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Old 06-17-2018, 07:07 PM   #21
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A friend of mine did that when he was about 14. He’d come to school all bruised up. Bowling alley above the Western Auto store. It’s all gone now but it’s not especially progress.
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Old 06-17-2018, 07:22 PM   #22
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Yup, and they'll never know the fun of pin-setting. Nothing like having to leap out of the way because some bozo thought that it'd be fun to take out the pin-setter.

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Old 06-18-2018, 08:37 AM   #23
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Well the first idea of driving 350 away and staying away for 5 days didn't do any good other then give them a trip to the lake, they are still there. 2nd idea of the Shop Vac won't work as the whole perimeter of the A/C cover is open and there must be 50 or more vent holes in the cover.


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1. Attempt to remove the screws and cover tonight after dark and hope they don't fly in the dark as I'll be up an the ladder.



2. Supposed to be up near 100 today, cover it with black plastic and see if I can cook them like in the back window of the car.


3. Put on the Calmark cover and hope they can't get in or out. Putting on the cover for the summer is what I need to accomplish as soon as I can.


What do you think?
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Old 06-18-2018, 08:45 AM   #24
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We had a hornets nest in our A/C . Luckily it was in the fall so we waited till winter when it was well below zero to remove the nest
Remember some wasp spray is harmful to plastics and other materials
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Old 06-18-2018, 08:57 AM   #25
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Remember some wasp spray is harmful to plastics and other materials

I just started reading about water based bee killers.
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Old 06-18-2018, 09:01 AM   #26
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Well the first idea of driving 350 away and staying away for 5 days didn't do any good other then give them a trip to the lake, they are still there. 2nd idea of the Shop Vac won't work as the whole perimeter of the A/C cover is open and there must be 50 or more vent holes in the cover.


Ideas,



1. Attempt to remove the screws and cover tonight after dark and hope they don't fly in the dark as I'll be up an the ladder.



2. Supposed to be up near 100 today, cover it with black plastic and see if I can cook them like in the back window of the car.


3. Put on the Calmark cover and hope they can't get in or out. Putting on the cover for the summer is what I need to accomplish as soon as I can.


What do you think?
Hi: padlin... Would using an electric leaf blower be to forceful an "Eviction"? Alf
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Old 06-18-2018, 09:03 AM   #27
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Bob your idea to put the cover on sounds good, if it’s like my cover they won’t be getting in or out. I would imagine if you put it on for a prolonged period of time and the weather is hot it should do the trick.

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Old 06-18-2018, 10:57 AM   #28
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You could call your local beekeepers association and they will send someone over to lure the bees out and make productive use of them. Much more humane than killing them off.
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Old 06-18-2018, 11:23 AM   #29
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Ironically, this is National Pollinator Bee Week- we should be figuring our ways to help bees, not destroy them, without bees nature's beauty will not propagate---- http://www.ibtimes.com/national-poll...o-help-2556573
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Old 06-18-2018, 11:51 AM   #30
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Insects

Forum members all have varied backgrounds and interests. When it comes to insects, my experiences like most range from pests to highly beneficial. West Nile carrying mosquitos not so good. Honeybees, of a high order human benefactor. There’s a wide span of positive to negative interaction with insects. Aroused hornets are dangerous especially to children and older folks. In public property settings they are often dealt with in a lethal fashion. Those same agencies re-establish prairies, plant flower gardens and flowering trees to bolster declining pollinator populations. I’ve lived the gamut of relationships and believe I’ve done my best to live with the pollinators but it is a balance just like all wildlife. Pollinators in my prairie and in our 40 foot wide fencerows at the farm, as they were a hundred years ago and the re-establishment of an 11 acre wetland brighten my day when I walk the farm and see things a lot of people only read about in books. Recently I quit mowing betwee two trees in my yard. There’s a nice stand of milkweed establishing there. A monach butterfly can make your day.
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Old 06-18-2018, 11:54 AM   #31
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I do need to stop by and visit your place one day, before we both get too long in time.....
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Old 06-18-2018, 12:20 PM   #32
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Bring beer, we’ll need it. I have an Apple set on some trees that is pretty impressive this year. I was surprised since we did not have that good of weather when the trees bloomed, but the honey bee and bumble bee numbers seemed good on the good weather days. I had 10 robin nests this year that I saw, several morning dove nests and some cardinals in the spruces. Orioles on grape jelly and hummingbirds on sugar water. 20,30,50 amp services to
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Old 06-18-2018, 01:52 PM   #33
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Jim, if you want you can swing by here, collect the bees in the A/C, and take them along to Dave's for his apple trees. Shucks, I could have dropped them off earlier this week while I was down your way.
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has the OP confirmed these are actually bees, and not some form of wasp/hornet ?
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Old 06-18-2018, 02:21 PM   #35
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has the OP confirmed these are actually bees, and not some form of wasp/hornet ?
Near as I can tell without catching one or seeing the nest is they are Yellowjackets. Beneficial, especially parked next to the garden, but they are not staying where they are.
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Old 06-20-2018, 07:01 AM   #36
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It was a small maybe 4" yellow jacket nest. Removed the screws near dusk, used a stick to make sure the cover was loose. After dark the lid was removed ad the nest sprayed.

The water based bee spray worked fine, just washed the over spray off everything in the am and reinstalled the cover. I can see where the petroleum based would be a problem if one had a rubber roof, the spray has far from pin point accuracy.


A 6' step ladder is not enough for a 5.0TA, needed the 8'.
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