Posted by <vicky on July 15, 2010, 7:20 am
> When I was a young schoolboy, I got stung on the leg by a bumblebee and
> went to the school nurse for something to put on it and she told me very
> firmly that bumblebees don't sting and it must have been honeybee or
> wasp! I was already sufficiently interested in natural history both to
> be able to identify a bumblebee when I saw (and felt) one and to know
> she was wrong - but one didn't argue with her!
When I was a young schoolgirl, I did a cartwheel on the school playing field
one day, and as I lifted up my hand a bumblebee flew away, apparently
totally unharmed. Although he did look a bit drunk, but they always fly
like that. :-)
Posted by Donnie on July 15, 2010, 6:54 am
Ann Lancing wrote:
>
> We have some bumblebees nesting in our garage, in a crack of the
> floor.
>
> Does anyone know how to get rid of them? Would a beekeeper be able to
> collect them up like the ordinary bees?
>
> Or should we leave them and wait until they go elsewhere in the
> winter.
>
They should move on, we have had some take up residence (about 2 months
ago now I guess) in a nest box only feet from our open patio door, not
one has come in, none have bothered us at all and they have recently
left this week, I quite miss them
Donnie
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> went to the school nurse for something to put on it and she told me very
> firmly that bumblebees don't sting and it must have been honeybee or
> wasp! I was already sufficiently interested in natural history both to
> be able to identify a bumblebee when I saw (and felt) one and to know
> she was wrong - but one didn't argue with her!