Outdoor Pest Control - Honey Bees
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robbyaube
08-12-08, 07:21 AM
Hi,
I have a honey bee nest in a bad place and wondering about sugestions for getting rid of it. It is located between the house foundation and the cement porch at the front door. There is a crack in between and they are entering this area in the corner just below the siding level. The porch is about 5 feet along the house so I have no idea how far in the nest is but it is very active with several bees flying in and out constantly.
I thought of getting raid spray but I can only get it at the mouth of the hole and maybe a few feet in if I spray right into the hole (not keen on getting that close to them).
Any suggestions or tips on getting these out of there?
Thanks,
Robby
I have a honey bee nest in a bad place and wondering about sugestions for getting rid of it. It is located between the house foundation and the cement porch at the front door. There is a crack in between and they are entering this area in the corner just below the siding level. The porch is about 5 feet along the house so I have no idea how far in the nest is but it is very active with several bees flying in and out constantly.
I thought of getting raid spray but I can only get it at the mouth of the hole and maybe a few feet in if I spray right into the hole (not keen on getting that close to them).
Any suggestions or tips on getting these out of there?
Thanks,
Robby
Newt
08-12-08, 12:05 PM
Hi Robby,
If you do spray you need to do it at night after they have all gathered for the night and all is quiet in the nest. Many folks use a powder for that type of situation. Another option would be to contact a local exterminator.
Newt
If you do spray you need to do it at night after they have all gathered for the night and all is quiet in the nest. Many folks use a powder for that type of situation. Another option would be to contact a local exterminator.
Newt
robbyaube
08-12-08, 01:05 PM
Yea i guess contacting a pest control person may be a good idea, thing is that its a rented house and I don't want to bug the landlord too much by incurring him costs like that...
Although I suppose it is his responsability to make a safe environment for tenants :)
Although I suppose it is his responsability to make a safe environment for tenants :)
Gunguy45
08-12-08, 01:21 PM
You may want to call around (check your state Association) for any local beekeepers. If they are truly honeybees, they may take care of them for you for free. Commercial Bee's for honey production are being decimated by some sort of disease.
Don't know if they would be able to help in your location, but it might be worth a try. They may have some way of luring the whole nest out.
Don't know if they would be able to help in your location, but it might be worth a try. They may have some way of luring the whole nest out.
robbyaube
08-12-08, 01:28 PM
You may want to call around (check your state Association) for any local beekeepers. If they are truly honeybees, they may take care of them for you for free. Commercial Bee's for honey production are being decimated by some sort of disease.
Don't know if they would be able to help in your location, but it might be worth a try. They may have some way of luring the whole nest out.
That would be great, a benifit for them to get the bees and free riddance for me... ill look into it : )
Don't know if they would be able to help in your location, but it might be worth a try. They may have some way of luring the whole nest out.
That would be great, a benifit for them to get the bees and free riddance for me... ill look into it : )
tucats
08-23-08, 09:19 PM
You might want to check out this website.
http://www.bees-online.com/RemoveBees.htm
Looks like trapping them may be difficult to do. Good luck.
http://www.bees-online.com/RemoveBees.htm
Looks like trapping them may be difficult to do. Good luck.
ecman51`
09-20-08, 10:49 AM
I have to contend with bees and wasps on occasion in my line of work in maintenance. And one would think that by now, with companies out there devoted to such products FOR YEARS AND YEARS, that someone would have come up with a way of gassing/smoking/scent irritant? them out of areas (maybe with a pressure gun device, like a flame thrower is to fire) when conditions are not conducive to be able to point the wand spray at them.
And to have different nozzle attachments, like aerosol wall texture spray kits have, where you can choose between say a 20 foot stream, or a 6-8 foot spray that funnels outward covering 2-3 feet diameter at the end (THAT is what I needed yesterday!!), and another that gives a wide fog right from the get-go.
Or, more humanely, to simply get rid of them without having to kill them. Sort of like how you can pepper spray people without killing them.
I was on the phone recently for 20 minutes with one of the world's largest makers of such spray products, and told her I can't get at a nest becasue they are hiding inside a light, with 'soldier' bees buzzing the area - and she had no suggestions for me!
I said that one line of their product fogs but says nothing about it even being a repellant to bees, while another one of their products shoots a stream to kill wasps and hornets, but I can't get in there to aim the stream at them! She said, "Huh! I know what you mean." I said "You'd think you'd have a product that somehow gasses them (or ideas said above), where the area gets fogged and they want to get out." I was dealing with bees high up on an extension ladder when trying to install a light on a commercial building and I told her I was real vulnerable up there. I said, "Surely -this goes on all the time. They nest behind gutters and all kinds of places where workers have to be up by them on extension ladders and it's dangerous. That surely there has to be a way to get them to leave."
They've had YEARS to work this out. I don't get it. Maybe the guy who invented the 'log roll into the bucket mouse killer homemade contraption would have the answer to this!
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And similar application methods to gas cats and skunks and rodents out from under mobile homes?
And to have different nozzle attachments, like aerosol wall texture spray kits have, where you can choose between say a 20 foot stream, or a 6-8 foot spray that funnels outward covering 2-3 feet diameter at the end (THAT is what I needed yesterday!!), and another that gives a wide fog right from the get-go.
Or, more humanely, to simply get rid of them without having to kill them. Sort of like how you can pepper spray people without killing them.
I was on the phone recently for 20 minutes with one of the world's largest makers of such spray products, and told her I can't get at a nest becasue they are hiding inside a light, with 'soldier' bees buzzing the area - and she had no suggestions for me!
I said that one line of their product fogs but says nothing about it even being a repellant to bees, while another one of their products shoots a stream to kill wasps and hornets, but I can't get in there to aim the stream at them! She said, "Huh! I know what you mean." I said "You'd think you'd have a product that somehow gasses them (or ideas said above), where the area gets fogged and they want to get out." I was dealing with bees high up on an extension ladder when trying to install a light on a commercial building and I told her I was real vulnerable up there. I said, "Surely -this goes on all the time. They nest behind gutters and all kinds of places where workers have to be up by them on extension ladders and it's dangerous. That surely there has to be a way to get them to leave."
They've had YEARS to work this out. I don't get it. Maybe the guy who invented the 'log roll into the bucket mouse killer homemade contraption would have the answer to this!
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And similar application methods to gas cats and skunks and rodents out from under mobile homes?