We are going camping and the bees are really terrible!!!! They attack our pop cans and plates of food. Does anyone have any idea's?

smoke...either personally or make a really smokey campfire

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Give them something better to chase, a bowl of saturated sugar solution perhaps,

set a fair distance from the camp.

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A common treatment is to make a really high pitched, shrill scream and duck and bob around REAL fast as you swat at them. This can often get them to change what they were doing around your food. :jump:

If getting stung ISN’T your goal,… try giving them the saucers of sugar water that OldFart mentioned. You may even add a couple drops of red food coloring as this is frequency color they are naturally attracted to.

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Campfire is at dark...........was thinking about the sugar water.......didn't know about the red food coloring though.

Thanks for the reply's.........and NO PF I don't want to get stung!!

I was gonna suggest a sticky, gooey cinnamon bun for them to attack instead of you, but PF's "bob & weave" strategy sounds interesting.

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I'd try using somw outdoor repellants around the area I'm using. We used to have keg parties in the woods and beforehand we'd spray the foliage around the opening we used with repellants. Thae seemed to help quite a bit, of course after that party got going who'd notice? LOL Citronella candles might helps some too I'd think.

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I could send the dog down. He eats them.

We were camping once and he disappeared for a few minutes & came out and his face was swollen like he'd been stung several times. Ahahahaha, he was lumpy.

He actually looked sheepish for being such a dumbass. (Oh great, I just said sheepish. Now WI will have a crush on the dog.)

Umm..... just don't go camping, lol . Alright there are some traps that will attract them and keep them away from you ( can be found at Walmart, Target, whatever). But if you don't want them dead, set out a saucer of either beer or some sugar water like mentioned above and try to keep things like pop cans covered with plastic wrap when you aren't drinking.....otherwise have fun.

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Wow! That's the biggest damn sheep I've ever fuc....uh, seen!

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

Isn't that the point of camping?

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

lol @ pf. i remember in my junior year spanish class we had a poster of red flowers on the wall. during may and june, every single day a bee would come in and try to get pollen from that damned poster.

i have tested his theory in a practical application using methods of ocular observation. after recording my findings in a nuero-processor, i reviewed them after a 17 year control study. findings and conclusions: pf is right, bees like red

and didn't chey post a thing about dryer sheets, bounce brand, being a great bug repellant? just put em all around the site. now that i think of it maybe it doesn't work on bees.

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