I was tranplanting perennials last week on a warm day and stuck my
spade into a bee's nest. Angry little guys and two of them bit me. They
are small yellow and black, half the size of a honey bee.
I'm in zone 6b Eastern Ontario. At what temperature is it safe to dig
there again.

That should have been zone 6a for all that matters.

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I was tranplanting perennials last week on a warm day and stuck my
spade into a bee's nest. Angry little guys and two of them bit me. They
are small yellow and black, half the size of a honey bee.
I'm in zone 6b Eastern Ontario. At what temperature is it safe to dig
there again.



Yellow Jackets, especially ground dwellers seem to stay active in temps
well below what you would think they could handle. I've dealt with
numerous colonies very active with the morning temps in the mid to upper
30's.
--
Lar

to email....get rid of the BUGS

when you have a killing frost and temperatures hold in the upper 30's. The
bee's will be in hibernative stage and less agressive. An overcast day is
good too. Sounds like yellow jackets. Nasty little shits. Just remember,
wasps keep down the destructive catapillar's that eat the leaves and flowers
of our hard work. So don't do in all of them. Come spring, the females will
disperce (and be more aggressive, so be careful) and make their own nests.
And wild animals love the hibernating insects as food. Grubbers like skunks,
possom's, raccoons, etc.

The remaining nest will be in a tupor so you can safely dig there again.
(You could relocate the nest in an out of way spot , maybe)

good luck with your endeavors.
madgardener, up on the ridge, back in Fairy Holler, overlooking English
Mountain in Eastern Tennessee, zone 7, Sunset zone 36 where we have all
kinds of ground dwelling stingers of our own including those yellow jackets
you have up there..................
"Ben" wrote in message
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That should have been zone 6a for all that matters.

Since we're talking about bees, can someone identify a bee for me? They
were hanging around our horses a few weeks ago and they made the horses very
nervous. As it flew, the back end of the bee drooped toward the ground and
the stinger was huge and sort of went straight upward and outward from the
bee's abdomen. The stinger was HUGE -- easily visible to our eyes. The
bees, themselves, tended to move pretty slowly and so were easy to eliminate
if necessary.

I'm in central Indiana. We were wondering if this is one of those killer
bee/crosses that we occasionally hear about. No one had quite seen anything
like it before. It made one draft horse who got stung jump about 20 feet
straight into the air.

Thx.