BEES! EVERYWHERE!

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I was hoping to do some diy in the garden this afternoon. However, on returning home from the shop there was a swarm of bees buzzing about the gable end of our house, where i'll be working. I left them to it, thinking they would be gone in a couple of hours, but they're still there! Grrr.

We haven't seen them around before so I can't imagine there's a nest there. Do you think they've had their nest elsewhere disturbed and so they've suddenly come here and started to build? Or are they just buzzing around for s**** and giggles? I'm not much of a bee psychologist...


So...

Thoughts on how I can get rid of them!

I thought of building a fire underneath them in a metal tub we have, will the smoke drive them away?

I quite like bees too so don't particularly want to nuke them from orbit with all manner of chemicals;)

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Don't kill them, phone a local Bee-Keeper, they will take them, or know someone who will take them. Bees are having a tough time in the UK due to a parasitic mite that kills them off. Bees are awesome, if it was a Wasp nest then you could happily nuke it from orbit, but try and help the Bees!
 
doofer said:
Don't kill them, phone a local Bee-Keeper, they will take them, or know someone who will take them. Bees are having a tough time in the UK due to a parasitic mite that kills them off. Bees are awesome, if it was a Wasp nest then you could happily nuke it from orbit, but try and help the Bees!
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Yeah I agree, but how do you 'take them'! They're all over the shop!

Any beekeepers here?! Shall I build a fire?!
 
Purchase a vuvuzela. Blow as loud as you can thus demonstrating to the bees that you're their queen. Then lead then to a neighbours garden and run away.
 
Please don't build a fire. The police will have the contact details of the swarm co-ordinator for the local Bee Keepers Association. They will phone local members to see who is capable of collecting the hive. Swarming is an essential part of the bee's reproductive cycle, in effect an new colony is being formed.

A swarm typically is not a sting danger unless you antagonise the individual bees.

Edit: I keep Bee's but Portsmouth isn't close enough for me to help you.

http://www.portsmouthbeekeepers.co.uk/

On the front page are the details to contact for swarms.
 
Stupot_ said:
Yeah I agree, but how do you 'take them'! They're all over the shop!

Any beekeepers here?! Shall I build a fire?!
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Just don't disturb them at all, chances are the Queen has pitched there looking for a new home, chances are they will move on, if they like the spot they will stay though.

The Bee-Keeper will know what to do, all I know is they find the Queen somehow and put it in a big box, all the other Bees follow the Queen into the box and the Bee-Keeper takes them away and gives them a Hive to live in.
 
i get the feeling that you want to go and run with the fire idea...

if it were me, i would take the responsible route.


please post pics :)
 
It's an invasion force. The bees want us to think they're dying out. They're not though, they've decided they want to become the Beez Neez of the Earth.

Good luck, soldier. The human race is counting on you.
 
Thanks placid, Im not in Portsmouth, I'm in oxfordshire now. I've found this list of beekeepers so if they're still swarming tomorrow I might give one of them a call.

http://www.britishbee.org.uk/swarm_collection.php

Anyone know what kind of a bee this is?

Looks like a honeybee

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Sorry about the rubbish pic
 
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