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Your welcome, if it was me, bees scare me, I'd probably get them with a bucket of gasoline, but that's not nice, I'm sure the pros have a better idea.
It’s actually crazy cause my twitter feed today threw up a β€œCreg Wrong” post about him after a new hive and queen. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈπŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈπŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ
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talej 2 months ago
If you don’t do anything with them they’ll move on by themselves once they find a nice spot to go to… a couple of days max For me I’d be collecting them myself and providing them a home 😁
Why would he charge you to remove?! A nice accessible colony like that I’d go out and remove them for free. It’s the best way to start a new hive. If you had a home for them you could just scoop them up.
If someone calls me and says they have free bees, I’d come grab them and bring a jar of honey to thank them.
This is what I’m hearing from a teacher at a local school that had to get some removed this year. I’m told that they will move on when they are ready. They are in a quiet part of our place, will just leave them 🐝 and monitor. πŸ™πŸ‘πŸ»
Lol - what a scam! It's like charging someone to go to their BBQ, drink their beer & eat their meat. I could understand paying them if it was in an inconvenient spot like your roof. If it's in your garden & he doesn't want them, I'd just let them bee. πŸ˜‚
Yeah they will send out scouts bees and eventually find a new hive. Once they locate a suitable location they will all move to the new hive.
It is prolly a swarm looking for more permanent place to build comb (most likely). Swarms tend to stay around for 2-3 days or less. They generally do not sting unless seriously disturbed (like with a baseball bat or broom). If they are not too close to your kid’s play area, or pet traffic, let them β€œbee” until they move on.
Seen them get rid of wasps by just covering the hive with a bucket of gas and they fall in, this is much bigger though, also as said not kind to nature at all.
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