Best way to remove a bees nest on my own?
Question:Under a bush near my deck ( Bush is going to be removed )
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Please consider not moving the bush or the bees right now, Please. You may not be aware of the very large unexplained decline of the bee population the world over. There is really a bee shortage all over the world today and for the last two years. I am not some Greenpeace, bunny hugging whacko environmentalist or anything but this is becoming a world wide crisis and we should be aware and protect the bees from harm where we can. I understand the inconvenience of wanting to do a project around the house and waiting for some dumb bees to leave but for the sake of flowers and food and nature I wish you would wait until the bees make some kind of recovery. Please consider this before you move the bees, and think of it as your personal sacrifice for the good of the planet. Please wait.
Wait until night when all the bees are in there, and spray them with a hornet spray. I have poured gasoline in the under ground nests with a trail of gasoline running a few feet away so as not to let the quick flame get me.
If you're afraid to get near it, there are power-sprays for Raid and other killers that can max at 20 feet, so whenever there's a calm moment, possibly at night, light it up like Rambo. The hive itself might be compost, so no point in wasting what can be reused so long as the bees are gone.
Get a bee/hornet killer spray - the one where you can be almost 20 feet away, and completely douse the nest at night. All the bees are inside the nest at night, and you'll have less of a chance of them swarming around when you are close by. Wait until the next day and monitor it. Make sure you don't see any bees still flying around. If you do, spray it again the next night. Once they are gone, get something like a shovel or a broom with a long handle and pick the nest up and put it in a plastic garbage bag and tie it up. If you are going to take the bush out anyway, you could avoid this last step and just let the nest go with the bush.
Regular automobile starting fluid. The spray can. As long as you can get close, you just spray the heck out of the nest EARLY in the AM. The ether kills them INSTANTLY, and leaves no residue. BUT, the spray IS flammable, so ya can't spray near heat or sparks. For a BIG nest, use bug bomb after all the ones outside the nest are dead, to get those deep in the nest.
If these are honey bees I'd leave them be....If they are yellow jackets....Use the wasp hornet spray that will get em..but I would NOT kill a honey bee...they are getting few and far between and we would not have food if the honey bees do not polinate......God Bless
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