Help! Help! I'm being invaded!*update pg 3*
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Broken8ball
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Did you at least move the truck close enough to the house that the wireless on the computer/ phone would still work?
Sitting in a truck would make me hungry for Pizza and the Dis would help pass the time till the Pizza got there.
Sitting in a truck would make me hungry for Pizza and the Dis would help pass the time till the Pizza got there.
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Oh yuck this happened at my mom's house.
There was a hive in the dormor walls. It was HUGE. Same as you I kept getting bees in my room. First one at a time and then more started coming. No one believe me!
We saw the entry point between the roof and the dormor and sprayed but it didn't really help.
I had a crawl space behind my closet and when we entered that to look the entire floor at the roof/dormer joint looked like it was covered in sawdust. We didn't think much of it until the exterminator came.
He pounded on the walls and listened for buzzing (which you could hear) and when he went into the crawl space he told us that "sawdust" was the top of the hive. He inserted polls with pestacide and they were mostly gone. There were a few strays but that was better than an entire hive full.
The came through everything, light fixtures, outlets, lightswitches.
it was NASTY.
My mom has a similar crawl space in her room and years later on her side of the dormer in the same location BATS moved in.
Guess who ever added the dormer to her house didn't do the best job. BTW her house is 150 years old and the dormer about 70. After the bees and the bats she had the entire second floor sealed and checked for potential access points.
There was a hive in the dormor walls. It was HUGE. Same as you I kept getting bees in my room. First one at a time and then more started coming. No one believe me!
We saw the entry point between the roof and the dormor and sprayed but it didn't really help.
I had a crawl space behind my closet and when we entered that to look the entire floor at the roof/dormer joint looked like it was covered in sawdust. We didn't think much of it until the exterminator came.
He pounded on the walls and listened for buzzing (which you could hear) and when he went into the crawl space he told us that "sawdust" was the top of the hive. He inserted polls with pestacide and they were mostly gone. There were a few strays but that was better than an entire hive full.
The came through everything, light fixtures, outlets, lightswitches.
it was NASTY.
My mom has a similar crawl space in her room and years later on her side of the dormer in the same location BATS moved in.
Guess who ever added the dormer to her house didn't do the best job. BTW her house is 150 years old and the dormer about 70. After the bees and the bats she had the entire second floor sealed and checked for potential access points.
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LOL! Reminds me of that Stainmaster Carpet commercial where the guy tries to swat a bee that is in his house but the bee comes back and reaps his revenge....
better be careful!!
better be careful!!
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Oh my, I feel your pain!!! This year I hired an exterminator to come before the summer & spray my entire house all the way around so that I wouldn't have any bees nesting in it! I am a possessed woman when it comes to bees...
Your story comes to mind one of our experiences... the bees were getting into our upstairs through the BATHROOM FANS!!! I'm serious!!! They were getting into the attic & came in the living area through the bathroom fans
I forget what part of the attic they were getting in through, some other fan... DH just had to cap it with a piece of screen to keep them from getting in!
Good luck, I'd be in the truck too
Your story comes to mind one of our experiences... the bees were getting into our upstairs through the BATHROOM FANS!!! I'm serious!!! They were getting into the attic & came in the living area through the bathroom fans
I forget what part of the attic they were getting in through, some other fan... DH just had to cap it with a piece of screen to keep them from getting in!Good luck, I'd be in the truck too
I had no idea that bees could do any of these things. These are the things of which horror movies are made. Bees in the ceilings? Bees in the walls? The Queen Bee (is she related to Aunt Bea?) attacking the sick child? And to think, before this post I was only afraid of spiders (especially those big hairy wolf spiders)!!!
Thanks for sharing all the great stories. They were both funny and scary!
Ginny
Thanks for sharing all the great stories. They were both funny and scary!
Ginny
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OKay, the bee stories are definitely freaking me out.....but can we talk about all the spiders that think they are siging a lease to winter in my house! I think they are coming in thru my bathroom fan....two mornings I have either seen one drop from there, or crawl around there.... One morning I was already ready for the shower when I saw the spider....let me tell you it aint pretty sight to watch a naked chubby woman battle a spider with her husband's size 13 shoe!!!
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Robin, THE TRUCK IS NOT SAFE!!!! Do NOT run away and hide in the truck.
A few weeks ago I was peacefully unloading my babies from their car seats at the grocery store when a wasp whiffled past me and I jerked back (whomping poor Meredith on the roof of the car, I might add). I tried to track it and watched, incredulously, as it zipped neatly back into THE NEST THAT WAS ATTACHED TO THE CAR FRAME WHERE THE DOOR CLOSES!!
How is that even possible????? And do you know the raw courage it took to deal with that right then and there - because WHAT ELSE COULD I DO, my babies were in the car and I couldn't face coming back with groceries to find my car swarming, and how could I ever drive, and.....I had to knock it out. Picture woman holding two children (one crying and holding her head, the other struggling to run away into the path of oncoming cars in the lot), kicking gingerly at the nest hanging from the inside of the car...and darting away. And kicking....and darting away. I must have looked like the three of us were dancing with my car door or something. Then the thing finally crashed to the ground and we all cowered at the back of the car (Meredith holding her head and crying), and waited to see who came out.....
No one came out. One last thing was required of me, so that I didn't leave a nest, armed and dangerous, for innocent passersby.
I had to stomp it.
I put the girls in the cart and approached that one alone.
When I finally worked up the nerve to put my foot on that thing, I drove it into the ground with every pound I hope to lose before Disney...nothing but wasp dust under my heels.
I don't know that I've ever grocery shopped soaked in that much nervous sweat before; the frozen food aisle felt particularly chilly.
We're on the verge of another horror story, too, as I just saw wasps moving on a super highway over my porch light at the front door. They're definitely crawling into some hole in between the brick and the awning....and now, courtesy of my DISy friends, I can have nightmares about the walls buzzing and erupting bees.
So, then...
G'night!
A few weeks ago I was peacefully unloading my babies from their car seats at the grocery store when a wasp whiffled past me and I jerked back (whomping poor Meredith on the roof of the car, I might add). I tried to track it and watched, incredulously, as it zipped neatly back into THE NEST THAT WAS ATTACHED TO THE CAR FRAME WHERE THE DOOR CLOSES!!
How is that even possible????? And do you know the raw courage it took to deal with that right then and there - because WHAT ELSE COULD I DO, my babies were in the car and I couldn't face coming back with groceries to find my car swarming, and how could I ever drive, and.....I had to knock it out. Picture woman holding two children (one crying and holding her head, the other struggling to run away into the path of oncoming cars in the lot), kicking gingerly at the nest hanging from the inside of the car...and darting away. And kicking....and darting away. I must have looked like the three of us were dancing with my car door or something. Then the thing finally crashed to the ground and we all cowered at the back of the car (Meredith holding her head and crying), and waited to see who came out.....
No one came out. One last thing was required of me, so that I didn't leave a nest, armed and dangerous, for innocent passersby.
I had to stomp it.
I put the girls in the cart and approached that one alone.
When I finally worked up the nerve to put my foot on that thing, I drove it into the ground with every pound I hope to lose before Disney...nothing but wasp dust under my heels.
I don't know that I've ever grocery shopped soaked in that much nervous sweat before; the frozen food aisle felt particularly chilly.
We're on the verge of another horror story, too, as I just saw wasps moving on a super highway over my porch light at the front door. They're definitely crawling into some hole in between the brick and the awning....and now, courtesy of my DISy friends, I can have nightmares about the walls buzzing and erupting bees.
So, then...
G'night!
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Just bumping up because this is hysterical!
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LOL! I had to do this one day too! I am laughing so hard right now that it hurts!
~Amanda
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as always you have brought a smile to my face. I hope you get rid of them soon though!
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Yeah, I wouldn't hide in the truck... you might have something happen to you like what happened to me several years ago.
Everytime I would drive I would feel like I was getting bitten on the top of my foot. I would have all these little red spots like I had been attacked by fleas or something.
I had my ex husband check to see if the car had fleas (I knew my dogs didn't but thought maybe they could be getting in from a cat sleeping up under the car chasis.
He couldn't find anything so dug a little further - since he was an autobody repairman, he knew how to take out the panel under and around the steering compartment
and out they fell.. a WHOLE NEST OF BABY SPIDERS!!!
A spider had crawled up there over the pedals and laid a nest. They were albino because they had been living in just about complete darkness their entire life. What a creepy sight it was...blehhww gives me willies thinking of it and how many times these things bit me!
Everytime I would drive I would feel like I was getting bitten on the top of my foot. I would have all these little red spots like I had been attacked by fleas or something.
I had my ex husband check to see if the car had fleas (I knew my dogs didn't but thought maybe they could be getting in from a cat sleeping up under the car chasis.
He couldn't find anything so dug a little further - since he was an autobody repairman, he knew how to take out the panel under and around the steering compartment
and out they fell.. a WHOLE NEST OF BABY SPIDERS!!!
A spider had crawled up there over the pedals and laid a nest. They were albino because they had been living in just about complete darkness their entire life. What a creepy sight it was...blehhww gives me willies thinking of it and how many times these things bit me!
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We just moved into a new house and we have been having the same problem, but with Red Wasps!! They made a nest up in the attic and there were tons of them!! And of course, they would find there way down to MY side of the bathroom thru the air ducts! In fact, I was reaching for my perfume and almost picked one up!! He was perched on the top of the bottle! They also would come out in my ds room upstairs! I have nightmares about them b/c when I was little I got stung by one when I was sleeping!
I have even seen them go thru the tiny, tiny hole of a wall plug!! How is that possible?!!!!
I have even seen them go thru the tiny, tiny hole of a wall plug!! How is that possible?!!!!
Update:
Okay, I got home late last night and Del was already asleep. I didnt talk to him so I had no clue what happened with the bees. I am having problems with my cell phone and cant keep it connected long enough to make a call.
I thought maybe he would have left me a note letting me know if he found a nest or something, but apparently I am the only one that lives in that room that is concerned about the bee invasion.
He was sound asleep in the bedroom so I thought it had to be safe. I was going to go to bed, but I just couldnt get over the idea that a few hours before, that room was full of bees.
I slept on the couch again. I took piggy with me for protection.
About 3:00 am I was shaken awake by Del who was standing over me asking me what was wrong. Did you find the nest? I asked him.
He didn't answer me; he just went back to bed.
Now it was 3:00 am and I was now wide awake freaking out because he didn't answer me, meaning he didn't find the nest.
I love my husband with all my heart, but there was no way he was getting away with doing THAT.
At about 4:30 am, I went into the bedroom and shook HIM awake.
He told me the storm window was open and they were crawling in the window from the outside. There is a vent under the window and he thinks that is where the nest is.
I went back to the couch. So did piggy. I was not happy with his answer at all.
There was only one bee in here today (OMG did I say only one like that is an acceptable amount?) and Del said it was a left over from the original swarm.
He is bringing home a ladder to get to the vent under our window so he can get rid of it.
Now I cant live in my truck because of the grasshoppers and storybookmums story about the bees nest in her car, (poor Meredith, Im sorry but that was funny), Im scared to get to close to the walls because Coliebirds, RadioNates, chris1gils and CRB#33 nightmares, I dont know what red wasps or mud-dobbers are so I have to think about that now and we seem to be talking about spiders too .
This wasnt a very helpful thread; actually I think I am a little worse off now.
Love ya, mean it guys.
Okay, I got home late last night and Del was already asleep. I didnt talk to him so I had no clue what happened with the bees. I am having problems with my cell phone and cant keep it connected long enough to make a call.
I thought maybe he would have left me a note letting me know if he found a nest or something, but apparently I am the only one that lives in that room that is concerned about the bee invasion.
He was sound asleep in the bedroom so I thought it had to be safe. I was going to go to bed, but I just couldnt get over the idea that a few hours before, that room was full of bees.
I slept on the couch again. I took piggy with me for protection.
About 3:00 am I was shaken awake by Del who was standing over me asking me what was wrong. Did you find the nest? I asked him.
He didn't answer me; he just went back to bed.
Now it was 3:00 am and I was now wide awake freaking out because he didn't answer me, meaning he didn't find the nest.
I love my husband with all my heart, but there was no way he was getting away with doing THAT.
At about 4:30 am, I went into the bedroom and shook HIM awake.
He told me the storm window was open and they were crawling in the window from the outside. There is a vent under the window and he thinks that is where the nest is.
I went back to the couch. So did piggy. I was not happy with his answer at all.
There was only one bee in here today (OMG did I say only one like that is an acceptable amount?) and Del said it was a left over from the original swarm.
He is bringing home a ladder to get to the vent under our window so he can get rid of it.
Now I cant live in my truck because of the grasshoppers and storybookmums story about the bees nest in her car, (poor Meredith, Im sorry but that was funny), Im scared to get to close to the walls because Coliebirds, RadioNates, chris1gils and CRB#33 nightmares, I dont know what red wasps or mud-dobbers are so I have to think about that now and we seem to be talking about spiders too .
This wasnt a very helpful thread; actually I think I am a little worse off now.
Love ya, mean it guys.
Ok, that's it. I'm going to bed.
NOTHING I read on these boards will top this thread tonight. I am crying! You are all hysterical and DH must think I'm nuts downstairs all by myself doing the belly laugh!
Worst thing I ever did was make him come home from work to kill the HUGE spider on the passenger side of my car. No way was I sharing my car with that thing! I swear it was foot long. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Happy Friday all!
NOTHING I read on these boards will top this thread tonight. I am crying! You are all hysterical and DH must think I'm nuts downstairs all by myself doing the belly laugh!
Worst thing I ever did was make him come home from work to kill the HUGE spider on the passenger side of my car. No way was I sharing my car with that thing! I swear it was foot long. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Happy Friday all!
I know...spiders...I could live a long, happy, peaceful life without knowing about albino car spiders. I hate shoes and usually kick 'em off to drive. But with the visions of albino car spiders?!?
Speaking of buzzing pests... last weekend my husband decides to water the bushes. Everything is going fine until he starts watering the last bush. All of a sudden --- a nest of very angry bees start swarming and hubby gets stung ON THE FOREHEAD !!!! He picks out the stinger and grabs the RAID...then goes back outside! Not me....I'm standing in the dining room watching the whole thing. Who knew that bees would NEST in a bush???
This whole thread, while insane and funny, is also a bit disturbing and scary.
Del's wife ---> hope you and piggy are safe!!!
Ginny
Speaking of buzzing pests... last weekend my husband decides to water the bushes. Everything is going fine until he starts watering the last bush. All of a sudden --- a nest of very angry bees start swarming and hubby gets stung ON THE FOREHEAD !!!! He picks out the stinger and grabs the RAID...then goes back outside! Not me....I'm standing in the dining room watching the whole thing. Who knew that bees would NEST in a bush???
This whole thread, while insane and funny, is also a bit disturbing and scary.
Del's wife ---> hope you and piggy are safe!!!
Ginny
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hey Robin - are the bees gone?!? Did Del find the nest? I encountered some bees this weekend (thankfully they were outside where they belong) and thought of your situation. Hope all is well.
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