Long hot summer and B E E S ! ! !


This year was unusually warm and with it came the BEES! Good grief, it was awful - worse then the mosquitos because these little jewels BITE! One little girl was stung 20 times after running through their home in a downed log! We did learn that toothpaste really helps if you put on bite immediately! Thank goodness! These little guys built a nest on one of our slides on the RV we just found. Learned how to make a trap for them from a plastic water bottle... cut the bottle off about a 1/3 of the way down and invert the top into the bottle and put some sort of meat or something to attract them and once they go into the bottle they can't seem to figure out how to get out. We had torrential rain over Labor Day weekend and that seemed to do the trick to getting rid of a lot of these little guys but heard they were a big problem all over the state with the summer being so dry and no rain to drown them out of their holes in the ground where they nest!

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