I can't help you with the bees, but I can help you post a pic!!! Go to photobucket.com and register. You have to register, but it is free. Then you upload your photos. Copy the HTML code (3rd one down) and paste it in your 'message.' It'll look like code, until you click 'preview message.' Good luck with the bees and look forward to your pics :) Christy

We had an ungodly number of bees, wasps and dirt dobbers this year. They never stung us but they were everywhere. Whe then had a flock of birds come and live with us, 2 adults and 4 little ones from what I could tell. My wife said they were roosting but I don't know what that means. Maybe it means pooping all over everything because that's what I saw. Now all the insects are gone including the bees, wasps and DD's. I don't know if the birds ate them or ran them off or maybe the two things have nothing in common but I like the birds the best if something has to live with us.

Awesome article with lots of great info ... thanks for the link! I saw one recently that was a tube, you could use big bamboo or cardboard, filled with drinking straws. One day I'll get the energy to make one.

We had a nest of the little suckers in the kitchen wall earlier this summer. I couldn't figure out why I kept finding wasps in the kitchen but chalked it up to them coming in through open doors. One morning I was outside watering plants and saw one crawl into the pipe that functions as a drain for the water heater that is under one of the kitchen cabinets. My husband blocked the opening with some wire mesh and they managed to chew through it so he then capped the pipe. They finally stopped getting into the kitchen, so I guess the nest eventually died. The area where the water heater is blocked by an access wall, but they must have been small enough to squeeze through the area where the wall met the inside of the cabinet. Once we found the nest, we had an explanation of why there were so many wasps hanging around the deck and why they seemed more aggressive than usual. It also explained the sting hubby received between his toes when all he was doing was standing out on the deck minding his own business. Hope the horse is feeling better, Bob. A few years ago, one of our dogs got into a nest and was stung several times. They would not let go and I was trying to brush them off of her when she got away from me. She ran all the way to the neighbor's house, which is over half a mile away, before she stopped running.