[ocba] BEE REMOVAL

John and Ruby Harrell jraaharrell at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 24 17:32:53 EDT 2008


I would like to help.  So far, I have very little experience handling bees, 
but I do have a jacket with a veil.  If an extra set of hands would be 
useful, let me know when.
John Harrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Becky Bollinger" <beckyalis at gmail.com>
To: "Orange County, NC Beekeepers" <ocba at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 1:57 PM
Subject: [ocba] BEE REMOVAL


> Jeff received the following email from a lady who needs some help
> extracting bees. Is anyone interested in helping out? It looks like it
> will take more than one person to do this. Contact me if you can help.
> She lives approx. 20 miles north of Durham.
> Thanks,
> Becky
>
> Here is the info:
>
> You can't see them.  They are up in the boxed overhang under the vinyl
> so you can't see the hive.  In the summer months you can
> see them buzzing around and when it's really hot they come out and cover
> the side of the house up next to the roof.  They look like a blanket that
> covers a 2 to 3ft. area.  I don't want to kill them and haven't been able
> to find someone who could come get them out.  I need to have them
> removed before they ruin the house.
>
> A friend of mine who has bees came and looked at them.  He was going
> to get an apple picker and an empty bee hive, remove the vinyl and
> put the whole hive with Queen in the empty house, leave the hive on the
> apple picker for a few days so the other flying around bees would go to 
> it,
> then take the hive.   He's a contractor and got busy and didn't do it.
> He already has 7 or 9 hives so he really didn't need them.
>
> Then I'll have to get someone to clean out the overhang and fill it with
> insulation and spray it with Bee-be-gone stuff so they don't come back.
>
> Let me know if you or you can find someone interested in helping me.
>
>
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