Bringing some heat to the bird feeders

[Leo123]

If I find them I will

They’re in the ground I believe.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Gosh. I remember black salve. My grandma used to put that stuff on me to draw out splinters.

And now I just remembered mercurochrome. Ho lee sht. Whenever I got scraped up, especially on my knees, she'd say lemme go get the mercurochrome. I would go hide. lolol. That stuff stung like the dickins...

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Yeah, black salve works for a million things! I love all those old remedies.

As a young adult, I used to get screaming tonsillitis every year and always vacillated between just having my tonsils out and getting it over with, and then this old Mexican RN I worked with took me into a storage room at the clinic and took a huge cotton swab, dipped it in mercurochrome and swabbed my tonsils and that was the end of my tonsillitis! Trust old woman medicine!

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[White 6]

Yeah, there is. They basically operate the way that you said.

I emailed the bee lady over at the university about em. She sent a couple of interns out to snatch a few of em.

I usually go out in the evening with a wiffle bat and tee off on em as they fly in.

Same with the carpenter bees.

Have you spotted the nest? If many in the nest, the nest hole will a heat signature at night, if you have or can borrow an infrared sight or camera. Notice I said have or borrow. Camera or sight would probably run two bills, maybe more.

 

[badger2]

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Keep some Amish Black Salve around or look online and find out how to make it. If you do get stung, use it immediately.

I got stung and still had a slightly swollen, itchy spot a month later. I put black salve on it twice a day, and by the third day it was all better. Amazing stuff!

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Native Americans may have used it first. It starts with Sanguinaria canadensis (bloodroot).

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Native Americans may have used it first. It starts with Sanguinaria canadensis (bloodroot).

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You're right! There was a huge controversy over the formulation that had bloodroot.

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[Natural Citizen]

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Yeah, black salve works for a million things! I love all those old remedies.

As a young adult, I used to get screaming tonsillitis every year and always vacillated between just having my tonsils out and getting it over with, and then this old Mexican RN I worked with took me into a storage room at the clinic and took a huge cotton swab, dipped it in mercurochrome and swabbed my tonsils and that was the end of my tonsillitis! Trust old woman medicine!

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Blech...

 

[Natural Citizen]

Have you spotted the nest? If many in the nest, the nest hole will a heat signature at night, if you have or can borrow an infrared sight or camera. Notice I said have or borrow. Camera or sight would probably run two bills, maybe more.

Yeah, I know where it is. Just haven't messed with it.

I run the mower over it and they never come out. But I see em come out in the evenings about this time.

I've probably taken out around thirty or forty of em with the wiffle bat.

Probably gonna dust em a couple of times once I figure out what to use.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Blech...

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It was gross but she didn't give me a chance to object and afterwards I no longer got my yearly infection with 103° fever.

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[Natural Citizen]

Native Americans may have used it first. It starts with Sanguinaria canadensis (bloodroot).

Hm. That's interesting. I didn't know that. My grandma was just about as close as you can get to being a full Cherokee without actually being full. She made that stuff in the kitchen. Of course, she made all sorts of concoctions out of stuff she brought in from the woods. The Cherokee National Park was pretty much my backyard playground when I was a kid.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Hm. That's interesting. I didn't know that. My grandma was just about as close as you can get to being a full Cherokee without actually being full. She made that stuff in the kitchen. Of course, she made all sorts of concoctions out of stuff she brought in from the woods. The Cherokee National Park was pretty much my backyard playground when I was a kid.

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Lucky kid!

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[Natural Citizen]

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Lucky kid!

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Yep.

Big old trout river fifty feet off the front porch. Natural spring water right from the mountain, even closer than that.

I could sit in a wild strawberry patch for hours before I came home with a red face. lol.

There was that time a bear chased my mom up the bank when she was fetching water though. I don't think her feet hit the ground but maybe two or three times the whole way up. Ha hah.

Ah well. Whole different topic...

 

[White 6]

Yeah, I know where it is. Just haven't messed with it.

I run the mower over it and they never come out. But I see em come out in the evenings about this time.

I've probably taken out around thirty or forty of em with the wiffle bat.

Probably gonna dust em a couple of times once I figure out what to use.

Articles say Seven dust. I have gotten rid of them in my yard with gasoline down the hole and a match, but I doubt that is a recommended technique. Makes a nice eternal flame into the night though. Can be kind of dangerous, though.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Articles say Seven dust. I have gotten rid of them in my yard with gasoline down the whole and a match, but I doubt that is a recommended technique. Makes a nice eternal flame into the night though. Can be kind of dangerous, though.

Yeah, that's what I was kind of waiting on to see what the bee lady said. She did mention about dusting, which is why I mentioned it, but she hasn't got back to me yet to say specifically what dust to use.

Some dust apparently kills off all of the other bugs that bees eat, but these ones are obliterating the apples instead.

She actually helped me out a couple of years back when queen bees (regular yellow jackets) kept showing up in one of the rooms upstairs. Apparently they were scoping out a place to nest and had found a hole that I'd drilled previously and never siliconed around it. Well, maybe I did but it was probably half-assed. It was the cool A/C drawing them in through the hole.

 

[Synthaholic]

I had a bunch in a hole on the side of my house last summer. I left them alone. They polinate like bees, and they kill flies. They disappeared when Autumn came.

 

[badger2]

Hm. That's interesting. I didn't know that. My grandma was just about as close as you can get to being a full Cherokee without actually being full. She made that stuff in the kitchen. Of course, she made all sorts of concoctions out of stuff she brought in from the woods. The Cherokee National Park was pretty much my backyard playground when I was a kid.

Bloodroot (Cherokee 'Gili wa ta') knowledge was likely passed to settlers in their area.

 

[White 6]

Yeah, that's what I was kind of waiting on to see what the bee lady said. She did mention about dusting, which is why I mentioned it, but she hasn't got back to me yet to say specifically what dust to use.

Some dust apparently kills off all of the other bugs that bees eat, but these ones are obliterating the apples instead.

She actually helped me out a couple of years back when queen bees (regular yellow jackets) kept showing up in one of the rooms upstairs. Apparently they were scoping out a place to nest and had found a hole that I'd drilled previously and never siliconed around it. Well, maybe I did but it was probably half-assed. It was the cool A/C drawing them in through the hole.

If nesting in the house, I would call the exterminator and move out until the job was done. Yellow jackets are usually not just one or two. Yellow Jackets and wasps tend to shut me down, and I'd better be popping the benedril and finding transport to an ER. I might deal with them to an extent outside, but like in an attic or wall, best I left to somebody else.

 

[the watcher]

I like gasoline for yellowjackets. Don't use ether though. I had a problem with voles in the backyard and I sprayed about a half can of starting fluid down a hole and lit it off. It started with a big whooooomp and the ground flew up towards the hot tub but stopped before the patio. It must have cleared 40 feet of the little bastards, but that was the last time I saw one for a while.

 

[whitehall]

I prefer to let the hummingbirds duke it out with the insects for a meal. They do it in the wild every day. The introduced european hornets are big but they aren't aggressive unless you roll over on one in bed. It hurts but it's nothing to get panicky about. They are attracted to light and can be killed that way.

 

[badger2]

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You're right! There was a huge controversy over the formulation that had bloodroot.

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Do you have any citations for this? The Cherokee shaman, Swimmer, is involved in this story. Having examined the Swimmer manuscript (Bureau of American Ethnology), it is not know just what area Swimmer was from. Likely CNF.