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Bees give me the Creeps (not 218 bees)

TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
This morning pulling in my driveway I happed to glance over by the creek that runs under the drive and saw a White Faced Hornets nest about the size of a football hangin off a small tree. Oh-Boy ... I hate and am quite allergic to bees (hate is understatement). Sooooo, me and the 13 yrs old critter get in the truck a .410 single shot, on thge way delivering him to his buddies, I stop and put the window down and give it a 3" #5 shot of "Hello - We know where you live". I get home and got serious ... got the 'ol Mooseberg 30" full with some NASTY 2 3/4", 1 3/8OZ #4 magnum buffered handloads (my shoulder still hurts). Pulled down, about 25ft from the nest, and gave 'em 3 loads. Turned the nest into dust and havent seen a bee since. GOD, I love killin 'em, prefer to make them suffer more usually but where white faced hornets are involved I make exceptions !
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was a kid I got lit up by 5 Hornets at the same time because just like a stupid kid I sprayed the nest with a water hose and they came for me.Nothing teaches like pain and I'll tell you what..I was taught.

    Eric S. Williams
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  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I watched in horror as my 2 brothers were swarmed by yellow jackets when we were kids (i was 11 or 12) I was going to catch up to them in the trails and heard blood curdling scream. I froze and they ran by me with bees all over them but they never came after me. Even the dog got stung all over ...

    To this day, one bee flies near me and I am on the move, aint a bee on this earth that can catch me. Im afraid someday I will hurt myself in my attempt to get away from one ... I am usually limping afterwords now and I believe I would jump off a roof rather than get stung. Its creepy
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember when I was a kid I was shooting at a water mocasin from across a canal with a bb gun. I hit it and it started after me. I hoped on my bike and halled but before it made it across. I remember going back with my Snake Charmer .410ga, and walking up and down the canal blasting every snake in sight.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I tell ya what, when I go fishing my little NAA .22wmr makes the trip with me always loaded with CCI shot. Thats stuff works too. Sometimes it takes three shots before a snakes totally dead, but it certainly disables it after the first. And the guns so small I could hide it in my hand.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lee - I am offended by you killing snakes. Please don't kill anymore. Snakes are our friends
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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    Before the scare of those African bees were a threat- I would show my kids that "honeybees" weren't out to get you by pouring coca cola on my hand and letting the bees (about 50) crawl on my hand and enjoy the sugar. I explained that if you are not a threat and don't swat at them- all is well. At one point I couldn't see my hand for the bees. Don't do it anymore cause they might be the afro bees!
    I get stung by paper wasps a lot and I'm used to it- scorpions will send me to the hospital and I'll die within 45 minutes if I don't get help! I carry the injector for that (epinephrine).
    I keep ckickens, cats, and a dog around the property to take care of the nowantems!
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was 12 TAZZMUT, as far as now, only when I feel threatenend by them, or when I have to fight one for a fish...

    Daddo-you scare me!

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    OK Lee - I'll let you off the hook. I have always been a snake lover and have tried to show tohers they are not bad. This is a guy that will jump off a roof to get away from 1 bee, but I have held rattlesnakes in my bare hands, have woke up with them sleeping on my chest (that was a little tense).

    ANd yes Daddo - anyone who LETS bees walk on them needs phsycoanalitical hepp
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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    tazmutt- you play with snakes, and I need help?
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  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was just playing daddo, I think it takes a very well educated and special person to repect wildlife in the manner you guys do. I love animals, the cute fuzzy kinds, but have always disliked creepy crawlies. One day I'd like to learn more about them and have a better understanding of the way they fit into our ecobiological thingamabober, but till then I just another dumb ol texan tryin to make a living.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would pet a snake any day of the week rather than facing a bee.


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  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ya gotta kill the bees (hopefully not Bumblebees) after it's dark, then they are ALL in the nest, and won't rebuild it. Otherwise, you just PO the survivors who were out at the time. If they be in the eaves, or something, any good wasp/hornet spray will do, if they're away from the house, just dump a cup a gas on and light it up. I'll leave the Bumblebees and native Honeybees alone, but I'll take out any yellow-jacket nest that I find. A tip, if ya step on a ground nest, is run like hell for about 100 feet. They won't chase much further. If ya been in the woods a lot, you'll know right away when to run, and you'll also remember where the nest is. Be aware that an old yellowjacket nest can burn all night.
    Snakes? If they aren't poisonous, I just ignore them. We have eastern rattlers around, and you can hear them from fifty feet. I don't go where I hear them.
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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    hehe you would'nt want to go with me when i check my sunflower fields during bloom for seed weevels with behives the bee keeper put near by .....sounds like the whole field is elctrically charged.. with the millions of bees a buzzing from flower to flower. never been stung yet.
    doc


    I dont give my guns without somebody getting hurt!
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  • lokdok1lokdok1 Member Posts: 383 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I crunched ground nests 3 times in my life picking berris n' shrooms, makes for a bad day, the stings get me sick. As for the snakes, I leave them alone , my wife shot a hognose one year when we moved into our new house,and I told her if we get mice now it's your fault. She believed me and now she leaves them alone too, but the bees, if they're hornets ant near the house they get doused with kerosine.

    Bartman
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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    I was ambushed last friday by a wasp while out on my patio preparing the grill for some bbq. Seems this nest was under the deck and the wasps were not to happy bout my dinner plans. So this damn wasp flies in and stings the back of my hand and before I can swat him he flies off. I started to get minor allergic reactions to the sting but they did not get too serious so I got out of the $500.00 emergency room visit/treatment. My hand however swelled up like a catchers mitt for TWO DAYS. Everytime I get stung it is something different but always the same, IT SUCKS. I say KILL EM ALL and let bee sort em out.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    We have quite a few bees around here this season (I live in a woodsy townhouse/apartment complex). They seem to be all over the grass, and there has been some swarming near a couple of the water ducts. The other day I went down to buy a newspaper and when I put in my fifty cents and opened the box a small swarm of a dozen or so came out. I was surprised but they didn't come for me or my dog. I still wonder whether somebody put the bees in there on purpose, because the box is used often enough that it doesn't seem a likely place for them to congregate on their own.

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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Riding your Harley, in the middle of a group of bikes, A yellow jacket flies up your sleeve, starts stinging the crap out of ya. What do ya do? Can't very well just jerk it to the side of the road and cause other bikes to wreck. Took a while to get to the side of the road. Hurt like he**. Stung multiple times. DEATH to all yellow jackets. I help bumble bees and honey bees out of the house whenever they happen to get in.When I first met my wife, I used to have live rattle snakes living in the house. She hates snakes. One of our cats used to sleep on top of one of the aquariums containing the snakes, (because of the heat), fell through one day, got bit, lived but was real dingy after that. Got rid of the snakes kept the wife, I made a good trade.Saw a snake headed for the highway one day, turned around to keep it from becoming road kill. Got out and tossed it in a nearby creek. When I came back to the car I found the friend that was riding with me had rolled up the windows and locked all the doors on MY car, and was not going to let me in until I showed him I did not have the snake. LOL

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • djcissedjcisse Member Posts: 69 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    starting fluid works real well on wasps.
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  • LightningLightning Member Posts: 945 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gas works better on bee nests if you pour it on the nest and DONT light it.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    On two different occasions my wife got me stung by wasps. She would hang the clothes outside during the summer and leave them there for days. Twice she retrieved me pants off the line and when I put them on I got a surprise! never got me in the "you know whats" but they did make my legs very sore.

    Last summer the family went to Deadeye08s house to visit. Deadeye and myself was walking down his newly cleared shooting range with my son in tow. About 30 yards down into it I stepped on a yeller jacket nest and did not know it for a couple seconds. I kept getting this burning feeling on my back and all of a sudden I was in a cloud of bees! I tore off running toward the truck, ran over my son all the while these things are all over me stinging me. My son came running after me while he was getting stung, where deadeye went I still do not know! I made it to the truck and the stinging stopped for a couple seconds and then it started back up, I then took off running in circles(running blind) and got close to the wife, all the time I'm hollering like a banshee out of fear, rage and pain. Deadeyes Lab was close to me when I let a swing go at my pickup and the thing bit me and tore my shirt. My boy is allergic to bees and started swelling up sumptin feirce, so off to the hospital we go. About an hour later we are in the ER watching my son get a few shots when I see yeller jackets flying around in the room, here the bastids had hid in my boots and was coming out, here we go again!!
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,690 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Interstatepawn, have you ever tried Benadryl for the bee sting? Some people get quite a bit of relief from a single 25 mg Benadryl.

    "Not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door, but it is enough."
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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    A.G., I kept thinking about that very suggestion for the two days I was admiring my catchers mitt. Sunday we went to wally world and I was going to get some but the swelling had finally started to subside. I will definatly give it a shot next time. Thanks.
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,474 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No one hate bees more than me. I discovered at age 13 that I am allergic to bee stings and have been avoiding them ever since. About a year ago, I was out walking in the woods with a couple buddies and one of them stepped into a ground bee nest. Both my buddies commented that they had no idea that I could run so fast. I am sure I set a new world record in the 100 meter dash getting out of there..

    Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....
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