How to Remove Honeybee Hives
Honeybees sometimes can build hives in places that you do not want them to reside, such as on the side of a house, garage or outbuilding. Homeowners who are faced with an unwanted honeybee hive must have the hive safely removed. Removing the hive helps to prevent the honeybees from coming back to the same spot and building a new hive. Keeping unwanted honeybees away from the house helps to prevent bee stings, which can be useful if the owner is allergic. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Protective clothing--long sleeved shirts and long pants
- Gloves
- 2 cans instinct pest repellent spray
- Insect poison
- Protective eye covering
- Long stick and garden shears
- Bucket with soapy water and rags
- Large plastic bag
Instructions
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Cover your body with protective clothing so that you do not accidentally get stung by a bee. Wear a shirt with long sleeves, long pants and tube socks. Place some sunglasses or other protective eye covering over your eyes. Place some heavy gloves on your hands to prevent your hands from getting stung and from contact with insect pest spray.
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Remove the beehive at night when the bees are less active. The bees will be in the hive and there will not be much activity around the hive.
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Cover the honeybee hive with the insect pest spray. Use as much of the bottle as you can to spray the hive down completely.
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Leave the insect poison around the hive and surrounding area. Do not approach the hive for a few hours, so that you give the spray and the poison time to work.
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Examine the hive and check to see if there still is honeybee activity. Use the second bottle of insect repellent spray if there still are honeybees near the hive.
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Remove the hive from where it is attached. Use a pair of garden shears to start cutting the hive away. If honeybees still are actively flying around, you can use the stick to help remove the hive also.
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Clear the hive away from the area and place it in a large plastic bag so that the bees cannot get to it.
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Clean the surface area where the hive was. Use warm soapy water to wash the area and then rinse the area thoroughly. This will help to prevent the honeybees from coming back to the same spot.
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Comments
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Christina Penton
Jan 21, 2011
Honeybees to do not seek out their victims like some wasps do. They usually sting only when they perceive a threat to their colony. The author is misinformed. Bees are more aggressive at night! Except for moving a sealed hive, even experienced beekeepers dread having to deal with their hives at night. They only do so in rare cases. Rather than spraying a colony with poison, call a local beekeeper who can remove the colony without killing the bees. People all over the world are exploring ways to save honeybees, our necessary pollinators, from die offs. Why destroy any? Your problem hive can wait until you have time to look up a local beekeepers club.
