Bees in covered split wood stack.

[Boondox]

If you don't want to deal with chemicals and you can find the egress point...

Fill your shopvac with a few inches of soapy water. Stick the hose where the bees are coming and going. Turn on the shopvac in the morning and let it run till night. I did this with a hive in my attic. In short order there weren't enough workers left to support the hive.

Don't forget the soapy water or you'll have a shopvac full of ticked off bees!

 

[lockhaven]

use a tarp over the front then just set a small can with gas in it inside. The fumes will kill the bees and they wont move anywhere.

 

[Pilot]

I like Lockhaven's idea.

I used to have wasps nest in my old JD tractor. Never saw where they were nesting.

I threw a tarp over it, anchored it down around the ground and set off a bug bomb. Next morning no more bugs, but 12-15 bodies on the ground. Went thru this routine once a year for about 3 years.

Let the temp get down to 45 or less when you work around them and they won't be very active.

I backed over a yellowjacket nest in cool weather and suddenly they were all around me. Not thinking very well, I dropped my 3 pt. implement, put the tractor in neutral, shut it off, set the brake, then jumped down and ran about 50 ft. Looked back and there was one about 5 ft. away, that was all. They never touched me--they were too cold to function very well.

 

[RobertBrown]

If they are honeybees a beekeeper might come and get them for no charge.
Check around and see if there is one near you.
Otherwise, if you pull the tarp they will leave in a short time.

 

[turnkey4099]

I have no idea what kind of bees they are. They smaller and dark, not yellow or white striped.

Smoking them out with close neighbors might be problematic, although that does give me the idea to hook the tractor exaust up to a hose and smoke them out that way.

While burning them out is an amusing idea, I think I'll pass on that one.

I wonder how many dog collars it would take to produce the same result as one no-pest strip.

Cliff

I'm wondering how small they make those collars...and how long it would take to put them on the bees.

Harry K

 

[Cliff_Johns]

I'm wondering how small they make those collars...and how long it would take to put them on the bees.

Harry K

I think you just throw a pile of the collars in the yard and yell, "Fetch!" and if they're anything like our first dog (Goober) was, they will grab them and try to hide them in their house.

If they're anything like our second dog (Stoner), then yelling Fetch! might be a bad idea.

Cliff

 

[forgeblast]

Bee Identification Chart
(if you google honey bee identification guide you can see a bunch of different pics).

 

[jimmyj]

I think you just throw a pile of the collars in the yard and yell, "Fetch!" and if they're anything like our first dog (Goober) was, they will grab them and try to hide them in their house.

If they're anything like our second dog (Stoner), then yelling Fetch! might be a bad idea.

Cliff

Goober and Stoner. Ha ha ha ha. :laughing:

 

[Cliff_Johns]

Bee Identification Chart
(if you google honey bee identification guide you can see a bunch of different pics).

That a good web page. Thanks for posting it.

Cliff