Well that was fun . . .
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Topic: Well that was fun . . .
Posted By: Darur
Subject: Well that was fun . . .
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 6:33pm
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So preparing for painting our house a few min ago I was out spraying bleach on the eves and walls so its easier to preassure wash when I hear this awfully loud buzzing. I think to myself "Gee, I wonder if they are running the bobcat (our neighbor has one), you know, if I was on the mainland I'd be pretty scarred though cause damn, that sounds like a crap load of bees . . ." It was. There couldnt have been less then a few thousand, they covered our entire front lawn in this giant swarm. We dont get bees in Hawaii, the only swarms we see up here are tourists trying to make it to the sunrise on Haleakala. Anyone else have bee swarms? ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
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Posted By: NotDaveEllis
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 6:35pm
| I used a reciprocating saw today to cut apart a shelf, yay for manly tools! |
Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 6:36pm
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No. Never. ------------- 
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Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 6:37pm
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Never bees here, but birds. Our house was totally covered in birds this one day and they just wouldn't leave. It really felt like the movie.
------------- Something unknown is doing we don't know what. That is what our knowledge amounts to. - Sir Arthur Eddington |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 6:37pm
| Where are my slippers? |
Posted By: Boss_DJ
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 6:39pm
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Posted By: super_gman
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 6:39pm
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We sometimes have bee/wasp problems around here, but none nearly as bad as yours. ------------- Zerglet. |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 6:52pm
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i see the occasional bee outside. other than that we have no problems with them.
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Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 6:55pm
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We get alot more wasps and yellow jackets. Most of the bees around here are just happy little dudes that don't bother you, even when you smack the poor fellas around.
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Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 6:55pm
| A few years back we had a swarm of Dragonflys. But lately its been those damn Japanese Beetles, they bite. |
Posted By: DsXz
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 7:04pm
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i put the end of my rainmaker barrel next to a bee on my window and fired......it exploded ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 7:20pm
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NotDaveEllis wrote:Posted By: BooksAndLeaves
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 7:20pm
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we have these things called carpenter bees, they dont sting. but.. we have this wooden shed, and these bees, and make PERFECT holes in the wood, and have tunnels going through the wood and stuff. we filled the holes but they just make more, so sooner or later its gonna collapse and they're all gonna die. they are also aggressive and try to scare you. me and my dad just smack them with a dustpan. its hilarious. ------------- 01001001 00100000 01100111 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100011 01100001 01110101 01100111 01101000 01110100 00101110 00101110 00101110 |
Posted By: benttwig33
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 7:23pm
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I love woodbees, thos ebig furry ones :)
But if a swarm would come here I would just wear some protection of some kind and go out with a fly swatter (and a smoke grenade for backup, even ifs it just a firework...they gets bees away.) Fun fun ------------- Sig is WAY too big. |
Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 7:28pm
Sitting in a box about 6 feet behind me waiting for me to get off my bum and mail them ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 7:38pm
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we get everthing in texas. just a few include: -bees (both honey and bumble) so basically, dont come here... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 7:41pm
eff bees |
Posted By: Justice
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 7:50pm
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O man this reminds me of the time I threw a beer bottle at some bee keeper guy. Story goes... Had a bees nest inside the walls of my old duplex. I heard it for a few days and payed lil attention to it, well it was in the walls of my bedroom and started to get a lil freaky and the buzzing was getting louder each day. I finally called the land lord and 2 days later an exterminator comes in, sprays what he thinks is the hive entrance and plugs it with aluminum foil but the lil buggers fought through that and started to come in the house. Now a Bee keeper is called into action. He comes over and sprays all over the place, gives me this schpeel (sp) about his life and bees and then tells me good day. These bees are tough, what he did didnt faze them one bit. So he comes back a second time. I tried to explain a more logical possible solution to the problem but he's the expert (in his eyes) and started to get all huffy about how he's the expert and knows what to do. This lead into a pretty good arguement and needless to say he told me to go **** myself and got in his truck to leave, that's when the beer bottle went flying at his truck. I purposly did not hit the truck but I should of put the bottle right on his windshield. The bees finally left the next day after I bug bombed the house and put a few bottle of bug spray in the area where I thought the bees were entering the house. ------------- 
-JUSTICE http://www.myspace.com/outkastpaintball - Outkast Myspace |
Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 7:51pm
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i like waiting to find a bee on a dandelion and taking a golf club to em its amusing untill you miss and piss em off ------------- 
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 7:58pm
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How do Bees get to Hawaii? ------------- 
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 8:04pm
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obviously on hawaii's interstate highways. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: __sneaky__
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 8:22pm
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we have a lot of wasps here, all the red wasp seem to congregate to my backyard tho... ------------- "I AM a crossdresser." -Reb Cpl Forum Vice President RIP T&O Forum |
Posted By: hybrid-sniper
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 8:22pm
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Bahahahaha. Anyways, we get Black Widows. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 8:42pm
I know the feeling, I have enos's shirt behind me too. |
Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 8:48pm
They swim. |
Posted By: Hitman
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 9:25pm
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My father is a professional beekeeper as an occupation. I've seen a few swarms in my day. I have watched him capture a swarm and turn it into an active hive.
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Posted By: Justice
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 10:34pm
Yep same here. I found a scorpion the other week. I havent seen a black widow in the new home yet, had a few at the old house. Also killed this big black beetle, man it was almost 2" wide and about 1" tall, it looked like a lil tiny fortress with legs. There are some nasty bugs down here in Fla. O I had a praying mantass (sp) land on my hand the other night too. That was kinda neet, we talked, she told me how she got some then bit his head off. I said.. kool wish I could do that. -------------
-JUSTICE http://www.myspace.com/outkastpaintball - Outkast Myspace |
Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 10:46pm
Dont forget locusts. They cause no harm, but its freaky seeing the skin/shell/whatever all over the place. ------------- 
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 11:41pm
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^hah. agreed. last "season" for the buggers i scraped about 5 off a tree and the next day there were 8. they multiply like crazy... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 11:44pm
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I was playing some PB today, and I stepped into a swarm of bees.
They were chill bees though. They didn't sting me. |
Posted By: -ProDigY-
Date Posted: 19 June 2006 at 11:45pm
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Posted By: barn_user
Date Posted: 20 June 2006 at 12:20am
| The northquarter(place a qaurter mile awile that my brother owns) I play at has honey bees, but they dont attack unless you have polarized sunglasses...they seem to attack those with rage for some odd reason. Plus the guy that owns them gives us a huge box of honey bears all the time. |