What the fuck is going on with all the bees? They're stinging the fuck out of people here in Colorado.
Take the wrong step in the woods and you unearth an angry fuckin beehive.
Anyone a scientist?
What the fuck is going on with all the bees? They're stinging the fuck out of people here in Colorado.
Take the wrong step in the woods and you unearth an angry fuckin beehive.
Anyone a scientist?
Birds aren't real
Yea, that’s what Big Honey wants you think so they can jack up prices.
Maybe they’re Yellowjackets? They get pissed off this time of year and sting people for fun.
I'm sick of people calling wasps, bees.
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Originally Posted by ötzi
Yup.
Daughter was stung yesterday and I just unloaded an entire can of poison gas into a Yellowjacket nest in my retaining wall.
Bastards are everywhere
Explain wasps.Quote:
Originally Posted by paulster2626
Bumble bees took over a corner of our entry veranda this spring and were pretty fucking aggressive about it all summer - one of the fuckers even stung me. It hurt like hell, I thought they were supposed to be chill little critters?
Anyway, they're pollinators so we gave them space because we need to take care of the pollinators but there was definitely a street gang vibe with those little dicks.
Many wasp species are the natural predators of many insects, thus helping to keep pest populations low. Wasps take these unwanted pests from our gardens and parks and bring them back to their nest as a tasty meal for their young. Other species of wasp are parasitic, which still lends us a hand in pest control.
They are normally winged. In stinging species, only the females are provided with a formidable sting, which involves use of a modified ovipositor (egg-laying structure) for piercing and venom-producing glands. Adult wasps may feed on nectar and, in some species, on the secretions produced by larvae.
fact.
It’s because vw stopped making beetles and the astrodome is closed. Now there’s no way to keep the bees in check and they know it
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Everything you need to know is covered in this handy guide to all things bees and wasps.
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...nderground+bee
I have the friendliest bees ever in my yard. I can stand in the middle of the berry patch with hundreds of them grooving on all the flowers. There'll be dozens fast asleep on leaves and in the middle of flowers in the wildflower bed. I can pick them up, they rest on my hands, it's the coolest shit. They're so satisfied and well fed they're nearly harmless.
I accidentally dug up a yellow jacket nest with the excavator last week. I'm glad I wasn't the bucket the whole nest swarmed it while I calmly walked away. Last year I got stung 6 times. This year, knock on wood, not yet. Fuckers are aggressive and attack even if you aren't doing shit. Honey bees are a different story, they don't bother me one bit, they do their thing, I do mine, we can be in the same place and all is well.
Yellowjackets are really bad this year, I can hear the woods behind my house buzzing with them. They say any year with a good Humpy (pink salmon) run will be a bad year for yellowjackets, It's proving to be true.
The best is when you get stung by a yellow jacket in the fall. Later in the year is when they go for the fat and protein in dead animals and shit. Kind of like a bacterial injection.
We try to encourage bees by planting stuff they like. I never see honeybees. I see some bumblebees. I love bees.Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
Wasps and hornets and yellow jackets can fuck right off and do the beneficial part of their program where I don't have to know about it.
https://youtu.be/WswiKXuydt8?si=zyuB0zBcfqXecZSvQuote:
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Bees aren’t realQuote:
Originally Posted by Hott Butt Mud
they’re the bees knees
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Originally Posted by gravitylover
We have a ton of mint plants around our yard this year, more than I can possibly ever harvest so I just left large patches alone. They have late-blooming flowers that have just been swarmed by every type of bee, wasp, and winged pollinator.
I’ll just be chilling next to a patch with a post-work beer and watch them go. Fuckers love that shit and pay no mind to me. Feels like some kind of truce between man and bee.
Grew up with the world renowned authority on bees he brought a colony of africanized bees to the upstates that didn't go over well with the federal government we had hundreds of hives growing up hundreds
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Originally Posted by Kenny Satch
Definitely do not compare bees to yellowjackets. Bees are cool, yellowjackets are mean bastards (and wasps rather than bees).
I never really thought of passing on bacteria this time of year but that makes sense. I just upset a yellow jacket nest a few days ago on a hike and the stings are still driving me nuts with one looking possibly infected.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meconium
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Solution to problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
The GF had a grad school type come thru from AK to rent her Air BnB, for some reason she brought a very large bumble bee with them the thing was also very slow got more active as the wood stove warmed the room so it would hang out and flew around the open-planned kitchen, it got fed sugar water it was like a tame bee
wasps never seem to sting me but if I wana get rid of them around the yard I put on insulated ski gear and hit em at night with a can of some wasp killer,
the retired entomologist down the street sez there are lots of wasps this year cuz it is SO dry
Grad students can be some weird mother fuckers.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Yeah I used to do tech work with grad students at the research center running around measuring shit, some of the scientists were even weirder, they all spent so much time going to school that I was the only person who had already retired
My wife has gotten cellulitis the last two times she was stung mountain biking in the fall. Keep an eye on the sting marks, and if they get hot and firm in the center go get yourself some antibiotics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yonder_River
Man, the yellowjackets were brutal in the San Juans in 2021 and I'd heard that attributed to the deer die off that year. Filleting salmon this year was an exercise in speed and yellowjackets avoidance!Quote:
Originally Posted by refried
The YJs are busy this year in Central WA. They built a 6-8" nest in our storage shed earlier this summer. First time I've seen a nest on our property. We get plenty of paper wasps here, but those are not aggressive at all compared to YJs, which seem like they are continually pissed off and looking for a fight.
I hung a trap out under our spruce tree a few weeks ago and it was full of YJs within a week.
I think the yellow jacket and honey bee stings hurt worse than the paper wasp, YMMV.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
The bugs, all of them, are getting worse and worse because their predators, the REAL birds, were replaced by robotic spy birds.
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Been one of the wettest summers I can ever remember out here, and the wasps are insane. So there goes that theory.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
Ive said it before and ill say it again, i see no problem with honey bees dying off as long as we can replace them with bumble bees. Infact, the world would be a better place (even considering the exctinction of honey).
Timely. A few nights ago I discovered a wasp nest in my garage. They had made tunnels through the brick façade and were living in the wall. It was hectic but I got rid of it successfully. No stings. I've actually never been stung by a wasp or bee in my life.
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After shot of me suited up in my impenetrable protective gear in the utility room.
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I love bees
But wasps? They fuck shit up.
Yeah, that mission is a hard pass for me.