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Has a bee ever landed on you
« on: March 22, 2019, 04:35:30 am »




Yeah...  didn't think so either.
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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2019, 07:17:23 am »
I had a bee land on me once.

After that, I kept my mouth shut while on the motorcycle.

I'm not the only one.
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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2019, 03:00:17 pm »
I had a bee land on me once.

After that, I kept my mouth shut while on the motorcycle.

I'm not the only one.

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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2019, 03:21:50 pm »
Bee vision is on a different spectrum than ours. The reason flowers compete with each other for brilliance is to attract bees. They love bright colors. So yes, if you go outside with brightly colored clothes a bee certainly could mistake you for a flower.

There is a reason beekeeper suits are all white.
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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2019, 03:22:37 pm »
Not a flower it is the salt in your sweat they want.

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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2019, 03:35:25 pm »
No, but a butterfly flew into my face once.

Hence my phobia of the damn things.
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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2019, 03:51:27 pm »
I had a bee land on me once.

After that, I kept my mouth shut while on the motorcycle.

I'm not the only one.

I had a Jr High classmate knocked off his Honda 50 by a bumblebee. After he was done tumbling he walked after his bike. The crown of the road steered the bike to the curb where a foot peg dug into a yard. The bike didn't even fall over. It was leaning against the curb when he got to it.

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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2019, 03:51:35 pm »
No, but a moose once bit my sister...
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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2019, 03:55:26 pm »
No, but a butterfly flew into my face once.

Hence my phobia of the damn things.

If they didn't have those lovely wings, they would look just like any other creepy bug thing.
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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2019, 07:25:30 pm »
No, but a moose once bit my sister...

Was she was carving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush...

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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2019, 07:26:25 pm »
If they didn't have those lovely wings, they would look just like any other creepy bug thing.
*shudder*

The caterpillar does all the work....
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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2019, 07:40:33 pm »
I was stung by one when I was a baby/toddler
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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #12 on: March 22, 2019, 07:40:42 pm »
I had a bee land on me once.

After that, I kept my mouth shut while on the motorcycle.

I'm not the only one.
The moustache stops most of the bugs...
I really dislike wasps. One went up the sleeve of my leathers while I was ripping down the road....stung me seven times from wrist to armpit before I got the bike shut down....After that I wore my gauntlets...
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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #13 on: March 22, 2019, 08:11:22 pm »
Honeybee, no... never.... But wasps and flies and moths often do.... Most time I don't mind, occasionally a overt friendly butterfly will repeatedly land on me. It is sweet.... but most the time around here is you being swarmed by underground yellow jacket wasps when you mow over their hidden ground nest. They will eat ya alive... worse was when I dug up one of their nests with a weed eater in some pine area under the trees. Had to go to hospital with that one (about 30 stings).

Most territorial wasp is the guinea wasp (look like an under-nourished yellow jacket) which makes homes in walls of things like unused guest houses and such.... They will sting ya if you get within 20 feet of their nest.

This time of year, the most predominate buzz is from the carpenter bees (look like bumblebees) that are destructive to wooden structures around your house (bore holes in the wood).
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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2019, 08:17:31 pm »
Honeybee, no... never.... But wasps and flies and moths often do.... Most time I don't mind, occasionally a overt friendly butterfly will repeatedly land on me. It is sweet.... but most the time around here is you being swarmed by underground yellow jacket wasps when you mow over their hidden ground nest. They will eat ya alive... worse was when I dug up one of their nests with a weed eater in some pine area under the trees. Had to go to hospital with that one (about 30 stings).

Most territorial wasp is the guinea wasp which makes homes in walls of things like unused guest houses and such.... They will sting ya if you get within 20 feet of their nest.

This time of year, the most predominate buzz is from the carpenter bees (look like bumblebees) that are destructive to wooden structures around your house (bore holes in the wood).
Break out the shop vac....Use an extension, piece of conduit or whatever, and set it by the entrance to the hive. Singles, coming and going will get sucked in. After a while, they come out in pairs (and they get sucked in)... leave it running for a few hours, and the ones coming back won't make it in, the ones leaving won't make it out. Be sure to plug the end of the hose (a shop rag will do) and leave it for a week or two before you open it up....
I cleaned out three nests that way, altogether.
The only downside was that the following year was a wet one, and I had to set beer traps to drown the explosion in the garden slug population.
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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #15 on: March 22, 2019, 08:18:23 pm »
I took a june bug right to the back of the throat - Laughing, standing in the back of a pickup, holding onto the roll bar, and going about 60...

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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #16 on: March 22, 2019, 08:23:54 pm »
Break out the shop vac....Use an extension, piece of conduit or whatever, and set it by the entrance to the hive. Singles, coming and going will get sucked in. After a while, they come out in pairs (and they get sucked in)... leave it running for a few hours, and the ones coming back won't make it in, the ones leaving won't make it out. Be sure to plug the end of the hose (a shop rag will do) and leave it for a week or two before you open it up....
I cleaned out three nests that way, altogether.
The only downside was that the following year was a wet one, and I had to set beer traps to drown the explosion in the garden slug population.

That is interesting, but like Yellow Jackets, Guinea wasps tend to have more than one entrances to their nest. Hard to get close enough to observe them.
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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2019, 08:31:00 pm »
That is interesting, but like Yellow Jackets, Guinea wasps tend to have more than one entrances to their nest. Hard to get close enough to observe them.
Wear dark clothes or ones that blend in with the background. move slowly. Try not to stir them up. The vac sucks any pheromones up with them....When they quit using the hole, duct tape it and watch for others exiting or landing nearby.  It takes a little patience, but beats having the hive around.  I used a small shop vac with an extension tube from an old Kirby I had laying around, which gives about three feet of hard pipe out front and helps you keep a ittle farther away from the wasps.

Bees, I don't mind so much, they can only sting once, and they serve a useful purpose.
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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #18 on: March 22, 2019, 08:34:21 pm »
Be sure to plug the end of the hose (a shop rag will do) and leave it for a week or two before you open it up....


Use a wet vac with water in the container...

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« Reply #19 on: March 22, 2019, 08:36:54 pm »
Just wait for night, get coated up, walk in and blow Pyrethrins powder in their holes.
Done deal.

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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #20 on: March 22, 2019, 08:39:00 pm »
Use a wet vac with water in the container...
To each his own, and that might work ( I didn't try it, myself), because I'm always tipping the darned thing over.

If you don''t need the vac anytime soon, dry doesn't make a puddle of goo in the bottom, either. :shrug:
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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #21 on: March 22, 2019, 08:42:26 pm »
To each his own, and that might work ( I didn't try it, myself), because I'm always tipping the darned thing over.

If you don''t need the vac anytime soon, dry doesn't make a puddle of goo in the bottom, either. :shrug:

Aw, it ain't nothin.. I just need the vac back quicker than that is all. They fall in the water, and it's all done by morning.

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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #22 on: March 23, 2019, 03:36:51 am »
If they didn't have those lovely wings, they would look just like any other creepy bug thing.
*shudder*

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Re: Has a bee ever landed on you
« Reply #23 on: March 25, 2019, 04:12:22 pm »
Not a flower it is the salt in your sweat they want.
Had bees build a hive under my backyard shed, one day I mowed at the wrong time and they got really pissed off, it wasn't my sweat they wanted and I had more than a few land on me......................just long enough to sting. I sealed those bastards up that night!