Bees

[Fergeris]

How many have had bees get into the house or attic? They are driving me nuts!!! I have to get rid of them

[fishingsetx]

Call a local bee keeper. Sometimes they'll come get them

[RascalArms]

I had a basketball size hive in a piece of ornamental yard art last summer. Called 2 local beekeepers thinking they would want to come relocate them. Turns out they will...but they each wanted to charge me a couple hundred bucks.

I waited until dark and put on a pair of my hunting coveralls and a complete face mask....couple of shots from the Black Flag wasp spray and we were good to go!

I hated to kill them but had no real choice with the grandkids and dogs around.

[Tommyh]

in the house is pretty ugly. remediation gets expensive because you have to get rid of, or cover up extremely well, the old wax and plug all the holes or they will come back.

[muley4x4]

we spent about $600 last year. They made it through our exterior wall into our floor joists. Bee Keeper estimated 20K bees.......

[Johnny Dangerr]

Saw a shop vac method on utube.

Put an inch of soapy water in the bottom of vac - prop - tape - it up to their hole - turn it on.
Took hours to get them all but they do not like the noise and continually go after it till all are gone.

[RascalArms]

we spent about $600 last year. They made it through our exterior wall into our floor joists. Bee Keeper estimated 20K bees.......

Dang man! That's impressive!

[Fergeris]

My wife called the exterminater today. He said 150 to tear out the osb siding that I have up (I just dried this room in haven't put siding uo yet. ) he will remove the hive I just have to put stuff back that's no problem I just want them out.
That's alot of bees yall have had. I use to not mind them but they have been getting into my son's room so they gotta go

[ofishil]

My mom had them in her home. I tried to find a beekeeper but couldnt come up with one.

My experience was do not use wasp spray. That only angers them... lol. I ended up waiting for a cold evening and took a skil saw to the side her house right at dusk. Both of those combinations and the bees hardly moved but i moved as fast as i could. I ended up using demon wp and it worked but it took a few applications. It did not have the knock down power that wasp spray has on wasps. I dont know how many bees there were but it was alot. Something in the area of 8' x 8'.

[tex4k]

Couldn't talk James into it huh? All that's left now is borrow his stuff and jump right in the middle of things!

[M.E.B.]

I had a hive in a portable building. I waited until dark and calked up all of the holes. You could hear them in the walls for over a week.

There were some in a trailer house at the deer lease. The owner kept trying to spray them and keep getting stung. It was intertaining.

The next season we bought the trailer house. The bees were under the floor of the trailer. The last day of a work weekend I waited until dark and put a No Pest Strip into the crack that they kept flying out of of. I shoved it as far in as it would go with an arrow. When we came back the next week there were no more bees.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Bees are no fun to do battle with! We tried once to eliminate them from one of our permanent deer stands... They were Africanized bees and tore us a new one. Had them in the wall of an old camp too... I sprayed them with straight gasoline and they just shook it off like it was nothing! Took out a hive all at one time once by dousing them with warm soapy water. Not a single bee even flew. The soapy water killed them instantly. We just called an exterminator and had him come out and treat 4 different hive infestations in our camp. We now have to go out and remove all the hives from the walls and COMPLETELY remove any traces of the hives and/or paint over them with heavy primer paint. As long as the bees can smell the hive, they will keep returning to it. We've done battle with them at our camp for years. We only temporarily win the skirmishes, but they always return... Normal bees are not a real issue for us, but when they become Africanized, they are another story altogether! You cannot cohabitate with "killer bees"!! The exterminator uses a stronger form of Sevin dust. It is a pyrethryn and it will kill all the bees for about 3 months... If the hive is still there and the bees can get to it, it starts all over again...

[ladrones]

My brother just dug out a tree with bees. The keeper they called out to remove them said the tree had over 300,000 bees. The lady that took all of the bees and the trunk of the tree was very happy to get them.

[Fergeris]

This exterminator said he would remove the hive I just have to fix everything after. I tried the soapy water didn't do anything mite have been using the wrong soap I don't know lol

[Black Ice]

Bees

Bees are no fun to do battle with! We tried once to eliminate them from one of our permanent deer stands... They were Africanized bees and tore us a new one. Had them in the wall of an old camp too... I sprayed them with straight gasoline and they just shook it off like it was nothing! Took out a hive all at one time once by dousing them with warm soapy water. Not a single bee even flew. The soapy water killed them instantly. We just called an exterminator and had him come out and treat 4 different hive infestations in our camp. We now have to go out and remove all the hives from the walls and COMPLETELY remove any traces of the hives and/or paint over them with heavy primer paint. As long as the bees can smell the hive, they will keep returning to it. We've done battle with them at our camp for years. We only temporarily win the skirmishes, but they always return... Normal bees are not a real issue for us, but when they become Africanized, they are another story altogether! You cannot cohabitate with "killer bees"!! The exterminator uses a stronger form of Sevin dust. It is a pyrethryn and it will kill all the bees for about 3 months... If the hive is still there and the bees can get to it, it starts all over again...

When they become Africanized? How do they become Africanized? Do they get a starter kit ?