[Pic] Cleaning your BBQ for Summer

[Denholm]

So I'm using my bbq this weekend... so I thought I'll clean it up..

I have known there are bees coming from under the cover so I thought I'd kill them, obviously...

so heres the BBQ in question

Now I know these bombs aren't for bees and that but I thought I'll suffocate/smoke them out. So here is the weapon of choice and delivery system

I thought I was pretty smart hehehe designed to be easily manoevered under the cover of darkness...

so then I release the weapon of buzz destruction..

OMFG! the sound from under the cover was incredible!!! You could hear it 3m away easy...

Then I ran like the clappers....

Coming back few mins later to see the death toll...

Was at least 20mm deep mass grave

I continued to remove the cover and to light the bbq to give it a clean when I noticed some fatty looking substance on the top of the

side shelf thing....

Bit weird.. I clean it before I put it away for winter and no way was there fat there so I begun to wonder......

NO..... it can't be could it?

I slowly removed the rest of the cover only to find the HQ.

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Damn...

[Denholm]

Damn...

Man wipes out BBQ-invading bees :o

[asaki]

thats crazy! :o how long was it sitting there ?

[PL_ Veteran]

Holy crap :laugh:

EDIT: Digg this http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Cleaning_out_BBQ_for_the_summer

Edited November 13, 2008 by PureLegend

[Stephen Veteran]

holy moly!

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Holy Zarquon. That's just scary.

[nmesisca]

I cant see any of the pictures at the moment.. but..

you seriously killed them????

why would you???

they are dying 'en mass' around the world and you killed them to clean the BBQ?

[Denholm]

I cant see any of the pictures at the moment.. but..

you seriously killed them????

why would you???

they are dying 'en mass' around the world and you killed them to clean the BBQ?

I still hear buzzing.

[Reeve]

Oh **** :blink:

[+John Teacake MVC]

Wow! Although it does make me cringe looking at it

[MMaster23]

Holy crap!

[XerXis]

waste of bees and honey

[nmesisca]

waste of bees and honey

+1

[Knife Party]

h-o-n-e-y !

[sundayx Veteran]

You wiped a whole colony, reminding me of this.

[deuz]

you up in QLD?, cos all we get is wasps near our houses :(...........but daymmm!

[Veedems Veteran]

I cant see any of the pictures at the moment.. but..

you seriously killed them????

why would you???

they are dying 'en mass' around the world and you killed them to clean the BBQ?

What was he supposed to do?

[JohnMarsten]

What was he supposed to do?

Call a bee keeper, he would have removed them for free. Also the bees would be put to good use in agricultural lands which need them and everyone could enjoy some sweet honey :)

[bokajinn]

I did something very similar to that. I had a small wooden tool shed out back with a huge nest in it. So i drilled a hold in the side and popped 3 insect bombs in there. They most defenitly do the trick, although I think 3 might have been overkill.

To bad you were un aware of the nice honey comb they had made, that could have been a win win situation for you.

[Narc2500]

H O L Y crap.....

[nmesisca]

What was he supposed to do?

you can call anyone that keeps bees (for business or pleasure of course, and theres plenty of them), they will come to your place for free, put them to sleep and relocate them to their own premises.

They do it because:

1) a healthy hive is valuable and not easy to find

2) they produce honey, wax and lots of other very lucrative products.

3) they get something for free, so everyone is happy... the bees included.

So... what he just did was NOT a good idea. :cry:

Have you ever seen that documentary showing what would happen in the world if bees got extinct??

At the moment entire hives are dying from an illness we cant still understand, all over the world, they are very much in danger of extinction.

now, if they were wasps, that would be slighlty different..

[3 of 7]

Pretty tough to tell what kind of critters they were and how many are under the cover... Cut the guy some slack here k?

[Night Prowler]

The majority of honey bees are not dangerous and this despicable act was truly unnecessary. Wouldn't it have been so much better to have pictures of a bee keeper actually removing the colony? I'm guessing the person was after; shock and awe. People that do these types of things are really capable of much worst and most likely have.

[Cheshire Cat]

that is one hell of an extermination job :o

Feel sorry for the bees though, they were just doing what they do...