Pesky Ground Hog's NOW Bee's

[savagedasher]

Just remember the hole is not a motel they visit to sleep . It's their home they are
Storing food and makeing a hive for the feature .
We had some on the archery range After killing them we. dug the hive out It had a a 5 gal bucket of honey . Larry

 

[swd]

How about pouring molten aluminum down the hole? Ever see an ant colony casting? Might be pretty cool!

 

[Frankr]

did you kill them yet so this can die like them?
napalm

No
c4
MOAB
great ideas

how bout a 500lb bunker buster?

No not yet. I'm not going near them things. No working and been storming but I'm going to waiting on my night vision goggles to come in. No lol. I'll get them this weekend. I like the talster p and the road flare and cover best.

 

[rogn]

This is what you use expired marine flares for. As stated road flares work too. Wait until dark and set up with a big flat rock or piece of metal to cover the hole. Get your flare light drop it in the hole and cover it up. The flares give off a lot of sulphur dioxide which is used as a food bleach, or used to sterilize some situations, or to kill denned up pests. Hornets, yellow jackets, armadillos, chucks, gophers worthless SIL if can get them in hole. The stuff will bind with moisture and somewhat acidify the soil for a short period of time. It will kill any thing in the hole that has to breathe. Remember when you light a flare its going to burn until its done. While this is going on you might want to look for smoke coming out of other holes, and cover them too.

 

[Steve morgan]

I think the sleep at night a piece of water hose and Bug killer works . Take a Piece of tuff r cut a hole in it just the size of the hoses at night start the hose in the hole and push it in the hole with a screen over the top end of the hose Carefully fill the hose with bug killer . They can be Two feet under the ground. The some have two or more holes .
Good luck Larry

if you've got a cutting torch, fill the hole with acetylene, for more fun, light . . . . .

Bad idea YOU WILL HAVE A CRATER

 

[spife7980]

I think IDing them is the first issue. There are tons of mining bees that arent violent or aggressive. For the past couple months there was a 10' diameter circle in front of my shooting bench that the mining bees have taken over. Thousands of them but they arent aggressive or violent. I walk right through the middle them when I go pull targets. They moved on now that the spring weeds arent flowering and the rain stopped but I enjoyed seeing and watching them. Granted these have individual little holes and not one large 10" hole but still seems like a good place to raise awareness of them.

Now if its the ground hornets then I agree, kill those suckers. Just dont kill our beneficial bees.

 

[Webster]

This is what you use expired marine flares for. As stated road flares work too. Wait until dark and set up with a big flat rock or piece of metal to cover the hole. Get your flare light drop it in the hole and cover it up. The flares give off a lot of sulphur dioxide which is used as a food bleach, or used to sterilize some situations, or to kill denned up pests. Hornets, yellow jackets, armadillos, chucks, gophers worthless SIL if can get them in hole. The stuff will bind with moisture and somewhat acidify the soil for a short period of time. It will kill any thing in the hole that has to breathe. Remember when you light a flare its going to burn until its done. While this is going on you might want to look for smoke coming out of other holes, and cover them too.

Besides the poison fumes a flare pushes a huge amount of very hot gas into passage ways.

 

[snert]

snert, sounds like you have experience with the hornets? As for the OP, I'm thinking 3-5gal gas, some way to pump it in the hole as vapor/liquid mix. then stand off at about 15yds with a big crackler roman candle. I feel like this should be done near dark to maximize the effect when one of those flaming balls hits home. Sure you could kill them slow and safe, but where's the fun in that?

Ya. I hate bees, hornets, wasps. Bugaphobic. Once as a teen had about 150 feet of 5 ft tall aborvitea. Trimming same when stung, lots. I used the gas/broomstick/can trick to get back at those little sons of Satan.
Did you know that arborvitea are like blue spruce? And that they ignite like roman candles? After that fiasco we had 75 feet of 5 foot shrubs, 30 feet of 3 foot shrubs,...you get the picture.
But that did not learn me nuthin. The spruce was my next victim, several yeas after. dad was really not happy about that. Four beautiful trees, one scorched Charlie brown tree, right in the front lawn. Dad wondered if I would ever make it to adulthood. Bees just do something to me...

 

[snert]

Bad idea YOU WILL HAVE A CRATER

And??? What is the issue?

 

[Knotwild]

You HAVE to light the gasoline, with the "whoosh". It's a rite of passage!

Yes, light it. A couple of years ago a man in Hilton Head SC lit some. He begged the first responders to kill him; they didn't; and he died on his own a few days later.

 

[agr516]

I love fire and i love boom but dont ever light gasoline. It might be fun (if youre lucky) but it might also be deadly. Gas fumes are too unpredictable to play with. If you want to light something, use diesel.

 

[rogn]

Using acetylene set to efficient burn is a very bad idea, Acetylene has the most energy per molecule of any molecule. Its also unstable. There was an occasion where a reprobate snuffed his torch and filled an inner tube and ignited it with an M80. 3 foot crater, broke most of the windows in the house and got responses from 5 jurisdictions. Apparently quite the 7/4 party. Fortunately outside of some ear damage no one was injured. Gas is high energy too and its sneaky about where and how the fumes will flow and burn. At the least the WHOOSH can result in 2* and 3* burns.

 

[Webster]

Using acetylene set to efficient burn is a very bad idea, Acetylene has the most energy per molecule of any molecule. Its also unstable. There was an occasion where a reprobate snuffed his torch and filled an inner tube and ignited it with an M80. 3 foot crater, broke most of the windows in the house and got responses from 5 jurisdictions. Apparently quite the 7/4 party. Fortunately outside of some ear damage no one was injured. Gas is high energy too and its sneaky about where and how the fumes will flow and burn. At the least the WHOOSH can result in 2* and 3* burns.

Just had a carpenter bee problem. Home Depot sells Spectride Carpenter Bee killer in a spray can. It expands to a foam and kills quickly by body contact. If you spray the entrance they have to walk thru it to get out of the nest. Spray at nite.

By a quart of concentrated bug killer. Dump it full strength into the opening.

 

[spaniel]

Carpenter bees are a lot of fun with a .22 pistol and .22 shot shells! Challenge your skills. Next time I take one down I'm pinning it to an itty bitty plaque and putting it up on the wall with my antlers.

 

[snert]

Ya, acytalene in a bread bag on a gravel road and a long pole with a lit rag makes for a cousin with lots of slag and gravel in his back and butt....and a memorable boom. Don't do that.

Gas, no lighter.

 

[Knotwild]

Using acetylene set to efficient burn is a very bad idea, Acetylene has the most energy per molecule of any molecule. Its also unstable. There was an occasion where a reprobate snuffed his torch and filled an inner tube and ignited it with an M80. 3 foot crater, broke most of the windows in the house and got responses from 5 jurisdictions. Apparently quite the 7/4 party. Fortunately outside of some ear damage no one was injured. Gas is high energy too and its sneaky about where and how the fumes will flow and burn. At the least the WHOOSH can result in 2* and 3* burns.

I had a welder in my home town with a big metal shop. Went in one day and the back wall was black. I asked him what happened and he said:"That dumb son of mine filled a trash bag with acetylene and static electricity ignited it before he could get it outside". No one was hurt, just singed with some burns.

 

[swd]

I had a welder in my home town with a big metal shop. Went in one day and the back wall was black. I asked him what happened and he said:"That dumb son of mine filled a trash bag with acetylene and static electricity ignited it before he could get it outside". No one was hurt, just singed with some burns.

About 10 years ago in one of the hillbilly mountain towns above me a guy did the acetylene garbage bag trick and blew himself up. As in dead. Powerful stuff!

 

[jds holler]

Good grief!! I just had to erase a very innovative post that would have probably killed this thread for dangerously liable suggestions. For once, I completely read my drivel before hitting send. Sure glad I didn't get sucked into this disgusting parade of mostly fruit-cake suggestions. This has got to be a first for me. jd

 

[msinc]

Wait till dusk or just after for them to all be back down in the hole. Pour gasoline down the hole. No need to light the gas, the fumes will kill them.

Fumes will kill them, but since there is absolutely no sense whatsoever in one small animal being able to inflict so much pain......why not strike a match too???? It just makes you feel better to do it this way.

 

[rogn]

If you want to have fun and a good workout, go after the carpenter bees with a badminton raquet. You can really rack up the numbers and get some satisfaction too. Fortunately these little buggers never learned to sting.