Reply to: Wild honeybee nest - How to remove?

[Lockhouse]

Was there ever an outcome to this story?

We've left them where they were. If honey starts dripping through the ceiling we'll have to do something but live and let live is what I say. Unless it's Halal; then nuke them from orbit.

[RetSet]

Send in a honey badger. The world's hardest animal...

Ah, yes...

The honey badger don't give a tulip...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

[greenlake]

Was there ever an outcome to this story?

He was last seen trying to fight them off with a broken stick....

[amanwhoisquiet]

they all lived happy-bee ever after

[barrydidit]

Was there ever an outcome to this story?

[BrilloPad]

Last weekend I found a honey bee in the front garden. It was out of energy. I gave it some honey. 5 minutes later it flew off.

Thank goodness it did not need the kiss of life.

[Bee]

Cause they make a constant buzzing noise and are ******* annoying.

No, they aren't only if you provoke them they will follow you until the end of the world.

The only place that is annoying is inside my car while I'm driving. If I can't remove them the only option is to kill the poor devil.

[Lockhouse]

Why do you want to remove the lovely bees from your house?

I felt the same way but there may be no other option than to remove them forcibly. I've contacted my local swarm collector who hopefully may be able to assist. The problem is that they are at the top of the house and there are health and safety issues.

[SueEllen]

Where in the UK are you?

I am also interested in what damage the be keepers think they will cause? ( I am not awhere of any) also this early in the season a colony of bees can sell for £200. Have the beekeepers confirmed they are honey bees? They could be tree bees (although unlikley this early on.)

As it is this early, they will swarm later in the summer (no harm to you), current queen will disappear and other cast swarms later. You may be lucky and the bees that remain don't produce a succesful mated queen for the winter and the colony will die out.

You a bee keeper?

[Scruff]

I'm probably the only one that hasn't already spotted it but Innerest was Gittens Gal favourite term as well wasn't it?

Me too... I declared this in another"inneresting" post a while back 😷

[northernladuk]

Why do you want to remove the lovely bees from your house?

Cause they make a constant buzzing noise and are ******* annoying.

[Bee]

Three days ago a very large swarm of honeybees set up home in our gables where we'd had starlings nesting all spring.

This is twenty feet above the ground at one corner of the house so it's not the easiest to get to. If it was a wasp's next we could just smoke them out.

The pest controller said he wouldn't touch them and a man from the British Beekeepers Association says we'll need to destroy the hive which will require scaffolding and quite possibly stain ceilings with insecticide. It will also be expensive.

Has anyone had a similar bee nest removed?

Why do you want to remove the lovely bees from your house?

[Hairlocks]

https://www.bbka.org.uk/help/find_a_...oordinator.php Have you tried your local swarm collector.

[Hobosapien]

..this early in the season a colony of bees can sell for £200. ...

Stick them on ebay, buyer collects.

[Hairlocks]

Where in the UK are you?

I am also interested in what damage the be keepers think they will cause? ( I am not awhere of any) also this early in the season a colony of bees can sell for £200. Have the beekeepers confirmed they are honey bees? They could be tree bees (although unlikley this early on.)

As it is this early, they will swarm later in the summer (no harm to you), current queen will disappear and other cast swarms later. You may be lucky and the bees that remain don't produce a succesful mated queen for the winter and the colony will die out.