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stan

09-20-2004 15:02:26

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Here in Calif there is a small bee that lives in the ground. While mowing today I ran over the hive, but didn't realize I had until the return pass.I was on top of them before I knew what was going on. I didn't want to shift to a higher gear for fear of missing a shift. I was lucky this time I only got it one time. In the past I have been hit three times or more. Is there a bee like this or other hazards in your part of this great country? Stan

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Roy Suomi / Ohio

09-21-2004 19:56:14

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Re: Bees in reply to stan, 09-20-2004 15:02:26

I've got a friend of mine that collects Yellow Jackets for the venom..He was on a job where I work collecting donors and I just couldn't help myself..... I asked him if he knew what kind of bee's I like.. He said " why, no . What kind of bee's do you like??" BOOBEE'S He nearly fell off the ladder..

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MarkO

09-21-2004 16:42:23

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Re: Bees in reply to stan, 09-20-2004 15:02:26

Well I have never had that happen. Well not till an hour ago. Selling my bass boat so I moved her out to the front, hooked up the hose and fired it up. Now where are these bees comming from? Bumped the throttle a little and a black cloud appears. Turns out that a Merc 150 can throw em very far...

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CRUSADER

09-20-2004 23:42:51

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Re: Bees in reply to stan, 09-20-2004 15:02:26

When I was a lot younger than I am now, I used to spend the summers on a farm in Oklahoma that my uncle was the manager of. Never forget the time I was stacking hay with another guy on a hay wagon behind the baler. We managed to bale up a bumble bee nest that was in the alfalfa. That bale came up the shoot, and he passed it up to me a lot faster and with more effort than he had done all day. When I put my hay hook in it I found out why real fast. We were about six high on that trailer, and the other guy jumped off (guy on the tractor never slowed down until I hit in that back with a dirt ball. Those bumble bees were coming out of that bale, and it looked like smoke. Needless to say that bale was thrown off the wagon and left to sit there while the bees moved out.

later days mates,
Jim

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Leland

09-20-2004 19:58:46

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Re: Bees in reply to stan, 09-20-2004 15:02:26

When I was a kid we were not bright, we would find a nest stir them up and beat the heck out of them with tennis rackets. Could not pay me to do it now.

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mike j

09-20-2004 19:49:26

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Re: Bees in reply to stan, 09-20-2004 15:02:26

Got yellow jackets here and i found a big nest this year with a 2 bottom plow got me about 9 times before i got away there not any fun at all mike

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Mydeere

09-20-2004 19:07:06

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Re: Bees in reply to stan, 09-20-2004 15:02:26

I was brush hogging a field of christmas trees for a customer one time and ran over an abandoned woodchuck hole that was taken over by yellow jackets. When that mower passed over the hole it was like a giant vacuum cleaner, sucked out a ball of yellow jackets the size of a bushel basket. With that I bee lined it,(no pun intended), over to the house to let the customer know what was going on. He went into the shed and grabbed an old brown glass jar and a teaspoon and said "lets go, show me them bees". Off we went in his truck back to the field. By now the yellow jackets calmed down a bit. He walked up to the hole, unscrewed the lid off the jar and dumped a half of teaspoon full of powder down the hole. When I asked him what that stuff was he said that it was Arsenic and that would be the end of the bees. I told him that he better not get that stuff mixed up with his coffee mate or it would be the end of him! I"m not sure what that stuff was, but it sure was a one sided fight. Next day there where dead yellow jackets everywhere.

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DRL

09-20-2004 18:46:50

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Re: Bees in reply to stan, 09-20-2004 15:02:26

In SE Kansas, it's bumblebees. Seems like the sickle mower doesn't bother them much. Can mow right over them, and unless the entrance is sticking up above the level of the sickle, they really don't show themselves. A couple of days later, the rake teeth passing over their abode really gets them in a mean mood. You should see some of the creative windrows I've made after passing over one of these nests!

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RayP(MI)

09-20-2004 18:37:29

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Re: Bees in reply to stan, 09-20-2004 15:02:26

Been there -got stung! One summer we had a large field of hay that was infested with bumble bees. We had to wait until after dark to collect the baled hay. Last summer I got into a nest of yellow jackets while hogging off a weedy grassy field. What I'd like to know is how can they pick out the operator on a noisy smoke bellowing machine, and zero in on the face!

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Joe C Al.

09-20-2004 18:19:00

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Re: Bees in reply to stan, 09-20-2004 15:02:26

yellow jackets in al. hornnets in bushes are tallweeds either will make you leave tractor. Have to come up with plan to go back for tractor.

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Bus Driver

09-20-2004 18:04:45

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Re: Bees in reply to stan, 09-20-2004 15:02:26

Gasoline on the ground is illegal- but effective for yellow jackets. 4 to 8 ounces is plenty. Sevin dust is legal, but may take 3 or 4 days to work. I suggest applying Sevin every day for 4 days if that is your choice. Whatever you use, do it after dark. To make the hole easier to find, after they settle down, ease the end of a long stick up to within an inch or two of the hole. Points the way in the dark. Use flashlight carefully at the last moment and they will not come out at night.

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txblu

09-21-2004 05:48:55

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Re: Bees in reply to Bus Driver, 09-20-2004 18:04:45

How do you figure gasoline is illegal?

As far as the after dark thing, I had a hive of bumble bees set up shop in some skids (pallets) under some round bales of hay. Figured I'd spray them with a pump up sprayer after dark. Wrong! 2 of them smacked me from behind.

So much for that.

Mark

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UFO Man

09-20-2004 17:58:28

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Re: Bees in reply to stan, 09-20-2004 15:02:26

Yep, they aren't bees. We used to call them ground hornets. Some bumble bees will do this, too, but most likely these are hornets.

My granddad had a nest in a corner of the hay field that we never could clear out. It was there for years. In fact it was there for so long that even after we would forget and cut hay and get stung, he would always tell us that his horses were smart enough to remember where that nest was, but not his grandkids.

What a card!

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Mark - IN.

09-20-2004 17:22:27

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Re: Bees in reply to stan, 09-20-2004 15:02:26

By me in Bristol, yellow jackets live in the ground, and they aint small, and they aint passive. Don't swat at one because then they get real aggressive and don't give up until they sting you or you kill them first.

Hey, I just saw a little bit of a commercial last week for something, but don't know what. Maybe someone else saw it? Something about a guy climbs a ladder to do something to a hornets nest that was about the size of a beachball, or bigger. For whatever reason, the guy loses his balance, gets the hornets nest in a bear hug, and falls anyway. The next thing you see is the guy running around his yard wearing the hornets nest like a milk pail over his head. I laughed my tail end off, but have no clue what it was about. Is/was funny.

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Red Dave

09-20-2004 16:54:43

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Re: Bees in reply to stan, 09-20-2004 15:02:26

We have a variety of hornet around here that builds it's nests in the ground. Mean little buggers too. No sense of humor when you drive over their nest either.

There is an old saying: Hornets are faster than a John Deere (or a Farmall or Allis or Massey or any other tractor you want to insert here).

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Jonboy

09-20-2004 17:26:51

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Re: Bees in reply to Red Dave, 09-20-2004 16:54:43

One thing I have leared about bees is not to wear bright colored clothing because that attracts them like crazy, I had a bumble bee get after me in my uncles machine shed and he was after that bright red shirt I had on and stung me twice. Here in Vermont you will find yellow jackets that live in the ground, and they are nasty because you don't get any warning until you've gotten into them and once you do, they all come flying out of their underground lair in attack mode. I found a yellow jacket nest today while picking my buttercup squash at the base of a little tree, but I saw them in time and didn't get stung. When school opened up the teachers took their students for a walk on the ski doo trails in the woods around the school, and some of the kids got into a yellow jacket nest, and one of them got stung 16 times.

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Cosmo

09-20-2004 15:22:54

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Re: Bees in reply to stan, 09-20-2004 15:02:26

In Georgia we have hornets and/or yellow jackets. They have nests in the ground. Mean little b*****ds. They have run me off my tractor and lawn mower a couple of times. A little gasoline down the hole after dark is sweet revenge.:)

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rustyfarmall

09-20-2004 16:21:57

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Re: Bees in reply to Cosmo, 09-20-2004 15:22:54

Bumblebees in Iowa. You haven't lived until you have driven across a hayfield on an H Farmall in roadgear.

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Matt Clark

09-22-2004 11:54:53

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Re: Bees in reply to rustyfarmall, 09-20-2004 16:21:57

Yeah, Rusty, them bumblef**ks will sure ruin yer day! I was about 17 first time I found a bumblebee nest in the ground with the AC and mower. MAN...I had no idea what hit me, until they got me the second time. Luckily, it was downhill, and that little tractor with a bush hog had a pretty good road gear. Only thing was, there wasn't any way back to the road, except right through that nest again. So I sat right where I was.

I could still see a few buzzing around. The nest was about 150 yds away. After sitting there for about an hour, I see boss man driving down the ditch (probably gonna chew my a** for wasting time), but his window's DOWN. Guess I coulda hollared at him, eh? Man, I was laughing so hard, he was steering from the fence to the ditch bank swatting at the dash and hollarin'!!! Worst part was, he led 'em right at me, so I took of on foot fer the crick.

He didn't chew on me too bad, but rolled his windows up and went back for the little sprayer. Stuck it out the vent window squirted some diesel down the hole and that was the end of that. All told, I got near 2 hours break in.

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