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Offline duck

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beetle smash high scores
« on: July 25, 2012, 12:30:57 am »
one hive today was 42.

Offline Intheswamp

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Re: beetle smash high scores
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2012, 12:01:02 pm »
duck, what type of location do you have your hives in?

Shady?

Moist? (Texas...I would think not)

Crowded/numerous colonies?

Fruit or vegetable farm nearby?

With that many beetles it would just about be worth building a #8 screen to place over a pan of soapy water and shake/bump them onto it....beetles go through the mesh and take a swim and bees don't...smash the big ones that don't go through the screen.

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Re: beetle smash high scores
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2012, 12:38:11 pm »
Oh, I see a beekeeper video game ap coming on!  The goal is to crush/kill SHB's and WM without damaging the frames or killing bees.  You'd progressively loose more points for any drones, workers, and queen killed.
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Re: beetle smash high scores
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2012, 12:53:03 pm »
<chuckle> Same thought went through my mind...oughta be a smashing success!!!!!   :-D
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American blood spilled to protect the freedom and peace of people all over the world.  320,000 USA casualties in WWI, 1,076,000 USA casualties in WWII, 128,000 USA casualties in the Korean War, 211,000 casualties in the Vietnam "conflict", 57,000 USA casualties in "War on Terror".  Benghazi, Libya, 13 USA casualties. These figures don't include 70,000 MIA.  But, the leaders of one political party of the United States of America continue to make the statement..."What difference does it make?".

"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism."..."The press is our chief ideological weapon." - Nikita Khrushchev

"Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they wont come to yours." - Yogi Berra

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Re: beetle smash high scores
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2012, 01:56:30 pm »
Oh yeah, you could drop CD cases along the tops of the hives like little SHB land mines and have the beetles go up in smoke when they hit a case.

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Re: beetle smash high scores
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2012, 05:27:54 pm »
LMAO!  I program games in my spare time.  If you guys get me the graphics, swear to god I'll make the game.

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Re: beetle smash high scores
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2012, 08:17:08 pm »
If I ever see a dozen or more on top of the inner cover I pass over the smashing and grab the blow torch to smoke them beetles.   Yes some bees are loss in the bbq but I feel getting the beetles the more important.

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« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2012, 01:40:10 am »
Mmmmm, the smell of freshly roasted beetles.  I bet it brings a smile to your face don't it!

Sometimes when I kill beetles and there's several bees in the vicinity I wonder if they realize that I just helped them out or not...you know, something like "Hey Lily!  Did ya see that?!!  That big white thing smushed some of those slime boogers.  Cool!!!!  Oh well, back to work!!!"

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American blood spilled to protect the freedom and peace of people all over the world.  320,000 USA casualties in WWI, 1,076,000 USA casualties in WWII, 128,000 USA casualties in the Korean War, 211,000 casualties in the Vietnam "conflict", 57,000 USA casualties in "War on Terror".  Benghazi, Libya, 13 USA casualties. These figures don't include 70,000 MIA.  But, the leaders of one political party of the United States of America continue to make the statement..."What difference does it make?".

"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism."..."The press is our chief ideological weapon." - Nikita Khrushchev

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Re: beetle smash high scores
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2012, 01:35:19 pm »
Mmmmm, the smell of freshly roasted beetles.  I bet it brings a smile to your face don't it!

Sometimes when I kill beetles and there's several bees in the vicinity I wonder if they realize that I just helped them out or not...you know, something like "Hey Lily!  Did ya see that?!!  That big white thing smushed some of those slime boogers.  Cool!!!!  Oh well, back to work!!!"

Ed

One of my hives the same bee's that are ignoring the beetle running along that a smash typically ball the smashed beetle, pick it up and fly off with it like they killed it.