Bee Season

[snochuk]

Started up a new hive.
My little budies are up early and hard at it.
They put in an amazing effort every day!!

 

[sirkdev]

Joe Rogan has a great podcast with Erica Thompson this is part of it, very complex ecosystem.

 

[mclean]

My wife is petrified of bugs...like a huge phobia, but I want to start a hive.

Is this your first one?

 

[snochuk]

Yes it my first hive but I have helped with hives in the past.
Lots to know, take a bee keeping class if you don't have a mentor to work with.
End goal is for hives at farm and in back yard in Edmonton.

 

[Bnorth]

 

[Caper11]

Bees are awesome, the trees on my property are full of them right now.

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[Crustyolddude]

Stung by 50+ bees one time, while inspecting hives. They were mad. Not enough smoke, kinda of wet out. I have enough Bee venom in my body to fight all diseases/old age for next 100 years. Wifey loves me…,,,,,, .

 

[ZRrrr]

Wanted one of these for a while now.

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[DRD]

Had enough of the little bastards growing up, we usually had 30-50 hives. I remember one year fondly where sugar went up in price and it was too expensive to over winter the hives. Not sure how you make bees mad bud sucking up a hive with a shop vac. is a good start....

 

[BILTIT]

I want a hive or two one day, would help the orchard out for sure.

 

[rknight111]

I found this on a tree in my yard. Must be from last year. Its was bigger than a basket ball. It was wasps though

 

[smokinD]

I found this on a tree in my yard. Must be from last year. Its was bigger than a basket ball. It was wasps though

Dad had 1 of these only about 40ft up on the sunny side of the tree and there were 100's of those bastages, needed a flame thrower almost good thing it was farther from the house and rec area.

 

[TylerG]

I found this on a tree in my yard. Must be from last year. Its was bigger than a basket ball. It was wasps though

should have left it up, it would be a deterent for them,

 

[Lightningmike]

Dad had 1 of these only about 40ft up on the sunny side of the tree and there were 100's of those bastages, needed a flame thrower almost good thing it was farther from the house and rec area.

About 5 rounds out of a 12 guage fixes that problem. Don't mind bees but wasps are just fawking angry creatures

 

[BILTIT]

Last summer I had one of those in a branch pile, i pulled a branch to put it in the chipper and tore it in half (i didnt see it). About a 100 of them flew out and i think 10 got me in the face before i could get out of there. It was nasty. I was swollen for days and thought my lip was going to explode because it was so large.

I had to put all my snowmobile gear on to go back in to shut my tractor off and find my glasses/hat.

After a few days of healing i went back in with a few cans of spray and killed what was left. Started looking around and found 5 of those nests throughout my acreage.

It was the worst stinging incident i have ever had.

 

[The big greasy]

I found this on a tree in my yard. Must be from last year. Its was bigger than a basket ball. It was wasps though

Found one like that hunting last year, kept it and put it in the hobby room. One of the biggest I've come across

 

[mikeydoo]

this is a great technique for small be hive keeping

 

[neilsleder]

About 5 rounds out of a 12 guage fixes that problem. Don't mind bees but wasps are just fawking angry creatures

Brother in law shot a big Yellowjacket nest with the shotgun. He was about 30-40yards away he said they came out and straight for him it’s like they followed the heat from the gun. Had to make a run back to the house. They chased him right into the house lol.

 

[sirkdev]

We get wasps every year, Brakleen is awesome for hand to wasp combat and for hives I use a pressure washer with soap gun foamer saturate hive let sit for a bit and blow it up with a jet nozzle from 50 ft away. Works frickin great

 

[smokinD]

We get wasps every year, Brakleen is awesome for hand to wasp combat and for hives I use a pressure washer with soap gun foamer saturate hive let sit for a bit and blow it up with a jet nozzle from 50 ft away. Works frickin great

Ya a little soap/water in a squirt bottle works good too, i keep 1 around the sitting area for these bastages, hit them from approx 8-10 ft with sprayer and down they go or leave. I have used brakleen in the garage instant knock down, never though of my pressure washer though great idea as i have a soap foamer as well and a jet nozzle.