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ORIGINAL: geofflambert

So, (I hate it when people start sentences with the word "So", but it is perfectly acceptable for gorns to do so) I have hummingbird feeders in my back yard.
They worked perfectly in the spring but at some point honey bees discovered them. One of them is "bee proof" and indeed, as far as I can see their tongues (or glossi) cannot reach the artificial nectar. But they know it is there and spend some effort trying anyway. The hummingbirds have a very negative view of sharing with honey bees and often just fly off without a feed.
So, (there I go again) I decided to try using bird waterers filled with sugar water to distract them away from the hummingbird feeders. So, that kinda worked, I guess, but attracted a lot more bees. Here is a clip of those bees after they have sucked a waterer free of sugar water.

warspite1

So now this has turned into the Birds and the Bees thread [X(] Listen Gorn, I'm sure it's no different where you come from than it is on Earth. When two humans/Gorns love each other very much they have a special cuddle and.......

ORIGINAL: Macclan5

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

I try to help pollinators myself, but all I draw are wasps [:(]

But as i did it I ended getting a lot of Wasps (or Hornets? What is the difference?).

Wasps look really wicked, but they want nothing to do with you and most of them predate on other insects. Hornets are mad as hell and they are not going to take it anymore and like stinging people very much.
There is a kind of wasp that wants to get into your soda can and then sting you when you try to take a drink. Those are called yellowjackets. You can't have a picnic in the US without encountering them. Hornets love to build nests on man-made towers, power line towers, microwave towers and et cetera. The guys who are sent up to maintain whatever is on the top of those structures carry no insurance. Why not? Because no insurance company, not even Liberty or Geico will insure anyone who has to climb up through 800 feet of hornet's nests who are really angry even before they see you.
If you like heights and climbing to get there, like animals with venomous stingers who don't listen to reason, you can work as an uninsured contractor for companies that maintain those sorts of structures. You do not have to be a US citizen, either.

ORIGINAL: Macclan5

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

I try to help pollinators myself, but all I draw are wasps [:(]

But as i did it I ended getting a lot of Wasps (or Hornets? What is the difference?).

warspite1

Wasp was smaller and more lightly armoured than Hornet - effectively a way of using up the available tonnage.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

So, (I hate it when people start sentences with the word "So", but it is perfectly acceptable for gorns to do so) I have hummingbird feeders in my back yard.
They worked perfectly in the spring but at some point honey bees discovered them. One of them is "bee proof" and indeed, as far as I can see their tongues (or glossi) cannot reach the artificial nectar. But they know it is there and spend some effort trying anyway. The hummingbirds have a very negative view of sharing with honey bees and often just fly off without a feed.
So, (there I go again) I decided to try using bird waterers filled with sugar water to distract them away from the hummingbird feeders. So, that kinda worked, I guess, but attracted a lot more bees. Here is a clip of those bees after they have sucked a waterer free of sugar water.

warspite1

So now this has turned into the Birds and the Bees thread [X(] Listen Gorn, I'm sure it's no different where you come from than it is on Earth. When two humans/Gorns love each other very much they have a special cuddle and.......

You are so greatly mistaken. When gorns mate, yes they cuddle, but then the female eats the male and that's the end of him. I refuse to take part in such rituals.

I have even been known to shed my tail at the approach of a female.

MEANWHILE....

Back on Things To Ponder.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Macclan5

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

I try to help pollinators myself, but all I draw are wasps [:(]

But as i did it I ended getting a lot of Wasps (or Hornets? What is the difference?).

warspite1

Wasp was smaller and more lightly armoured than Hornet - effectively a way of using up the available tonnage.

Yes, she was so light because they dropped the "u" to make her really lightly armored.

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

MEANWHILE....

Back on Things To Ponder.

Thank you Lecivius for the interruption that refreshes!

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

So, (I hate it when people start sentences with the word "So", but it is perfectly acceptable for gorns to do so) I have hummingbird feeders in my back yard.
They worked perfectly in the spring but at some point honey bees discovered them. One of them is "bee proof" and indeed, as far as I can see their tongues (or glossi) cannot reach the artificial nectar. But they know it is there and spend some effort trying anyway. The hummingbirds have a very negative view of sharing with honey bees and often just fly off without a feed.
So, (there I go again) I decided to try using bird waterers filled with sugar water to distract them away from the hummingbird feeders. So, that kinda worked, I guess, but attracted a lot more bees. Here is a clip of those bees after they have sucked a waterer free of sugar water.

warspite1

So now this has turned into the Birds and the Bees thread [X(] Listen Gorn, I'm sure it's no different where you come from than it is on Earth. When two humans/Gorns love each other very much they have a special cuddle and.......

You are so greatly mistaken. When gorns mate, yes they cuddle, but then the female eats the male and that's the end of him. I refuse to take part in such rituals.

I have even been known to shed my tail at the approach of a female.

warspite1

Mistaken? Moi? Don't be so ridiculous.....

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Macclan5



But as i did it I ended getting a lot of Wasps (or Hornets? What is the difference?).

warspite1

Wasp was smaller and more lightly armoured than Hornet - effectively a way of using up the available tonnage.

Yes, she was so light because they dropped the "u" to make her really lightly armored.

warspite1

No sir, that had nothing to do with weight saving programmes - and everything to do with the fact that our colonial cousins forgot how to spell properly when we decided to let them go.

Apparently they have passed on their appalling practices to visiting outer space type creatures such as your good self.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: warspite1


warspite1

Wasp was smaller and more lightly armoured than Hornet - effectively a way of using up the available tonnage.

Yes, she was so light because they dropped the "u" to make her really lightly armored.

warspite1

No sir, that had nothing to do with weight saving programmes - and everything to do with the fact that our colonial cousins forgot how to spell properly when we decided to let them go.

Apparently they have passed on their appalling practices to visiting outer space type creatures such as your good self.

That is so narcissistic, putting the "me" in programs. [:-]

I bet you say "meethane" when speaking about CH3 instead of "mehthane".

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ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I bet you say "meethane" when speaking about CH3 instead of "mehthane".

warspite1

That is so narcissistic, putting the "me" in Methane [:-]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

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I tried to think of a way to make a funny about this being an ISIS flag translated, but there really isn't anything to laugh about. I wish it was their flag.

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I bet you say "meethane" when speaking about CH3 instead of "mehthane".

Depends on whether it bothers you or not. If you can tolerate a little methane, it' meh! -thane. If you flee from the methane producer you are selfish and it's (all about) me! -thane.

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Me, Thane of Argyll and Bute. [;)]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

MEANWHILE....

Back on Things To Ponder.

[:)]

Nothing to ponder on here. It is really simple. Time will tell. Alas, the answer might arrive when I am no longer around to witness it. [;)]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

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To get away from the smell?

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

So, (I hate it when people start sentences with the word "So", but it is perfectly acceptable for gorns to do so) I have hummingbird feeders in my back yard.
They worked perfectly in the spring but at some point honey bees discovered them. One of them is "bee proof" and indeed, as far as I can see their tongues (or glossi) cannot reach the artificial nectar. But they know it is there and spend some effort trying anyway. The hummingbirds have a very negative view of sharing with honey bees and often just fly off without a feed.
So, (there I go again) I decided to try using bird waterers filled with sugar water to distract them away from the hummingbird feeders. So, that kinda worked, I guess, but attracted a lot more bees. Here is a clip of those bees after they have sucked a waterer free of sugar water.

We had company last weekend and one day went up the Columbia Gorge to a hot springs for lunch. The resort there had an excellent restaurant. Afterwards we walked the grounds a bit and they have an outdoor hottub that is filled with the hot spring water provided by the giant mass of rocks known as Mt Hood and Mt Adams. Where water had sloshed onto the concrete around the hot tub, honey bees were swarming. Apparently they harvest the minerals from the water. Why they need so much is kind of a mystery to me. Most honey bees don't have access to those kinds of minerals in those concentrations.

I've seen a lot fewer honey bees this year, but we have a bumble bee nest under our deck. Maybe the bumble bees are muscling out the honey bees.

Bill