Bee hive

• ceecookie

  12 Jun 06, 21:48

  y dont u try using ur own home-made flamethrower...very easy to make one de...
  
• Nikar2

  13 Jun 06, 21:58

  hi all,
  
  just now at 8 pm, the pest control came. so late, never thought they would come. maybe it's because after 6pm, all the bees are back in the nest.
  
  instead of using flamethrower, they use a 14m pole and raise it all the way up into the branches and some smoke came out from the pole upwards at the bee hive.
  there were 7 pest-control people and they came in 3 vans. they also sealed off the road opening(since the tree is in the middle of a 3-way road).
  
  the bees then all fell down at the floor of the petrol station and the sweeper swept a whole mountain of dead bees into one large pile like a hill.
  3 bees also flew into my house, but they were poisoned, so never mind.
  
  my question is : since they use smoke, how come the entire hive disappear? the smoke should be pesticide in it's gas-form, but how come the entire bee hive like slowly melt away until the whole thing went missing, like it's been evaporated?
  
  could the smoke be some kind of sulphuric-super-acid gas? if so, how come the bees never evaporated as well?
  
  can some science expert here comment?
  
  thanks,
  nikar.
• ditzy

  13 Jun 06, 23:21

  Because the hive only so small, then all the bees clump together make it look big.