[Vision2020] Bees

[Paul Rumelhart]

I think I'll skip this little experiment at home, lest I kill off all of my friends honey bees that I'm keeping for him in my back yard, but I look forward to trying it next time I go camping.

Paul



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From: Janesta <janesta at gmail.com>
To: Jay Borden <jborden at datawedge.com>
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bees


Very cool! In all my years of living in Idaho, I've heard a lot of interesting home remedies for pests, but never this one!

Consider it passed on!

Janesta


On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Jay Borden <jborden at datawedge.com> wrote:

Take a shallow pan and fill it with an inch or two of soapy water… (Dawn, etc)... enough soap so that it froths up a bit.
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>Put it near/around your swarm.
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>Sit a distance back with your favorite beverage and watch the yellow jackets fall into the thing… it beats any yellow jacket trap I have tried.
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>When the buggers come in to get a drink, the soap lowers the surface tension of the water, causing the yellow jackets to fall into the pan and drown.  
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>We just came back from camping this weekend from the middle of Washington… and used this trick to kill well over 1000 of the creatures over a 48 hour period.  
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>Makes for good TV in the middle of nowhere.
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>Jay
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>From:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Ellen Roskovich
>Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 2:15 PM
>To: janesta at gmail.com; ringoshirl at moscow.com
>Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bees
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>Not very many berries on the mountain ash this year, so I was hoping for a mild winter.  However, the yellow jackets are insane this year.  Never have I seen so many nests  and I don 't remember them being so nasty past summers.  Got stung numerous times and chased into the house last week.
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>Ellen A. Roskovich
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>Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:23:16 -0700
>From: janesta at gmail.com
>To: ringoshirl at moscow.com
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bees
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>An old wives tale, or true?
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>Lots of bees, wasps, and yellow jackets... means you all are in for another hard winter!
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>Look at the Mountain Ash trees, if they are pregnant with berries, it means the same thing...
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>On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Shirley Ringo <ringoshirl at moscow.com> wrote:
>We've had lots of yellow jackets lately.  Luckily, I found three big nests before they found me.  Only one sting so far.
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>Shirley
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>Yesterday I was clearing out some dead bushes and trees from the bank behind the house. I ran in to a nest of yellow jackets.By the time I made it to the house I had about 12 to 13 stings. Six or so came in the house with me. I had a few more stings before I killed them. I stayed inside for awhile and watched out the window. The air was full of them. My right eye is still about half closed. I do not remember yellow jacket stings bothering me that much. These must be some hybrid version.
>I am not sure where their nest is, so I am done with that project until it gets cold or until next year.
>Roger
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