Oh, I guarantee you...I am now a bee EXPERT! Having spent MANY days and nights going through bee webpages, forums, advice, calling beekeepers, I now know more than any living human should. Problem is, first, that I live in the boonies. Second, honey bees are the worst type of bee (and I even submitted specimens of them to insure that they were honey bees and not another variety) to have in a wall. Were they bees that make paper hives, you can leave it. Nope, THEY make..duh..honey! Next, once they get in the wall, you typically have to do a "tear-out" to find the hive. No good trying to simply kill them (and I can find many an idiot to spray the opening. Like you said, without getting rid of the queen and pupae, you get nothing but a bunch of rotting drones in the wall. If you don't do a cut-out involving finding the hotspot in the drywall where they have built the honeycomb (they start high, btw), even if you can plug the gap, poison them (surprisingly, soapy water kills them) and manage to kill the queen and babies (takes about three weeks for them to hatch), you are left with untended honey in a wall. Hot day, you guessed it, it breaks free, drips down the wall, invites rodents, cockroaches, ants and anything else that immediately picks up on an unattended hive.
FINALLY, to do a tear-out, you have to rip out the inside wall and hope the queen doesn't jump between another stud which is common when she senses danger. She abandons the hive and drones and takes a ball of soldiers with her and drops to the bottom between the studs either to the left or the right. Could be either. A carpenter (hard to get one) will NOT deal with a tear-out knowing that a swarm of live bees is there. A BEE-KEEPER usually doesn't want to do a tear-out as they usually find it not worth their time, effort and hassle.
Where does that leave a person? Between a rock (wall..heh) and a hard place!
Believe me, I have done my research. Thanks for the good wishes. I need them. To be continued.... [Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by HOT ROCKIN' METAL GODDESS from Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5:56:40 AM)
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I know that you live far out with not much around you, but is there someone who can come and do a honey bee rescue? They find the queen and take her and then the rest of the hive follows. Pretty cool - but NOT MY KIND OF JOB! There are bee keepers who will also come and move the hive..... Just a thought, but I don't know if anyone around you can do it. They probably still charge for the service though, even though they get to keep the bees and sell the honey. What a pain! Couldn't they build it in a tree or something??? Good luck Guido and try not to get stung!
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guidogodoy wrote: |
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| Yeah, friggin' HONEY BEES in the wall!!!!!! Oh that is just great. All I needed.... |
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Edited at: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:18:08 PM |
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