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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Bumble bees will attack if you run over their nest with a Mower. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I was mowing my fence line of my hay meadow with my zero turn. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Mowing some briers that were getting out of control. Something kept hitting me on the head on my hat. I finally realized the bumble bees were attacking me. I got away without being stung but they bruised my head they were hitting my hat so hard. My mower will go 10 mph I put it in high and got away.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I went back and there was probably 50 mad bumble bees guarding it. </div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">That nest is still there. I am careful to mow around it for now on.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div>
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On Friday, August 21, 2020, 05:06:00 PM CDT, Mike M <meulenms@gmx.com> wrote:
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I sprayed a nest last year, and like a DA, I went back out to check
on it about 10:00 with a flashlight. Of course the one guarding the
entrance flew straight toward the light and lit me up, stinging my
hand. It took two days for the pain to stop and the only thing that
would dull the pain was a frozen bag of peas. Nasty little suckers.
I actually like bees, the only ones I will kill are yellow jackets
and wasps. My wife runs like crazy from a Bumble Bees, and I tell
her, they are big, but they aren't interested in stinging you, they
are actually very docile, just hold still and they'll know you're
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<div class="ydpa5c461c2yiv4471760445moz-cite-prefix">On 8/21/2020 5:33 PM, ustonThomas
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<div dir="ltr">Make sure you don't just piss
them off. It would not many survivors to ruin your day. </div>
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<div> On Friday, August 21, 2020, 03:01:21 PM CDT,
<a shape="rect" class="ydpa5c461c2yiv4471760445moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:szabelski@wildblue.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><szabelski@wildblue.net></a> wrote: </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Mike,<br clear="none">
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Have you considered shoving the barrel of a 12 ga into the
hole and pulling the trigger 2 or 3 times? To be
environmentally safe, use steel shot. 😜🤪<br clear="none">
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Carl<br clear="none">
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From: Mike M <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:meulenms@gmx.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">meulenms@gmx.com</a>><br clear="none">
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Sent: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 12:37:10 -0400 (EDT)<br clear="none">
Subject: Re: [AT] OT-Ground bees<br clear="none">
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The one by the driveway is in open grass, very accessible,
the other is<br clear="none">
tucked right under a boxwood bush next to our walkway we
use every day.<br clear="none">
I'm going to try the hot soapy water on that one, and
hopefully not kill<br clear="none">
the bush in the process.<br clear="none">
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Mike M<br clear="none">
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On 8/21/2020 12:20 PM, Dave Maynard wrote:<br clear="none">
> A propane cylinder to a stick and light it??? You
might need an<br clear="none">
> excavator to fill in the crater after!<br clear="none">
> That is unless maybe that was worded a little wrong,
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> Dave<br clear="none">
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> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 11:46 AM <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:szabelski@wildblue.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">szabelski@wildblue.net</a><br clear="none">
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> Mike,<br clear="none">
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> You’ve gotten several methods that will work. A
couple of more<br clear="none">
> that you can consider are:<br clear="none">
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> Pouring a mixture of ammonia and bleach down the
hole. This<br clear="none">
> produces a poisonous gas that you don’t want to
breath.<br clear="none">
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> Strap a propane cylinder to a stick and after
lighting it, place<br clear="none">
> it at the nest opening and let it burn for a
while. The heat will<br clear="none">
> do the job if 5he nest isn’t too deep.<br clear="none">
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> Whichever method you do, do it at night when they
don’t fly. But<br clear="none">
> be careful since they will crawl out of the nest,
and if you<br clear="none">
> happen to be holding a flashlight, they will crawl
towards it.<br clear="none">
> I’ve been stung at night by bees that crawled up
my pants leg and<br clear="none">
> got me good in the stomach. What I’ve learned to
do is place a<br clear="none">
> halogen light on the ground and let it get hot.
Then if one crawls<br clear="none">
> towards the light they get fried on the hot
surface of the light.<br clear="none">
> The light also helps with seeing what you’re
doing.<br clear="none">
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> When you’re done, dig up the nest and make sure
there aren’t any<br clear="none">
> survivors. You’d be surprised on how big some
nests can be, and<br clear="none">
> how there constructed. Also, leaving the nest
essentially intact<br clear="none">
> can lead to a new family moving into the hole. You
want to make<br clear="none">
> sure the hole is filled in. Again, do this at
night unless you’re<br clear="none">
> sure you got them all, then you can do it during
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> Carl<br clear="none">
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> From: Mike M <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:meulenms@gmx.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">meulenms@gmx.com</a>
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> Sent: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 21:55:27 -0400 (EDT)<br clear="none">
> Subject: [AT] OT-Ground bees<br clear="none">
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> Hi all, a little slow here lately so I was
wondering if any of you<br clear="none">
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> a sure fire way to rid yourself of ground bees,
yellow jackets. We're<br clear="none">
> having a dry summer and that seems to have made
them explode. A<br clear="none">
> friendly<br clear="none">
> neighborhood skunk or opossum cleared out 3 for
me, but I am<br clear="none">
> battling 2<br clear="none">
> more without much success. One is along the
driveway a long ways from<br clear="none">
> the house, so all options are on the table for
that one. I<br clear="none">
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> after my wife had trimmed an elm branch and was
getting ready to drag<br clear="none">
> it away. I saw them swarming, but she didn't
notice. I told her back<br clear="none">
> back up slowly but steadily and hop back into the
truck. The other one<br clear="none">
> is under a Boxwood shrub right next to the
garage, I've sprayed<br clear="none">
> it with<br clear="none">
> poison (Bifenthrin) but they won't die. Any tips
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