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Help! Bees!

33 IMP

33 IMP

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A friend of mine is letting me store a car in his giant garage, since he has not moved his cars from his old house to his new house. Unfortunately, his new place is a fixer-upper. The problem is that someone (likely before John bought it)vandalized the motion detector light at the side door of the garage, left a hole in the wall, and now we have a beehive in the wall by the door, making passage impossible.
Though not strictly my problem, my girlfriend and i are keeping an eye out , till he can move in, and i would like to have access to my car, since i have keys.
I dont know what kind of bees they are, but i doubt they are honey bees, so i have no compunction about killing them off. I snuck over twice during the night, actually around 3am, and tried to fill the hole with a can of expanding insulating foam (i dont think they can get into the inside of the garage), but i'm pretty sure it didn't work, gravity pulling the foam away from where it needed to be.
Does anyone have any brilliant ideas to get rid of/kill off these "friends" Covid finances make hiring a professional difficult at the moment, as i'm sure some of you understand.
 
Found these ideas on google, although I imagine #3 would give you an ant problem lol...:

  1. Moth Balls: There are some smells that bees don’t like and mothballs are one of them. To use mothballs, hang them near the bee nest or nests, and eventually, the smell will deter the bees from coming back. You can also hang mothballs in different places around your yard to keep your entire yard bee free.
  2. Vinegar Spray Solution: Vinegar spray is a great natural way to get the bee out of your yard, as well as simple to make and use. Just mix equal amounts of water and vinegar in a spray bottle, shake and the mixture on the nest when the bees are sleeping, at night, as well as around plants where you tend to see a lot of bees. This mixture will kill the bees so make sure you remove all of the dead bees.
  3. Cinnamon: If you find a hive and want the bees to relocate without killing them, consider sprinkling cinnamon around their hive every day for about a week. The smell will send the bees looking for a place to relocate.
 
dadsbee said:
Never had a simple can of wasp spray that didn't kill even the largest of hives.
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I have very little access. i dont even know whether the hive is up or down from the hole in the wall, and i sure can't shoot anything directly on it. If it is above the hole in the wall, nothing i spray in the hole will have an effect.
 
Sure it will.. get the shooter can for wasps and just soak the **** out of the hole. The fumes will find the nest and the residual around the hole will be tracked in on the bees. Trying to seal them in the wall.. they'll just eat their way out..
 
A few hit and runs with wasp spray and you start evening the odds.
 
I have had a lot of fun with wasp nests with the wd40/bic lighter trick, but i really dont want to burn down this garage.:rofl:
 
Foam type wasp spray into the nest opening will help. Spray at night. May take a few nights if the nest is big. The pros tend to use a powder to get carried throughout the nest and kill them all.
 
33 IMP said:
I have had a lot of fun with wasp nests with the wd40/bic lighter trick, but i really dont want to burn down this garage.:rofl:
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:rofl:

Awwww Cmon!

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couple cans of wasp spray, evening when they are back to the nest, shoot a good shot in the hole,
now you and the gal can do some shooting :elmer: as they come out .
Prob not more that a hundred or 2 .
See a small black cloud, take off running. :thumbsup:
 
Crazy idea here... Call a Bee Keeper... They make money with bees, they are often happy to remove a nest for free.... My buddy just had a huge nest removed from a rental house on his farm.. No charge...
 
1967coronet said:
couple cans of wasp spray, evening when they are back to the nest, shoot
See a small black cloud, take off running. :thumbsup:
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Been there, did that already!:( Didn't know it was there, till i slammed the side door to lock up, and two hundred pissed off bees showed up. Only got nailed four or five times. Could have been worse.:rolleyes:
 
Ive had wasp stings before. These stings weren't near as bad.
Aren't honey bees yellow and black striped? These are all black, and don't look at all like wasps or hornets to me.
 
You're in the neck of the woods that can have Africanized bees, yes?
("Killer" bees)
 
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