Fun with entomology
By adamg - 7/11/08 - 6:13 pm
If you discover bees have made a home of an old planter on your front porch, spraying them with Febreze won't kill them or make them go away. It'll only make them mad. And you don't want to be near mad bees.
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ummm... are you basing this on personal experience
By christine - amusings (not verified) - 7/11/08 - 7:21 pm
from a recent silly and ill informed decision or is there a blog link to some other fool, erm, victim, which you didn't link to.
Semi-personal
By adamg - 7/11/08 - 7:30 pm
Let's say it involves a close family member who now has two bee stings and leave it at that, because I would have tried some Lysol or Scrubbing Bubbles first :-).
bees
By paul keleher - 7/11/08 - 7:31 pm
Adam, then you probably won't want to go to the Big Bugs exhibition at the New England Wild Flower Society in Framingham.
Heh
By adamg - 7/11/08 - 7:36 pm
Yeah, seeing the Big Blue Bug in Providence on the way back from TF Green is enough for me :-).
Were they...
By anon (not verified) - 7/11/08 - 10:59 pm
mad as a hornet?
Windex would have killed
By Angela (not verified) - 7/12/08 - 12:31 pm
Windex would have killed 'em. I use Windex for all my bug-killing needs.
I hope they were yellowjackets & not bees!
By sheenaspleena - 7/12/08 - 12:41 pm
there's a bee shortage - a critical one.
Don't kill bees - try to relocate them.
(I have no advice on how though...)
Yellowjackets are a dime a dozen - if you have to kill something - kill them :)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,372881,00.html
masslive.com...1214810204118820.xml&coll=1
boston.com...sting_of_honeybee_shortage/
Yes, I realize that
By adamg - 7/12/08 - 12:52 pm
Unfortunately, we were faced with the fact that
A) Despite aforementioned family member actually moving the planter to the driveway, lots of bees refused to go with it and kept swarming on the porch and attempting to communicate with her just how mad she'd made them.
B) We are having a birthday party for the kidlet today and the last thing we need is for her friends and their parents and her uncle to get stung on our front porch.
C) Our side door requires you to go by our garbage cans and, well, it's summertime and ick.
So this morning, I dosed the area with Professional Grade Flying Thing Killer. Fortunately, looked like most of the bees had gotten the message and vamoosed overnight or earlier this morning. Equally fortunately, I noticed just in time that the aforementioned family member had moved our potted tomato plant from in front of the front steps to the very top step, so I swung the spray away from it.
Good to know about Windex!