So I was walking out of my house today and I noticed that in one of the trees I parked next to there was a huge bee hive forming, seem to be thousands of them in attendance already. I'm wondering if anyone here has a recommendation for an exterminator?? My grandma and mom work a lot with the garden at my house and I don't want them to be attacked by this hive so looking to resolve the problem ASAP.
Don't poison the hive it contains delicious honey inside. Throw a rock at the hive to get the bees to fly out. Once they are out steal the hive and take it inside your house in order to extract the honey.
I'm sure this has been posted dozens of times here but here's a well documented solution. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2243176
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I have a couple of friends that have taken up beekeeping the last couple of years as a hobby. One is going to rent out his hives for pollenation services. He'll drop the hives off somewhere for a couple of weeks and bring them back home when done. The other just wants to gather a little honey. They each have 2-3,000,000 bees: Russian Ladies -- back to the boob thread, I guess! :grin:
Giddyup thanks a lot for the suggestion, I had them removed this morning and problem has been resolved.
Wow, that was fast. I had no idea if they could pull it off-- just a wild suggestion. Did they pay you for the bees?
I have noticed a lot of bee's around my house too. They seem to be out buzzing around earlier than normal. I say bee happy that there are bee's to be seen because was Einstien who once said when the bee's disappear on earth that's when the end is nigh.
Bees setting up shop at the top of my chimney. This is the third time. First time was on the side of my house where they found an ingress. Had the beekeeper come out. Second was the same spot where I hadn’t sealed yet and I caught them day one and was able to throw some silicone where I had forgotten to do it and was able to stop the swarm. This time it’s too damn high. Called the beekeeper again. Bees love my house. The joys of home ownership.
Mrs Valdez here I keep bees and at the February Houston Beekeeper meeting there was a great presentation on hive removal. Definitely do NOT try to poison the hive. If they are still a big clump, they are a swarm and not too difficult for a beekeeper to remove. But if they are already embedded in a tree (or much worse, a house) you really want to call a specialist. Expect it to be several hundred dollars. You can try Mark Lockhart in Katy, I think his business is called Busy Bee. That said, if they are up in a tree and not bothering you, you could just not worry about them. I garden with three hives about 15 feet away and they aren't aggressive unless I just opened up their hive. In that case I give them a day and can garden the next without any problems. Good luck!
Bees are good. Until you get too close to their tree with a piece of equipment. Then they are not so good. You cannot drive a piece of equipment faster than a swarm of bees, but you can jump out and run like hell.
