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Bee's in the House (1 Viewer)

Capella said:
You have to harvest it and I've heard it's a pain in the ###. I'm not that kind of guy, I'll just go spend 5 bucks on a jar when I want some. 
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oh, sure. I figured you had bee people in the house taking care of the bees... sorry, bee's... so they'd also harvest the honey for you. and rub your pregnant wife's feet too. I guess I figured wrong. 

 
rockaction said:
You put it on powdered sugar biscotti and enjoy the combination. 

Love that stuff. Great combo, everything anathema to the modern diet.  
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I've been eating quick oats for breakfast lately- new to me. with honey, blueberries and bananas. haven't used honey like this... ever.

 
Capella said:
We've had bees floating around a corner of our house for 4 years now. Sometimes they would randomly get into the house. We have had 4 different beekeepers come out and tell us they were "rogue" bees, that they had no Queen and were just attracted to some pheromones in the ceiling. Well, we got the roof replaced two weeks ago and...

BEES

We had just paid a beekeeper to come out 3 days before. 
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Pheromones on your ceiling?

You must be quite virile

 
Chadstroma said:
Last year, we ended up finding numerous wasps in the house. A few down in the basement and then a couple up in the family room. I went around and searched for areas that I thought they might have been getting in and sealed them up. There were not many potential areas but one I really thought was likely the culprit I spent extra time on and sealed up real well. All has been fine...

Until the last couple of weeks. We have found 6 or 7 dead (except the one that my daughter, 6 years old, says she killed, but I am suspicious she was beating a dead horse.... or bee as it happens) bees in the house. They have been all over. A couple in the family room, a couple in the kitchen area, and another one in one of the bathrooms.

I have already done the sealing for the previous wasps. I did a walk around the house and did not notice anything. I guess I will get up on the roof this weekend and check. What else? Any bee experts among the FBG community?
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You need one, or a pack of these - Bee Killer

 
VandyMan said:
Maybe, as a starter, you could start keeping ALL the doors closed in every room. The room where wasps show up is the one where they enter the house. HTH.
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...because these critters who seemed to be able to navigate their way through your siding, sofits, walls, insulation, and light fixtures will certainly be thwarted by the vault like seal provided by the interior doors of your home.  Also, do you have closeable doors in every room???

 
Capella said:
We've had bees floating around a corner of our house for 4 years now. Sometimes they would randomly get into the house. We have had 4 different beekeepers come out and tell us they were "rogue" bees, that they had no Queen and were just attracted to some pheromones in the ceiling. Well, we got the roof replaced two weeks ago and...

BEES

We had just paid a beekeeper to come out 3 days before. 
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And this is exactly why flamethrowers should be legal. 

 
We have wasps---I mean every breed of wasp known to man has a nest around our house. We have the red ones with the spindly legs completely having taken over my grill. The yellow jackets are in the wood pile and my fence on the side. The black ones are in the ground.  We have these big black and yellow suckers--not yellow jackets but like a hybrid bee/wasp/wolverine breed that has made a home under the shingles in front of the house. They are scary and there have been days I have actually told everyone to stay in the car while we drove in the garage and wait to get out until the door shuts. 

My battles against them are legendary. This year, I have taken the front back after three cans of foam, dozens of beers, hundreds of losses on their side with me only sustaining a really nasty cut on my knee and a huge blow to my pride as I fell on my face the other night--tripping over my retaining wall after hitting them with a big dose of foam at 9:00 pm.  I have to concede the grill to them--alas, it will never be used for food again after the amount of chemicals I have sprayed on it. I frankly would be afraid to even have an open flame near it. We don't go in the backyard anymore. It is their world.  You can just look out the back window and it is like Mardi Gras for wasps at any given moment..

I am patient. There is already a nip in the air. The first frost is coming followed by the first snow and I will have the last laugh.....oh yes, I will. 

 
Wasp problem was solved (apparently.... haven't seen any for over a year). Now is the bee problem for clarification. Will review replies later after my daughter allows me to use my laptop again. How does a 6 year old have homework that needs to be done on a computer?!

 
Courtjester said:
We have wasps---I mean every breed of wasp known to man has a nest around our house. We have the red ones with the spindly legs completely having taken over my grill. The yellow jackets are in the wood pile and my fence on the side. The black ones are in the ground.  We have these big black and yellow suckers--not yellow jackets but like a hybrid bee/wasp/wolverine breed that has made a home under the shingles in front of the house. They are scary and there have been days I have actually told everyone to stay in the car while we drove in the garage and wait to get out until the door shuts. 

My battles against them are legendary. This year, I have taken the front back after three cans of foam, dozens of beers, hundreds of losses on their side with me only sustaining a really nasty cut on my knee and a huge blow to my pride as I fell on my face the other night--tripping over my retaining wall after hitting them with a big dose of foam at 9:00 pm.  I have to concede the grill to them--alas, it will never be used for food again after the amount of chemicals I have sprayed on it. I frankly would be afraid to even have an open flame near it. We don't go in the backyard anymore. It is their world.  You can just look out the back window and it is like Mardi Gras for wasps at any given moment..

I am patient. There is already a nip in the air. The first frost is coming followed by the first snow and I will have the last laugh.....oh yes, I will. 
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Can't you get an exterminator for this. Won't they just go dormant for winter and then come back in spring if you don't. 

 
Courtjester said:
We have wasps---I mean every breed of wasp known to man has a nest around our house. We have the red ones with the spindly legs completely having taken over my grill. The yellow jackets are in the wood pile and my fence on the side. The black ones are in the ground.  We have these big black and yellow suckers--not yellow jackets but like a hybrid bee/wasp/wolverine breed that has made a home under the shingles in front of the house. They are scary and there have been days I have actually told everyone to stay in the car while we drove in the garage and wait to get out until the door shuts. 

My battles against them are legendary. This year, I have taken the front back after three cans of foam, dozens of beers, hundreds of losses on their side with me only sustaining a really nasty cut on my knee and a huge blow to my pride as I fell on my face the other night--tripping over my retaining wall after hitting them with a big dose of foam at 9:00 pm.  I have to concede the grill to them--alas, it will never be used for food again after the amount of chemicals I have sprayed on it. I frankly would be afraid to even have an open flame near it. We don't go in the backyard anymore. It is their world.  You can just look out the back window and it is like Mardi Gras for wasps at any given moment..

I am patient. There is already a nip in the air. The first frost is coming followed by the first snow and I will have the last laugh.....oh yes, I will. 
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You keep up the good fight, soldier! If you run out of foam, I highly recommend a good spray bottle of soapy water. It doesn't kill them, but it incapacitates them so they can't escape or retaliate. You are then free to laugh in their stupid little faces as they angrily try to flap their wings. Then you're free to do with them as you please. Capture them alive, cut them in half with scissors, set them on fire, curb stomp them, or just let them live out their last few moments in anger and frustration. All perfectly fitting endings, IMO. 

Also, if it's a gas grill, you just turn the gas on and light up their world with a purgatory of chemicals and flames. I always do this for the first grilling of the season. 

 
Redwes25 said:
Can't you get an exterminator for this. Won't they just go dormant for winter and then come back in spring if you don't. 
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Exterminators are for women. Real men take care of their own waspbeehornet issues. Even if it means cowering in fear and letting part of your yard go unused.  

 
Found it! 

Small hole that was basically camouflaged in shadow and coloring of brick and siding. 

Operation None Your Bees Nest has begun!

Sprayed Hornet/Bee stuff in the hole yesterday and this morning. Will continue to do it until I feel I can approach the hole without death (Mine, not theirs) and spray directly in. Once I give that some time, I will spray in some filler and that should be that.  

 
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