Thread: help with bee hive....please

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Common sense would dictate that if an "EXIT ONLY" sign was placed above each entry the queen would not survive, causing abandonment of the hive. However, my offer of assistance went unacknowledged.

The wire cone idea works--I have done it. You can buy a comercial "BEE ESCAPE" which will let bees out but not back into the hive, if siliconed over entrance. But they may find other ways back in. The wire cone is cheap, if you have old fly wire hanging around [say after putting new wire onto screen door], so the comercial bee escape may not be the way to go.
Place a colony of cane toads in front of hive in a wire mesh cage that bees will have to fly through would get rid of the bees over several weeks. Have not tried that one but it should work. Too many bee keepers lose bees to cane toads sitting in front of their hive boxes.
Petrol fumes work well at killing bees, but if your house burns down expect a call from the Police Arson Squad, with a list of unsolved arsons they want someone for. Explaining their must have been an elecrical short in the house wiring will not help once the police/Fire investigators detect there was petrol fumes. And make sure you tell them I did not tell you to actually use the petrol to burn down your house, if that happens.
I use to keep bees and often had people wanting them removed from walls. I would tell them to empty a can of mortein into the cavity at night, when the bees were inside. Never got feed back to see if it worked, or not. Perhaps they were all in hospital being treated for severe bee stings but I doubt it as I emptied mortien into cavity for some people and never got stung. Stuff all breather holes in the wall with fly wire that you used for the cones--allows wall to breathe-- to keep further infestations out, making sure there is no way for them to get past the fly wire. If building put flywire over cavity entrances.

Originally Posted by Newbs-IIA

SO what happened to the bees? did you get rid of them?

I gathered that the bees are now gone but must have missed how you accomplished this... unless it was the BBQ???

BBQ culminating with organized chant "bee off with you, bee off with you".......and you're angling for an invitation Coop?

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Common sense would dictate that if an "EXIT ONLY" sign was placed above each entry the queen would not survive, causing abandonment of the hive. However, my offer of assistance went unacknowledged.

The wire cone idea works--I have done it. You can buy a comercial "BEE ESCAPE" which will let bees out but not back into the hive, if siliconed over entrance. But they may find other ways back in. The wire cone is cheap, if you have old fly wire hanging around [say after putting new wire onto screen door], so the comercial bee escape may not be the way to go.
Place a colony of cane toads in front of hive in a wire mesh cage that bees will have to fly through would get rid of the bees over several weeks. Have not tried that one but it should work. Too many bee keepers lose bees to cane toads sitting in front of their hive boxes.
Petrol fumes work well at killing bees, but if your house burns down expect a call from the Police Arson Squad, with a list of unsolved arsons they want someone for. Explaining their must have been an elecrical short in the house wiring will not help once the police/Fire investigators detect there was petrol fumes. And make sure you tell them I did not tell you to actually use the petrol to burn down your house, if that happens.
I use to keep bees and often had people wanting them removed from walls. I would tell them to empty a can of mortein into the cavity at night, when the bees were inside. Never got feed back to see if it worked, or not. Perhaps they were all in hospital being treated for severe bee stings but I doubt it as I emptied mortien into cavity for some people and never got stung. Stuff all breather holes in the wall with fly wire that you used for the cones--allows wall to breathe-- to keep further infestations out, making sure there is no way for them to get past the fly wire. If building put flywire over cavity entrances.

Originally Posted by Newbs-IIA

SO what happened to the bees? did you get rid of them?

I gathered that the bees are now gone but must have missed how you accomplished this... unless it was the BBQ???

they were in full flight on Saturday Afternoon and when Sunday came not a sign of them Must have been the can of flyspray ho har emptied down the wall


Mrs ho har

Originally Posted by The ho har's

they were in full flight on Saturday Afternoon and when Sunday came not a sign of them Must have been the can of flyspray ho har emptied down the wall


Mrs ho har

All hung over?

Originally Posted by V8Ian

All hung over?

most probably were




oh the bees...right


Mrs ho har

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

I think they just left home

Without saying good-bye?