Bees help! Bees bees ew!?
Question:So we have a pool in the backyard with a waterfall, and tons of bees fly around in our backyard. My husband has been looking around the house and yard to find any bee hives, and he cant find any, we just see tons of bees. Is there such thing of a bee-trap, to catch all the bees, like a fly trap? If not, is there some kind of way for them to not come back? Can they be in our brick wall, or in a wall of our house? Where do you think their coming from? And what can we do about it?
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The hives might be underground.. we had an extension and found tons of HIVE NESTS UNDER THE GROUND.. WE HAD TO SET A CONTROLLED BURNING.. :|
The only bee's in North America are honey bee's, every thing else is a wasp. Try to find out what type you have a problem with. Knowning this you can find the nest, have it killed, or better yet, get some one to move them. Google.
There are bee traps you can get my Mother in Law got one that you hang on a shepards hook. It's for yellow jackets or bees. She got hers at Lowe's I believe and hung several of them around the pool. Here's a link to one for online http://www.groworganic.com/item_pit910_g...
You may want to check your house to see if there is a small hole where they could be coming from as it's possible for bees to live in walls in your house or bricks. If they are you can usually hear buzzing in the wall. But chances are the waterfall is just attracting them as a water source. Bees can travel quite a ways from their hive so it may not even be anywhere near your property. When your not in the pool don't run the waterfall and that may help. Check your eaves as well. More than likely the nest is offsite. But water will attract them.
if there is an old tree in the back yard they can be living "inside" the tree, they can hollow it out and use it as a massive hive, or if there is a barn or some wood surfaces around they will burrow through and make little hives. this can be solved by caulking up the holes with putty or something. or if its the tree you will have to get it checked.
OK calm down..the bees aren't in or around your house. Bees will travel quite a distance from their hive in search of nectar, pollen, or water so if you've searched around your property and found nothing the hive is probably elsewhere. I assume these are honeybees rather that bumblebees, leafcutter bees, or mason bees so they are just after a drink of water. There are bee/wasp traps you can buy but it sounds like your pool is a favored water source for them and you probably won't be able to catch enough to make it worthwhile(a healthy beehive can contain 60,000 bees in the summer). If there are a ton of bees around, one of your neighbors is probably a beekeeper. The ideal solution would be to restrict access to the water and have you or the beekeeping neighbor provide an alternate water source closer to the hive in the hopes of diverting the bees away. At the very least you can provide an alternate source in some corner of your yard and hope for the best. The best water setup I've found so far is one of those small pet watering dishes with the reservoir on it and a piece of swamp cooler pad in the dish part. Hopefully the bees will like that more than your pool.
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