Wuss.
Posted on 08/29/2011 11:48:08 PM PDT by Borough Park
LYNDEN, Wash. — A Washington state fire chief says a man dumped gasoline on a beehive in a tree in retaliation for a bee sting, then ignited the hive, causing an explosion heard throughout his suburban neighborhood just a few miles south of the Canadian border.
Lynden chief Gary Baar tells the Bellingham Herald (http://bit.ly/pBBpg0) that the Sunday night fire caused a large “whoosh,” singed the tree and killed the bees but no people were hurt. Baar says the man’s friend had been stung earlier in the day.
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I wing shoot wasps with a bb gun. Takes a bit of skill but it is a bunch of fun. Apparently, though, I have shot them out at my home, so I may have to plant them.
We used to have over 50 hives on the farm, and would capture swarms in trees and put them into new hives. Every May or early June, we had to “rob” the honey out of the combs so they would not leave the hives.
My dad taught me to use a one-quart canning jar of gasoline.
Wait until night, about and hour after full dark, when they are all in the hole.
Invert full canning jar on top of whole.
Jam some newspaper in the tine of a garden rake, and light.
Use burning end of rake to knock over jar.
Whoosh! Ground wasps dead. Flame sucks all the oxygen out of the whole - which is good, because those nest can go 6 or 8 feet deep.
Wuss.
Run to the auto parts store and get an aerosol can of Whitewall cleaner.....magic.
"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee!! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!!"
And then he went inside and immediately burned all of his old Police CDs.
It’s not my fault.
Never thought it was.
You would have used coffee...
Then sent my bee army after Nicolas Cage.
Hyper-cafinated zom-bees...
“What’s that? What’s That? Oh God BEES! No, not the bees! Not the bees! Wharggarggleblle! My eyes!” -Nicolas Cage.
SCIENCE — July 28, 2011 at 2:00 PM EDT
What’s Behind the Problem of Disappearing Bees?
“When the world learned five years ago that bees in America and Canada were dying in large numbers, and hives were becoming defunct, the agricultural community, beekeepers and the public became alarmed. Hives were deserted, the bees gone, presumably dead, honey production stopped, and the bee industry was crippled.
“The problem was called Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD, and it threatened California’s very profitable almond industry, which is dependent on bees to pollinate the trees that the nuts grow on.
“And not just almonds: 130 crops in California alone depend on honey bees.”
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“Researchers at universities around the country started looking into the problem; money was donated to target what was killing the bees. Stories appeared frequently about the scientific efforts to figure out what was causing CCD, and what might cure it. With all that attention, you’d think they would have solved the problem.”
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/07/disappearing-bees-progress-or-frustration-1.html
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Honeybees are still dying | Energy Bulletin August 31, 2011
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/52151 - Three years ago, honeybees started disappearing in the United States and ....
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“There are no honey bees native to the Americas. In 1622, European colonists brought the dark bee (A. m. mellifera) to the Americas, followed later by Italian bees (A. m. ligustica) and others.
“Many of the crops that depend on honey bees for pollination have also been imported since colonial times.
“Escaped swarms (known as “wild” bees, but actually feral) spread rapidly as far as the Great Plains, usually preceding the colonists. Honey bees did not naturally cross the Rocky Mountains; they were carried by ship to California in the early 1850s.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee
Yeah, piker. He only woke up his own neighborhood. Everybody else for miles around never knew what happened.
And why wasn’t he arrested for killing bees? I thought that all the bees in America were dying and we’re all going to starve because the bees are gone.
LOL you are not only sneaky, your mean....REAL mean...
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