well we can't kill the bees

MyHandsBound
MyHandsBound Posts: 698
edited July 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
even if there is a hive somewhere nearby your front door..we have dozens of big bees just hangout around a porch..today about twenty were just sitting on the wall of our proch...I was like wow...I've always noticed them flying across the windows, when I looked out of it..but I didn't know they were really that close....

Well I thought about it and I came to the conclusion that we can't kill them... they are saying there is a shortage of bees and if they all die out, there would be no cross pollenation and there would be no food.


is there a safer way to get rid of them, I don't even know where the hive is...
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  • MyHandsBound
    MyHandsBound Posts: 698
    they look like this one

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:European_honey_bee_extracts_nectar.jpg
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    My... what beeg eyes you have!
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  • Fighting Hellfish
    Fighting Hellfish Posts: 3,175
    are you sure they're not carpenter bees? We have those around our porch and window sills, and esp. our mailbox. They burrow thru wood to make a nest, and can cause damage. They don't sting, but they look awfully menacing, as they're huge
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    MyHandsBound wrote:
    even if there is a hive somewhere nearby your front door..we have dozens of big bees just hangout around a porch..today about twenty were just sitting on the wall of our proch...I was like wow...I've always noticed them flying across the windows, when I looked out of it..but I didn't know they were really that close....

    Well I thought about it and I came to the conclusion that we can't kill them... they are saying there is a shortage of bees and if they all die out, there would be no cross pollenation and there would be no food.


    is there a safer way to get rid of them, I don't even know where the hive is...

    good for you really.
    bee numbers world wide have declined
    in a big way.
    pesticides on vegitation=wipe em out=no pollination on crops=were fuck

    i grew up around honeybees..yummy like nobodies business=fresh brand spankin new honey comb shit stuff..oh boy..

    drink that stuff.. ;)

    call a bee keeper or somebody like that
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Yeah, depending on where the hive is hands, an apiarist should be able to remove them.

    We had a hive in the chimney recently and unfortunately because of its location the only way to remove them was spray. :(

    I was told though that had they not been there and somewhere more accessible that they could have removed the hive safely.
    NOPE!!!

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  • Strangest Tribe
    Strangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    I'm responsible for mowing a vacant lot down the street from where I live..

    Last week when I went to mow, I noticed that most of the vacant lot was clover.... there were literally thousands of honeybees doing their thing that afternoon and I just couldn't bring myself to mow that lot

    ...I went back home


    What am I to do? The city will fine me if I continue to let the clover grow.

    I guess I could mow it in the evening after the bees have gone...

    I dunno???

    wtf
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Strangest Tribe wrote:
    I'm responsible for mowing a vacant lot down the street from where I live..

    Last week when I went to mow, I noticed that most of the vacant lot was clover.... there were literally thousands of honeybees doing their thing that afternoon and I just couldn't bring myself to mow that lot

    ...I went back home


    What am I to do? The city will fine me if I continue to let the clover grow.

    I guess I could mow it in the evening after the bees have gone...

    I dunno???

    wtf

    yeah do that

    bees are all over clover
    alfalfa fields
    it doesnt kill'em to cut the clover or alfalfa
    it might upset their bee community and life style a bit

    fucking city probably should kiss your ass anyhow
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Jeanie wrote:
    Yeah, depending on where the hive is hands, an apiarist should be able to remove them.

    We had a hive in the chimney recently and unfortunately because of its location the only way to remove them was spray. :(

    I was told though that had they not been there and somewhere more accessible that they could have removed the hive safely.

    i remember this..
    didn't it just recently happen?
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    chadwick wrote:
    i remember this..
    didn't it just recently happen?

    Yeah, I think it was this year. :confused:

    Not sure because it's all a blur really, but in the last 12 months I'm sure. :D
    NOPE!!!

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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Fighting Hellfish wrote:
    are you sure they're not carpenter bees? We have those around our porch and window sills, and esp. our mailbox. They burrow thru wood to make a nest, and can cause damage. They don't sting, but they look awfully menacing, as they're huge
    That was also my first thought.
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  • MyHandsBound
    MyHandsBound Posts: 698
    Strangest Tribe wrote:
    I'm responsible for mowing a vacant lot down the street from where I live..

    Last week when I went to mow, I noticed that most of the vacant lot was clover.... there were literally thousands of honeybees doing their thing that afternoon and I just couldn't bring myself to mow that lot

    ...I went back home


    What am I to do? The city will fine me if I continue to let the clover grow.

    I guess I could mow it in the evening after the bees have gone...

    I dunno???

    wtf

    talk to the towns environmental officer, leave a message on his or her phone and see what he or she says....
  • MyHandsBound
    MyHandsBound Posts: 698
    Fighting Hellfish wrote:
    are you sure they're not carpenter bees? We have those around our porch and window sills, and esp. our mailbox. They burrow thru wood to make a nest, and can cause damage. They don't sting, but they look awfully menacing, as they're huge


    yeah I don't know, I looked at the pictures of different types of bees online and that one most closely resembled what I saw on the porch...the one in the picture looks a little small.. but the ones I haveare at least an inch long and have more black than yellow.....
  • Swan
    Swan Posts: 350
    carpenter bees are black and yellow, and they burrow into wood. if they look like the picture the OP posted then they look like regular old honey bees, i'm no expert thought but i do know that carpenter bees are black and yellow.

    i'm sure if you research it you'll be able to find someone that can come and get them without killing them.
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  • Purple Puppy
    Purple Puppy Posts: 149
    get one of there. http://www.electronicpestrepeller.com/Default.htm cheerio.
    Signed it, grind it.
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  • blacknapkins
    blacknapkins Posts: 2,177
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080719/ap_on_re_us/odd_turnpike_bees
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  • MyHandsBound
    MyHandsBound Posts: 698
    blacknapkins wrote:
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080719/ap_on_re_us/odd_turnpike_bees

    bees are a statewide problem then
  • MyHandsBound
    MyHandsBound Posts: 698
    Update...the bees have moved on.....:D
  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    ha! I decided to let the bees take over my shed this summer for this reason...

    Funny, I mowed my lawn last week, and when I got my mower out, I had my mp3 player cranked up...didn't notice the hive or any circling bees. When I put it back, the mp3 player was off, and I noticed I was practically being swarmed! I probably was the first time too, but was oblivious...

    Now I have to go kamikaze to get my mower out...but I'm not spraying that hive.

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