# I have a stalker BumbleBee! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-stalker-bumblebee/164332 "2003-03-26T17:35:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-stalker-bumblebee/164332/21 "2003-03-27T16:27:04Z")
How did this thread get this far without a reference to the BumbleBee Guy on the Simpsons?? I’d have made it more clever than this, but nothing’s coming. Sorry. \ ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-stalker-bumblebee/164332/22 "2003-03-27T16:33:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Half-inch, round holes appear, and piles of sawdust are found underneath. Along with the coarse frass (sawdust) found underneath the nest entrance, there are usually dirty-yellow streaks of fecal matter staining the wood below the hole. If you are near a nest, **you will likely be buzzed by the male carpenter bee on guard**. He is loud and aggressive, but remember that he does **not have the ability to sting you**. The female can sting but she is normally very docile. A single pair (male and female) occupies each nest. It is not uncommon to find several pair of carpenter bees nesting in one structure. They frequently nest near each other and often in the same area year after year, causing extensive damage. You may find old holes near newer ones. Sometimes the female will renovate an old nest gallery and reuse it. From [this article](http://www.pestproducts.com/carpenterbees.htm), which also has advice on eliminating them. (Bolding mine) ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-stalker-bumblebee/164332/23 "2003-03-27T16:56:40Z")
How did this thread get this far without a reference to the BumbleBee Guy on the Simpsons?? I’d have made it more clever than this, but nothing’s coming. Sorry. \ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-stalker-bumblebee/164332/24 "2003-03-27T16:57:50Z")
I blame the thunderstorm… [sub]slinking away, blushing[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-stalker-bumblebee/164332/25 "2003-03-27T19:27:18Z")
Handy asked, “Kalhoun, wouldn’t a beekeeper come & get them for free?” Probably. However, when we called Exterminator #1, he just came out and dusted the area (enough to piss the bees off, but not nearly enough to kill them). At that time, we didn’t know they could all be drawn out by “essence of queen bee” (that’s what the pros call it, anyway). So now the bees are coming into the house and terrorizing us all. We called Exterminator #2. They told us that we couldn’t salvage the honey because it had been poisoned by Exterminator #1. So they waited until after dark and listened to the walls with a stethescope, drilled a hole in the outer wall, and pumped a shitload of poison in. A few bees went crazy (exterminator girl whipped her shirt off and was running around the yard in a panic). Then they took the outer wall off and began scooping bees into buckets. It was truly disgusting. Anyway, the moral of the story is to research it and find out if you can relocate the bees or at least make a few bucks off the honey. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-stalker-bumblebee/164332.md?page=1)