whirring/purring noise in my walls?!??

[DisneyBlonde]

I'm not afraid of bees at all - BUT...I could show you snake pictures that would make your head spin. They're terrible this year, huge black ones - 5 feet long and as thick as my arm. I don't know why I took pics - I guess because I thought no one would believe me that they were that big. You want to see a grown woman reduced to a blabbering drooling screaming idiot - show me a snake. I absolutely freaked out, was crying & shaking & screaming several times this summer when we saw them on our mulch pile or in the garden. Dh was like "OMG chill out!" I just couldn't stop. I lost all control of myself! So to those of you with phobias about bees - I understand!!

I'm not that far from you in NJ, we had a snake just like this in our yard last month. DH ran it over with the rider mower before he realized it was there. The head shot off and into our pool. I didn't see how big it was, but I heard all about it. Needless to say I haven't ventured into the backyard much lately.

 

[yoopermom]

I try to tell myself that snakes up here are NOT poisonous, that they're good for the environment, eat other critters I don't like, etc, but...

I still don't want them in my house! (Bees, either, for that matter, hope you're ok, OP....)

Terri

 

[FSUDisneyGirl]

Op, how's it going?

 

[Darsa]

The suspense is killing me....

 

[wvjules]

I think she packed up and moved.

 

[Minnie_me]

OMG - - it's BEEWATCH 2009!

Yes, I'm the OP, and no the bees didn't get me. Nor did I pack up and move.

However, the exterminator still hasn't come!!!!

I called ten places yesterday. Nobody could come any sooner than late next week. I actually started CRYING on the phone with one guy, who took pity on me and said that he could come this Friday. He told me that if the wall doesn't feel soft or look wet, that the bees aren't close to coming through the wall.

When I regained consciousness after that statement........I made the appointment with him for Friday. But I kept calling other exterminators, telling them it was an "emergency", but nobody cared.

I *am* terrified enough to not have gone back into my bedroom, and the door has been closed with towels underneath. My absolutely insane DH has been sleeping in that room, and yes, he still hears the bees!! He says it doesn't bother him!! (I may have to leave him after this ordeal.....clearly, he isn't sane)

So there's your update. Thanks for all of the info and concerns. You guys are hilarious.

 

[lucas]

OMG! Bee Watch 2009

I'm in!

 

[LMC]

I'm not that far from you in NJ, we had a snake just like this in our yard last month. DH ran it over with the rider mower before he realized it was there. The head shot off and into our pool. I didn't see how big it was, but I heard all about it. Needless to say I haven't ventured into the backyard much lately.

At least you didn't have to kill it! I came home yesterday to a rattle snake trying to get into our garage. DH is laid up in bed with an injury and it is impossible for him to get up so he loaded the gun for me. I never used this one so it took a few shots for me to figure out the sight and after 4 holes in the garage siding facia I put one in the snake. But, did that kill it......no, I had to go chop it's head off with a shovel!!! At least it slowed it down a bit. My DD took the rattles to school today and the science teacher asked her to call me to go out into the woods and retrieve it's body (that's where I threw it last night). I looked but some other woodsy critters must have made it a meal last night.
As far as the OP, I bet it's bees.

 

[yoopermom]

LMC you get the "he woman" award of the week, good for you! (Too bad for your garage though) People who don't live in the country have no idea what we go through! (At least mine aren't poisonous!)

Terri

 

[locolala]

At least you didn't have to kill it! I came home yesterday to a rattle snake trying to get into our garage. DH is laid up in bed with an injury and it is impossible for him to get up so he loaded the gun for me. I never used this one so it took a few shots for me to figure out the sight and after 4 holes in the garage siding facia I put one in the snake. But, did that kill it......no, I had to go chop it's head off with a shovel!!! At least it slowed it down a bit. My DD took the rattles to school today and the science teacher asked her to call me to go out into the woods and retrieve it's body (that's where I threw it last night). I looked but some other woodsy critters must have made it a meal last night.
As far as the OP, I bet it's bees.

I wouldn't get the body even if it was still around! Reflex actions in it's jaw can cause it to bite you even after it's dead. Trust me, rattlesnake bites are no fun.

 

[Imzadi]

one guy, who took pity on me and said that he could come this Friday. He told me that if the wall doesn't feel soft or look wet, that the bees aren't close to coming through the wall.

Man, I would have been peeing my pants at that description.
That description really sounds like a horror movie.

How do you know your DH hasn't been turned into one of the bees in the middle of the night?

 

[WriteDisney]

OMG - - it's BEEWATCH 2009!

Yes, I'm the OP, and no the bees didn't get me. Nor did I pack up and move.

However, the exterminator still hasn't come!!!!

I called ten places yesterday. Nobody could come any sooner than late next week. I actually started CRYING on the phone with one guy, who took pity on me and said that he could come this Friday. He told me that if the wall doesn't feel soft or look wet, that the bees aren't close to coming through the wall.

When I regained consciousness after that statement........I made the appointment with him for Friday. But I kept calling other exterminators, telling them it was an "emergency", but nobody cared.

I *am* terrified enough to not have gone back into my bedroom, and the door has been closed with towels underneath. My absolutely insane DH has been sleeping in that room, and yes, he still hears the bees!! He says it doesn't bother him!! (I may have to leave him after this ordeal.....clearly, he isn't sane)

So there's your update. Thanks for all of the info and concerns. You guys are hilarious.

Glad you're surviving... I wouldn't want to go back in either... be sure to keep us update! :

 

[marshallandcartersmo]

Be sure and post pictures!!

 

[ginna74]

OMG BEES............ would be major anxiety attack waiting to happen for me. Well just reading it does it for me I think.

 

[Shutterbug]

Be sure to take pics!!

 

[SilverL]

Be sure to take pics!!

OMG NO WAY! I would die just looking at it!

 

[ChrizJen]

Thanks for the update, OP...I keep peeking in with caution, because the whole subject just makes me squeamish. But I need to know the outcome. Morbid curiosity I suppose...

 

[Minnie_me]

Be sure and post pictures!!

I don't know what I'm going to post pictures OF? Is this dude going to rip a hole in my new wall and pull out a bee's nest?!? I kinda thought he'd find the place where the bees were getting in and spray some stuff in there to kill them.

I really have no idea what to expect. I'm a nervous wreck. But I will take pics if there are any photo ops.

 

[TaraPA]

We once had squirrels in the attic and I could hear them scratching all night long. I couldn't sleep for worrying about their breaking through the lathe and plaster ceilings. (I KNOW that couldnt' happen, but your imagination runs wild when you're scared.)

We had squirrels in our roof at our old house & they can literally make you insane. INSANE! They scratch & scurry & run back & forth, back & forth, back & forth all night long - but mostly from 4-6am when you really need that last ounce of sleep because you've been up all night listening to them! I was about to lose my mind. We had 2 traps set up in the attic - which could only be accessed by a 2x2 hole on the top of the 2-story house (in the pitch black woods) - so we had a 25-foot ladder permanentely up against the siding. The really bad part was if something got in the trap halfway & dragged it around up there -above our bedroom - and it was the middle of the night. DH refused to go up for the traps at night. The sound of mice & squirrels can be amplified in attics & walls to sound like human bodies - for real - and it DID sound like a body up there! A body dragging chains & shackles!!

 

[heimlichfan]

Check out this video!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25258790#25258790



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