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City Chick
True Blue Farmgirl
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Deb
Chattanooga
TN
USA
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 Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 04:36:41 AM
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There is this house on my daughters newspaper route that has a bee's nest inside the tree. Someone has sprayed that foam stuff used to seal windows in the winter into the hollowed out part of the tree. BUT! The bees are still gaining access to the tree. Honey bee's.
I don't know the people - don't know if they even care. Would it be possible to contact a bee keeper and have them come out and remove the bee's? I would just hate to see them go to other drastic measures to keep the bee's out or worse fumigate them.
How would you handle this?
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Cabinprincess
True Blue Farmgirl
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Melody June
Athens
TX
USA
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Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 05:45:12 AM
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I know nothing about bee's except they sting. My boys were out playing when they were young and came in yelling that hundreds of bee's were in the oak tree. I went out and there was a HUGE ball of them up there. I called our County Extension office and he gave me numbers of local bee people. The first one I called was in need of them and came right out and removed them. I was afraid (I'm alergic to bee stings) so the boys and I went to town till it was over. So I don't know how he did it but he did take them all away.
Smiles, Melody June
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beekeepersgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Luanne
Cresco
PA
USA
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Posted - Aug 04 2009 : 11:37:05 AM
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Hi Deb -
My boyfriend is a beekeeper and has done this for several people in our area. If you can contact a local beekeeper they will probably be more than happy to come and collect the swarm.
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katie-ell
True Blue Farmgirl
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Katie
Illinois
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City Chick
True Blue Farmgirl
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Deb
Chattanooga
TN
USA
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Farmtopia
True Blue Farmgirl
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Zan
New York
New York
USA
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Posted - Aug 05 2009 : 04:45:39 AM
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Hey Deb, you can call a beekeeper to come and get them, BUT, once the bees have settled into a tree (or any other place they'd like to call home), it becomes a sticky situation (no pun intended!) to get them out, depending on how much they have settled the tree. It is much easier to remove a swarm BEFORE they have settled into a tree or other area...
If the tree contains an extreme hollow or several crevices within, the bees will overrun these and start setting up comb.This makes it hard to easily remove the bees, as there is goo and wax, and possibly several bees crushed in the effort.
Plus, since they are hard wired to set up where their queen sets up, he only efficient way to remove them is to remove the queen, and it's not always easy to find a queen in a group of 10,ooo, or more bees! So what I am saying here is that a beekeeper may not be able to successfully remove the bees without killing many of them or damaging the tree. Hopefully your local bee folk have an answer and a solution to the problem.
My thoughts are to try to leave them where they are, if they are in your garden, then you are lucky to have great pollinators and the world could use more bees. Obviously, though, if people seem to be doing crazy things about them (such as spraying their entrance shut), there might be a humane alternative.
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Edited by - Farmtopia on Aug 05 2009 04:49:14 AM |
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