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Thread ID: 18302 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2005-05-19
2005-05-19 16:15 | User Profile
Anyone else have these big-ass bees around their house? They're quite common around here. I think they're cool and have no intention of spraying the nest that a female recently built by drilling into the porch on the side of my home. They are not dangerous to people, anyway -- the males buzz around aggressively outside the nest but cannot sting, and the lone female who builds the nest will only sting you if you do something really stupid, like try to catch her in your hands.
More info: [url]http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/Urban/carpenterbees.htm[/url]
Here's a good picture of one:
[img]http://www.scarafaggio.com/images/carpbee.jpg[/img]
2005-05-19 17:02 | User Profile
LMAO!!! I have to admit, that's pretty funny.
Okay, I'll just attach a different pic:
2005-05-19 20:12 | User Profile
At my previous apartmment, I had carpenter bees under my porch every spring. They're something I always enjoy having around - the same with june bugs.
A lot of people mistake carpenter bees for bumblebees, but they're solitary and their stings are much milder (I was stung once by a female that I grabbed thinking/hoping it was a stingless male, and it didn't hurt very much).
2005-05-19 21:10 | User Profile
[QUOTE=AntiYuppie]A lot of people mistake carpenter bees for bumblebees, but they're solitary and their stings are much milder (I was stung once by a female that I grabbed thinking/hoping it was a stingless male, and it didn't hurt very much).[/QUOTE]Really? I heard that even though the female bee almost never stings, if she does sting it hurts like a mother. Maybe you're not as sensitive to stings as most people.
I also like having bumblebees around. They look almost the same as carpenter bees, but I think the latter are even a bit bigger. Bumblebees aren't aggressive unless you screw with their nest, but they're supposed to pack a wallop, too. Here's a pic of a bumblebee's stinger coming out of her fuzzy butt:
2005-05-20 03:59 | User Profile
Angler,
Yes I have seen lots big bees this year. I do like having them around too. I am not sure what kind they are. I see them flying from flowers to flower.
2005-05-21 01:03 | User Profile
Here's a photo with a Bumblebee next to a Carpenter Bee:
[img]http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/hfrr/HortImage/Carpenter%20Bee%20and%20Bumble%20Bee.jpg[/img]
2005-05-21 02:09 | User Profile
Last year I was attacked by some of these, I did not get a close look to see which kind they were.
2005-05-21 16:42 | User Profile
Two wasps are building their nest right above my head in my jacuzy area, they leave me alone and I'll leave them alone.
Day before yesterday my jacuzy turned itself off (after half and hour) and I was sitting there with everything being nice and quiet when two birds landed on a brach of one of the trees next to the jacuzy, I froze in place and after a while one one them landed in the railing that goes around my new toy and then he landed at the edge of the jacuzy and was looking at me for the lonsgest of time but I didn't even looked directly at him, he then landed on my shoulder and worked his way down to my chest and to the edge of the water and started to take a bath, the other bird went as far as the railing and that was it, the bird was having a ball when the auto to warm the water started by itself and scared the bird away.
And today my cat came to me with another live snake......love it living here.