HElp me kill some bees

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blgoode

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Man, I have something that looks like sweat bees making a home right where I dont want them. They dig in the ground and actually kill the grass! I have used dust, wasp spray...nothing works! Any advise becides gas and a match ;)
 
Well, conventional beekillers should work. If you have kids or pets that go in the grass you may want to think twice about that, though. Best time to kill bees and wasps is in the evening/night. During the day they're out and about, but after dusk they come home, so if you want to do thermonuclear damage on their asses that is the time to do it. Good luck!
 
If you don't mind killing the grass, what if you got some kind of matt or old blanket even and just lay it over the whole area for a few days? Just a thought, if the stuff you bought didn't work.

Chiro75, that's good advice about doing it at night. I have two wasp nests I need to knock down from the back of my house, so I'm gonna keep that in mind!

~ashes
 
I have tried everything and they keep on buzzing!! Arg ;)

I am trying to get them to stop killing my grass when the dig and clean around the holes they make.
 
Are they nesting in the ground? If their yellow jackets, just hit the hole about dark with a cup or 2 of gasoline, you don't need a match, the gas will kO them as soon as it hits them. Never seen any ground dwelling bees around here other then yellow jackets, so I couldn't help with any other ideas.

Bill
 
I think Bill B. is correct in identifying the bee's as "yellow jackets".Those are NASTY !! Burn like Fire stings.I was weed wacking some high grass behind my house a couple years ago and thought I backed into a thornapple bush before I realized I was getting nailed by yellowjackets.Ended up w/12-15 stings on my head and upper body.Never been stung in the head before and I will say I was truley in PAIN.Litterally felt sick and like I could drop at any moment from taking so much venom.The after Dark method worked for me.I was so MAD at those things!Got a net head mask w/a wide brim hat under it.Heavy (real heavy)shirt and pants,gloves and DUCT TAPE.No open seams.I got some gas and terrorized them all night with fire.A few days later when I was sure I had taken care of them I dug the hive up and couldnt believe how large it was.I Hate those things and will jump out of a moving vehicle to get away-no kidding.After that last hit I took I developed a real phobia of those buggers.GOOD LUCK.Remember Lots of Duct Tape!!
 
There not yellow jackets...ask me how I know :)]
At first I thought that these were just ants but now they fly and look just like sweat bees. There not termits but nothing I put on them will kill them. Will gas kill grass?
 
Gunk Carbrator Cleaner knocks them dead. Last year before I brought my hay in I had to get my old GMC ready for the job. The darn yellow jackets had made a half dozen mini hives throught out the truck. I grabbed the first thing I could get my hands and the Gunk was it. It killed them instantly and from 4 to 5' away if you use put the straw in the sprayer. I'm sure it would work well in the ground also.
 
I had the same thing happen to me when I lived in Texas. I used a gallon of MEK and a match. Course, I didnt have any grass either - just cactus!

Hey I did have an interesting thought though... can you sneek up on them and shove a big shop vac hose over the bee hole? Heehee! You could suck 'em all out! Then, while the vac is running spray some insect killer down the hose. :cool:

I still say gas and match are the best way. Heck, at least the most SATiSFYing way! :eek:

or...

suck up all the bees in a vac. Then suck up some some gas to kill the bees. PLace the vac on the street in front of your house and light it up. VAWOOM! Hello Darwin Awards! :D Damn, Bubba, wish I was in NC so I could - you know - help ya! *wink*

:p
 
I'll have to mensio the gas to my wife....OR I could sort of fill the lawn mower up tonight over the nest and....oops!
 
Brian

Killer Bees well I hope not..anyway :confused:
you won't get much of a fire going under ground I don't think.

wait until after dark
and put a funnel in the hole then give it the gas, don't light it up.
if you don't miss the funnel your grass should be OK..


just don't let the DEP see you doing it :eek: :)
 
I had to deal with some of those monsters once back in Tennessee!
Mean little buggers!!!
I bought a can of that 12 foot hornet spray. Stood back and got the opening of the hole to make sure none were coming out and then moved in blasting as deep as I could, soaking the nest good. Used the whole can on the stinkers. Never saw em again!
 
I'm thinking firecrackers and badminton raquets. Get all your buddies over. Get all liquored-up. Toss a firecracker on the nest and you guys swat away when they come out. FUN! :eek:
 
Some are dying from the 7 dust. I'll have to take a picture of the type of bees that these are. There just like sweat bees. There about 75 or so small holes...I am guessing several live in each hole. Time to die though :D
 
Brian, Are these the real tiny bees about half the size of honey bees? I would think the dust should take care of them. Anymore the pestisides aren't made as toxic as what was done in the past so it might just take alittle longer.
 
I'll throw some more powder on them. My boy made a HUGE dust cloud with what was out there yesterday cutting the grass......you should have seen his face when that white powder went flying....too funny! It was behind him so he was in the clear.
 
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