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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 422886" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>IIIIIIIII am not going to attempt to do ANYTHING but photograph from afar. I just wanted to know if these were 'meatasaurasuses' and thus woud be irradicated by DF with a can of night time raid, gasoline, a match, some more raid - like the wasps that stung him and Dude several times two years ago OR if they were gentle, kindly pollinating bees that needed to be left alone and moved by a pro. Thanks Hazoi and D3 for the advice - but when you are allergic to bees, and even more allergic to the antidote for bee stings? You don't play with fire! You just photograph. Actually, one of the really cool things that I did do in EMDR therapy was talk through my fear of bees. It was pretty cool - because when people fear - their temperature goes up, when that happens the body releases sweat. The bees are attracted to sweat and motion. Usually your first reaction to a buzzing bee is swat at in or move fast. Since I have no defense and a 50/50 chance? I asked if there was something we could work on with fear (I had fear of bridges and we worked through that) so why not bees? It actually worked pretty well. I'm not ignorant and it's not like I'm out standing in the middle of the hive - but I'm not running and swatting either. DF thinks it's wild. </p><p> </p><p>Also - with the wasps - We TOLD them - they had 2 days to move, vacate, scram - and then we were coming to take down their nests. In the mean time we left them alone. They purposely came after Dude and DF in the opposite side of the yard and then? It was war. We have a friend that owns a pest control supply place and I promise the stuff that was sprayed? We won't have wasps back for years. We picked the dead ones up because of the poison but wow - the red and yellow ones are NASTY, aggressive and now not welcome at the ranch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 422886, member: 4964"] IIIIIIIII am not going to attempt to do ANYTHING but photograph from afar. I just wanted to know if these were 'meatasaurasuses' and thus woud be irradicated by DF with a can of night time raid, gasoline, a match, some more raid - like the wasps that stung him and Dude several times two years ago OR if they were gentle, kindly pollinating bees that needed to be left alone and moved by a pro. Thanks Hazoi and D3 for the advice - but when you are allergic to bees, and even more allergic to the antidote for bee stings? You don't play with fire! You just photograph. Actually, one of the really cool things that I did do in EMDR therapy was talk through my fear of bees. It was pretty cool - because when people fear - their temperature goes up, when that happens the body releases sweat. The bees are attracted to sweat and motion. Usually your first reaction to a buzzing bee is swat at in or move fast. Since I have no defense and a 50/50 chance? I asked if there was something we could work on with fear (I had fear of bridges and we worked through that) so why not bees? It actually worked pretty well. I'm not ignorant and it's not like I'm out standing in the middle of the hive - but I'm not running and swatting either. DF thinks it's wild. Also - with the wasps - We TOLD them - they had 2 days to move, vacate, scram - and then we were coming to take down their nests. In the mean time we left them alone. They purposely came after Dude and DF in the opposite side of the yard and then? It was war. We have a friend that owns a pest control supply place and I promise the stuff that was sprayed? We won't have wasps back for years. We picked the dead ones up because of the poison but wow - the red and yellow ones are NASTY, aggressive and now not welcome at the ranch. [/QUOTE]
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