I had some ground dwelling bees when I lived in MI and I dug and worked in the garden bed where they lived. I don't believe that those can sting...they never did me anyway. Are there bees that cannot sting?
Bees in the ground
Maybe the only good ground bee is a dead one?
Maybe one of you can help me. I have 2 hummingbird feeders hanging on my deck within 15 inches of each other. Recently yellowjackets have been fighting the hummers for the food.
Just tonight now, we have a lot of black ones, maybe blackjackets or from the website, maybe baldface jackets. Anyway, they are fighting all over the hummer feeder amongst themselves and the yellowjackets. A bunch will fight so fiercely they will form a ball and fall down to the deck and then they will all fly back up and it starts all over again.
Strangest thing I have seen I think. There are so many that my DH won't try to do anything with them until after dark, but he wants to get the hummer feeders out of there.
Jeanette
Bumble bees nest in the ground. They come in different sizes. We have a small black one that is especially vicious. Instead of gas, mix water with a lot of dishwashing liquid. It will kill a wasp instantly, I don't see why it wouldn't work on bees.
So, now I have to find the hole they come out of? Ok, I guess I should be able to find it. I will let you know. They are black and white and the size of a large fly and very vicious towards each other. We waited until dark so not sure how they would act towards us. We never got close enough.
There are several bee catching methods shown on You Tube.
The ones I liked used a vacuum with a large plastic container used for storage. Very efficient.
Here is one a guy used on ground bees:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F--2MCXvx5Y
They got them all, an awful lot of them.