How do you get rid of bees that have a hive inside a wall?

Answer 1

Why do want to get rid of them ? Since they are in a wall cavity they must be Honey Bees. Bees are the most wonderful insects in this world and they give hours of pleasure just by watching them work.
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You can try and increase the number of colonies by keeping an empty hive with a small opening, nearby. Once a year at the time of swarming, just before the peak honey season, the queen bee will fly out with about half of the colony and form a new colony. Bee scouts will search for good places and you may be lucky and they will select your box hive.

In case you don't want to do all these, just smoke them out, with something that emits white smoke. When bees smell smoke their first instinct is to gorge themselves on the honey that they have stored and they and the queen bee will fly out to form a new colony. The honey that they consume will be used to form bees wax to build new combs for a new colony. Once they have left, then seal the opening in the wall, but PLEASE, PLEASE do not kill them with insecticides.

Answer 2

I work at a Catholic School and we had the same problem a few years ago. They were inside a brick wall. I looked in the yellow pages and found someone to come out and get them out. They opened up the wall from the inside and removed all of the cone and honey. There was allot of it too. After that, we sealed the hole and they were gone. Other than that, I don't know what you would do. They will stay as long as there is the hive. Good Luck!!!!

Answer 3

How to get rid of bee's? (and avoid harsh poisons). The hive was under the house. Bee's were entering through a small vent between bricks just above the ground level. I blocked up all other vents with plastic inserts sold for this purpose in a hardware store.

Answer 4

You will need to contact an exterminator. The bank (we bought a foreclosure) had to do 3 professional treatments to get rid of the infestation at our home. We ended up having a honey comb inside the walls - from floor to ceiling...ugh! No over-the-counter spray was going to work there... Edit: We didn't know they were honeybees - bank owned. But the other posters are right - get someone in there to determine what kind of bee it is - an exterminator can tell you that. If it is the honeybee then calling a beekeeper would be better. Because they exterminated - we couldn't keep any of the honey. :0(

Answer 5

first off make sure the bees cant get inside the dwelling. then, take a can or two of hornet and wasp spray and saturate the inside of the hole. the spray is petroleum based and will spread its way through the hive and kill the bees as it works its way down the inside of the opening. dont be afraid of emptying the can in the space to ensure total saturation of the hive. then seal off the opening

Answer 6

You have to open up the wall and get the queen out. I'd call the professionals for that one. Once the queen is out the rest will follow. THey have to scrape out all the honeycomb and stuff too.

Answer 7

Few years back we faced the similar problem. I had sprayed Bagon spray - one full can and ran away. All were dead in the night. I felt sad and sorry for killing so many innocent lives but there was no way out.

Answer 8

u gotta call the bee man

Answer 9

Try amonia