Oblio13
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« on: September 24, 2012, 03:13:26 PM » |
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Shoulda seen it coming, but I didn't. They turned out to be a baldfaced hornet's nest, some yellowjackets in a planter, and a bunch of paper wasp nests under their eaves.  |
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Joe D
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« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2012, 03:28:16 PM » |
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Well, did you get them boxed and transfered home. Good luck with your new bees.
Joe
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kathyp
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« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2012, 03:40:17 PM » |
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ask them to email you pictures. it has saved me many a trip!!
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"Nay, it [this constitution of government] must perish, if there be not that vital spirit in the people, which alone can nourish, sustain, and direct all its movements. It is in vain, that statesmen shall form plans of government, in which the beauty and harmony of a republic shall be embodied in visible order, shall be built up on solid substructions, and adorned by every useful ornament, if the inhabitants suffer the silent power of time to dilapidate its walls, or crumble its massy supporters into dust; if the assaults from without are never resisted, and the rottenness and mining from within are never guarded against. Who can preserve the rights and liberties of the people, when they shall be abandoned by themselves? Who shall keep watch in the temple, when the watchmen sleep at their posts? Who shall call upon the people to redeem their possessions, and revive the republic, when their own hands have deliberately and corruptly surrendered them to the oppressor, and have built the prisons, or dug the graves of their own friends?
– Justice Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," Volume II, Chapter XIII: Mode of Passing Laws, Sections 900-901, pp. 364 (1833)
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paindragon1
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« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2012, 03:59:11 PM » |
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Tell them you charge $200 extra, each, if they have stingers.
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Veni vidi, fecit mulsi.
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Oblio13
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« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2012, 05:54:04 PM » |
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I specifically asked if they were honey bees. She said that she thought so. I asked if they were in hives. She said yes.
Wish I'd thought to ask for pics, Kathy.
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David McLeod
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« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2012, 07:21:32 PM » |
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You need to learn the right questions to ask.
Is it a gray football shaped mass?
What color are the bees? Bright yellow or dull amber?
Are they fuzzy or slick?
Where are they entering and exiting? (anything ground or non structural are automatically suspect)
How many are entering and exiting per minute?
Are any clustering around the entry?
How large are the bees?
And of course texted pics are always best.
And if you had my vac system you could wade into them, for a fee of course.
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« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2012, 08:41:26 PM » |
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And of course texted pics are always best. i prefer emails. sometimes the text pics are hard to see. i keep several email addresses for various things. that way, i don't have to give out one i care about to someone i don't know. that first question, especially at this time of the year, usually clears things up. also, are they coming out of a tree, structure, or GROUND! |
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"Nay, it [this constitution of government] must perish, if there be not that vital spirit in the people, which alone can nourish, sustain, and direct all its movements. It is in vain, that statesmen shall form plans of government, in which the beauty and harmony of a republic shall be embodied in visible order, shall be built up on solid substructions, and adorned by every useful ornament, if the inhabitants suffer the silent power of time to dilapidate its walls, or crumble its massy supporters into dust; if the assaults from without are never resisted, and the rottenness and mining from within are never guarded against. Who can preserve the rights and liberties of the people, when they shall be abandoned by themselves? Who shall keep watch in the temple, when the watchmen sleep at their posts? Who shall call upon the people to redeem their possessions, and revive the republic, when their own hands have deliberately and corruptly surrendered them to the oppressor, and have built the prisons, or dug the graves of their own friends?
– Justice Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," Volume II, Chapter XIII: Mode of Passing Laws, Sections 900-901, pp. 364 (1833)
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David McLeod
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« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2012, 08:48:25 PM » |
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Text is easier for me since I'm on the road all of the time.
Go ahead and send the ticket in the mail Georgia. LOL
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« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2012, 09:52:51 PM » |
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I got a call this spring from a gal that thought they had honeybees flying into their house from under a deck. The hubby didn’t even phantom a guess, so I gave her credit for at least trying. As a bee keeper and a human living on earth, you just kind of EXPECT people to know what a honey bee looks like! If people aren’t observant enough to know a honeybee from a hole in the ground, what else are they missing? LOL
Yep, they were yellow jackets.
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« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2012, 11:32:58 AM » |
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i've had 6 calls for removals in the last 3 weeks. 5 were yellow jackets. 1st thing i ask is are they in the ground. if not, send photos
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David McLeod
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« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2012, 12:04:02 PM » |
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Three words I hate to hear,
"you can have".
Oh how nice of them to let me work my butt off so they can recieve a benefit. When I hear those three words I very quickly get offended and go on the offense backing them into their own little corner. I consider those calls to be from thoughtless, selfish, ill mannered idiots and I have no hestation to call them on it.
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« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2012, 02:49:39 PM » |
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The worst ones are "I have bees in my second story eaves...how much will you pay me??"
Scott
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"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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