bumble bees and tractor speed

Oliver 1650 does not have enough speed to outrun mad bumble bees Hooked up to new holland round baler today and started down the road all of a sudden I was being stung by bees Tractor as fast as it would go and bees staying right with me I don"t think they were even breathing hard Called my stepson and he brought can of ether out and sprayed h out of baler bees gone stung about 4 or 5 times

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How fast can a bumble bee fly?
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20 mph is the max speed of a bumble bee.

The average speed is 15 mph


I would say under 10 mph.

Sounds like the Bumble Bees they tested must have been hung over.I used to be a pretty fast runner years ago and have never been close to fast enough to out run Bumble Bees or Hornets

I heard this .. and don't really want to prove it ...
I was told if one Bumble bee stings you.. it puts off a scent that the other bees can follow and get you ...
If it's true or not ... I'm not sure .. but evertime I get sting it's usually more than once...
Just my 2 cents ,..
Mark

What I want to know is how when you disturb a wasp's nest, say while brush hogging, how they can find the operator and nail him in the face, when they've got that whole big snorting machine to choose from?

If have read that as well regarding yellow jackets and I have seen it in action.

they must have some kind of infra-red vision. i get stung quite a bit. got stung a couple times this year bush hogging. flew up, bit me, took off. last year i was in the shop with the bay door open, putting a fuel tank in a 1 ton dually. laying on my back on a creeper, holding the tank with my knees and arms trying to get the nuts on, dang wasp flies in the shop, right under the truck, stung me in my right arm and flew right back out the door. i think that was dang uncalled for!!!!

Your chances of outrunning them are better if you're running upwind.

They have to pedal faster against the wind.

Not many choices when you're on a tractor though.

They ALWAYS sting me on the top of my bald head.

Man that hurts.

Paul

You can take this with a grain of salt. Was told once by an old farmer, now deceased, that if you painted one fan blade white,aluminum, or yellow and the rest either red or black, that the BB's would be attracted to the quick movement of the bright color on the fan..........I....don't...know..about that. The BB's was one reason I bought a cab tractor.
Good Luck
mb

If a BB or wasp top speed is 20mph, I better hang
onto my 1650 with the HSD? rear. I seldom need
23mph, but one day I may be thankful its here.

Bees when agitated will go for bright colors first. Ie red/yellow. So if in a bee zone you wear a grey shirt and take someone else along in a red shirt.

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Michael Johnson ran the 200 meter race in 10.351 seconds which calculates into 37.26 kmh. or 23.152 mph. He was the fastest man listed.
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How fast can the average man run the mile?
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Men at the gym typically have their treadmill set to about 7 miles per hour, or 8:30 minutes per mile. They can probably run faster if they try, maybe 8.5 miles per hour if they pushed it. Very few gymrats can run 9 miles per hour, 10 miles per hour is much harder.

The gymrats are usually in better shape than average couch potato: the average man probably can't run a mile at all, or possibly an 11-12 minute mile.

Olympic runners can do < 4:00 minute miles. Champion marathon runners do 4:45 minute miles. A very good, but not professional, marathon runner can do a mile in 5-6 minutes. A good time for a recreational runner in a marathon is 4 hours, which is 9+ minute miles.

30% of the US is obese (30+ pounds overweight) . 200,000+ people a year are so overweight that they have surgery to shrink their stomachs. Like those people on "The Biggest Loser", almost none of them can run a mile. Walking a mile takes 20-30 minutes. Some people can't even do that.

Many years we put 2000 square bales up with a TO 30 Ferguson and an old Ford sickle mower. Them Bummel' Bees a coming out of the clover in arrow formation (yes , it's true) and they'd head straight for me. That durn tractor , you'd have to pull in the clutch , stop , turn off pto , shut her down and run like the wind. Darn bee would get between my glasses and my eye and sting me right in the eye. The next day here they come again , and me with one eye swelled shut , and no peripheral vision a running for my life again. We'd wait til sundown to go get the tractor back.Stil hate them big bees.

Been there many times, usually i dont see them till i'm on my way back around meeting them head on.By that time they have their plan of attack organized and a quick get-a-way on a tractor is rarely sucessful.

Had a BB get between my glasses once and got me on the eyelid. course i was brushhoggin and swatted my glasses off, luckily they went clear of the brushhog. finding a pair of glasses with one eye swelled shut and half blind in the other is not fun.

As kids our neighbor boy and I decided that to kill the bumble bees that were going in to a knot hole in the old corn crib, a BB gun was best suited.

His dad was working on the baler under the shade tree, and would swat at them as each kid made a loop past him with a bumble bee right behind the kid. Just like the cartoons, a hr later us kids thought the coast was clear, but the bumble bees must have been watching the house door.

An old neighbor who's long deceased used to talk about BB's going after the horses when he was mowing clover. He said he had two choices- hang on for the ride and hope he wasn't pitched off the seat at high speed or bail off before they got to running too fast.Jim

I don't see them as much in this area, I've never come across them in a field, always the ground hornets and they "bumble" around once disturbed, most times you will get away.

I've fooled with bees to learn something, odd as it sounds, good to know sometimes.

Brown paper wasp will come after you to a point and turn back, I've outrun them, after intentionally disturbing them, sometimes ending up in a light sting, but I realized they can be serious at times, or bumble around near the nest, just that you don't know which way it will go.

Yellow jacket, or yellow paper wasp, they are quite ornery, but most times fly erratically near the nest when disturbed, though I've been nailed out of nowhere, for no seemingly good reason, just walking by, always a rotten apple in the barrel ! I think the brown ones are much worse, as they will find you if they want, man to man defense vs these guys put on a zone defense, hoping one of the mass numbers of them will get you. Around here, if you try to kill a nest and don't get em all, they return for days and are very aggressive, sometimes start a new nest, but they don't forget. With all of them it seems if one does get you 1x, you are in for it, that initial sting is the thing to avoid no doubt.

Hornets, the black and white ones, are nothing to fool with, you hit that nest, your done. I've tossed things at the nest to wake em up, and they are unreal, though safe from a distance, you get nailed by one, there will be a party on you immediately, and they leave a sentry out at night, nothing to fool with, came face to face with a nest while clearing brush, that particular bush remained, was a close call, good thing that nest stands out, was bigger than a basketball. We used to knock em down with a basketball in the park on those old trees and be running before it hit the ground. If you stand near the nest, they seem to have a flight way in line with the hole, if you get in their way, they will just politely go around you, but just touch that nest, that is it.

I've got a nest of bumble bees under the central A/C compressor, condenser on a plastic pad outside, but they are right next to the garden, bumped the unit one afternoon, saw em come out, least I know they are there now, they did not find me, but I know they can be as bad as hornets, put one of those and wasp in a jar, bumble bee will win.

I hate all those stinging things. It seems that here at least some years they are worse in some places than others. This year, almost no BBs in the in the hay fields, but look out in the barns. Every pipe, wall, and roll of carpet is full of them.

It also seems that this is wasp year in the tractor. No seen many in the barns but they are in the equipment and tractor sheet metal. I had one wasp try me on the tractor today. He kept wanting to get in the cab with me, but I do plan ahead and keep a can of spray in there.

We are lucky here, not much standing timber so not really a huge problem with hornets or yellow jackets. More problems with yellow jackets in town. But....... by not having a real problem, when they do build a next you arent expecting them, and you have a big problem.

I usually find that mud dobber wasps try to build on the side of the engine block or by the crank shaft of the tractor, and then paper wasps like to build in the tool box (damn hole in the box on the old WD) or right under the hood near the fan blade.

The worst one I ever had was using a rotary hoe to level down some loose dirt where a wood pile had been, there was some sort of nest of wood bees or ground bees, and I spun them up with the hoe and they were pinging off the fenders of the tractor and thumping me in the back. Luckily I didn't get stung, but I came back the next day with one of those super foggers that sprays like 20 feet and soaked 'em down and then ran them over a few more times.

Yellow jackets here in Kansas have a true airspeed greater than the top groundspeed of my 8N!

When I was a little kid I was running around shirtless, following dad when he picked up a cement block that was loaded with wasps. He dropped the block and ran but for some reason I just froze there. According to my parents I ended up with 14 or 16 stings on my back. Mom said my eyes were dillated and I was woozy for the rest of the afternoon, but there were no other ill effects. I just barely remember parts of if it.

Been stung quite a few times since and it used to hurt like mad but now I just feel a little pinch, though I still hate them with a passion. Jim

Back in the days when hay around here was mostly red clover and timothy instead of alfalfa, there were a LOT more bumblebees in the hayfields. My grandfather told of working a horse-drawn dump rake in a field back in the early 1900s when he was attacked by bumblebees. He was stung several times and took refuge for more than an hour under a pile hay. The horse, not having that option, was stung repeatedly, and died from it!

The old timers around here carry a bright colored rag, tied in knots with the ends loose enough to flap where they can jerk it our of their pockets quick. When they stir up a bunch of Bumble Bees, etc. they throw the rag up in the air toward the nest and get out of there. The BBs chase the bright flapping rag as it goes through the air, and it also makes it easier to find the nest that night to get rid of it.