General Discussion

1 of them got me on the ankle.  That's how I found it.  I quarter-size hole in the ground.  Bees flying in and out constantly.   So I call my family for advice.  Well, they're not completely "all there" sometimes lol, and told me to pour gas into the hole.  i'm thinking......"uh...ok" haha.

So I did.  I was just about to light a stick and cause a HUGE explosion, when I decided to call and make sure that's what they MEANT when they said to use gas.  Good thing I did lol.  But I did find out that I made a mistake already.  I did this at about 7:30 in the evening.   Supposedly I was to wait until an hour after dark to attack the nest, so I'd be sure to get "most" of them.  I didn't know this. 

Now, the question.  What can I do at this point?  I was told to wait a day before trying to get the mower out (the nest is about 15 ft from the garage/shed), because the noise from the mower will attract them very quickly.   

Advice? :)

Fuckin Bees!

A few minutes later they had calmed down. We were guessing they were disturbed from their hive and decided to come here, or something.

This is where the bees were coming from. A hole in the house behind my sister's place. We told the landlady about it and she didn't seem to care or want to be bothered that she was renting a house to people that had fucking BEEES living inside it.

The neighbor called a bee removal company and they said they wouldn't come out unless we paid a hefty fee, but he did recommend waiting until dark and go buy some stuff from Home Depot and squirt them with it and that should kill them off.

Well that plan was OK except for 2 things. 1 was that my sister's husband is crazy. The 2nd thing is we didn't want to wait that long nor spend any money.

So we did the next best thing. Started fucking with the bees.

My bro in law chucks a tennis ball at the clump of bees, that was the size of a basketball. He knocked off a fist sized clump of bees, which eventually just flew back up into the main clump.

That was pretty boring, so we decide to try something a little bigger....

Yeah, a 40lb trailer hitch for a Dodge Caravan.

INCOMING!

CLANG! We have bees in freefall! Did I mention he is severely allergic to bees?

RUN FORREST!

Pile O Bees

The bees dust themselves off, and resume taking over the swingset. Every single one pretty much flew back up into a ball of bee death.

At this point it was clear these little assholes weren't getting the message. Their arrival in my sister's property was an act of agression, and we weren't going to stand for it. So it was time for some redneck engineering:

Bee incinerator contraption:
- 30 feet of rope
- 1 large fire pit
- 1 science project board
- miscellaneous rags and a bedsheet
- gas

Fill 'er up! Slide the incinerator under the bees and....

IGNITION!

OH THE BEEMANITY

CARNAGE!

Amazingly some bees still survived the first wave. What should we do next?

The next ingredient is 1.5 quarts of PAINT THINNER

OH YES!!!!

12/23 NEVER FORGET

THERE WERE STILL MORE BEES ON THE SWINGSET. CALL IN REINFORCEMENTS. 2 QUARTS OF 87 OCTANE GASOLINE REPORTING FOR DUTY SIR!

OH DEAR LORD ITS SO BEAUTIFUL. I AM SO PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN RIGHT NOW.

Tonight we are having Roast Bee

The Aftermath.

Number of allied casualties (er, stings): 0
Number of bees killed: est. 10,000
Number of bee survivors: about 25 or so

FOR GREAT JUSTICE!

HOLY GOD!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!  That was insane!  Poor swings though.  All melted. :(

Put a lawnmower over the hole and start.  The lawnmower will suck them in.  BTW I have never tested this theory, but it beats a crater in your yard.

swingset is kinda useless now.

i once relocated a black widow from my garage in california. and her egg sac. put them on the side of a hill. one day later, she came back minus the eggs or whatever was in that ball of webbing, perhaps her lunch.

what was wierd was i lived in a complex, with the garages to the rear. all of them were identical and lined up. i mustve walked her 100-200 feet away but she found her web again.

bees and spiders are pretty cool. i make it a point not to kill either of them insects.

that was a very strange set of pictures. im sure it was entertaining, in an alpha male style. i had my fun blowing up grasshoppers with firecrackers when i was a youngin.

your property, you had the right to do whatever you saw fit- im not judging but, i would've chosen an alternative.

Live and let live.  be one with the bee.

Just get a bit of raid and to do the trick.   Cheaper than pouring gasoline and hoping the fumes kill everything.

I feel a wee bit guilty but I was totally entertained, hazmats! 

Raid will probably get you multiple stings and make your kids and pets sick, by the way.  There's probably too many bees for that.  Also, insecticides and herbicides are so So SO nasty!  I have to agree with Bluberryhaze, though.  Bees, spiders and garden snakes are good things, not bad.  That many bees in one place, so near my house, though, I think would warrant some sort of action.

Hazmats just won the internet.

Best way to kill bees. Calm them with smoke, then kill them with FIRE!