Killer Bees

[Mannlicher]

a can of RAID wasp spray seems to work well.

 

[The REAL Commander]

on a side note i grew up in the pass and my dad used to own a cabinet business what town did you live in

I still own my place close to Blairmore (or Coleman, same thing, same distance from my lot), but I also still have my Dad's old place in Moyie, which I currently rent out. Typically I spend my winters in Calgary with my son and venture back to the pass in the spring time, since winter down there is a bit depressing. I am hoping to eventually sell one of them and perhaps head a bit West on the #3 and maybe get a small chunk of land around Midway; just a pretty spot to finish off the retirement years, if you get what I mean. I'd like to leave the place in Moyie for my boy though.

What part of Crowsnest are you from anyway?

Side note: recent good weather up here has made me consider going back to the pass a bit earlier this year. There is no internet there, however, and if I was to go and get that last big dump of snow we always get, I would be so dang bored, heheheh. Curse my son for ever getting me to learn how to use computers, heh.

 

[mcjhrobinson]

wu-tang?

 

[Joezilla]

Hey thanks for the great info "Horned Toad" Sometimes just having raw, hands on experience is even better than info you would get from a Phd in the science of insects.

A good percentage of the PHD beekeeping people have both. You don't get into bees professionally if you don't like work. Heck, one of the professors I worked for threw out his back so bad working bees that he couldn't work 'em often anymore, so he just said "Ok, I'll go get a PHD and research them, then."

As far as the moving swarms go...they have nothing to defend so they are much less prone to sting.


Here is a video I made of a swarm coming out of hive. No protection. I don't wear protection when working *normal* bees. Its just too dang hot for even the veils.



and here is me going after said swarm at the end of the tree after they settled.

 

[Joezilla]

Bee's and wasp's are stimulated by adrenaline pheromones and it makes go terminator, you will feed them with fear by screaming and flailing, just run

Its an "alarm" pheromone that only lasts about 10 seconds at a time. They use it to triangulate an attack. I've seen them go for just one spot on my knee because I smashed one on there. What was really fun was this one guy who did research on their mobbing mechanisms. We had a chance to buy the synthetic version of the stuff! Talk about bee bombs!

Im out in Cali where we have plenty of killer bees and NO ONE I know or have ever heard of had ever had an issue with them here. They are out there and as long as you respect them and don't piss them off your more than likely going to be OK. Just don't piss them off and keep a look out and you'll be fine.

Amen to that. You'll have these guys around here that SWEAR up and down they have killer bees, and call the newspaper to get media coverage and all that fun junk. I was on the NC Africanized Honey Bee task force, and some of us would run down there to verify. Find some noticeably angry bees but nothing that would warrant a full fledged media run off. Take some samples back and confirm that they didn't have the genes or morphometrics for it, then watch the guy raise caine on the TV a month later when everything died down. People have been getting along with them fine for years in Brazil, Africa, and everywhere else. I think we are more aware and scared of them here than anywhere else due to our wonderful age of mass communication.

 

[Calebklyne]

I still own my place close to Blairmore (or Coleman, same thing, same distance from my lot), but I also still have my Dad's old place in Moyie, which I currently rent out. Typically I spend my winters in Calgary with my son and venture back to the pass in the spring time, since winter down there is a bit depressing. I am hoping to eventually sell one of them and perhaps head a bit West on the #3 and maybe get a small chunk of land around Midway; just a pretty spot to finish off the retirement years, if you get what I mean. I'd like to leave the place in Moyie for my boy though.

What part of Crowsnest are you from anyway?

Side note: recent good weather up here has made me consider going back to the pass a bit earlier this year. There is no internet there, however, and if I was to go and get that last big dump of snow we always get, I would be so dang bored, heheheh. Curse my son for ever getting me to learn how to use computers, heh.

yeah the winters are pretty depressing there i grew up in bellevue and my aunt used to own the dairy and bellevue inn, my dad also used to have a big shop in frank

 

[jnanson]

Run and cover your mouth,nose and eyes as best as you can. The bees look for dark areas to attack they will get in your nose mouth and sting your eyes. If you can't out run them then just out run the next person!

 

[Calebklyne]

Run and cover your mouth,nose and eyes as best as you can. The bees look for dark areas to attack they will get in your nose mouth and sting your eyes. If you can't out run them then just out run the next person!

are you saying the best way is to knife your buddy in the back of the knees?

 

[Pritch]

Speedball?

 

[paleojoe]

The african bees are african bees. The ill tempered ones are the hybrids.

The aggressive, forcefully guarding, thick swarming characteristics of the hybrids are considered to be traits resulting from the African bees.
Note also, that I was referring to the fear regarding the term, African 'killer' bee...

Here's what I'm talking about, and also regarding the popular African 'slot system' go to 4:45-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjEbf8xBE8U


Recycled water troughs were the basis for the design...

 

[The REAL Commander]

yeah the winters are pretty depressing there i grew up in bellevue and my aunt used to own the dairy and bellevue inn, my dad also used to have a big shop in frank

Boy, not much in Frank these days eh? I think they still have the bar, but the A&W at the station is gone. Music store is gone, not really sure what else is there, it goes by so fast when you drive through. Bellevue, lots of homes still, but again, not much in terms of commerce (tourism mine I guess). I am still known to have a few pints at the old Hostel in Coleman from time to time. In a nutshell though, the Pass is a bit of a ghost town(s). There was talk about the CPR putting in another rail line if the mills around Midway were to reopen, but I think that is unlikely now with the recession. I just want a peaceful place to retire and relax, I hope no condos or resorts go up in there. Then again, I am just an old man who doesn't like change, hehehe.

 

[Cheeseburger]

Dr. Andrews: Billions of dollars have been spent to make these nuclear plants safe. Fail-safe! The odds against anything going wrong are astronomical, Doctor!
Dr. Hubbard: I appreciate that, Doctor. But let me ask you. In all your fail-safe techniques, is there a provision for an attack by killer bees?

 

[Calebklyne]

Boy, not much in Frank these days eh? I think they still have the bar, but the A&W at the station is gone. Music store is gone, not really sure what else is there, it goes by so fast when you drive through. Bellevue, lots of homes still, but again, not much in terms of commerce (tourism mine I guess). I am still known to have a few pints at the old Hostel in Coleman from time to time. In a nutshell though, the Pass is a bit of a ghost town(s). There was talk about the CPR putting in another rail line if the mills around Midway were to reopen, but I think that is unlikely now with the recession. I just want a peaceful place to retire and relax, I hope no condos or resorts go up in there. Then again, I am just an old man who doesn't like change, hehehe.

yeah i took my fiance down there to show her around a couple months ago and it was pretty dead, but hopefully they will still have thunder in the valley this year thats the best (possibly only) thing they go goin