Meet the Bees!

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tharedhead

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These are the more timid guys that like to eat near the house. The feeder is simply a toaster oven drip pan, with plastic straws to prevent drowning in the sugar syrup. Only problem with this is that when large groups settle on the feeder, they push some of the straws out. Also lazy bees will crawl into the straws and go to sleep, so I have to gently puff air into the straw to get them out when I bring the feeders in at night to wash them.

I :love: bees!
 
:wave: Oh red, the more we find out about you, the more worried I get. I hate bees; am quite scared of them, especially if a bee or wasp is in the car with me. I will stop the truck wherever I happen to be...to get rid of that bee/wasp. :cussing: And here I find that you not only feed the nasty little creatures, but you blow into the straws to revive bees that may be inside the straws? Ewww, after those straws have spent the day outside, covered with bees and other creepy, flying things? OMG... :crazytongue:
 
inthesticks said:
And here I find that you not only feed the nasty little creatures, but you blow into the straws to revive bees that may be inside the straws? Ewww, after those straws have spent the day outside, covered with bees and other creepy, flying things? OMG... :crazytongue:
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I hold the straw away from my mouth and gently puff. It does not take much to get them to wake up and get out. They're just napping. They crawl out, stretch, and fly off.
 
:sunny: I for one am grateful that there are people like red out there taking care of the bees. Without the bees like would be missing alot of the things that we have come to enjoy, like flowers, fruit and vegetables. Thanks Red! :cheers:
Sticks don't fool with Mother Nature!
 
pmeek said:
:sunny: Sticks don't fool with Mother Nature!
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Uh, believe me...I don't fool with Mother Nature. She fools with me. :cussing: I won't spend too much time outside during the summer months, partly because of all the creepy, flying, stinging insects and bugs. The only good wasp is a dead wasp. However, I do allow the yearly wasp nest to be built inside a crack in the outside wood siding near my front door. It is just over my head at the door. Every summer wasps find the crack and build nests behind the wood siding. Every time I come and go, I warily watch the one or two wasps parked outside the crack, near their nests. As long as they remain there while I come and go, there will be peace between us.

But if those little buggers ever begin flying at me, I will kill them all that night, using insecticide. And I won't feel guilty doing so. :laughing:
 
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