The Birds And The Bees

An egg cup quantity of petrol fastened as near as possible to the entry will resolve the bees.
The fumes either kill or drive them off.

 

Nooooooooo, don't harm the bees, we need them. Call a bee keeper to collect them, they'll be glad of them.

 

My other half keeps bee's and I've been on many bee removal expeditions, often seeing me climbing up various ladders etc to collect a swarm, please don't use the petrol advice, Yorkshireman is right in saying find a local bee keeper who will extract them if they're accessible or maybe smoke them out which won't harm them, on the other hand, if they're not bothering you they won't do any harm and you could leave them be, no pun intended, lol.

 

Bees are wonderful, and I think they're protected, aren't they? We get some nesting in a cavity wall (actually my office wall facing the garden) most years and they just harmlessly get in with doing their bee things, rarely bothering us at all.

 

I have a Bees nest in my garage, I enjoy watching them do their stuff. Not like the arsehole wasps nest in my loft, farkers wont leave you alone. Minute you sit to eat on the patio squadrons of the shitty stripy twats appear

 

In answer to the disagrees received, i agree with the sentiment of saving the bees if possible, depending on location etc. but the advice was provided to me years ago by a bee keeper. Apparently if you want to selectively remove a hive say for disease reasons without killing the whole colony then this is a way to achieve it.
I have used it successfully on a number of wasps nests and it is a very effective, cheap and an easily to hand solution.

If it's possible to safely and effectively remove and relocate the bees then I would do that first

 

As a confirmed bee hater (I once disturbed a hive when I was little and got stung to bits) I now avoid them like the plague ,i don't care if I never eat honey again and I wouldn't miss the fruit they pollinate.. little shites I hate them

 

The bees won't do any harm. They may well be Tree bees (they often nest in houses), and they'll only be there for one short season and then gone. We had them in our attic a few years ago, they caused us no problems whatsoever, and the nest only lasted a few weeks. They have never come back.

Our neighbour went to the trouble of getting a pest controller in for a similar nest in his house, but I couldn't see the point. If they're not honey bees, then they are of no use to anyone and will just be destroyed. And for what?

We need insects, especially pollinators such as these.

Edit: just seen the post where you say they are white tailed bumble bees and that they are staying. Good man!

 

For a couple of years, we had red tailed bumble bees nesting in the lawn. The entrance hole to the nest was tiny and very difficult to see, including for the bees. I watched them zigzag from a point at the edge of the lawn, to approximately where the hole was. If they didn't find it first pass, they'd go back to the start and repeat the search pattern (you can tell it was a quiet day for me).

So I didn't mow over the top of the nest, I dropped a loop of orange twine around the hole as a marker. Within minutes, they were using the twine as the landmark and flying straight to the centre of the loop and down the hole every time, with no searching needed. I thought that showed some intelligence on their part.

 

Jesus Ron, I didn't know that mate, no wonder you don't like them !

 

I can't imagine what that must be like - as far as I know, I don't have any allergies, so it's beyond my experience/understanding. "Bloody annoying" does sound like an understatement, so I sincerely wish you an insect sting free future.

 

I did once accidentally run the lawnmower over the entrance to a wasps nest. The first I knew was wondering why my ankles were suddenly on fire (I was wearing sandals without socks). I looked down, and they were all over my ankles, stinging away like mad, and reinforcements streaming out of the nest.

I brushed them off and retreated a short distance, but they kept coming. I ended up rushing into the house, and shutting the door on them. They hung about outside looking menacing for ages with me trapped inside. It took about three weeks for the swelling and itching to completely disappear.

I'm lucky though, with no real bad effects from it. I therefore put up with a paper nest in the shed for a summer and we rubbed along ok - I ignored them and they ignored me. A wonderful piece of engineering though, the paper nest structure - I opened it up once it had been abandoned. Amazing little creatures if you are able to tolerate them.

 

When I was a kid someone would always get stung by a wasp during the summer holidays. We'd be out building a dam across a river or something and some unlucky lad would get stung so we'd trace the wasps back to their nest and then get tooled up ready. Half of us would get buckets full of water, the other half spades. The bucket section would rush in and flood the nest entrance quickly followed by the spade section who would dig until the wasps started to swarm. Then it was a quick retreat and let things settle for 10/15 minutes. Then it was a case of douse with water again and dig until the nest was reached. Usually there was some dumb kid who didn't run away and got stung a few times but we always got the nest and smashed it up.
It was always wasps though, we never went for bees.
We knew how to have fun in those days.

 

We had a small swarm of honeybees move into one of the shrubs in my front garden, nest was the side of a rugby ball, we got a local beekeeper to remove it, he shook them all into a box and the loose ones slowly followed as the queen was in the box.
About 30 stayed in the shrub for a week and chased me when I cut the grass, but all gone now