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#250167 - 03/28/11 10:00 PM
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Go out and play. (I have an excuse to be inside, getting a ceiling fan installed so I don't die this summer.)
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MAME owes italie many thank yous, hah
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#250222 - 03/29/11 05:53 PM
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> Go out and play. (I have an excuse to be inside, getting a ceiling fan installed so I
> don't die this summer.)
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Re: It's too nice out.
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#250223 - 03/29/11 05:57 PM
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You just need to find the queen and take her out to dinner, wine her, dine her, and then break her little heart.
Wasps... now wasps are a whole new ballgame. ANY individual worker wasp can convert to a queen if the queen is absent. You need to leave no wasp unharmed. That's been my challenge. Granted I'm not allergic to bees like you, I'm just a pussy about getting stung.
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#250226 - 03/29/11 07:55 PM
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#250233 - 03/29/11 09:11 PM
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I wouldn't advise "wining and dining" a queen bee as what comes afterward causes your genitalia to explode. Yes, explode. Often with a POP that is audible to humans. 
> Wasps... now wasps are a whole new ballgame.
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#250234 - 03/29/11 09:22 PM
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Printed that out. Awesome.
Last summer I battled a massive wasp infestation around my home. This winter the boys and I went on a wasp hunting expedition. We crushed hundreds of queen wasps in their winter cottages just waiting to emerge and fuck up this coming summer, from wood piles, to tree branches, to eaves and walls. Found them hibernating everywhere, and we crushed them each with a rock, leaving their dripping guts as a warning to others. I'd have staked their heads on a pole but I didn't want to risk a post-mortem sting. When we had a warm snap and a few emerged, I sucked them up with my shop vac... surprisingly effective... especially with just a spritz of wasp spray in the tube for good measure. Hopefully I did some good either way. I'll let ya know when summer arrives.
I've been doing some research... wasps have no natural preditor either, so they are kind of natures bad-ass ninja bug. If it a preditor one, I'd get some.
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#250243 - 03/30/11 12:22 AM
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You can see the light-shining through their abdomens. 
Any bee, wasp, or whatever stinging, flying thing... Always makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand. 
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> You can see the light-shining through their abdomens.
Yeah, isn't it awesome! Sadly my girls didn't make it through the winter. (My fault, first year noob making stupid mistakes.) I'm keeping my fingers crossed this year, losing the arrogance and taking all of the advice from the locals that I can get! 
> Any bee, wasp, or whatever stinging, flying thing... Always
> makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand.
Try opening a box with over 10,000 of them in it, turning it upside down and shaking them out. (While they're exploding in a buzzing cloud around your head.) With all of the stupid things I've done that was by far the biggest adrenaline rush.  I did it for the first time wearing a bee mask and a short sleeved t-shirt. They're actually incredibly gentle as long as you're not messing with their home. They didn't start getting pissy until there were eggs and baby bees to defend.
I only got nailed a couple of times last year and that was on purpose. (If I had developed an allergy I wanted to find out with one bee and someone to drive me to the hospital, not after being stung to shit while alone in the back yard.)
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I did it for the first time wearing a bee mask and a short sleeved t-shirt. They're actually incredibly gentle as long as you're not messing with their home. They didn't start getting pissy until there were eggs and baby bees to defend.