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Just found a bees nest in holly bush in garden. I know bees are good for the garden plant but I'm not too happy about a nest in the garden, prefer them to be in a beekeeper's hive.
Does anyone know if beekeepers charge to remove the nest?
I imagine that the colony could be useful to a beekeeper.
Help before I get stung!
Thanks
Try calling your local council tomorrow as they may be able to give you the number of a local that can help you out. If not they may charge to remove the nest.
http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef606.htm
Try calling your local council tomorrow as they may be able to give you the number of a local that can help you out. If not they may charge to remove the nest.
I'll get my wife to do that! Thanks.
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http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef606.htm
Interesting!
Chimaera
10-07-2005, 20:01
Or look in the Yellow Pages for bee keepers - you may find that one of them has lost a hive full of bees, or would be willing to come and remove yours.......for free! :D
Most keepers will remove them for free, they then use the workers for the honey.
Thanks, I hoped perhaps they MIGHT remove them for free!
Will let you know what happens!
Perhaps here http://www.aprilcourtapiary.co.uk/main05.htm will help
Mr_love_monkey
10-07-2005, 21:36
Most keepers will remove them for free, they then use the workers for the honey.
Isn't that like aiding slave labour? :)
Good luck in sorting it out. We had one in the loft once. Bees everywhere. Its definately good that you are getting a proffesional in.
makikomi
11-07-2005, 23:31
Tell them to buzz off.....
:D
:p:
:)
:disturbd:
:erm:
I'll get me coat.... again.
Local bee keepers don't seem to be interested :( , so...told the bees to buzz off :D and put insecticide around and on the nest
...and then ran like hell, I bet! :D
Dave Stones
13-07-2005, 16:53
pfft, whatever happened to the good old "bbq fluid, lighter, run" method?
coward ;)
Is it not iligal to destroy a bees nest.... tut tut on you.... :D
But then again, i can barley handle one in the house let alone a garden full... I know what I would do ;)
Dave Stones
13-07-2005, 18:12
hey, if you don't tell anyone who's going to know... :erm:
Is it not iligal to destroy a bees nest.... tut tut on you.... :D
But then again, i can barley handle one in the house let alone a garden full... I know what I would do ;)
AFAIK that only applies to "solitary" bees, like bumble bees who do not form a large colony. It does not apply to honey bees which form a large colony.
I did not want to do this, but local bee keepers just did not want to know!
The local council's environment department might be better able to help you (safer than DIY and not too costly)
The council put us in touch with a bee keeper, who wasn't interested, said they would go away.
If I have further problems with the bees, I will be getting in touch with the council or a pest controller, although neither has a good track record for getting rid of ants!!
Dave Stones
13-07-2005, 19:20
ants just use a kettle, and some water. instant death of the colony :)
Does any one else see a pattern here with Dave and burning things alive :disturbd:
Does any one else see a pattern here with Dave and burning things alive :disturbd:
:slap: Jule behave..............................i noticed. :Sprint: :D
Does any one else see a pattern here with Dave and burning things alive :disturbd:
Technicaly its scolding with the ants ;)
Technicaly its scolding with the ants ;)
I have never found :nono: telling off ants to work:erm::D
Dave Stones
13-07-2005, 22:04
Does any one else see a pattern here with Dave and burning things alive :disturbd:
what are you trying to suggest? :angel:
i never found telling the ants or bees off to work either, hence the sadism... :Yikes:
what are you trying to suggest? :angel:
i never found telling the ants or bees off to work either, hence the sadism... :Yikes:
Magnifying glasses at noon:p:
Seems this thread is crawling into insecticies territory :D
homealone
13-07-2005, 23:18
of course scalding bees would make me boil, but scolding them may work - if there are any left after dave has burnt them....;)
I could get rid of the ants by burning the house down, but I don't think that's a good idea. :D
I could get rid of the ants using boiling water, if I could find the nest somewhere under the floor, but I don't want to remove all the flooring. :D
And I could get rid of the bees by burning them, but I don't want to burn down the garden. :D
The insecticide method seems to have got rid of the bees, unfortunately the ants are more stubborn, just have to keep them confined to under the floor. ;)
How much longer will this thread run..............................?
How much longer will this thread run..............................?
As long as the ants do maybe :D
Sing along...
Half a bee, philosophically,
must eo ipso facto half not be
But half a bee has got to be,
vis a vis its entity
- D'you see?
But can a bee be said to be
Or not to be an entire bee,
When half the bee is not a bee
Due to some ancient injury
- Singing! ...
La, di di, one two three
Eric the Half a Bee
A B C D E F G
Eric the Half a Bee
Is This wretched demi-bee,
Half asleep upon my knee,
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric the Half a Bee.
Fiddle di dum, Fiddle di dee, Eric the Half a Bee
Ho ho ho, tee hee hee,
Eric the Half a Bee
I love this hive epmploy-ee-ee Bisected accidentially,
One Summer afternoon by me,
I love him carnally.
He loves him carnally...
Lead Singer:
Semi-carnally.
(Speaks)
The End.
Cyril Connolly?
No, semi-carnally.
Oh.
(quietly) Cyril Connolly
:D
I do worry :disturbd: lol
Raistlin
14-07-2005, 21:02
I do worry :disturbd: lol
Yup..... The signature's very apt though ;)
homealone
14-07-2005, 21:24
Yup..... The signature's very apt though ;)
King Crimson - superb stuff, the bee song is only Monty Python, not the same at all ;)
- you want the gel ant killer, the powder ant killer, the spray ant killer and any thing else that says 'ant' & 'killer' - this is according to Mrs Gaz, who has all those things - I just stand back in awe, & appreciate our ant free zone ;)
Raistlin
14-07-2005, 21:27
The gel ant killer is actually pretty good.
Just let the little blighters walk into the dish, carry the gel back to the nest on their feet, couple of days - no more ants :)
The gel ant killer is actually pretty good.
Just let the little blighters walk into the dish, carry the gel back to the nest, couple of days - no more ants :)
All to busy gelling and spiking there hair no doubt. :D
homealone
14-07-2005, 21:50
All to busy gelling and spiking there hair no doubt. :D
you may be on to something, there, Roy - new 'ultra hold' ant gel :D
Raistlin
14-07-2005, 21:52
All to busy gelling and spiking there hair no doubt. :D
you may be on to something, there, Roy - new 'ultra hold' ant gel :D
Would that be the new formula? The one with the anti-frizz ingredient?
:D
you may be on to something, there, Roy - new 'ultra hold' ant gel :D
Yep think they'e call "chav-ants" :D
homealone
14-07-2005, 22:11
Yep think they'e call "chav-ants" :D
- isn't that a Russian car? ;)
Dave Stones
14-07-2005, 22:11
yeah, well if you are too humane to use boiling water, nippon bait stations are good for killing them off pretty sharpish... (the ants that is).
and if you don't want to burn down your garden, just use smoke... tried and tested by beekeepers for driving bees away ;)
In my experience, Nippon ant bait just feeds the ants, they keep coming back for more...........nothing to suggest that it kills the all the ants in the nest :(
And there's no smoke without fire ;)
ants just use a kettle, and some water. instant death of the colony :)
Wouldn't a kettle be too big for ants to carry?
:p:
Dave Stones
15-07-2005, 16:10
And there's no smoke without fire ;)
ever tried setting green wood on fire?
instant smoke factory...
or, cigarettes... they smoke... :p:
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Wouldn't a kettle be too big for ants to carry?
:p:
depends what type of ant it is... an army of leafcutters or fire ants could manage it without breaking a sweat ;)
depends what type of ant it is... an army of leafcutters or fire ants could manage it without breaking a sweat ;)
Just as long as they don't break into my house :p:
makikomi
15-07-2005, 19:38
Sing along...
Half a bee, philosophically,
must eo ipso facto half not be
But half a bee has got to be,
vis a vis its entity
- D'you see?
But can a bee be said to be
Or not to be an entire bee,
When half the bee is not a bee
Due to some ancient injury
- Singing! ...
La, di di, one two three
Eric the Half a Bee
A B C D E F G
Eric the Half a Bee
Is This wretched demi-bee,
Half asleep upon my knee,
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric the Half a Bee.
Fiddle di dum, Fiddle di dee, Eric the Half a Bee
Ho ho ho, tee hee hee,
Eric the Half a Bee
I love this hive epmploy-ee-ee Bisected accidentially,
One Summer afternoon by me,
I love him carnally.
He loves him carnally...
Lead Singer:
Semi-carnally.
(Speaks)
The End.
Cyril Connolly?
No, semi-carnally.
Oh.
(quietly) Cyril Connolly
:D
I quite like cheese too.
:disturbd: :disturbd: :disturbd:
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