Is this the thread where I get to show off my bee photo?

powerferret: Is this the thread where I get to show off my bee photo?

Why not? I did.

EviLincoln: I wonder if he will be pretty much immune to bee stings from now on?

I would expect that resistance would usually come from gradual low-level exposure over a very long period of time. Not a single massive nearly fatal exposure.

/took this picture my self!

/took this picture my self!

That's beautiful.

q. How do you stop africanized bees from stinging?

a. Throw them a basketball.

i can't tell you how many of these i used to see in upstate new york. they scared the shiat out of me.



that being said, i hate teh beez

GoTarHeels: q. How do you stop africanized bees from stinging?

a. Throw them a basketball.

Last summer I had the opportunity for a hike around one of the lovelier parts of Oregon, and at the edge of a particularly large trailside flower I saw a big fluffy bumblebee. Mischievously, I poked the bee right in the butt as I greeted it (am I the only person in this thread who's cool with bees?).

The bee did not move. In fact, the whole flower bobbed from my touch--the bumblebee was in the grasp of a huge green spider.

The bee was already dead when I poked it in the butt.



*shudder shudder shudder*

not impressed

they couldn't kill him?

wanna-bees.

/unavailable for comment

Tickle Mittens: Bees are nice. The ones in my garden are exceptionally fat and fuzzy. Hornets and Wasps however, they should be tortured then killed.

No... they eat a lot of bugs that we hate (new window). Although considered beneficial to agriculture, (since northern or paper wasps feed abundantly on corn earworms, armyworms, tobacco hornworms, etc. and hornets on house flies, blow flies, harmful caterpillars, etc.), it is their painful stinging ability that causes alarm and fear.

Wait, Bees can see people? F this I'm out.

DesktopHippie: "They also urge people not to jump in swimming pools, saying bees can see people and wait for them there."

Oh my God!

Oh my God!

HAHAHAAH! oh crap....

Thanks a lot, Pal.

/Obscure?

Best killer bee story I ever read was the one about the tragic death of Frank the goat: http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jul/08/news/mn-49718 "They killed some goat, a powerful old goat," Downey said Friday. "I don't know how much more killer they got to be." (yes, this is old, 2000, but the guy involved was really a character).

Why do they call them "killer bees"? 2000 stings failed to get the job done on this guy. They should be called "pussy-ass bees who think they're tough".

Sure they farked him up pretty badly, but thousands of them died and their intended victim is going to live. We should re-name them "stupid bees".

btw that pic is hornet honey...its sold just like you see

DesktopHippie: EviLincoln: I wonder if he will be pretty much immune to bee stings from now on?

Well for one thing he'd have to get stung by about 50 of them to even notice.

He'll probably be allergic now, and the next one will kill him.

NeuroticRocker: btw that pic is hornet honey...its sold just like you see

I am going to not buy that product.

FYI:
Liz Barta, an educator at the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center.

The average person can tolerate between four and 10 bee stings per 10 pounds of body weight unless he is allergic to the insects, Barta said. In a 150-pound person, that equates to about 100 stings.

Hyperbolic Hyperbole: What are the best kind of bees?

BOO BEES (NSFW, up until I take it down)

On behalf of Fark, and myself, thank you.

Hyperbolic Hyperbole: What are the best kind of bees?

BOO BEES (NSFW, up until I take it down)

If I rattle their nest, will they sting me?

/muchas gracias

FarkProudly: Actually, something I saw on TV said they go after the black hole that is your mouth, when you come up for air!
that is OH MY GOD

We had a woman come into the ED after a bee attack including seven stings in her mouth. Apparently they flew in when she started screaming.

TheGreatZarquon: Bees are scary shiat... Not ten minutes later, my father, the Master Woodsman, manages to locate what had to be the only ground-level yellowjacket nest for miles, and plant his foot right inside it. A horde of enraged bees came swarming out stinging anyone they could find...

YellowJackets are wasps.
Vespi.

Bees are not.

/raises wasps and hornets in the yard.

Went for a 'bee' pun instead of one about gambling? What were the odds of that?

Aw, man. I'm hoping for a repeat of the watermelon story. Some Farker was eating watermelon when he was a kid, and a whole swarm of bees came and started walking all over him and licking him and stuff. Who was that guy?

FAIL tag out to lunch?

Did he have his glasses?

redcap:

Right series, wrong villain.

Doh.


Shot at 2009-03-23

Dr. Warwick Kerr

But who removed the excluders? They say it was a visitor to the lab.

Well, they must be kill 'er bees and not kill 'im bees.

Just for fun.

driven to quit: This makes me think of an idea. We should create a "bee grenade." It would be like a normal frag grenade but put bees/wasps inside of them instead. Have about 200 or so in them. When in combat (Works best when your enemy is inside of a building) just run up and lob one at the enemy and run. When it opens after a few seconds then those bees will fly out and attack everyone in sight. Its like a pinpoint grenade. Instead of hoping your enemy is in kill distance the bees will fly right at them even if he is several feet away. Just make sure you keep your distance as well. Also would work great for clearing a room without damaging it or even hostage rescue. We should all get on this great idea.

Too late (new window) -- One of the stories in this book is about exactly what you propose; only it was done about 2,500 years ago, for sure, and probably earlier than that.

//goes off to read it again
///good books are for slashies!

Spiders freak me right the fark out but I've always liked bees for some reason. Wasps don't bother me either (but I treat them with a little more respect). I dunno why that is. Maybe because I like honey.

These men wanted for questioning.

/They on the swarm
//They're nothing to f with

Famousp, I saw what you did there, fark bees, at least they weren't killer horses.

FTA: "The man accidentally disturbed a nest of Africanized honey bees, also known as "killer bees," when he overturned a boulder while operating a backhoe, Clark County Fire Department spokesman Scott Allison said Sunday."

If they were bees they most likely wouldn't be living in the ground... many dumbasses still don't know the difference between a bee and a hornet (yellowjacket) and I suspect this guy is one of them.