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| Pete's Pest 2005-06-16, 2:33 pm |
| What's the best material to spray on the outside of a home for bee control?
Thanks
Pete
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| In article <tIudnSYLi9bgEwvfRVn-3Q@adelphia.com>, housedet999
@adelphia.org says...
 What's the best material to spray on the outside of a home for bee control?
Thanks
Pete
If you are talking wasps building nests under the eaves and windows any
of the general pyrethroids will help out.
--
Lar
to email....get rid of the BUGS
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We have fought the bee thing for a while. We have a board and batten
wooden home and every year we have bees show up to attempt to build a
nest behind the boards of the house.
We have tried to seal the house up tight as a drum after ripping one
side of the house loose to get a hive out...only to have it happen the
next year.
No beekeeper can help you without ripping the boards off the house. So,
once when they showed up, the beekeeper said, "Well, I'm off to get
another swarm that has gotten into a squirrel box on somebody's yard."
He said that we probably had an active wild hive somewhere in the woods
close to our home and that each spring they got rid of a less
productive queen that had to begin another hive....in the wall of our
house.
We are getting a hive box to put close to the wall of our house they
like as maybe just maybe they will choose the box over our house and
the beekeeper can take them away with less problem.
With the bees in this country having the problems they are having, I
don't want to exterminate if I could possibly relocate them.
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| bugs@bugs.com 2005-06-16, 2:33 pm |
| If you get a beekeeper that really knows what they are doing they can set a
box up outside and actually rob the hive they have in your house and the
other bees will come into the box they setup outside. It is a slow process
but it does not harm the bees in anyway and the beekeeper can do it and take
the bees with them to produce honey and also to pollenate. I think you need
to look around a little for a better beekeeper. Also once you get them out
of your house you need to sanitize where they were to keep others from
coming back into that same location, once sanitized then seal it off and you
should not have that problem again. On my website I have pictures of a bee
job I did and it was a rather large one but no bees have returned to it this
year. If you want to look it is the onepest.com site listed below.
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I wish you all the best
Tim Wise
www.onepest.com
www.askourpros.com
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| We only have about 5 or 6 in our area and none of them said that the
bees would be removable by the method you mentioned. They didn't even
mention us putting a more hospitable bee abode (bee hive) out to
persuade them to use that rather than the walls of our house. I
thought that one up....desparation is the mother of invention!?
By "rob" the hive out of my house what do you mean...lure them into the
other box or actually physically remove them as they have done in the
past?
bugs@bugs.com wrote:
quote:
> If you get a beekeeper that really knows what they are doing they can set a
> box up outside and actually rob the hive they have in your house and the
> other bees will come into the box they setup outside. It is a slow process
> but it does not harm the bees in anyway and the beekeeper can do it and take
> the bees with them to produce honey and also to pollenate. I think you need
> to look around a little for a better beekeeper. Also once you get them out
> of your house you need to sanitize where they were to keep others from
> coming back into that same location, once sanitized then seal it off and you
> should not have that problem again. On my website I have pictures of a bee
> job I did and it was a rather large one but no bees have returned to it this
> year. If you want to look it is the onepest.com site listed below.
>
> --
> I wish you all the best
> Tim Wise
>
> www.onepest.com
> www.askourpros.com
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| bugs@bugs.com 2005-06-16, 2:33 pm |
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On 31-May-2005, "mypet" <mypetandyours@hotmail.com> wrote:
quote:
> By "rob" the hive out of my house what do you mean...lure them into the
> other box or actually physically remove them as they have done in the
> past?
You can place a box on the outside and take some of the honey that is
existing there already and place it in the new box and the bees will start
going in that box and they will themselves rob the honey out of their own
hive and put it in the box and in essence all the bees will leave the hive
they have now and go into the box you place out there. Old timeers did this
all the time and were very successful at doing it. They would remove entire
hives of bees this way, there may be a little more to it than what I am
saying but that is the basic behind it. I know of a guy somewhere here in
the state of WV that does exactly what I explained to you, I am not 100%
sure of his steps if they are the same as what I told you but he uses a box
and makes the bees rob their own hive. He does Pest Control but he is also a
professional Beekeeper as well. If I knew his name and or address I would
get his contact for you so you could talk with him, but I only attend
meetings with him once a year. I will make a call tomorrow and see if I can
find out who he is for you and see if I can get you some information on him.
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I wish you all the best
Tim Wise
www.onepest.com
www.askourpros.com
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| PCOpug 2005-06-16, 2:33 pm |
| Bees in general terms do not set well with me .
Bees are generally pollenaters . Honey bees produce honey , and live within
wodden voids . Carpenter bees drill holes into wood , wood shavings and bee
pollen excrement is the norm .
Wasps generally build carton nests along protected areas on exterior .
Usually Polistes will forage weathered wood to build nests .
Yellowjackets build massive nests sometimes in holes , house voids , or
outside carton nests .
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