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ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88
02-04-2009, 16:52
I saw a Bee kill a little garden bug once. It was eating my lettecue, then the Bee swoop down and started to attack the bug, then it killed it. :laugh4:
It was funny :laugh4:.
Who here hate Bees though? They scare me, I can't be more then a few feet from them or I freak out. :rtwno::rtwno:
As I said in another thread, bees are cool, 'cause they're the reason flamethrowers are legal (http://www.cracked.com/article_17016_7-items-you-wont-believe-are-actually-legal.html) in 40 states.
You wouldn't happen to know of a site called Cracked, would you, Lemur?
Thanks, desert. Sometimes control-C doesn't work the way it's supposed to.
You sent us a link very much to the drug Salvia, are you trying to get us all high Lemur?
On a strangely normal note i too hate bees, though not as much as people who are allergic to them i'm sure!
You sent us a link very much to the drug Salvia, are you trying to get us all high Lemur?
Note that the article I linked talks about unlikely things that are legal in the U.S.A. (such as flamethrowers). I doubt any of it applies to the United Kingdom, where over-sharp scissors and mean looks are outlawed under anti-social rules. I hear that hip-checking your buddy into a hedge can result in a life sentence over there.
pevergreen
02-05-2009, 14:50
I don't want to be stung...and I havent been for...around 7-8 years. Wow.
Note that the article I linked talks about unlikely things that are legal in the U.S.A. (such as flamethrowers). I doubt any of it applies to the United Kingdom, where over-sharp scissors and mean looks are outlawed under anti-social rules. I hear that hip-checking your buddy into a hedge can result in a life sentence over there.
Do the voices tell you this? I've never heard such rubbish! :clown:
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I like bees...they make honey ! Plus: no bees, no plants, no mankind! :shame:
Killerbees and some hornets are a different story, but when you ignore bees and the like they will ignore you. Last time a wasp stung me was 20 years ago when I tried to launch it with the nail of my indexfinger when it crawled my left arm: boy do they have reflexes.
Now they can crawl whereever they want. It will probably be scary when you are allergic for their poison, but it's still a better tactic than to panic when one comes near.
ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88
02-05-2009, 16:56
I know I did that once with a bee Tosa, but sadly, it stung me a second before I wack him off.
:rtwno::hanged:
The Fuzz
02-05-2009, 17:03
I live in suburbia near Chicago and we have two beehives in our back yard. We've had them long enough so that we can harvest the honey and sell it/use it. It's pretty cool. I'm super comfortable around honeybees now. The only time I was close to getting stung was after I helped extract the honey from the honeycomb. You can mow the lawn an inch away from the entrance of their hive and they won't bother you.
Bumblebees give me the ***** though, been stung a ridiculous amount of times by those lil' *******
Bumblebees give me the ***** though, been stung a ridiculous amount of times by those lil' *******
Are you serious? Here in Bavaria they don´t bother at all. Just your regular juggernauts not caring too much about humans. Hornets and wasps are a different story ...
We had some super-aggressive bees set up by our garden last year. They built their nest in a railroad tie that was being used as a wall for the tomato bed. I didn't even know they were there until I mowed too close and they went ballistic. Got a really fantastic sting right on my temple—hurt so bad I wasn't sure it was even a bee. I'd never had a sting hurt like that in my life.
Unfortunately I didn't know about legal flamethrowers last summer, so poison did the trick.
Uesugi Kenshin
02-05-2009, 21:05
We had some super-aggressive bees set up by our garden last year. They built their nest in a railroad tie that was being used as a wall for the tomato bed. I didn't even know they were there until I mowed too close and they went ballistic. Got a really fantastic sting right on my temple—hurt so bad I wasn't sure it was even a bee. I'd never had a sting hurt like that in my life.
Unfortunately I didn't know about legal flamethrowers last summer, so poison did the trick.
I had a similar problem once. Unfortunately the "Painted Turtle Farm" staff (sustainable garden run by students here at Gettysburg) forgot that there was a yellowjacket nest in one of their beds and asked me to turn it over. I got stung between four to five times, once on my right hand. That bugger really swelled up for several days.
Maion Maroneios
02-06-2009, 17:45
Bees are cool. I've been stung quite a few times in the past, so I don't really fear them now. Actually, at one point 2 months before, one of those little guys flew inside my room and sat on my jeans. I grabbed a handkerchief, made it climb on it and gave it a drop of honey. The little bugger was licking it like crazy:clown: After a while, it flew away from the same window.
Maion
BEES DIE ALL EXTERMINATE THEM DONT CARE ABOUT HONEY, THEY ARE EVIL AND DESERVE TO DIE HORRIBLE DEATHS! DO IT NOW!
*ahem* I am Apiphobic and a staunch defender of the extinction of bees, wasps and anything remotely related to those things. Though I have never been stung, thank all the gods of the Olympus for that.
If all bees were joined together in a remote place, and a nuke was to be sent to exterminate them, I would volunteer to push the button. :D
I saw a Bee kill a little garden bug once. It was eating my lettecue, then the Bee swoop down and started to attack the bug, then it killed it.
From what you are saying I would say that was a wasp. Bees don't attack other insects unless they are attacked first. The wasp probably paralysed the insect and then took it back to the nest as live food for the larvae.
The Fuzz
02-06-2009, 21:59
Are you serious? Here in Bavaria they don´t bother at all. Just your regular juggernauts not caring too much about humans. Hornets and wasps are a different story ...
Heh, truthfully...I work in forest preserves over the summer and when clearing out invasive species I have this terrible habit of unearthing bumblebee hives. It's frustrating. :(
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