An updated rant on LAWN POISON

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HopeHoops 
 
An updated rant on LAWN POISON

I posted a rant a few days ago about lawn poison companies. It needs to be updated.

My three daughters took off for a walk about 11:00 this morning. An hour or so later, my youngest begged us to come immediately as there was a bumble bee in distress. It was indeed in distress, thrashing around and probably on the path to death. I've seen this sort of behavior many times, and only rarely after a fight where the thrashing one had been stung. This wasn't the case here. It had visited a poisoned yard and was suffering nervous system meltdown.

Call us bleeding-heart liberals if you will, but she spent an hour sitting on the back porch in a frump and actually broke down in tears over this little bee. It was not having a normal bee death.

Lawn poisons are evil.

**** Tru Green (a.k.a. CHEM LAWN). **** Lawn Doctor. **** ALL of the lawn poison companies.

If you work for a lawn company, change jobs now or face the wrath of ten thousand poisoned bumblebees when you are greeted at the gates of HELL! Oh, and **** YOU PERSONALLY!

End of rant.

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When will Dear Leader do something about the endless slaughter of bees by the evil lawn chemical companies?

Which reminds me, I need to pick up some Round-Up next time I'm out.

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[Lord Undies]

I would have killed the bee to get it out of its "confusion".  That's the decent thing to do.  That's probably why the Little Goon didn't think of it.

BTW, how did the Little Goon become so sure the sick bee had visited a "poisoned yard"?  Bees do not live forever.  They die all the time. 

Or maybe the poison was intended for the bees and everything was working out as planned. 

[Carl]

Good God......yet they are hell bent to have every baby they can aborted.

There is no mystery as to who is the master of their inherent evil.

[miskie]

Here is a bee-killing story for you-- Many moons back I worked for a big-box store that had some sort of bee infestation - I say some sort because I still don't know what they were. They looked like bumble bees but they were black and white. Anyway, they were ill tempered, and stinging people at random, and I was sent on a mission to seek and destroy. They had built a massive hive in the back wall of the stockroom, and were flying out through this tiny hole, So I taped it over to give me time to think. I listened to the wall in different spots and I figured the nest was at least 10 feet in diameter, maybe bigger.

I then got a gas mask and violated every poison control law on the book by mixing ammonia, bleach, and bee/wasp killer. I dumped the witches brew into a garden sprayer and pushed at least a gallon into the wall.

That made them mad. really really mad. The whole wall was buzzing furiously.

Outside the building they swarmed in this massive black cloud. we locked the doors.

The next morning I went out where they were swarming and saw this bee carpet on the ground - at least 20 foot around and a few bees thick. Genocide had come, delivered by my hand.

I couldn't stop smiling the whole day.

[Chris_]

It had visited a poisoned yard and was suffering nervous system meltdown.

If only Zero would give us single-payer bee health care this particular poor bee would be alive today.

I grew up in an old wood frame house. Bumble bees would bore into the joists of the front porch. We used to sit on the front porch and shoot them with BB guns.
You don't HAVE to work for a lawn company or use poisons to kill a bee. It just makes killing bees more productive.

[Lord Undies]

Here is a bee-killing story for you-- Many moons back I worked for a big-box store that had some sort of bee infestation - I say some sort because I still don't know what they were. They looked like bumble bees but they were black and white. Anyway, they were ill tempered, and stinging people at random, and I was sent on a mission to seek and destroy. They had built a massive hive in the back wall of the stockroom, and were flying out through this tiny hole, So I taped it over to give me time to think. I listened to the wall in different spots and I figured the nest was at least 10 feet in diameter, maybe bigger.

I then got a gas mask and violated every poison control law on the book by mixing ammonia, bleach, and bee/wasp killer. I dumped the witches brew into a garden sprayer and pushed at least a gallon into the wall.

That made them mad. really really mad. The whole wall was buzzing furiously.

Outside the building they swarmed in this massive black cloud. we locked the doors.

The next morning I went out where they were swarming and saw this bee carpet on the ground - at least 20 foot around and a few bees thick. Genocide had come, delivered by my hand.

I couldn't stop smiling the whole day.

One day they will write a book about this bee massacre. 

[Vagabond]

What most people call bumblebees are actually carpenter bees. What the DUmmie may have seen could have been natural, or could have been somebody that sprayed their house to get rid of them.  The carpenter bee species in the United States do not have much of anything to do with grass, so lawn insecticide isn't a likely cause of death.

They are almost as destructive as termites.  They live either alone or in smaller colonies than honeybees, they still collect pollen and create nectar. 

The males tend to act like their tough and will swoop down on anyone in it's territory, though they don't have a stinger.  Females do have stingers. 

How old is this DUmmie?  You would think they would know at least some of this.

[Vagabond]

Here is a bee-killing story for you-- Many moons back I worked for a big-box store that had some sort of bee infestation - I say some sort because I still don't know what they were. They looked like bumble bees but they were black and white. Anyway, they were ill tempered, and stinging people at random, and I was sent on a mission to seek and destroy. They had built a massive hive in the back wall of the stockroom, and were flying out through this tiny hole, So I taped it over to give me time to think. I listened to the wall in different spots and I figured the nest was at least 10 feet in diameter, maybe bigger.

I then got a gas mask and violated every poison control law on the book by mixing ammonia, bleach, and bee/wasp killer. I dumped the witches brew into a garden sprayer and pushed at least a gallon into the wall.

That made them mad. really really mad. The whole wall was buzzing furiously.

Outside the building they swarmed in this massive black cloud. we locked the doors.

The next morning I went out where they were swarming and saw this bee carpet on the ground - at least 20 foot around and a few bees thick. Genocide had come, delivered by my hand.

I couldn't stop smiling the whole day.

What you may have had was a large social wasp colony instead of bees.

[BlueStateSaint]

Here is a bee-killing story for you-- Many moons back I worked for a big-box store that had some sort of bee infestation - I say some sort because I still don't know what they were. They looked like bumble bees but they were black and white. Anyway, they were ill tempered, and stinging people at random, and I was sent on a mission to seek and destroy. They had built a massive hive in the back wall of the stockroom, and were flying out through this tiny hole, So I taped it over to give me time to think. I listened to the wall in different spots and I figured the nest was at least 10 feet in diameter, maybe bigger.

I then got a gas mask and violated every poison control law on the book by mixing ammonia, bleach, and bee/wasp killer. I dumped the witches brew into a garden sprayer and pushed at least a gallon into the wall.

That made them mad. really really mad. The whole wall was buzzing furiously.

Outside the building they swarmed in this massive black cloud. we locked the doors.

The next morning I went out where they were swarming and saw this bee carpet on the ground - at least 20 foot around and a few bees thick. Genocide had come, delivered by my hand.

I couldn't stop smiling the whole day.

The bolded seems to indicate that they were some kind of hornets.  But, if the nest was in a wall . . . However, being ill-tempered seems to be a characteristic of said hornets.  I see the nests in the woods while deer hunting all the time. 

[Vagabond]

The bolded seems to indicate that they were some kind of hornets.  But, if the nest was in a wall . . . However, being ill-tempered seems to be a characteristic of said hornets.  I see the nests in the woods while deer hunting all the time. 

His description made me think of the bald-faced wasp.  I've seen wasps build in places like walls.  Though hornets are a possibility too.

[miskie]

What you may have had was a large social wasp colony instead of bees.

The bolded seems to indicate that they were some kind of hornets.  But, if the nest was in a wall . . . However, being ill-tempered seems to be a characteristic of said hornets.  I see the nests in the woods while deer hunting all the time. 

you may both be right - After hitting Google I suspect that the colony was a variety of Bald Faced Hornet, which apparently isn't a hornet at all, but a wasp. They were fuzzy like bees, and resembled this photograph.

[BlueStateSaint]

you may both be right - After hitting Google I suspect that the colony was a variety of Bald Faced Hornet, which apparently isn't a hornet at all, but a wasp. They were fuzzy like bees, and resembled this photograph.

That's not a view I'd like to see.  Come to think of it, I did once.  Waaaay back in '72, we had just moved to where my parents now live, and to get the lawn in before the winter, we had spread grass seed all over the yard.  I was helping my father and the next-door neighbor spread straw all over the place on top of the grass seed, and all of a sudden, I came face-to-face with a huge bald-faced hornet (I didn't know it at the time, but that's what it was).  It was a queen, we figured.  Being a month shy of eight years old, I ran like Hell.  Not sure who killed it, but it was killed rather soon after that. 

[Chris]

"The spiders jammed the police lock.  I ain't been inside for a week, and I KNOW my wife is sleeping with the BEES!"

[MrsSmith]

What most people call bumblebees are actually carpenter bees. What the DUmmie may have seen could have been natural, or could have been somebody that sprayed their house to get rid of them.  The carpenter bee species in the United States do not have much of anything to do with grass, so lawn insecticide isn't a likely cause of death.

They are almost as destructive as termites.  They live either alone or in smaller colonies than honeybees, they still collect pollen and create nectar. 

The males tend to act like their tough and will swoop down on anyone in it's territory, though they don't have a stinger.  Females do have stingers. 

How old is this DUmmie?  You would think they would know at least some of this.

I was unfamiliar with carpenter bees when I moved to SE Kansas.  I tried every poison I could buy to get rid of them in our garage...never found one that actually killed them.  Then my boss mentioned that he would snag them with a net and just step on them...worked great, and cost a LOT less. 

Given what I experienced, I would seriously doubt the bee in question was poisoned.  Of course, being a responsible person, I would have put it out of it's misery instead of watching it suffer for an hour.   

[Lacarnut]

Why did these dummies not just stomp the p!ss out of this poor creature and put it out of its misery.

[Carl]

The meanest we have here are called Yellow Jackets...some call them ground hornets.

They will chase you the length of a football field and unlike honey bees that can only sting once they will keep nailing you.

[Chris]

The meanest we have here are called Yellow Jackets...some call them ground hornets.

They will chase you the length of a football field and unlike honey bees that can only sting once they will keep nailing you.

I got stung by one of those on my ear once.  It was awful.

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An updated rant on LAWN POISON
   
I posted a rant a few days ago about lawn poison companies. It needs to be updated.

My three daughters took off for a walk about 11:00 this morning. An hour or so later, my youngest begged us to come immediately as there was a bumble bee in distress. It was indeed in distress, thrashing around and probably on the path to death. I've seen this sort of behavior many times, and only rarely after a fight where the thrashing one had been stung. This wasn't the case here. It had visited a poisoned yard and was suffering nervous system meltdown.

Call us bleeding-heart liberals if you will, but she spent an hour sitting on the back porch in a frump and actually broke down in tears over this little bee. It was not having a normal bee death.

Lawn poisons are evil.

**** Tru Green (a.k.a. CHEM LAWN). **** Lawn Doctor. **** ALL of the lawn poison companies.

If you work for a lawn company, change jobs now or face the wrath of ten thousand poisoned bumblebees when you are greeted at the gates of HELL! Oh, and **** YOU PERSONALLY!

End of rant.

Seriously...think for a minute what it means to be a DUmmy


     A bumblebee dies, and this moron is so in tune with the universe that it knows immediately who is responsible and why.  And imagine the level of emotional abuse required to shortwire a child's sense of empathy, so that it runs home to get help for an insect.

     Must be nice to be the Bee Whisperer, but I think this asshole needs their children taken away so they can devote more time to being the defender of insects. Why, I'm about to go kill a few thousand ants right now! Try to stop me, moron.

[BlueStateSaint]

Why did these dummies not just stomp the p!ss out of this poor creature and put it out of its misery.

Because then they'd be responsible for killing it.  Hint, DUmb****s--bees in general are Republicans.  They work their asses off for the good of the other bees.

(That should do it.)

[JohnnyReb]

The meanest we have here are called Yellow Jackets...some call them ground hornets.

They will chase you the length of a football field and unlike honey bees that can only sting once they will keep nailing you.

Meanest little devils in the world. I've seen them grab the hot exhaust pipe on a buldozer and sting it until they're fried to a crisp. I've had to pull them off my eyebrows and out of my hair. Once they latch on they don't turn loose.

I've been stung on the head by 30 to 40 head at once a time or two. I've worked outside since childhood and have been stung many times by all types of bees, hornets, wasp etc.. I got stung so much that for about 10 years I didn't even swell up when stung, just hurt like hell, that's all.....then all of a sudden, I became allergic to bee stings. I had been under the impression that I had built up an immunity to them until I almost died from a few stings once.

[BlueStateSaint]

The meanest we have here are called Yellow Jackets...some call them ground hornets.

They will chase you the length of a football field and unlike honey bees that can only sting once they will keep nailing you.

Neighbor, I put a hatchet blade into an entrance to a yellow jackets' nest when I was in fifth grade.  Our Siberian Husky dug into a nest when I was a freshman in high school.  The first time I was stung far more than I remember (which means that it was probably a lot); the second time, our Husky damn near died.  I remember my mother driving to the vet, with the dog and me in the back.  As the little bastards would dig their way out of his fur, I killed them.

[Carl]

Meanest little devils in the world. I've seen them grab the hot exhaust pipe on a buldozer and sting it until they're fried to a crisp. I've had to pull them off my eyebrows and out of my hair. Once they latch on they don't turn loose.

I've been stung on the head by 30 to 40 head at once a time or two. I've worked outside since childhood and have been stung many times by all types of bees, hornets, wasp etc.. I got stung so much that for about 10 years I didn't even swell up when stung, just hurt like hell, that's all.....then all of a sudden, I became allergic to bee stings. I had been under the impression that I had built up an immunity to them until I almost died from a few stings once.

Back when I was in my early teens I was walking an old barbed wire fence that wasn`t in use for that particular field.
Being broke as always it was to see if we could salvage the wire for another place.

Got into a nest of them and have never covered ground as fast in my life but still was stung enough times to be somewhat sick by the end of the day.
They are relentless.

Father used to keep honey bee hives here and now and then would get an aggressive one but nothing in comparison.

[Carl]

Neighbor, I put a hatchet blade into an entrance to a yellow jackets' nest when I was in fifth grade.  Our Siberian Husky dug into a nest when I was a freshman in high school.  The first time I was stung far more than I remember (which means that it was probably a lot); the second time, our Husky damn near died.  I remember my mother driving to the vet, with the dog and me in the back.  As the little bastards would dig their way out of his fur, I killed them.

You been there with them...they are unbelievable to someone that has never had the experience.

[franksolich]

When will Dear Leader do something about the endless slaughter of bees by the evil lawn chemical companies?

Which reminds me, I need to pick up some Round-Up next time I'm out.

By the way, in case no one's noticed, there's an earlier rant by the lawn-hating primitive here, in the automotive forum.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,28368.0.html

And in case no one's notice another thing, there's plenty of primitive bonfires in the edibles and automotive forums, and some others scattered throughout other forums.

If one's interested only in the primitives on Skins's island, all of these off-DUmpster threads usually have the word "primitive" or "primitives" in the title identifying them, in case one doesn't want to go through the regular threads in those forums.

[Carl]

By the way, in case no one's noticed, there's an earlier rant by the lawn-hating primitive here, in the automotive forum.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,28368.0.html

And in case no one's notice another thing, there's plenty of primitive bonfires in the edibles and automotive forums, and some others scattered throughout other forums.

If one's interested only in the primitives on Skins's island, all of these off-DUmpster threads usually have the word "primitive" or "primitives" in the title identifying them, in case one doesn't want to go through the regular threads in those forums.

Very interesting Frank and it is clear this primitive is insanely obsessed with pesticide issues.
Reading that thread shows the dementia and also would indicate that is a bouncy.

Crazy idiots over there.