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Notnow

The best honey I ever tasted hands down, was Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey. If you put a spoon with some of it in your mouth, it is like the fragrance of a Thai flower garland, with a hint of Jurassic flora exploded in your brain. I wonder what mead made from it would be like? Never mind the false rumors, Leatherwood is NOT made from curing and tanning old men's penises.

ltnt

Notnow is a master Tanner?

Carrabow

For the wasp issue,

A spray bottle filled with tetrachloroethylene or Percoethylene wait till the evening when they go back to the nest and spray the nest down. This stuff drops them instantly and is a hell of alot safer than ether. Make sure your sprayer works first to so you don't become a pin cushion.

Can't find what I just listed: Chlorinated brake cleaner in a spray can is the next best thing.

Now....heres the other side of this. Wasps are efficient killers of spiders, so after your last thread you made you may want to reconsider



Bees.... find a keeper and relocate the nest.

Thats food buddy! I thought you were a Country Boy.

andycrosby

I take bee nests all the time and I have never been stung. take 10 inch of 15MM blue plastic pipe and a cig,. blow the smoke over them. threw the pipe when the cig is done get the pipe and scrape them on the floor then fuck off quick with the honey only the top has the honey give the lower 3rd to thai insect eaters, ive done this about 50 odd times it works.

Rural Surin

Depends on the nest, the variety, and their agressive behaviour.

DrAndy

what about the theory that eating the honey affects the brain?

Rural Surin

That's what she says...

Bogon

Fcuk me. Is there no end to the uses of the blue pipe?
May start a thread on this.

OhOh

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Not forgetting it's yellow brother.

Carrabow

I think he was using one of these

OhOh

Blue plastic

somtamslap

They've recently relocated to a tree in my back garden. The sadomasachist in me says throw a brick at them, the Attenborough in me says similar..would be a rather stunning dispersal, would it not..

ENT

If the hive looks like a ball it's a wasps nest.
Wasps also nest underground.
One of the largest wasps nests found was in Takaka, NZ, it was estimated to have been more than an acre in area inside a subterranean field cave on a sheep farm.
The piggery next door provided more food for the wasps.
Wasps don't store honey. They eat it and anything else, scavengers.
They produce more scavengers.

Bees like to build into dry hollows, rock or wood, where they can store honey and produce larvae, which become workers and drones.

Bees with more yellow than black stripes are milder in temperament.
Blond bees rarely sting.

Smoking the hive out is not entirely necessary. Use a smoker (non_human variety) sparingly.

Home made smoker.

Get a 2 lt (or larger) plastic milk container , no lid.
Get some suitable smouldering material (old rags/cloth, cotton/ natural fibre. straw, etc.
Light it and stuff it into the milk container.
It will not burn with a flame, but smoulders.
Pumping the sides of the container gets the smoke going faster, so point the opening at the hive entrance and pump the smoke in.
"Carpet bag" bellows do the same thing.
Or you can buy a bee-smoker.

Put on a pair of overalls with all pockets and holes sewn up, tight at the wrists and ankles. this is over several layers of clothes and socks. put on laced up boots..
Thick leather glove tucked under overall sleeves.
A wide brimmed hat with a mesh net veil that's tucked into the collar of the overalls (not your shirt).Use safety pins to fasten tight.

Go for it.
Once you're in, you're in.
Remove comb and place in container.

Get away from there.
They'll chase after the honey you nicked.
You'll get stung a little.

Or you can go native and tell every one that the stings don't hurt.

A source of entertainment and the cause of many village stories.

ENT

A Thai bee.


Bees and social insects

No "nest", only flattish looking comb structure(s) produced by a bee from wax.

Stay away from round nests made from papery mash, they are either wasps or hornets. Sometimes called "bees", but not genus apis, the honey bee.

cooked

we had a bees' nest under the roof for 10 years and nobody ever got stung. Depends on the species of course. Anyway these guys got excited every afternoon as the sun went behind the house, swarming out like football hooligans, nothing happened. We were sad when they had to go when we redid the underside of the roof.

DrAndy

we had a bunch of bees decide that the wooden slats on our verandah would make a nice home

we got one of the security guards from opposite to remove them - he said he could take them home (on his motor bike!) although I don't know if he was successful

how do you make bees swarm to order?

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Carrabow

I have a little knowledge of bees, I think they do this to get warmed up to heat up the hive for the evening when it is cool. They have to keep the hive at an exact temp. for the larvae

Little Chuchok

You could try one of these...



waspinator

donald36

we had a nest in our mango tree the garden --left them alone and after a couple of months they went away --like the wife said they would

ENT

^^How does that one work, Chuchock?
Old dead wasp nest inside it?

I know they'll strip another nest for the paper mash to build their own, but maybe the smell of other wasps in it?

Rural Surin

Secure the queen - they will follow.

English Noodles

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