WHAT ELSE CAN POSSIBLY LIVE IN MY *&%*#&%*# COOP WALLS?!

[EllyMae]

I have a colony of bees that have taken up residence in the hollow of one of our oak trees, right in the front yard. It makes mowing interesting...
I had a bee expert(for our county)come out and take a look at it and there isn't really a way to get the queen out due to the location of the hive. So this year we have had to be even more careful on the bug control methods we use so as not to kill the bees.
Let me add, our garden and fruit trees have been the best ever this year due to the bees.

 

[riderbecky]

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The only reason for you to have domesticated honey bees in your wall would be if a young queen left the hive and some workers swarmed with her. That would mean that there are probably hive near you. A responsible apiary(sp?) will come and remove the nest for you. Look in your phone book under beekeepers or apiaries. The Ottawa Valley where I am is lousy with them. If not...don't feel guilty for doing what you need to do.

Which would be going to Wally World or Canadian Tire and picking up a can of Bee/Wasp destroyer and spraying the nests at night when they're sleeping.

Good Luck

 

[crtrlovr]

Please, PLEASE don't kill the bees! Do your absolute best to find a beekeeper that can safely remove them for you without destroying the colony. As for "why are the bees disappearing" question a few posts above, the issue is called Colony Collapse Disorder. Entire colonies will die, or large numbers of a colony will, for some unknown reason, leave the colony and the rest of the colony collapses without the support of the drones/worker bees. Some scientists think it is because of a virus. All I know is that without the bees and their pollination efforts, this entire country's food supply would be in SERIOUS trouble.

 

[BettyR]

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WOW!! I had no idea....we live in a farming community and we have a lot of bee keepers who move their hives around to areas that need them so there are always lots of them patrolling the area. I really hope they can figure out what the problem is and fix it before we loose our bees. That would be a total disaster.

 

[nccountrygirl]

Small backyard gardeners are having a terrible time ( me included ) with our plants getting pollunated due to no bees being around any more. We are having to hand pollunate with a small paint brush.

 

[BettyR]

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Maybe you should look into getting your own hive...if all you have is one when it gets too large they will make a new queen and the hive will split and one half will leave so they will not over populate.

There is a man in our area that sells honey out of his house...he has a shed built onto the back of his house that the bees live in. He cut a hole in the wall between the shed and his living room and put a piece of double pane glass in the hole and you can stand in his living room and look through the glass and watch the bees working in their hive. It is so cool!!!

He lives in town...it's a small town but it's still town so I would think if he can do it anyone can.

 

[Anny]

What if you just found a whole litter of kittens in there hahahah

Or skunks.

 

[Chick_a_dee]

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Yeah there were some dead baby mice in a box in there, but that I think has more to do with the fact that there are holes in the footings for them to get in through! They were dead, probably froze to death over the winter. I went in the building over the winter and didn't see any sign of weasel or mice actively there...but I'm sure it'd be more likely to be mice because there was a large mouse nest in the ceiling of our enclosed porch (which has since been taken out, and converted back to a covered porch).

Trust me, going all out on security.... thankfully most of the windows still have "security screens," those thick metal screens that bolt into the side of the building.

Turns out the hive isn't so large, it's actually rather small and I can't tell if they're honeybees or not so I'm not going to risk it, I'm just going to have to spray them. because we need to take the wood off the building in that place to replace it.

 

[Chick_a_dee]

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The only reason for you to have domesticated honey bees in your wall would be if a young queen left the hive and some workers swarmed with her. That would mean that there are probably hive near you. A responsible apiary(sp?) will come and remove the nest for you. Look in your phone book under beekeepers or apiaries. The Ottawa Valley where I am is lousy with them. If not...don't feel guilty for doing what you need to do.

Which would be going to Wally World or Canadian Tire and picking up a can of Bee/Wasp destroyer and spraying the nests at night when they're sleeping.

Good Luck

There is a beekeeper who has hives in several farmers fields on the highway our road is off of, perhaps a young queen left from there and took up house in our shed here?... That's the closest I can think... we've looked around, and of course we can't get close to our neighbours yard but I don't think there is a hive on his property.

I'd find out who he is, but I don't know where he lives... you see his hives anywhere from Napanee area to Campbellford.

 

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