Bee swarms

[Mancar1]

Was mowing the cemetery this morning. I saw a couple big dark spots, 24" by 24" each. As I passed within a foot of them on the tractor mower, they started to move. Wow, 2 big swarms of honey bees. Luckily they did not follow. If they had heck I would have been off the mower. I can run a lot faster than 5 MPH. Especially with a couple thousand bees after me.
Called a Bee Keeper I know and he came out. Now all those bees have a new home, and I do not have to worry about anybody visiting a loved one getting more than what they planned on.
Added a new level of excitement to my day.

[jimmy828]

It's amazing how something so small can put a grown man to his knees

[Madman]

Seems like a few posts on here lately have been "Bee Discovery" related!

[Mancar1]

It's amazing how something so small can put a grown man to his knees

On your knees is the place to b when praying.

[Mancar1]

Seems like a few posts on here lately have been "Bee Discovery" related!

That is because the KILLER BEES r coming to get us.

[Craigerf100]

I hate stinging butt bugs. Honey bees are okay. Hornets, wasps and yellow jackets i will KILL on site. It's funny I catch snakes
And I'm the certified bug killer for my wife . But If a flying butt bug Flys passed I'm out of there. A swarm of bees... I'm gone.

[sargentrs]

I hate those big red wasps. Them suckers just look evil.

[Nitekruizer]

Were the bees on the ground? In the grass?

Yeah, honey bees I leave alone. They never bother me.

Yellow Jackets are another story and they're the main wasps around here. I always kill those. It's spring here now, finally, so, I'll be out looking around my yard and buildings for new nests to destroy. I hate those damn things!

[sargentrs]

Were the bees on the ground? In the grass?

Yeah, honey bees I leave alone. They never bother me.

Yellow Jackets are another story and they're the main wasps around here. I always kill those. It's spring here now, finally, so, I'll be out looking around my yard and buildings for new nests to destroy. I hate those damn things!

Oh man! Here too. I was on my mower a couple of years ago and cut close to a tree. On the loop back around I thought "It sure is taking that dust cloud a long time to settle ". As I got closer I hit the brakes. Hundreds of them suckers were swarming out from under that tree! Waited till dark and filled the hole up with gas and poured a trail about 20 feet out from it. Threw a match and ran like the dickens. WHOOOM!

[Stealth69]

I was on my mower a couple of years ago and cut close to a tree. On the loop back around I thought "It sure is taking that dust cloud a long time to settle ". As I got closer I hit the brakes. Hundreds of them suckers were swarming out from under that tree! Waited till dark and filled the hole up with gas and poured a trail about 20 feet out from it. Threw a match and ran like the dickens. WHOOOM!

That sounds very effective at killing those stupid things, I usually use soap and water on a pressure washer that immobilizes them and wipes out the nest in one shot. Of course here they live above ground because they don't make nets in rocks.

[tac]

Gasoline works,. Reminds me of something we did as kids to the big red ant beds out in west texas and New Mexico. We would take our dad OA rig out to an ant bed and get a good flame snuff it out and fill up the ant hole. Close our eyes and light it . How did we survive.

[emmapeel159]

So I may be wrong, no bee expert.

If those bees were in a big clump on the ground all sticking together that may have been a swarm looking for a new home. I understand that the bees are actualy pretty docile at this stage to the point that you could collect them in some container pretty easily. People who are looking to start a bee hive collect these things.

You did the right thing calling the bee keeper. A lot of times those guys will take the bees and find them a good home.

[Mancar1]

So I may be wrong, no bee expert.

If those bees were in a big clump on the ground all sticking together that may have been a swarm looking for a new home. I understand that the bees are actualy pretty docile at this stage to the point that you could collect them in some container pretty easily. People who are looking to start a bee hive collect these things.

You did the right thing calling the bee keeper. A lot of times those guys will take the bees and find them a good home.

Bingo you got it. They where getting ready to move on with a new Queen. They had split from their hive . The Bee Keeper placed a Queen and the bees went to her and there ya go. He had to return with a orchard ladder due to one of the 2 swarms went high in a tree. Now the big cemetery BEE attack is over, but it left a lot of dead behind.
I did not want to test the docile theory, so I let the Bee Keeper handle them.

[NM5K]

Had a swarm of them build a hive in a wall of the house a couple of years or so ago..
And here, they do have killer bees, and it's hard to really tell which is which..
They had a hive and big layers of honeycomb all the way up the inside of the wall, and
were so many bees, they were spilling over and piled up at the entrance which was along
a window sill. It was like the window and sill were growing a large beard.. :/
One way or the other, they had to go. It was just too dangerous with the possibility of them
being killer bees, and a PIA as it was right next to where the water faucet is..
I tried calling bee people, but no one was interested. No one wanted to possibly contaminate
known good bees with possible killer bees.
So... I had to kill them myself. I used that powered stuff that nukes em quick, and mixed it
with real hot water. I waited until after dark when they were all in the hive, and swooooosh...
I nuked em. They were some kind of PO'ed... You could hear a loud hummm from the wall.
But after a good while, they all fizzled out, and that was the end of my bee story.
Hated to kill them, but sometimes you ain't got no choice..
This was a picture looking out the window from inside the house. Only a small number..
Many times more than that were in the wall.