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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

sounds pretty hive-oc

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

my favorite fun fact about bees and bee nests, is that they actually produce a lot of heat, so if you have a nest of bees in your wall, you can tell because your wall will be hot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Behold my children:

Saylor Class, Dance Lesson, Computer Science Tutorial and Intro To Biology

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

My suitcase full of BEES should help with that!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Had something similar. My bedroom was small and under the roof, and for some time I heard scratching noises at night over my bed. I assumed that were mice, so I set up some mouse traps in the attic. No success. The bait was gone, but none of the traps were sprung.

So, one evening when the noise got annoying, I went to investigate closely. And found a large wasps nests, right on the other side of the sheet rock of my bedroom.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Jesus. That sounds eerily like my experience. Heard scracthes in the attic and thought it was mice. Woke up one morning with a dead wasp in the bed and having been stung. Thought nothing of it. Woke up a few days later with two dead wasps in the bed and having been stung. Huh, that's weird. Then when I woke up one morning I saw a wasp crawl between the planks in the ceiling. Called exterminators and they sprayed the attic. The wasps had built their nest in the isolation and had chewed through it down to the planks... The next week I had hundreds of dead (and a few alive) bees in the room every day and I had to sleep on the sofa..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm aware. I was just relaying my experience which was pretty similar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I see. Your wording made it seem like you were conflating the two.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Ah, sorry for the confusion then :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is why flamethrowers are legal to own in 48/50 US states.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have a drone on offer up and some fool tried to convince me to trade for a flame thrower. Wtf am I going to do with a flame thrower? I guess I could vanquish my enemies... If I had any. People are weird.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It seems they had the same thought "Crap, what can I do with this flamethrower? Maybe I can trade it for that drone!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The obvious solution is to attach the flamethrower to the drone.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The fuckidy fuck is happening there

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

When I was very little, maybe 2, my mum had sat me down in front of Sesame Street while she did some chores. Not long after I came running into the kitchen “mummy mummy there’s a birdie in the front room!” She said yes, that was big bird and to go back in and watch it. I kept running back to her increasingly more upset about the birdie until she came into the living room to find a pigeon had come down the chimney and was irately trying to escape. I know I was too young to remember it, but I swear I can recall the feeling of vindication!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

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This is the worst thing I've read today

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Has this been happening for a while? How tf did this happen?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

It's not that uncommon. When a beehive is doing really well, it'll "split", meaning they'll raise a second queen and the new queen will leave and half of the colony will go with her to establish a new hive somewhere. This is called swarming, and it's the their version of reproduction. (Tangent: Contrary to popular belief, honey bee swarms are usually very docile since they don't yet have a home to defend.) Once they find a suitable location to settle, they'll move in. Without humans building things, a suitable location would usually be something like an old hollowed out tree. But humans build great beehive homes. Old houses with small openings between siding panels that allow bees into the walls are a common favorite.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can't believe it's not posted here yet, so here we go.

Ehm.

NO, NO, NOT THE BEES! ALL OVER MY EYES! AARGHHH

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Not if you use the same insurance company.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This looks like a job for... DR. BEES!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

As reported by the Bee Bee, See.

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