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OT... Bees in my house

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THaden

08-01-2005 04:03:08




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got yeller bees coming in under my eves. can hear them in my attic. been getting up on ladder and dusting entrance with some old insect powder. not sure how potent it is . what do you use to get rid of / kill them? Got them in my flower bed around my pump head also. need to get rid of them for good. every year i normally end up killing most of them with that old dust and hornet spray, but they come back every year. Its like i got a bee magnet at my house. every few days i walk around the house to find / spray their latest nest. but the ones in the eves and pump head garden are my real problem. any ideas?
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THaden

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john in la

08-01-2005 15:58:55




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 Re: OT... Bees in my house in reply to THaden, 08-01-2005 04:03:08  
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The german yellowjacket builds nest in walla and attics all the time.
I used durasban to git rid of the ones in my house but you can not get that any more.
You can try sevin. Put some powder in the hole every night till they are gone.

You say they keep coming back each year. That is because you are not killing the queen. After you kill off all you can plug the hole so any remaining ones die.

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Mark - IN.

08-01-2005 15:50:34




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 Re: OT... Bees in my house in reply to THaden, 08-01-2005 04:03:08  
Just ran into a problem with yellow jackets. My brother and sister were cutting up some logs for fire wood and ... jellow jackets got them bigtime. Didn't know it, but are a type of bee known as carpenter bees. I did a Google Search of "killing yellow jacket bees" and the first two hits were pretty self explanitory. I don't think you'll be able to spray them because of being in the attic or eves. One thing can do is observe all of their entrances and dust them, and Seven may not work. Are two types of dusts to mix together that you pump into the hole. The worker bees get it on them, take it back into the nest, and they die off over time. And might have to "poof" dust in a few times. Problem is you won't find those dusts on the market, will have to get from the Orkin guy or someone like that, and they're not open on Sundays (I'm only home on weekends). I did find someone that carried a dust over the counter, but didn't actually use it. Yesterday (Sunday), since was out in a field far enough away from anything, I waited until dusk and blew them to smitherines. Nice long wick, walked a 100 or so feet away behind a barn, and now is a crater in the ground where they used to hide. I wouldn't try that to your attic, I'll make the wife pretty mad, and you'll find yourself sleeping on the sofa, in the middle of a pasture.

For sure, do not mess with them during daylight. Wait until after dusk when they've called it a day. As far as honey running down your wall goes, I've heard of that.

Mark

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HoneyRancher

08-01-2005 06:32:20




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 Re: OT... Bees in my house in reply to THaden, 08-01-2005 04:03:08  
If you kill off the bees, you may have a new problem. If they have beeswax and honey in the walls and no bees for temperature control, the wax may start to melt and you might have honey & beeswax running out from under the baseboards. Also, if the bees are gone, the sweet honey may attract ants, mice or other critters.

Unfortunately there is not a good way to quickly remove bees from inside a wall. You can tear off the siding and scrape out all the honey & beeswax (after you kill the bees) or you can set up a hive box near the entrance and try to attract them to the box so they rob out all of the honey in the walls and bring it with them.

Beekeepers love to come and capture swarms if they are outside hanging on a tree branch or some easily accessible place but when they are inside a wall, it is both hard and expensive to clean them out.

If the 'bees' are yellowjackets or other types of wasps, you will have an easier time killing them but they may still come back each year.

Hope this helps.

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Bus Driver

08-01-2005 06:30:53




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 Re: OT... Bees in my house in reply to THaden, 08-01-2005 04:03:08  
Buy some fresh Sevin dust. Place it in the hole after dark. It will take few days to kill all of them. But no fire or heath hazard to you or your family.



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Midwest redneck

08-01-2005 06:30:04




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 Re: OT... Bees in my house in reply to THaden, 08-01-2005 04:03:08  
I have those hanging mud nests from my eves, well not anymore. Just a pump sprayer with 1 ounce of permithrin and a quart of water kills em in about 15 minutes. I had about 15 dead bees on my deck in just a few minutes. Then after the bees are dead use a hose a blast the nest apart.



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RayP(MI)

08-01-2005 06:21:50




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 Re: OT... Bees in my house in reply to THaden, 08-01-2005 04:03:08  
I fashoned a "landing strip" out of a 3x5 file card and duct taped it to the wall so that bees landed on it and walked over it when entering and leaving. Put a couple drops of Terro ant poison on the card. Active ingredient is arsenic. Bees licked up the stuff and took it in the nest, and shared with others - took about a week, and several drops of Terro, but haven"t had any bees since. They had their nest in the holes in cement blocks in a basement wall, and getting to them was almost impossible.

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john d

08-01-2005 05:47:29




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 Re: OT... Bees in my house in reply to THaden, 08-01-2005 04:03:08  
Used to have the same trouble in the wall of my old house. Found a small hole where they went in and out, and was going to plug it. Then I decided that if I plugged it, they might find a way to come inside the house instead of staying in the wall. My solution was to wait until about an hour before dark, when they all seemed to be coming home, and prop the end of the shop vac hose up very close to that hole. As they arrived, they were sucked into the shopvac. The next morning, I got another bunch as they were leaving. By the second evening, there weren't very many. Each time when I finished vacuuming, I'd spray some Raid into the vac (when it wasn't runnning) and plug the hose.
Didn't seem to have a problem after that, so I caulked the hole under the window sill and pretty much forgot about it. When we replaced that window about a year ago, we found a massive nest in the wall, but no insects.

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dave1

08-01-2005 04:50:53




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 Re: OT... Bees in my house in reply to THaden, 08-01-2005 04:03:08  
Hey, I must live right next door to you , having that problem for years. I have found that when you first start to see them, spray and then caulk the hole. I have stopped two potential nests so far this year. best to do it at night



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txgrn

08-01-2005 04:50:26




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 Re: OT... Bees in my house in reply to THaden, 08-01-2005 04:03:08  
Maybe the babies know where they were born. I have carpenter bees in my barn and every year I seem to be able to kill off what's flying around....after they lay their eggs.

Next year right back. Don't bother any other building on the place.

I dunno.

Mark



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Jimmy King

08-01-2005 10:11:27




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 Re: OT... Bees in my house in reply to txgrn, 08-01-2005 04:50:26  
Aren't those the bees that wear hard hats and carry a lunch box. (LOL)



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txgrn

08-01-2005 18:01:58




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 Re: OT... Bees in my house in reply to Jimmy King, 08-01-2005 10:11:27  
Like your humor.

But they are the wrong kind of carpenter.....they demolish by drilling holes in structural timbers.

Mark



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Galen

08-01-2005 14:11:17




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 Re: OT... Bees in my house in reply to Jimmy King, 08-01-2005 10:11:27  
UNION WORKER BEES LOCAL 107



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txgrn

08-01-2005 18:02:56




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 Re: OT... Bees in my house in reply to Galen, 08-01-2005 14:11:17  
Maybe I can get them to go on strike. Yeah. LOL

Mark



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Leon in Mn.

08-01-2005 18:53:40




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 Re: OT... Bees in my house in reply to txgrn, 08-01-2005 18:02:56  
Otherwise, you could just leave them aah.....BEE!

Sorry, but I couldn't just pass this one up!
Leon in Mn.



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txgrn

08-02-2005 17:43:46




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 Re: OT... Bees in my house in reply to Leon in Mn., 08-01-2005 18:53:40  
I understand. Do it all the time....especially to Allan. Grin

Mark



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