Anyone ever deal with a massive hive inside a wall?
My boss got FIOS installed a couple days ago and the installer mentioned he had a little bee problem in his garage. Bees were going in and out of a small crack in the brick. My boss hadn’t seen many bees so figured it was a small nest and he’d just spray it and be done with it.
Last night his neighbor was using a gas weed eater and I guess the noise and vibration stirred the hive. There were THOUSANDS of them. He said it looked like a cloud flying around his garage. He’s already called a professional exterminator I just wondered if anyone else had dealt with something like this. Honeybees are a big mess to take care of from what we were reading online yesterday. Even if you kill all the bees the giant hive and honey start to rot causing a huge mess and stink. And then if you don’t remove it that smell is an attractant to other bees so they end up coming right back.
Sounds like he’s going to have to tear apart the wall, remove all of it, then sanitize it so the smell doesn’t cause another hive to get built right off.
I have used a shop vac with water in it (like a inch or 3)… you just tape it up at the open hole to the hive and they just fly out and get sucked up … this will take a few days tho … every night I try to suck up about a 5 gal worth of water to seal the deal tape off the ends and let it sit over night
I told him to get the turkey deep fryer out and burn the garage down. Fire kills the bees, he gets a new garage, it looks like an accident since 100’s of people a year burn down their garages with those damn deep fryers (the garage is detached).
They try to save them, but in cases where they’re in walls the risk to people outweighs the need to save the colony. If it was a massive hive in a tree beekeepers would have come in to relocate it.
Not according to the beekeeper he talked to yesterday. Accessible hives yes, hives buried in your walls, no. I’d say if you had another beekeeper he could call post it up but the exterminator will be there soon and there won’t be a colony to move after that.
I would not want a house/garage full of fucking bees in the walls. Of course, I’m allergic to them, but if some asshole knowingly kept them in their house and I got stung while there that’s lawsuit material.
He’s got a kid and the garage is near his pool. Can’t leave something as dangerous as 1000’s of bees just hanging out like that right near where a bunch of kids play. One wrongly thrown kickball and some kid gets stung to death.
As for “spoiling”, everything we read yesterday said killing the bees and not removing the hive leads to a huge mess as the dead bees, hive and honey decay.
