attack of the bees

[missioncontrol]

I went out to my shed to make sure I still had paint and also decide what else I'm going to do to my cabinet this weekend when I heard a buzzing sound in the cabinet....

It appears I've got a few nest from mud dauber bees inside there

[ChadTower]

Fire.  Burn it down.

[GameOver]

Play some of Sephroth57's music in there.

[ChadTower]

He said get rid of them, not turn them into angst ridden middle class teen pseudogoths.

[Stingray]

If you're calling the same thing mud daubers that I call that, then they are actually wasps and are a lot more aggressive than bees. Go buy some raid flying insect killer. That stuff will knock 'em to the ground before they know what hit 'em. Having a bit of a wasp problem myself this year.

-S

[Dartful Dodger]

Whatever you do, have someone video tape you doing it.

Watching a running away from bees screaming like a girl always makes me laugh.

[missioncontrol]

Fire.

[ChadTower]

Having a bit of a wasp problem myself this year.

Damn Protestants.  There ought to be a law.

[Stingray]

I really don't want to use a spray if I don't have to since wood is porous and it maight retain the chemicals

Okay, then get yourself a flute and lead them out of town like the Pied Piper.

The nest sounds like the ones that I call mud daubers, but the insect does not. These are more of a reddish color and will definitely sting you if you get too close.

-S

[ChadTower]

He knows whereof he Stings.

[missioncontrol]

If you're calling the same thing mud daubers that I call that, then they are actually wasps and are a lot more aggressive than bees.

here's what the nest look like:



from what I've found so far they are not supposed to be aggresive and rarely sting.

I think they are called Organpipe mud daubers, but the ones I've seen neer the nest look like the black and yellow mud daubers......

Having a bit of a wasp problem myself this year.

every year it's one type of bee or another that tries to control my yard....

wish I could find a way to eliminate them permanently......

Whatever you do, have someone video tape you doing it.

Watching a running away from bees screaming like a girl always makes me laugh.

[Stingray]

Nests look different from the ones I get. They're more of dome type shape.

-S

[GameOver]

These are the mud buggers I get in my garage.  Just the house - I started to tap the nest to get one out, but then my camera went dead.  Looks similar to what you've got - anytime I see these, I just scrape them off the wall with a piece of scrap wood.  The bugs that come out of mine look just like wasps, but have never stung me.

[missioncontrol]

I'll get some pictures befor I destroy the nest.........

just got to figure out how to destroy them first WITHOUT getting stung. I really want to do some painting this weekend......

my marquee should be here soon...

[missioncontrol]

These are the mud buggers I get in my garage.

[Stingray]

I take that as a guarantee. Please set up your video camera before you test the theory.

-S

[GameOver]

so are you giving me a NO STING guarantee???

I don't guarantee anything!!

If you've got the same bugs I do, no prob.  But we don't know if we got the same bugs!  Just spray some 'Off' on yourself and run in there like a mad man.  Take back your shed!!!

[missioncontrol]

I just want my cabinet back.......

[whammoed]

Put the crevice tool on the old shop vac and scrape it off while vacuuming at the same time.

[Stingray]

And I want to be there (behind a glass partition) when you empty the shop vac!

-S

[whammoed]

And I want to be there (behind a glass partition) when you empty the shop vac!

-S

Um, borrow the neighbors shop vac.

[missioncontrol]

I can see my next post in the BST free thread..........

free shop vac just needs to be emptied 

[JB]

I really don't want to use a spray if I don't have to since wood is porous and it maight retain the chemicals

Okay, then get yourself a flute and lead them out of town like the Pied Piper.

The nest sounds like the ones that I call mud daubers, but the insect does not. These are more of a reddish color and will definitely sting you if you get too close.

-S

If you're talking about the ones I think you are, the red wasps are paper wasps.
They're more agressive than mud daubers, partially because they're a communal insect. They form small colonies with a queen, sterile female workers, and mating insects. The workers have nothing to lose. They exist to service and protect the queen and her babies.

[Stingray]

Paper wasps? Meaning that they make the paper looking wasps nests? If so, those aren't the ones I'm talking about either, though we do have those. They're commonly just called red wasps and they are super agressive and the sting is a lot more painful (I know I set you up there Chad). The ones I was talking about make a mud nest kind of like the nests pictured in this thread, but it's more of a dome shape. They're reddish colored, but they aren't as red as "red wasps".

-S

[ChadTower]

Stingray could be talking about hornets.

[Stingray]

In my last post I'm talking about two dofferent types of insects. One commonly called "mud daubers" at least here, the other are "red wasps". Neither of them are hornets. We have those too, and those were put on the planet Earth  specificly to give humans something to avoid.

-S

[Stingray]

Clearly I've been misusing the term "mud dauber" my entire life. GIS reveals the bug that's bugging you, but I can't find the one I'm looking for. More research is in order.

-S

[ChadTower]

You're going to have to redo the artwork behind the poles at the Sting Hole.

[Zakk]

If you're talking about the ones I think you are, the red wasps are paper wasps. The workers have nothing to lose. They exist to service and protect the queen and her babies.

I think I am a paper wasp!

[GameOver]

If you're talking about the ones I think you are, the red wasps are paper wasps. The workers have nothing to lose. They exist to service and protect the queen and her babies.

I think I am a paper wasp!

Ya crazy cannucks....are you a worker or a queen?   

[Bones]

Create a vacuum and suck them out.

[GameOver]

Good morning bones!  Is it TGIF in OZ?

[Bones]

Good morning bones!

[GameOver]

Good morning bones!  Is it TGIF in OZ?

It is indeed!

I have to give a presentation in 3 hours, then have some lunch, after lunch I have my salary review and then I only chew up another few hours and it's time to go home and attach myself to a case of VB.

Gotta love Fridays.

Excellent!  What's VB?  Is that your fav local brew?  Sounds good!  Or is it that red stuff we see in EVERY pic from your cab build post!    

Presentation and salary review?  Big day.  Hopefully the salary review goes well!  Tell them you need more money and want to work from home several days a week...

[Bones]

Or is it that red stuff we see in EVERY pic from your cab build post!

[Bones]

Nectar of the gods.

[Dartful Dodger]

Good morning bones!

[Bones]

Yeah but TDDIF just doesn't have the same ring.

[ChadTower]

I hate to vote for burn, but I think soothing them with Seph's music, now that I'm listening to it, will work.

[JB]

Paper wasps? Meaning that they make the paper looking wasps nests? If so, those aren't the ones I'm talking about either, though we do have those. They're commonly just called red wasps and they are super agressive and the sting is a lot more painful (I know I set you up there Chad). The ones I was talking about make a mud nest kind of like the nests pictured in this thread, but it's more of a dome shape. They're reddish colored, but they aren't as red as "red wasps".

-S

Indeed, I am talking about a diffrent insect.
This evil bastage, specifically... http://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/cimg348.html

Best experience with those was when one flew into my bedroom and tried to land in my torchiere lamp. And was roasted by 120 watts of incandescent lighting.
Was a rapid and very loud buzz for a few seconds as it panicked and thrashed dust out, then blissful silence as the fscker died.
I think the foul creature got caught under a light bulb. I don't remember the exact details post-roast. I know I plucked the filthy beast's carcass out and flushed it, though.



Me and wasps don't get along at all, for the record.




I've never seen an ACTUAL red wasp as far as I know.