Bee Swarm
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Poor Dogmeat. He's going to log back in, see heaps of replies to his thread, and think someone has solved his problem. Only to find, as usual, we graffitied all over his thread.
Just on wasps, so of the fluffybunnies flying around my house are as big as my fucking finger. Evil dragon-sized motherfuckers.
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@mariner4life said in Bee Swarm:
Poor Dogmeat. He's going to log back in, see heaps of replies to his thread, and think someone has solved his problem. Only to find, as usual, we graffitied all over his thread.
Just on wasps, so of the fluffybunnies flying around my house are as big as my fucking finger. Evil dragon-sized motherfuckers.
[insert annoying pun or comment about "fucking finger" here]
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@mariner4life said in Bee Swarm:
Poor Dogmeat. He's going to log back in, see heaps of replies to his thread, and think someone has solved his problem. Only to find, as usual, we graffitied all over his thread.
Just on wasps, so of the fluffybunnies flying around my house are as big as my fucking finger. Evil dragon-sized motherfuckers.
[insert annoying pun or comment about "fucking finger" here]
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Triggered! I was trying to get some tennis balls we had hit into some bushes in the weekend and got swarmed by skinny looking wasps (hornets). Got stung multiple times. It hurt.
In other news, I can move really fast when motivated. Even over a high wire fence
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@Hooroo did you end up getting chickens?
Nope. That idea was quickly extinguished when true-love said that if a chicken spooks a horse through a fence it will take hundreds of thousands of eggs for that chicken to make up for it.
I agreed as she essentially was saying if a chicken puts a horse through a fence it is on me!
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@mariner4life said in Bee Swarm:
Poor Dogmeat. He's going to log back in, see heaps of replies to his thread, and think someone has solved his problem. Only to find, as usual, we graffitied all over his thread.
Just on wasps, so of the fluffybunnies flying around my house are as big as my fucking finger. Evil dragon-sized motherfuckers.
Quoinsland!
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@Hooroo did you end up getting chickens?
Nope. That idea was quickly extinguished when true-love said that if a chicken spooks a horse through a fence it will take hundreds of thousands of eggs for that chicken to make up for it.
I agreed as she essentially was saying if a chicken puts a horse through a fence it is on me!
Just tell her to train her horses better so they don't get scared by a chook. Stand your ground man.
As for the nest, I used to find that petrol and a match was very effective. You can remove the bees or the house. Either way the problem is removed.
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Thanks for all the really helpful advice....
So yesterday I left the aircon going full bore on its coldest setting thinking that if I make it uncomfortable for the little buggers they might just fuck off.
Got home to a massive increase in volume and about two dozen dead bees (definitely not wasps) Somehow the cunning little fuckers have worked out how to crawl through the aircon unit.
Grateful though I am for all your input - no I haven't seen Snowy, but I expect he will appear on out TV screens soon - I have done some other online research and it appears I am fucked.
Beekeepers are keen to collect swarms but not when they have nestled in a wall cavity.
Exterminators are the only option but they favour the rip the wall off to get at the little fuckers approach.
I'm going away for a few days so might try and cool them down again.
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@dogmeat back to the nuke from orbit option bro. Stink news about the update though, hope you manage to sort it without too much hassle. No doubt paying someone to clear them out will sting a bit
I reckon you should give @Kirwan a hollah, if he can duck, dodge and ummm, duck some Wasps he should be all good to take out some bees for ya.
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Thanks for all the really helpful advice....
So yesterday I left the aircon going full bore on its coldest setting thinking that if I make it uncomfortable for the little buggers they might just fuck off.
Got home to a massive increase in volume and about two dozen dead bees (definitely not wasps) Somehow the cunning little fuckers have worked out how to crawl through the aircon unit.
Grateful though I am for all your input - no I haven't seen Snowy, but I expect he will appear on out TV screens soon - I have done some other online research and it appears I am fucked.
Beekeepers are keen to collect swarms but not when they have nestled in a wall cavity.
@Paekakboyz hell no.
Why won't they take them, out of interest? Does that leave you with having to exterminate them?
I got birds stuck nesting in my passive air system in the roof, that was carnage cleaning that up. The guy that had to get up there and clear out the dead birds was stuggling not to vomit for most of it. Ended up replacing a lot of it too.
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@Kirwan beeswarm.co.nz says that once they get inside a cavity they are no longer swarming but are effectively a hive
They have a link to a recommended exterminator which they say is probably the only practical option. I have made contact.
I do have a lot of bees at my place as I have flowering trees most of the year
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@Kirwan wuss!!
But yeah nah, I started watching my Dad and our neighbour kill off a MASSIVE wasp nest down the back of the neighbours section about 25 years ago (fark me!!). I swear it was about 2m long and nearly 1m wide - my brother and I were keen to watch then noped the fuck out once shit got real.
ha ha our neighbour would have gotten along with @jegga really well I reckon. Lots of gasoline and whoosh!! oh, and heaps of running away too!
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@Kirwan beeswarm.co.nz says that once they get inside a cavity they are no longer swarming but are effectively a hive
They have a link to a recommended exterminator which they say is probably the only practical option. I have made contact.
I do have a lot of bees at my place as I have flowering trees most of the year
I know this is a silly question, why not just leave them there? You (someone with experience)could collect the honey once a year
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@Kirwan beeswarm.co.nz says that once they get inside a cavity they are no longer swarming but are effectively a hive
They have a link to a recommended exterminator which they say is probably the only practical option. I have made contact.
I do have a lot of bees at my place as I have flowering trees most of the year
I know this is a silly question, why not just leave them there? You (someone with experience)could collect the honey once a year
They tend to damage buildings they make their hive in and I guess access to the comb is next to impossible inside a wall .
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They are getting in underneath a weatherboard through a gap of about 7mm. Try getting honey out through that. I reckon the board eased off when the aircon was installed.
Plus you can hear them all the time moving around - like a crackling noise. Now they've started getting inside the room so they are clearly in the guts of the aircon. So noise and potential damage as jegga says with absolutely no upside.
If it is possible to remove them without killing them that would be my preference for sure but they are becoming very intrusive
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