Day 263: Pest Control

Through BEE-ing Nice

     Without going into too much detail, I'd like to talk about our little pest problem. See, we've got a beehive inside one of the walls of our house. The bees have been getting inside and started dying all over the damn place. So my dad and I came up with a contraption that seemed pretty awesome. First, we taped saran wrap over the lights in the kitchen cause that was their main entry point. Then we fastened our homemade bee catcher to the hole in the house were the bees were living. We duct taped an old planter bucket to cover the entire hole. The bucket had a long, clear tube that connected it to the 2 liter bottle that contained a mixture of sugar water and bee attractant. My dad told me that bees cant fly once the're covered in the sugar water, which means that they are totally hopeless if they fall into our trap. I sustained a bee sting right on the top of the head while I tried to install the bucket trap (nicknamed the "through bee-ing nice" bucket) but puff levels were high that day so I survived. The two of use were ecstatic about our project. We showed everyone that came over the inner workings of it and watched them as they admired it in awe. The only problem was, it didn't work very well.Only a handful of bees actually made it to the bottle to die. We were a little disappointed till we discovered that many of the bees were trying to flee through the holes in the kitchen lights. Luckily, the saran wrap blocked them and with the lights on, they all died a brutal and horrifying death. =)