Bees

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

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.

It was funny .



Who here hate Bees though? They scare me, I can't be more then a few feet from them or I freak out.

[Lemur]

As I said in another thread, bees are cool, 'cause they're the reason flamethrowers are legal in 40 states.

[desert]

You wouldn't happen to know of a site called Cracked, would you, Lemur?

[Lemur]

Thanks, desert. Sometimes control-C doesn't work the way it's supposed to.

[Thermal]

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!

[Lemur]

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]

I don't want to be stung...and I havent been for...around 7-8 years. Wow.

[Thermal]

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!

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Oh dear gods, is this true?!?!?

I like bees...they make honey ! Plus: no bees, no plants, no mankind!

[TosaInu]

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]

I know I did that once with a bee Tosa, but sadly, it stung me a second before I wack him off.

[The Fuzz]

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' *******

[Subedei]

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 ...

[Lemur]

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]

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]

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 After a while, it flew away from the same window.

Maion

[Jolt]

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

[caravel]

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]

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. :(