[Market-farming] honey bees

Leigh Hauter bullrunfarm at hughes.net
Tue Sep 4 22:43:49 EDT 2007


>Does anyone know what kind of damage the honey
>  > bees
>  > can do to my roof, and better yet, how to get rid of them for good?
>

If you don't have a hive there, and if your statement that your 
neighbor captured the swarm (not rescued, swarming is a natural event 
and requires no involvement from humans ) is true, then

  1.  the misc. bees that were not collected when the swarm was 
captured will soon die of exposure and starvation if they don't find 
a hive to join up with,

  and 2. a collection of honey bees without a queen will not create a 
hive and will not cause any damage  (and even if there was a hive 
somewhere in your wallboards the damage would be due to the bees 
somehow dying and leaving behind honey which might make a sticky 
mess).

3. I assume you are spraying with a hornet poison.  The effect of 
this isn't to 'get rid of'' the honey bees.  It is a poison.  you are 
attempting to kill them.  If  they 'persist' it means that you didn't 
hit them with the poison.

I sort of suspect from your description that either your neighbor 
didn't get the queen when he tried to collect the swarm or you have 
another swarm that has taken up residence in your house and what you 
are seeing are the bees hanging out around the opening to the hive 
entrance.  Why don't you ask your beekeeping neighbor to come back 
and look at what's going on.  I'm sure he can tell you.
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