Any ideas on how to move the bees into a new hive?
I live in Miami, 5 months ago honeybees (not hybrids of Africans) took up residence inside my attic. They gain entry from a small diameter eve vent hole. (I have a barrel tile roof). The hive is in the eve and is now about 4 feet wide, hanging from rafters.
I do not wish to kill the bees. All beekeepers I have spoken to want to exterminate or cut giant holes in my ceilings. Also I cannot find a beekeeper willing to crawl on his/her belly in my attic and cut out the hive.
I was told that oil of almond (artificial acetaldehyde) deters them. I tried this, but they loved it.
I am looking for a humane (bee-friendly) method to make them leave. After they leave I will plug up the eve vent holes so they don't return, and find a very small person (possible a family of garden dwarfs, Ha!) who will crawl in my attic and eat the honey. (Then I might be writing to you asking how to get rid of dwarfs in my attic, Ha!)
Seriously
2007-08-09 08:11:34 · 6 answers · asked by walkathisway 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
keep callin those bee charmers before honey starts drippin from the ceiling and a hole in the ceiling can be easily patched texture matched and painted by a good painter no [problem good luck from TEXAS
2007-08-09 08:18:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call your County Agent and ask for someone like me, a beekeeper, to trap the hive. I have a special rig I use for under eaves. It's a small hive body with empty honeycomb that I hang from the eaves. It has a one way door and a large clear hose that attaches to the entrance under the eave. Over the course of a couple weeks bees will be able to leave there hive trough the trapdoor and new hive but will be unable to return. Eventually they will set up housekeeping in the new hive and abandon the old queen and rear a new one. At this point the new hive full of bees can be taken away and the walls opened to remove the honey. If you leave the honey in the walls without the bees to keep it cool it will melt in the heat and ruin the walls. With the bees gone it should be easier to get someone into the attic to do the work. Please don't let anyone harm the bees they're having a rough time of it these days. RScott
2007-08-09 18:27:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I live in Broward Co. & I had the same problem in Davie. I have a friend that was a bee keeper & they wouldn't touch the hive, it was about the same size, only in the wall.The only time they move is when the queen is extracted. We measured it w/ a stethiscope. They came in the same way. It is too dangerous to try and move it. Really all you can do is kill them.Get the wasp spray that shoots from 16 ft. away. Do it at night when their all in there. Just be carefull after you do, get the hive out as fast as you can. Flies will invade it & lay eggs in it.
2007-08-09 15:33:14 · answer #3 · answered by Animalfriend 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Smoke them away.Use some cotton waste ,or any material that produce a lot of smoke to smoke them away,then seal off the hole.
Do the smoking on a moonless night,this way they will not find it back and also prevent then from hurting you in pitch darkness.
They will fly away safely and built their nest elsewhere
2007-08-13 10:50:29 · answer #4 · answered by leo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why did it take you five months to decide to be rid of them?... if you[d have done something a long time ago, you'd be done with it already!....
unless you are willing to open the roof, there's nothing to be done except kill the bees so you can remove the hive.... danged shame, too....
2007-08-09 15:21:58 · answer #5 · answered by meanolmaw 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
would it be so impossible to just learn to live with them? are they stinging you or yours? they have found a safe haven in your attic, and in exchange they are pollinating plants for miles around.
2007-08-09 15:47:00 · answer #6 · answered by ellarosa 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋