Fish: Re: [tropical fish club] Re: Aquariums, Fish and Exterminators...

Hi Dawn,

Glad to see/hear your doing better. I can tell you what will work immediately and with great success------portable fire extinguishers!

The type I have found that works the best is called Carbon Dioxide (CO2) extinguishers that are used for class B and C fires. CO2 extinguishers contain carbon dioxide, a non-flammable gas, and are highly pressurized. The pressure is so great that it is not uncommon for bits of dry ice to shoot out the nozzle.

Armed with these I have taken down many bee hives and hornets nests quickly and safely without harm or danger. I do recommend great care is their use around children and pets.

Bill

--- On Mon, 8/23/10, Dawn Moneyhan <dawnshungryeyes4u2c@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Dawn Moneyhan <dawnshungryeyes4u2c@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] Re: Aquariums, Fish and Exterminators...
To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, August 23, 2010, 4:02 PM

Larry, thank you so much for that information. I see the AHB's are quite a distance from where I live, so now I will feel safer about those.

I took a few minutes to read more on that website and found other information that could prove useful to everyone in the group (and everywhere else) for how to handle an attack. The page link is here:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=11059&page=5

I will be purchasing some Palmolive dish detergent during my next trip to the store and I will be storing it for bee use only. This information may be just what I needed to save my dog, my kids, my husband, or even myself from an attack outside. While I don't have the same equipment as the firefighters have to use, it seems to me that a large rubbermaid tub or garbage can, the dish detergent, a good size pond pump (which I just happen to have laying around) and a good length of hose for the pump, could all work just as well to spray attacking bees and wasps. I'm not sure what all the other chemicals are that are listed but I am thinking at least one of them is the standard chemicals found in a fire extinguisher... which I will also be getting another of and storing in my garden shed. Fire extinguishers are not quite as safe around the dog and for skin contact as the dish soap would be, but in an instant, it would be much safer than multiple bee
stings.

Again, thank you so much for posting this!

Dawn

Dawn Moneyhan
Aquatics Specialist/Nutritionist
To learn more about me go to
http://www.helium.com/users/449334

--- On Mon, 8/23/10, Larry Blanchard <labl@comcast.net> wrote:

From: Larry Blanchard <labl@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] Re: Aquariums, Fish and Exterminators...
To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, August 23, 2010, 10:18 AM

Dawn Moneyhan wrote:

> Thats good to know, thank you. I feel a little better about that now.

>

Here's a pointer to a map that shows Africanized bee territory:

http://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=11059&page=6

Larry B

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