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kinghunter 
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 Topic: Bumble bees removal. Agco allis 7600
Posted: 14 Jul 2017 at 10:16pm |
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Well got rough start to mowing hay today. Open side panel on my allis to charge a.c and lo an behold the bumble bees had made a strong hold in front bolster of tractor. Not for sure how many but guessing 40 strong. I wasn't counting any but the 12 that got me. Now question is what's best way get them out? This same tractor had roof fill with honey bees last year. A friend got them out for his hive. He said no go on bumble bees. They did there home building all in two weeks. Urghh I like bees but they don't like me.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 14 Jul 2017 at 10:25pm |
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desertjoe
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Posted: 14 Jul 2017 at 11:02pm |
Fail Safe method,,, get a 1 pound coffee can bout 1/2 - 3/4 full of gasoline. Wait til dark and you can calmly walk up to the nest and give em all of the can. It will kill them soon at contact, Easy as pie,,,,, 
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kinghunter
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Posted: 14 Jul 2017 at 11:05pm |
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Sounds easy lol but got to remove battery then battery floor pan then bang there they will be starring at me like I'll be at them. Ill squirt some through hole with hose. See how many I can get
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Tracy Martin TN
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Posted: 14 Jul 2017 at 11:20pm |
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Ether or starting fluid will work. It will kill them fast. HTH Tracy
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DiyDave
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Posted: 15 Jul 2017 at 4:42am |
Gas or starting fluid. pour it over the top, and the vapors penetrate downward... 
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Posted: 15 Jul 2017 at 5:27am |
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Throw a tarp over it and then set off a couple of the insect foggers under it
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Posted: 15 Jul 2017 at 6:13am |
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I think a good bee spray would be safer, long reach too. Gas can be hard on paint, we all know it will make a nice fire with just a spark.
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Posted: 15 Jul 2017 at 6:57am |
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Well worked on them with some wasp hornet spray. Don't ever do that. It just pissed them off. So got starting fluid out. Best trick so far was start tractor run up to half throttle and watch that air turbine suck them in. Well I appreciate all ideas.
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Dick L
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Posted: 15 Jul 2017 at 7:42am |
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Gas will do the trick but that is the easy way. When I was ten or so my Dad set up his new JD combine to do big clover seed. Had four neighbors that wanted dad to combine their seed after they see how clean it was. Not sure of all the details but all on hand the next summer to take a section around a field. My Grandad being one drilled holes in wood shingles that were about 4 inches wide. We all would cut out the weeds and sweet clover into the next 6 foot swath with corn cutters. When we were into a nest of bumble bees we would take the shingle and swat the bumble bees when they came at you. Bumble bees are quite slow when sizing you up before stinging you. They hang around my shed and I have an old flyswatter hanging on a nail by the door and when one starts to check me out I grab that and when the stay in one spot in front of me I pop them. I have not been stung in years.
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Posted: 15 Jul 2017 at 7:49am |
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brake cleaner works real good!
if you can get to the hive, at night( real dark...) a can of FOAMING killer works very well...
kills on contact and the escapees go THROUGH the poison so they fly away then die.
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Posted: 15 Jul 2017 at 8:00am |
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I'm with Jay
I have used the Foam Wasp Spray, it immediately expands into an expanded foam similar to the aerosol insulation foam.
Gary
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Posted: 15 Jul 2017 at 1:03pm |
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When I was a kid we had an old out house on the farm we called it the gas house because that were my dad had his 55 gal. barrels for gas for the WC and our home made tractor that was called the puddle jumper. Anyway there was a big bumble bee nest in there so dad says i'll fix them ofcourse my brother and I had to follow so dad took a 3 lb coffee can to pour gas on them worked well but one got out and stung me on the top of my head I had a lump on my head the size of an egg man did that hurt !!! The things a guy remembers.
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Brian Jasper co. Ia
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Posted: 15 Jul 2017 at 2:19pm |
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Yikes! I just got nailed by a wasp on my left hand Thursday night and that was bad enough...
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Posted: 15 Jul 2017 at 4:12pm |
I had a coupla buddies that we would make the "bee paddles" and hunt the darned things(bumble bees) and then swat them,,,,,,,,,,,,,, needless to say, the action sometimes got really hectic!!!!!! But I don't remember any of us getting stung! The stinging part always came when least expected,,,,,, like mowing hay with the Super MTA....( that sunov,,,,,,,,, uhmmmmm sucker nailed me about five or six times right under my shirt collar),,,,or stacking hay in the barn,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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DiyDave
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Posted: 15 Jul 2017 at 6:07pm |
Well, I plead guilty fer usin carpenter bumble bees, as swing practice, with a badminton racket, but that was pure fun, as they are slow, and have no stinger... Now them little sumbitches that nest in tractors, is a whole 'nother thing... Gas is about the best, on them, douse them, and walk away fer a while, and they all ends up dead.
Oh, another thing with the carpenter bumble bees, we useda ketch one or 2, on a cool september mornin, when they was movin real slow, and bring 'em on the school bus, with the city kids, who went absolutely apesh!t, when the carpenter bees got warmed up, and started flyin around on that school bus... |
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