OT - Bees

Kirk Grau · Oct 14, 2009

Daughter got stung in her bed the other night. Wife went to clean room this morning and had 20 bees buzzing around the room. I went outside and can see the bees swarming around the corner of the house and entering through breaks in the soffit trim. Don't know my bugs well enough to tell you species, but they are what I usually think of as honey bees. What I see buzzing around the clover all summer. What is best way to get rid of them? If I seal up openings I just imagine that they will find another way out and probably all end up in the house causing a panic. Should I just break down and call an exterminator or other professional?

Thanks for all the help,

Kirk

old · Oct 14, 2009

Check around your area to see if there are any bee keepers around. If you can find one or 2 of them call them first and most of the time they will come out and get rid of them and not charge you to do so because they might be able to come up with a new hive of bees plus some wild honey to boot. BTDT years ago and we would get calls off and on all the time about a swam and we would go and pick them up and have a new hive. Can not do that any more but that's another story

Anonymous-0 · Oct 14, 2009

they are not honey bees they are a wasp. they look a little like honey bees but they are not. you must live in a colder climate as i do and have been just about over run with them. they try to find warm places for the winter had them in the wall of the house and got some good fogger spray from fleet farm and killed them i just sprayed it in the hole they went in [used about 1/2 the can ] do it at might to get most or all

Anonymous-0 · Oct 14, 2009

Honey bees and a certain species of yellow jackets look very much alike. I just went through having some of the latter removed from a barn of mine. A pest control company sent their entimologist out to look at them. He said they were honey bees. I called a bee keeper, who identified them as yellow jackets. Back to the pest control company. They found a dead one and properly identified them. They sprayed the hive, removed it, and treated so they wouldn't return. Honey bees are on some endangered species list's, and cannot be killed.

JDemaris · Oct 14, 2009

Probably honey bees, getting ready for winter. There is NO good way to get them out of house that I know of, without doing a lot of damage.
They probably were forced to move, for some reason and lost their food reserves.

I've had three large swarms of honey bees move into my upstairs attic walls in past couple of years. I had a bee keeper come here to look, and he advised there was little to do. He said that most bees that make such a move in the fall, die during the winter, since it's really too late for them to make enough food reserves. They starve to death.

Seems he was correct. All three times, the bees were all dead by spring. No big deal.

Gun guru · Oct 14, 2009

Best way to kill them instantly is Brake cleaner (spray can) from your auto parts store, about $3 per can.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 14, 2009

Wasps do not overwinter like honey bees do. Only the queen wasps survive the winter. They start colonies from scratch the next spring.

twopop · Oct 14, 2009

if you have one of those little push dusters,10% seven dust will kill them if they are honey bees.
the honey bee queen will be in there and if the bees get dust on there legs they will carry it to the queen and she will die also.

rhouston · Oct 14, 2009

ground up silica like is used to keep moisture out of packages will kill them and can be left in place to continue killing them. Something I learned from some exterminator show that I watched once and once was enough.

The biggest question I can think of is how many of them are in the nest? That would determine if you need an exterminator or not. It sounds like you may have a large one.

dittmerku · Oct 14, 2009

Very simple: get some duct tape and tape the hose to your shop vac about 1/2" from where they are going in and out. In the morning, turn it on and leave it on all or most of the day. Spray some wasp killer into the shop vac at the end of the day and empty it. Do this again the next day. The bees are sucked in as they try to leave or return. You'll be shocked at how well this works and how many there are. I've done it twice and it works like a charm. Simple, safe, and effective.
Kurt

rustyfarmall · Oct 14, 2009

I have to agree with "Old" on this one.

IH2444 · Oct 14, 2009

I am with old, get someone who wants them to get them.

Honey bees are scarce around here. I did not see one all year in my yars this year.

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