[Fluffywelshsheep]

Can anyone help uses we have a set of bees establish a hive under our metal shed but we want them gone can anyone remove them, before hubby blasts them with the hose

Linz

[Sharondp]

Where are you Linz? If you google your local Bee Keepers Association, they always have a swarm collector who will remove them from you free of charge, then sell them to the next desperate person on their list for a fortune!

[Sharondp]

The police will have a contact name & number for you so I'm told by hubby -  that will save you 'googling'!

[RUSTYME]

if they are honey bees Linz , you could always buy a hive , let them move in and then sell them for a fortune yourself !!!! That's if you didn't want to start beekeeping  ?

cheers

Russ

ps:didn't Rosemary and Annie want to start beekeeping ? ...best way for them to get some bees for free .....if you just want shot !!!

[Fluffywelshsheep]

lol, They are defo Bumble bees , looked at goggle for images not honey bees, I would love to keep them am just a little worried about son's I guess i've done a too good a job of attracting them in to the garden
They don't want to live in the bug hotels i've made lol
Linz

[RUSTYME]

oh right .. never mind . Best not mention the hose though ...I think they are endangered , or very near to it ...

cheers

Russ

[Fluffywelshsheep]

lol, I am trying to distracted him from hosing them, If they have produced honey it'll just cause more trouble lol.

[RUSTYME]

That is a poor quality video of a swarm of honey bees moving into a hive in my yard here. They are no more than 25 feet from my door , and I have never been stung by one yet .
The only time they start 'looking' at me , is when I am moving right across the front of the hive for some reason , but other than that they are no bother at all .
Little kiddies are a different matter though ...they want to poke their nose in everything ...lol... so best take care...


cheers

Russ
 

[egglady]

if they were honey bees i'd come and collect them myself!

[Fluffywelshsheep]

hehe , Been trying to figure out how long they have been their, which we don't think very long, they might move on (wishful thinking). It's a bit like gatwick in our garden at the moment. I could watch them all day, as one enters another leaves. I'll have a closer look tomorrow and see what happens i have to walk right pass them to go in to the garden they don't effect me but hubbies not happy with them. He worried about R and Little T with them

[RUSTYME]

are there many flying in and out Linz ? ... I thought bumble bees were more solitary ? Honey bees can be anything from almost black to somewhat wasp like in colour ...and you will see a constant trickle of them in and out all day ....

cheers

Russ

[Fluffywelshsheep]

no defo bumble bees they are big and hariry things brilliant coloured nothing like a honey bee or a wasp, I'll see if i can get a photo tomorrow

[Fluffywelshsheep]

Looks like this little fellow

bombus terrestris ~ bumble bee

[RUSTYME]

yes .. definitely sound like bumbles then ....I suppose they do sting .. but never heard of anyone getting stung by one !!! They tend to just fly around me ...unlike bloody flies and gnats ...I get bitten to death by them ....

cheers

Russ

[Fluffywelshsheep]

bees tend to sting if threatened as they die at the same times, I have been stung by both bees and wasps. Not nice