It’s still just one bee. Last time I checked there was no shortage of bees, the queen keeps making more.
If you are the type of person that believes that every life is sacred, don’t walk across your lawn, you are probably innocently killing all kinds of creatures everytime you do it.
Cat Whisperer?
Oh crap!
Who’s ignorant of what?
Cat Whizzzzzperer izzzzzz no longer with uzzzzzz…
I don’t go that far, but needlessly killing a bumble bee is just stupid and unnecessary. Bumblers slow down when it is cool out; I often find them ‘sleeping’ on my garden flowers in the cool of the morning and you can touch them when they are like that, and I have have even brought them (unknowingly) indoors on cut flowers.
They do sting, but you need to be either threatening their nest or actively harming or provoking them, They are practically tame when compared to wasps or hornets (whom I don’t kill either, given an alternative).
I’d agree with ones who say catch and release – EXCEPT if you had carpets like the ones at the house I lived at a decade or so ago, which were shaggy and had the color of various shades of brown in almost a camo pattern. Insects could and did completely disappear in it.
So I combined spray with newspaper to make sure no half-dead bees or mainly wasps hung around. Just water seemed to work almost but not quite as good as cleaning fluid or bug spray (note, that we didnt always have anti-wasp spray so sometimes I just sprayed generic which wouldnt kill them immediately.)
The bug would be taken aback and/or pushed by the unexpected spray of water, and also would land in order to dry out, whereupon I would whack it.
:rolleyes: A decline doesn’t mean that there’s not enough. Better call your congressman and request they be put on the endangered species list.
That, Sir, would make a most excellent sig.
Open all the doors and windows and grab a broom. It should fly out.
My cat used to eat wasps (and spit out the stingers), but I’ve never seen her take on a bumblebee.
I’m alive! I was out digging all afternoon. The jar and paper worked beautifully. I’m not exactly a “every life is sacred” kind of person, but I didn’t want to kill a bumblebee who just took a wrong turn. I tried not to kill too many earthworms in my digging, either, but a few were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
OMFG, there’s another one! Or possibly the same one, who really liked the hospitality here. We have seriously got to get a cat door installed - I catproofed the yard last summer, and I leave the door open a bit to let them roam freely, but now we’re getting unwanted visitors.
No Good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished.
… and crank up Flight of the Bumblebee!
Oh, he didn’t mean that anyone’s actually ignorant. It was a meaningless Michael Jackson “You’re just ignorant!”
If a bee came buzzing around me right now I wouldn’t sit around for half an hour figuring out how to get the poor, poor thing out of my home. I’d just kill it and toss its body outside.
I’m just ignorant.
Kill! KILL!
Killing a single bee is like tearing a leaf off a tree. The *hive *is the organism; the bee is just a cell.
Except the entire “organism” isn’t in her house. A single bee is. The goal isn’t to eliminate all the bees, it’s to get that single bee out.
Right, but killing it isn’t killing a living being, it’s mildly inconveniencing a living being.
It doesn’t always work out well for cats that take on bees…