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Brenda

I got this in my email yesterday and thought I would share....it has 12 photos so I may have to split it up
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So I'm using my bbq this weekend... so i thought ill clean it up..
I have known there were bees coming from under the cover so I thought I'd kill them, obviously...
so heres the bbq in question.....

Now I know these bombs aren't for bees but I thought I'll suffocate/smoke them out. So here is the weapon of choice

and delivery system....

I thought I was pretty smart (he he he) designed to be easily manouvered under the cover of darkness...

so then I release the weapon of buzz destruction..
OMFG! The sound from under the cover was incredible!!! You could hear it 3m away easy...
Then I ran like the clappers....
coming back few mins later to see the death toll...

It was at least a 20mm deep mass grave....

I continued to remove the cover and to light the bbq to give it a clean when i noticed some fatty looking substance on the top of the side shelf thing....

Bit weird.. I cleaned it before I put it away for winter and no way was there fat there so I begun to wonder......
NO..... it can't be could it?

I slowly removed the rest of the cover only to find the HQ..

AND ON ANOTHER NOTE

we think the queen flew away.... either that or a small child has wings and has been living in the hive coz that thing was huge!
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Serenity · CC&S Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 4496

OOOOOOOO MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG !!!! lmao! What a funny story and how bizarre that it made it's nest there! I would have died of fright, imagine not knowing they were there and lifting it up for them to swarm?!!

We had a wasps nest last year in our shed. I hadn't noticed but my next door neighbour had them flying around in her garden entering under the roof of our brick built shed from her side of the garden. I had to call pest control out and pay about £30 or so for them to spray the nest. It got rid of it straight away, and touch wood they haven't returned. When I went in the brick shed that is all lined out with plasterboard etc, you could hear the wasps buzzing behind the board, it was awful. Wasps are so nasty, I'm not sure if bees are the same, but anything that stings is a bad thing in that quantity!
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Brenda · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:35 am Post subject:

Either can sting you to death in great quantities. Unlike the wasp who can continue to sting and sting and sting...the bee stings once and then goes away to die, but the point is, you have already been stung!

We have European wasps here which are particularly nasty. If you have them nesting you HAVE to call out someone to get rid of them because we are trying to eradicate them completely.

Nasty!
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selious5 · CC&S VIP Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 817

Good grieg Brenda - what a load of bees - bet you didn't think there would be so many. I hope yout thinking of some delicious things to use that honey. The pictures are absolutely remarkable and your gazebo and surrounding garden that I can see look fabulous

Skippy X · Member Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 431

yummy... free honey! Laughing

Brenda · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:26 am Post subject:

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redhead · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:05 pm Post subject:

wow never seen so many bees ! thank god you dicovered them before any one got stung !