PineRidge
Super Member
Well it looks like we have a case of the bees from h*** here at our place.
Sunday when I was pushing the mower and trimming on the dam I spotted some movement near the edge of the pond. Stopped the mower and walked over to spot a rather large hole in the ground with lots of smaller black bees coming and going. These aren't yellow-jackets and I haven't identified them as of yet, but any bees in the ground where I mow are bad news in my opinion.
Sunday night after dark I quietly sneaked up to the entrance hole, shook up a bottle of dry Apicide, put the tip of the bottle in the entrance hole and gave em 1/2 the bottle in one good swoosh. This dry powder is very light and floats through the underground nest. I have successfully killed many underground yellow-jacket nests using this same method in the past and it has worked every time.
Monday morning to my surprise the bees were still coming and going just like nothing had happened. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Monday night I cut the smaller end off the Apicide bottle for more delivery, and again sneaked up on the entrance hole after dark. This time I emptied the remaining contents of the Apicide bottle (S WHOOSH) into the nest and ran like the wind.
This morning the bees were once again coming and going just like nothing had happened. And it looked to me like some of them were powered with Apicide. It clearly didn't work, hmmmmm.
Guess tonight we need an old fashioned Exorcism after dark.
The game plan for tonight is this. I'm going to mix up a real strong batch of liquid Cynoff. This stuff knocks everything down on contact, it has never failed me yet, but you do have to wet them to kill them. It also has a residual killing window of a couple of months. I plan on applying it with a pump up spray tank with the tip stuck down in the entrance hole. I'm then spraying a large area of grass in case there is a back door to the nest. I'm also soaking down a large bath towel with Cynoff and I'm going to throw it over the entrance hole to get any bees that touch it in the morning should they survive the initial spray.
If this doesn't work can someone please send me a half dozen M-80s, I'll bet that would work too!
Sunday when I was pushing the mower and trimming on the dam I spotted some movement near the edge of the pond. Stopped the mower and walked over to spot a rather large hole in the ground with lots of smaller black bees coming and going. These aren't yellow-jackets and I haven't identified them as of yet, but any bees in the ground where I mow are bad news in my opinion.
Sunday night after dark I quietly sneaked up to the entrance hole, shook up a bottle of dry Apicide, put the tip of the bottle in the entrance hole and gave em 1/2 the bottle in one good swoosh. This dry powder is very light and floats through the underground nest. I have successfully killed many underground yellow-jacket nests using this same method in the past and it has worked every time.
Monday morning to my surprise the bees were still coming and going just like nothing had happened. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Monday night I cut the smaller end off the Apicide bottle for more delivery, and again sneaked up on the entrance hole after dark. This time I emptied the remaining contents of the Apicide bottle (S WHOOSH) into the nest and ran like the wind.
This morning the bees were once again coming and going just like nothing had happened. And it looked to me like some of them were powered with Apicide. It clearly didn't work, hmmmmm.
Guess tonight we need an old fashioned Exorcism after dark.
The game plan for tonight is this. I'm going to mix up a real strong batch of liquid Cynoff. This stuff knocks everything down on contact, it has never failed me yet, but you do have to wet them to kill them. It also has a residual killing window of a couple of months. I plan on applying it with a pump up spray tank with the tip stuck down in the entrance hole. I'm then spraying a large area of grass in case there is a back door to the nest. I'm also soaking down a large bath towel with Cynoff and I'm going to throw it over the entrance hole to get any bees that touch it in the morning should they survive the initial spray.
If this doesn't work can someone please send me a half dozen M-80s, I'll bet that would work too!
