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Post by the illustrious potentate on Aug 12, 2019 23:07:26 GMT -6
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Post by greybeard on Aug 12, 2019 23:29:55 GMT -6
Oh hell no... Naplam strike!
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Post by farmerjan on Aug 13, 2019 1:00:53 GMT -6
HOLY SHIT... I hit a nest in the ground last year raking hay, didn't know it until the third trip around and they came after me on the tractor, got stung 4 times.... but have NEVER EVER seen anything like that. Gives me nightmares thinking about it. The stings would kill you if you ever went by it unawares. HORRORS
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Post by okie on Aug 13, 2019 6:26:53 GMT -6
About sixty percent of the queen bees I've bought from BWeaver over the years acted just like that. Their selling point is that you don't have to treat them for diseases of any kind. It's a good thing because you can't even get into them to see if they need to be treated.
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Post by tcranch on Aug 13, 2019 6:33:57 GMT -6
I can't even finish watching the video!
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Post by workinonit on Aug 13, 2019 9:21:46 GMT -6
 Yeah...….. nope!!!! Gave me shivers just watching & listening to it. LOL A number of years ago, similar to Jan, while I was bush-hogging the upper field, I ran over a yellow jacket nest. Didn't know it til I came around for the next pass (no cab on that tractor) and they came after me! I stalled it in place, jumped off the tractor and left it in the field. LOLOL Fortunately those nasty little creatures were hell-bent on stinging the tractor to death. I went and retrieved the tractor when the sun went down.
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Post by cowrancher75 on Aug 13, 2019 9:31:02 GMT -6
you gotta run a country mile if they;re after you!
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Post by hughespieds on Aug 13, 2019 13:10:38 GMT -6
I've ran across a few large ones but never anything close to that size.
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Post by backhoeboogie on Aug 13, 2019 14:14:03 GMT -6
About sixty percent of the queen bees I've bought from BWeaver over the years acted just like that. Their selling point is that you don't have to treat them for diseases of any kind. It's a good thing because you can't even get into them to see if they need to be treated. One of our bee hives was nasty mean. It was split and requeened. No issues now. |
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Post by tater74 on Aug 13, 2019 18:15:00 GMT -6
DIL got stung about 150 times a few weeks back. Not a fun time.
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Post by highgrit on Aug 13, 2019 19:22:17 GMT -6
I dug a yellow jacket nest up with my backhoe two summers ago. And by the time I figured out what was happening it was to late, they wore me out.
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Post by alacowman on Aug 13, 2019 19:24:53 GMT -6
I could kill that whole nest with my bare hands.. and do it naked..
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Post by birddog on Aug 13, 2019 19:46:20 GMT -6
I had some of those killer bees get after me, the dog and about 15 cows last year. They had built a nest under a wooden feed trough. They were there and I knew it for a long period of time with no issues. I just avoided them. Not sure what changed. I saw the cows suddenly start jumping and storming out of the corral where we were at, but took a minute for it to register to me what was happening. The buzzing around my head gave it away.
That was the farthest and fastest I have ran in 10 years. It was a scary situation. Luckily the truck was fairly close and I ran and jumped in it along with about 10 bees which I managed to swat down but then had to get back out to let the dog in so had another 10 or 15 to kill. They followed the truck for at least two hundred yards repeatedly dive bombing it and smacking the windshield. I got bit about five times, the dog about 15.
Went back the next day in a cab tractor with a pallet on the front and bucket of gasoline soaked rags and another can of raw gasoline. Lit up the rags and dumped it on the trough and ended that problem.
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Post by chuckie on Aug 13, 2019 20:49:06 GMT -6
That is stressful just watching them attacking. Just walking up on a wasp nest; having them raise their wings makes me run as fast as I can.
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Yeah...….. nope!!!! Gave me shivers just watching & listening to it. LOL
