This person knew there were bees under the grill’s cover and that they needed to be killed. This is not my grill! In his words…
Now I know these bombs aren’t for bees, but I thought I’ll suffocate/smoke them out. So here is the weapon of choice and delivery system.
I thought I was pretty smart with my new invention, designed to be easily maneuvered under the cover of darkness. I release the weapon of buzz destruction.
The sound from under the cover was incredible!!! You could hear it far away easily. I ran like crazy….
Coming back a few minutes later to see the death toll, this is what I found…
There was at least a 20mm deep mass grave of bees.
I continued to remove the cover and to light the grill to give it a clean start when I noticed some fatty looking substance on the top of the side shelf thing.
That’s a bit weird. I always clean it before I put it away for winter and no way was there fat there before, so I began to wonder…
NO!!! It can’t be, could it?!!!
I slowly removed the rest of the cover only to find the shocking truth.
I think I can rightfully say that this is a nightmare! Can you imagine what would have happened if they had just whipped the cover off? The whole thing just makes my skin crawl.
I’m sure I won’t ever forget this story and for me, the only place to store the grill is in an enclosed space such as a shed or garage.
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Um, so just reading this made me cringe, seeing the pictures made me wanna run far far away from my computer 0_0 I can't imagine having that many bee's around…ugggh. Poor thing, that would have just sent me into hysterics!
OMG! When was the last time the grill had been used? AMAZING!
Oh my! How scary! Thank goodness they bombed it before they took the cover off.
Incredible. Great photos, too.
OMG! We found a huge birds nest with dead baby eggs inside our grill. I know I would have FREAKED out if I had your issue. And, look at you, you calmly created your weapon of mass destruction, took pictures and added it them to your blog! Amazing!
Oh Julie, that isn't me…it was someone else. I WOULD HAVE TOTALLY FREAKED OUT!!!!!!!!
That is amazing! I have had issues with bees out here but nothing like that. Thank the Lord it had a good ending!
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Ug – I can't believe how calmly that was handled. But then I think my husband might have acted the same way.
We had friends with a (admitedly much smaller) wasp nest under one of their iron patio chairs a few years back. We discovered it as we had planned the first bbq night out of the season. He attacked it with a lighter and a bottle of hairspray. He then took a kind of mean delight in killing those who were out as they came back to the now non-existant nest.
I'm terrified of wasps and bees, so it was all quite horrible to me. But he was my hero. I almost sat in the chair in question.
HOLY WOW!!! That is amazing but freaky all at the same time!!!
That was amazing and totally scary since I am allergic.
I literally felt things crawling on me, ALL OVER MY BODY! I think I won't be sleeping well tonight.
I have NEVER seen anything like it? DO all your BBQ foods now have a honey glaze??
I think I would have called a beekeeper first. I'm sure they would have thought they'd died and gone to Heaven. 🙂
This made me so sad. I wish you would have called a beekeeper too. With the rate of bee decline so serious in the USA and the world, I just cried seeing all of these little guys dead. Maybe you did not know about the bee issue or the fact that beekeepers will come to you and take the bees found like this though. But now that you do know, I hope you will reconsider killing them should something like this happen again.
that is really amazing and I am so glad it wasnt me that found all the bees I just got the chills seeing all the dead bees …I agree I bet a beekeeper would have been in heaven…thats one BIG honeycomb!