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Dick L 
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Posted: 09 Oct 2021 at 12:10pm |
I cut the end ot of this gas tank years ago and set it with the open down to keep it clean inside. INot knowing anything about honey bees I have no idea how they found a way under the bottom edge to get inside. All summer long when I am drawing water for the horses they come out on the floor and buzz by me going in and out. The protector bees buzz around me but never bump me. This morning they are still very active.
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FloydKS
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Posted: 09 Oct 2021 at 3:59pm |
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bee careful
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Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die
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Dick L
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Posted: 09 Oct 2021 at 4:32pm |
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I am not afraid of bees, wasps and yellow jackets. Very seldom have i ever got stung. When I was a kid my Grand father showed us how to catch a honey bee by cupping our hans over a flower where they were collecting pollin. They will not sting unless you pinch them. You can catch a wasp or yellow jacket on a window with yout thumb and finger and watch the stinger try to get at you before you pinch them.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 09 Oct 2021 at 11:41pm |
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i just smack them wasps with my cap
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john(MI)
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Posted: 10 Oct 2021 at 2:19pm |
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I just leave them all have it their way. They get bored soon enough and go away. If you screw with them, then you gotta go find something to put on the bite or pull the stinger. Then that wastes a lot of time!
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shameless dude
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Posted: 11 Oct 2021 at 3:16am |
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years ago i was out in a field disking and there was a old hollow tree (boxelder) at the edge of the field, i figgered that if i cut that tree out i could gain about 3 rows on that side of the field. i had the 7010 and brought a chain saw with, started sawing thru the tree and just as it went down about a zillion bees came out....PISSED! i threw the saw and ran for the tractor cab, only 3 got inside with me and they weren't none to happy either. i was able to swat them. the next day i looked inside that tree from the safety of the tractor cab and it was one BIG honey nest in there! still alot of bees swarming around yet. took better than a week for me to safely get my saw back.
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Hoff907
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Posted: 11 Oct 2021 at 8:42am |
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If you ask around I bet some local bee keeper would come out and transfer them to one of their hives. Might even leave you with a small thank you bottle of the gold stuff.
Or even leave them at your place, they are fun to watch
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Ray54
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Posted: 11 Oct 2021 at 2:02pm |
About 99.9% of the time it is yellowjackets nets you are finding in the ground. We have lots of them 20 miles from here just about none. I have found yellowjackets in a hollow tree twice out of hundreds of nests of them. Had honey bees in a whole in the ground one time. A guy that keeps a hand full of hives was with me and said a first for him. But it was in spring and a year that had a lot a new swarms looking for homes. He came back the next day with box going to try catching them, but they where gone. So we figured just a stopping place as scouts looked for a better place.
As in Shamelesses case the bees where moving the wax as well as honey to new home. Much less work for the bees to move rather than make, from my understanding of how they work.
Have watched the bees move a hive twice once a oak that split and half feel a week or so before the rest. Other predictors like the yellowjackets came and stole honey from the broken open tree. But bees kept working and took the comb a time long after the honey was gone. The other time was in the steering clutch compartment of a old D6 Cat I want for parts. Had my bee keeper friend come and open up all the hatches used to get to adjustments inside. He scooped up comb and put it in a box we left sitting on the track. He said they would not like having 2 big opening to let to guard so they would move. They did not move into his box. But after they moved all the comb they wanted the steering clutch and brake worked. It was on top of mountain just over a mile from my yard. Since the engine was seized so we towed it with another D6, but much nicer to have it steer.
I have seen at least 5 old crawlers that have had bees move in. You would think the oil would be a turn off. One old D7 has had bees in it over 10 years by now.
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Dick L
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Posted: 11 Oct 2021 at 7:58pm |
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We had yellow jacjets getting in the house where morter between the bricks at the edge of a window had fallen out. I sprayed the hornet foam in the hole from a distance for three days before they were gone out side. Only had one or two get in the house the last two days. Several have dropped into my coffee cup. Telling you this to say I know the difference in a yellow jacket and the much smaller honey bee. I helped clean out a hollow tree that was loaded with honey in the middle of the night. We got two big wash tubs of honeycomb. My father inlaw and another guy had a large pail deal they called a smoker. No bee protective gear and no one got stung. Lots of buzzing bees. My father inlaw was on a ladder covered with bees. What ever was in the smoker was suppose to keep them quiet or so I was told. All I did was carry one side of a wash tub about a 1/2 mile.
Edited by Dick L - 11 Oct 2021 at 7:59pm
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