How did this thread get this far without a reference to the BumbleBee Guy on the Simpsons?? I’d have made it more clever than this, but nothing’s coming. Sorry.
<sigh>
From this article, which also has advice on eliminating them.
(Bolding mine)
How did this thread get this far without a reference to the BumbleBee Guy on the Simpsons?? I’d have made it more clever than this, but nothing’s coming. Sorry.
<sigh>
I blame the thunderstorm…
[sub]slinking away, blushing[/sub]
Handy asked, “Kalhoun, wouldn’t a beekeeper come & get them for free?”
Probably. However, when we called Exterminator #1, he just came out and dusted the area (enough to piss the bees off, but not nearly enough to kill them). At that time, we didn’t know they could all be drawn out by “essence of queen bee” (that’s what the pros call it, anyway). So now the bees are coming into the house and terrorizing us all. We called Exterminator #2. They told us that we couldn’t salvage the honey because it had been poisoned by Exterminator #1.
So they waited until after dark and listened to the walls with a stethescope, drilled a hole in the outer wall, and pumped a shitload of poison in. A few bees went crazy (exterminator girl whipped her shirt off and was running around the yard in a panic). Then they took the outer wall off and began scooping bees into buckets. It was truly disgusting.
Anyway, the moral of the story is to research it and find out if you can relocate the bees or at least make a few bucks off the honey.