A Loud Buzzing in My Ears

[Dibbons]

Let me start at the beginning. My 1972 Satellite Sebring Plus, which is parked in a carport, has been sitting so long the tires only had 20 PSI. I took off the car cover and drove down to the service station to air up the tires (after priming the carb with a squirt of gasoline-fired right up and kept running: ambient temp about 80 degrees). I guess this little drive charged the battery some, too.

I returned back home and parked inside the carport with both door windows open. I went inside for a couple of hours.

I came back out, dusted the vehicle off with my California Car duster. I got inside and rolled up the windows. I heard a loud buzzing sound. In the back shelf were about a dozen bees (looked like honey bees) all flying around back there against the inside of the rear window going crazy.

I have already been stung twice this summer (honey bee followed my a couple of paper wasps). I did not want to spray insecticide inside the vehicle, but what choice did I have? My back shelf is custom-made stainless steel, so the spray was not going to hurt anything inanimate.

So I made a quick pass with the insecticide, closed the doors, and replaced the car cover. I have no idea what those bees had in mind.

 

[Cncguy1]

Their queen may have got trapped so they followed her.

 

[khryslerkid]

Hope you don't have a hive in the car somewhere!

 

[PurpleBeeper]

Were they really big yellow bees with black stripes near their tails & moving very, very fast? They might be "Super Bees"

 

[oldbee]

African bees? Nothing to mess with.

 

[Dibbons]

Actually they were a little on the small size, looked like "regular" honey bees though. Not "Dodges" for sure.

 

[super-bee_ski]

Oh
It happens ALL the time with yellow Plymouths
The bees simply think it's a Superbee!

 

[Bb70charger500]

Shop vac does wonders for removing bees

 

[Dibbons]

Good idea.

 

[Ranger16]

I think this post is in the wrong thread.

 

[Bb70charger500]

I think this post is in the wrong thread.

Not sure why yeah it's not a joke but after jokes it says anything gos so !!!!

 

[super-bee_ski]

All I know is:
"Thank God Dibbons was not driving on highway or a 2 Lane when he found this anomaly"
Could have been disastrous!

 

[Bb70charger500]

Let me start at the beginning. My 1972 Satellite Sebring Plus, which is parked in a carport, has been sitting so long the tires only had 20 PSI. I took off the car cover and drove down to the service station to air up the tires (after priming the carb with a squirt of gasoline-fired right up and kept running: ambient temp about 80 degrees). I guess this little drive charged the battery some, too.

I returned back home and parked inside the carport with both door windows open. I went inside for a couple of hours.

I came back out, dusted the vehicle off with my California Car duster. I got inside and rolled up the windows. I heard a loud buzzing sound. In the back shelf were about a dozen bees (looked like honey bees) all flying around back there against the inside of the rear window going crazy.

I have already been stung twice this summer (honey bee followed my a couple of paper wasps). I did not want to spray insecticide inside the vehicle, but what choice did I have? My back shelf is custom-made stainless steel, so the spray was not going to hurt anything inanimate.

So I made a quick pass with the insecticide, closed the doors, and replaced the car cover. I have no idea what those bees had in mind.

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Where did you get these louvers from ?

 

[Kern Dog]

A few bee stories:

* I bought a car that had no keys. To open the trunk, I had to remove the rear seat. As I slithered under the package tray with an outstretched arm holding a flat blade screwdriver, I looked up....Under the speaker deck was a small active bee hive about 4 inches from my face. AHHhhh !!!
* I had a hole in the front yard about the size of a golf ball. Bees would enter and exit it frequently. I got tired of dealing with them so I parked a running lawn mower over the hole thinking it would suck up and kill the bees. It did not. At all. I rolled the mower out of the way to find several angry bees flying in tight circles.
Lucky for me, I was not attacked either time.

 

[Dibbons]

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[Dibbons]

Where did you get these louvers from ?

"DAYCLONA" makes them, he is over at the "MOPARTS" forum.

 

[Bb70charger500]

Do you mind getting his email for me I'm not on that site and it's a bit confusing/ I don't really have time to learn another site . I found his post with them but it's 4 years old I think .

 

[PatsPolara]

Years ago I was in the "getting to know you" phase of a new relationship. We were out somewhere and she was driving, all of a sudden she started having convulsions, flailing her arms and legs all over the place, then stopped the car in the middle of the road and ran screaming into a field. I sat there kind of stunned, thinking oh s*it not again, why does this always happen to me, she seemed so nice.. Turns out a wasp flew up her skirt and was stinging the hell out of her!

 

[Car Nut]

BEE careful!

 

[Dibbons]

Had a bee fly into my leather jacket sleeve while driving a Harley Sportster on the freeway, stung me on the elbow.