Question on Bees

[DubbleRDawgs]

Ok group, I have a little bit of a bee problem at my place.  I have an apartment over my garage that we use for storage.  There is a group of bees that have moved into the outside walls and they are starting to swarm.  It looks wicked when looking at the swarm hanging on the side of the garage wall.  They have not attacked anyone as of yet.  The problem that we are having is that we can not get anyone to come and remove the hive, not even from the agriculture department in the area we live.  So what can we do to kill them or get them to leave without us or any of our dogs getting attacked?  Any suggestions on the problem?

Robin and Robert Borden
DubbleRDawgs

[Tusk Hog]

   Get you a sprayer to hook up to your water hose, fill with a dish detergent, mix really strong and spray them. Do it on a really cool night or early morning when they are not very active. But still be careful.

[tylermac]

i use to have a thing to kill bees for people. it hooked up to a air tank then had a half inch valve with a tee one one side and a quick connect to a air tank on the other. on the top side of the tee nech it up to like an 1 1/4" pipe with bout 6" long and a cap that screws on it. on the other side of the tee put a long peice of 1/2" pipe and fill the big pipe up with 7dust and point it at the bees and open up the valve. it will kill the heck outta all of them. prolly be best to do it at night when they are all there and dont use a flash light or they will swarm you! if they havent been there long they will prolly move on tho. its just the time of tthe year they swarm and they are lookin for a new home. I use to work on a bee farm so i have seen your problem a few times

[dub]

If they are a swarm on the outside you are good. When they are in the walls you have honey to get out. If it is a swarm they are around their queen. Then you can put a trash can under them and knock them off. They will stay in a ball around the queen. Then you can take them to a useful place or dispose of them. But as a swarm they are easy to deal with and will not go after you.

If you are ever have bees stinging run into the wind and hit branches as you run. Bees go for the movement of the branch and use the wind to help you outrun them.

[DubbleRDawgs]

I am going to try the dish-washing detergent one first.  With all the dogs on the property I would rather try to do this without poison.  The hive has been in that wall since last year, just not so many bees in it.  Wish us luck on trying to get them to leave or kill them.  I am desperate to get them out of here.

[HBR]

At my local feed store they sell these lil white plastic hanging things to keep away flying insects and what they told us to do was take out the yellow strip inside and cut into pieces and put it in any of the holes you can get them in.

[tonyamm30]

My husband works for Terminix and he said they can get rid of them safely.  What area do u live in?  he may can hook you up with someone.  The dish soap will work though...but use the blue Dawn!!  works on wasp, fleas and ticks.---slowly, not a contact kill.

[Bino9905]

look up the houston news, a couple of weeks ago they ran a story where bees had been in and old house for about 15 years!!! All the walls and attic was one big hive it was CRAZY
they said everyone but this one company turned them down. Look for the video and then you can call that same company. They might be able to help.

[DubbleRDawgs]

We live in Iola Texas, it is way out in the sticks.  Right now funds are limited so I can not afford Terminex, they cost a lot to come this far out in the country. While I was in town today I found some stuff at Tractor Supply that works on bees that I am going to try, I also got some commercial wasp killer from Lowes that I am also going to spray in the walls of the apartment.  My hubby is going to suit me up in  rain pants and coat, put  a face shield and helmet and duck tape me in the outfit....He would do it but he has second and third degree burns on his legs so he can't run or even put on pants.  I just hope these bees do not have any kind power tools that can cut through the duck tape....Wish me luck on the adventure this evening.  Gosh the things I do to keep our dogs safe, guess that is love...lol

Robin

[ETHHunters]

I hope someone got a picture of you in that suit!

[dub]

If they are in the wall DO NOT USE POISON. We did bee keeping for years. If you use poison you will have to cut the wall open to remove the now toxic honey. Use soapy water so they can't fly and put a reversed funnel made of small wire. So they can fly out but not back in. Then the hive will die because no food is getting in. Then have a bee keeper put a hive nearby and remove the wire funnel. The other hive will raid all the honey and clean the inside of the wall. It takes longer but it is the cheapest and least destructive to your property.

[DubbleRDawgs]

Ok, we are about to have the bee problem under control.  There are not as mane as there were before we started this.  We did use poison before we were told not to.  We have ripped some of the outside wall board off the apartment and saw how large the hive was.  There are still some coming and going but not as many.  We were planning on tearing the garage and apartment down anyway so I guess now is as good a time as any to start thinking hard about getting it done.  Beside we get it tore down we can add some more kennels.  Oh yeah before I forget, I did not put the suit on, there were three of us going for the hive and we all ran pretty fast, no one got stung...so far.

Thank you all for your support on this.

Robin Borden
DubbleRDawgs

[dub]

What is funny is that at night they do not fly. So I thought I was smart and found out they would fly to the lights on the tractor. So I turned them off and found out that will crawl! Smoke makes the more passive. Soapy water sticks to their wings and they can't fly. But in the day light you can see them crawl.

[DubbleRDawgs]

That is so true...we have been working on the hive as the sun sets when they are coming home.  We make sure most all lights are out and that we have good running shoes on.  The hive is smaller, I was just out there looking, if we couuld just find the queen and take her out I think then the hive would leave....I think.

[dub]

Yes, when the queen dies the hive dies. Another queen may be born. But with it open other bee hives will start raiding parties and wipe out the hive as long as there is not too much poison. It sounds like the hive is in a weakened condition so there are not enough bees to protect the hive. The raiding bees will kill the queen for you. They will clean all the honey and even the wax. That is why it is better to just weaken the hive hive and let other bees take care of it.

[DubbleRDawgs]

Ok gang, just an update on the bee hive.  We still have them but they are going away slowly.  We can now go in out the garage apartment without getting attacked.  Thank you all for your comments.

Robin and Robert Borden
DubbleRDawgs