the hose and jammed it down the 5th hole and sealed around it with expanding foam, then turned it on med/low...........no more yellowjackets.
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I buy that aerosol wasp and hornet killer by the case and use it on a regular basis for the bad ones, but I leave the dirt dobbers and bumble bees alone. If I see honey bees, I usually will call the county extension agent and let him get a hold of a bee keeper since we hear about the africanized bees around here every once in a while.
But this group of bees is going to have to learn the old saying. Location. Location. Location. Find a spot where you're not near the noisy stuff and will end up getting pissed off.
Now strangely enough, the number of swarming bees around the nest has dropped to around 5 from the 30 or 40 that I saw yesterday morning. I don't know what to make of that. Yesterday afternoon / evening and this morning and today, they seem to have all but disappeared without any action on my part. Maybe they've hacked into my wifi and know I'm after them.
But this group of bees is going to have to learn the old saying. Location. Location. Location. Find a spot where you're not near the noisy stuff and will end up getting pissed off.
Now strangely enough, the number of swarming bees around the nest has dropped to around 5 from the 30 or 40 that I saw yesterday morning. I don't know what to make of that. Yesterday afternoon / evening and this morning and today, they seem to have all but disappeared without any action on my part. Maybe they've hacked into my wifi and know I'm after them.
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I guess I need to expand my knowledge base. I've never been bothered by a bumble bee unless I stepped directly on one.....Just watch where you step when the clover is thick..........Honey bees? Ditto. Never heard of bumble bees who do a Jeckyl/Hyde on your a$$ when loud garden equipment gets turned on........
Wasps and hornets? Meaner than Hell......
Wasps and hornets? Meaner than Hell......
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Bumble bees build cheap nests and often steal field mice nests. Have video somewhere with them attacking my lawn mower. Pretty damn spooky.
There is a pretty good chance that you have the dreaded Cicada killers.
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I have them now and had them really bad about 5 years ago.
There is a pretty good chance that you have the dreaded Cicada killers.
Sphecius speciosus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cicada Killer Control
I have them now and had them really bad about 5 years ago.
Now that is what i was referring to. We get these every few years. I had no idea what they were. Thanks. I learned something new today.
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And oddly enough, the number of swarming bees has dropped down to about half a dozen since I first posted. It seems just talking about them has scared them off. If the population doesn't pick back up, I'm just going to leave them alone. A half dozen bumble bees is nothing to worry about.
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Wait til you harrow or mow a nest of them or yellow jackets in the ground or in a bush.
Recently, I was mowing at our farm in the woods and hit a bush and I thought I was in a a nest of them....I bailed off the tractor...while it was in drive.....thank God I jumped back on before it hit the pine tree....but it was the dumbest thing I have ever done.
I even remember marking timber and coming across them alot as well as the Saddleback Caterpillar......them things hurt worse than a Honey bee and Yellow Jacket combined together. Guy I work with now told me one of his classmates in Forestry school got hit by one and he couldn't hardly breathe afterwards. I don't know if it didn't get me good but I sure felt it...and I was sure far away from the vehicle when I was markin timber.
But back on the story of me marking timber with the guy I was with...we were in Florida I think and I was painting the tree and I all of the sudden heard russling and lo and behold there goes my partner with his shirt off running and swatting around him with his shirt. He got in a nest of Yellow Jackets...it was funny as hell.
Recently, I was mowing at our farm in the woods and hit a bush and I thought I was in a a nest of them....I bailed off the tractor...while it was in drive.....thank God I jumped back on before it hit the pine tree....but it was the dumbest thing I have ever done.
I even remember marking timber and coming across them alot as well as the Saddleback Caterpillar......them things hurt worse than a Honey bee and Yellow Jacket combined together. Guy I work with now told me one of his classmates in Forestry school got hit by one and he couldn't hardly breathe afterwards. I don't know if it didn't get me good but I sure felt it...and I was sure far away from the vehicle when I was markin timber.
But back on the story of me marking timber with the guy I was with...we were in Florida I think and I was painting the tree and I all of the sudden heard russling and lo and behold there goes my partner with his shirt off running and swatting around him with his shirt. He got in a nest of Yellow Jackets...it was funny as hell.
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But back on the story of me marking timber with the guy I was with...we were in Florida I think and I was painting the tree and I all of the sudden heard russling and lo and behold there goes my partner with his shirt off running and swatting around him with his shirt. He got in a nest of Yellow Jackets...it was funny as hell.
