Bees and Camping
 

We are going camping and the bees are really terrible!!!! They attack our pop cans and plates of food. Does anyone have any idea's? :hair:

smoke...either personally or make a really smokey campfire

Give them something better to chase, a bowl of saturated sugar solution perhaps,

set a fair distance from the camp.

A common treatment is to make a really high pitched, shrill scream and duck and bob around REAL fast as you swat at them. This can often get them to change what they were doing around your food. :jump:

If getting stung ISN’T your goal,:rolleyes2… try giving them the saucers of sugar water that OldFart mentioned. You may even add a couple drops of red food coloring as this is frequency color they are naturally attracted to.

Campfire is at dark...........was thinking about the sugar water.......didn't know about the red food coloring though.

Thanks for the reply's.........and NO PF I don't want to get stung!!

I was gonna suggest a sticky, gooey cinnamon bun for them to attack instead of you, but PF's "bob & weave" strategy sounds interesting.

I bob, but I don't weave!! :D

I'd try using somw outdoor repellants around the area I'm using. We used to have keg parties in the woods and beforehand we'd spray the foliage around the opening we used with repellants. Thae seemed to help quite a bit, of course after that party got going who'd notice? LOL Citronella candles might helps some too I'd think.

I could send the dog down. He eats them.

We were camping once and he disappeared for a few minutes & came out and his face was swollen like he'd been stung several times. Ahahahaha, he was lumpy.

He actually looked sheepish for being such a dumbass. (Oh great, I just said sheepish. Now WI will have a crush on the dog.)

Umm..... just don't go camping, lol . Alright there are some traps that will attract them and keep them away from you ( can be found at Walmart, Target, whatever). But if you don't want them dead, set out a saucer of either beer or some sugar water like mentioned above and try to keep things like pop cans covered with plastic wrap when you aren't drinking.....otherwise have fun.

Wow! That's the biggest damn sheep I've ever fuc....uh, seen! :D

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Isn't that the point of camping?

lol @ pf. i remember in my junior year spanish class we had a poster of red flowers on the wall. during may and june, every single day a bee would come in and try to get pollen from that damned poster.

i have tested his theory in a practical application using methods of ocular observation. after recording my findings in a nuero-processor, i reviewed them after a 17 year control study. findings and conclusions: pf is right, bees like red :D:D

and didn't chey post a thing about dryer sheets, bounce brand, being a great bug repellant? just put em all around the site. now that i think of it maybe it doesn't work on bees.

LMAO....Thanks everyone!!

Could you please state that in a spreadsheet with graphs?

















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That's Sacraligious!!! Never waste the valuable beer!!!

Ya PF needs lots of pics...reading slows him down! :nopics:

We don't drink so beer is out. :)

PF, would wyndhy have to prepare them on a Pantograph?

And then maybe record them onto a Pornograph?

Too graphic? I thought so.

I don't know if reading slows me down, but pics SURE do speed thing UP. :D

:boink:

I was hoping she’d spray paint it on my bedroom wall so it would be graphiti. ;)

PF

It works as well through a van der Graph generator.

And I'm not copping the static over that one!!

ROFL :grin:



(*bows to the master*) :)

*giggles* I love you guys

I wouldn't worry ... she said it was a spanish class. I think it meant they yelled "OLE!" whenever the poster got stung. :rolleyes2










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That sounds like bull to me. :rolleyes2

























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Bring along some birds? (birds and the bees - get it?) Aw to hell with it, I just didn't have any useful suggestions! :bang: :bang:

yup, utter nonsence ;)

We do.

Take a 2 liter or smaller plastic drink bottle. Cut the top part of the bottle off at its thickest point so that it looks like you made a funnel out of the top. Turn the top over and stick it back in the bottle then tape it so it looks somewhat like a minnow or fish trap. Then fill about a 1/4 or the way up with sugar water and red color or red cool-aid. The bees will fly in trying to get the sugar water but there too dumb to fly back out. It's kind of hard to tell someone how to make one without using a pic. but mabey you will figure it out.

Good directions WhoamI, even if you’ve never seen a fish trap. ;) You just forgot to say ‘DUCKtape’ the inverted top back in place. :grin:

Thanks.....but we done home now...will remember that for next time!

well?

Who won - you or the insects?

LOL...we won...nobody got stung! :)

Minor factoid - In the spring the hornets go after sugary things. In the fall they switch to meat. When you are making hornet traps you'll need to adjust your bait depending upon the season.

In the fall just eat peanut butter and jelly. They'll leave you alone. In the spring just eat peanut butter, jelly is too dangerous :)

But these were not hornets...they were bees and they wanted the sugar.

Thanks anyway...I'll keep that in mind when I get pestered by hornets.