I have a tiny bee hive under my house's patio's roof. What do I do with it?
Question:I recently found a coin-quarter sized (super tiny!) honeycomb hive with about 3 bees and one guarding the hive. What do i do?
Since it's too small, I don't want to hire an exterminator. It's obviously in its early stage. What can I do?
Answers:
First of all, are they bees or wasps?? Wasps have segmented bodies, and are black, or yellow and black. Is the nest paper or mud?? That would indicate wasps. Bees are more rounded in their bodies and a cute, fuzzy brown, Unless they are the big black and yellow bumble bees, which are harmless..
If you have figured out these are wasps, you should go to your local garden/hardware store and get spray for wasps, and at night, spray them. Not in the day, because if a wasp is being attacked, it sends out pheromone massages to attract other wasps to defend it. Wasps are multiple stingers, they do not die after stinging, as bees do. They are not endangered, so spray away!!
Put it in a box and take it for a drive and place it in a field or somewhere (hurry before the rest come)
If I were you I would through boiling hot water up to it so the bees die. I do that with bugs I don't want.
dont do anything, the bees are becoming extinct, humans are the cause, we need to try and save every bee's life that we can, serioulsy, once the bees are gone we are gone, and the people that do survive are are gonna live off of an all potato diet, for no flowering plants will be pollinated, no apples,oranges,carrots,lemons, lettuce, bananas,kiwi, wheat, rye, grain, pomegranite, cucumber, squash, pumpkin, peach, nectarine, grass, weeds, plums, and any other plant that needs polination to spread its seed or bear its fruit.
save the bees, save ourselves
I'm guessing that you don't have bees at all! They do not generally build a hive hanging from a patio roof. That type of (nest) is made by several types of wasps. If that is the case a good can of raid should resolve the issue.
You can use smoke to remove the hive. Make sure you have on long sleeves and something to protect your face... Bees can't stand smoke.. Don't worry the smoke will not kill the bees just will stun them while you move the hive.. Make sure the entire hive has been moved. Other wise the bees will just come back and start over.
I ran into this problem earlier this summer- you can go to a hardware shop (I went to Home Depot) and ask for their bee insecticide. It comes in an arrisole can, you just aim for the hive and it comes out as a foam. Then apparently you run. Or you can do what I did and get your next door neighbor to do it while you cower inside- I'm extremely phobic and allergic to bees!
I have never heard of a hive with only 3 bees. There is always a queen and a few hundred drones. If it is a small nest and is outside , and if you know for sure that they are honey bees. Look for a bee man in your area. He will smoke them out and take them for their honey, they do not charge cause they want the bees and honey. But if you have nobody like that, then just spray the nest in the evening and stay away from it till morning. Spray good and make sure it is in the evening, most of the bees will be there and those that return will also die as long as the queen is dead. I have a problem with bees every year. My bee man just comes and gets them and that is it till next year.
take a stick and knock it down ,then go inside. they will build somewhere else more than likely...
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