Who wants a swarm of bees, FREE?
My son has bees in his shed. I went online looking, everyone wants to charge to remove. Can kill them cheaper.
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Who wants a swarm of bees, FREE?
My son has bees in his shed. I went online looking, everyone wants to charge to remove. Can kill them cheaper.
Call a bee keeper .....thats what I did.....guy came and got them.....even asked me what he owed me. I told him not a thing.
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I went online looking, everyone wants to charge to remove.Quote:
Originally Posted by "G"
I called all on the list. They either don't remove from buildings, travel to that area or they want to charge for their service.
I sent an email to county extension services, waiting for a reply.
Unless your extension service does it differently, ours are Monday-Friday.
I would check with a local farm and home store or maybe even Tractor Supply. They may have contact info on beekeepers in your area.
Here is the website and the contact page I found.
http://memphisbeekeepers.com/wp-cont...ist-2016-A.pdf
Go down to the local farmers market or produce stand.......Pick up a jar of the locally produced honey....get the name and phone number off of it and give them a call.....thats what I did.....they were glad to get the bees and like I said even offered to pay me.
Use a #7 shot and shoot at them see how many u can get per shot.
I think you need to get in the bee business. Honey is gooood.
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let me talk to a guy here at home,he has several bee hives and is looking for more.
let me know if your contact does not want them, i may be able to come and get them.
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I called all on the removal list yesterday, only 2 answered their phone. The first one is booked until August 9th. Can't give a price until he sees them. The second one said $300 without looking at them. He called back saying he would remove them for $200 if we put the ceiling back. It's 1/4" plywood cut in 1X8 foot pieces. I'm looking free or cheap removal. I can buy a case of wasp spray for $20.
Soapy water will kill them if it comes to that.
If you want to kill them....simple....take a vacumn cleaner and put the hose on the exhaust or blow end....fill the dust bag in vacumn cleaner with Sevin dust.....and blow the sevin dust into area above ceiling,
Suggestion: Contact the Agricenter. They have some bee hives down from where they rent bikes at Farm Rd & Mullins Station.
Had the same problem a couple of years ago when a travelling hive set up in one of my foundation bushes. I had always heard bee keepers are happy to get extra bees, but like you I couldn't find one that didn't want to charge for them and finally gave up trying after a couple of weeks.
Ive been a beekeeper, and removed bees from structures. It's a hot nasty job, and to ask someone to do it for the bees is not reasonable. Now a swarm on a bush or low tree, not a problem. Cut the limb, put them in a box, carry them home. $200 to remove bees from a structure is a fair price considering travel, time, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cricketcage
Hate to have to kill them. But if you do then soapy water is the best. Or you could crawl up there and find the queen and glue her in the bottom of a cardboard box. Leave it up there for two hours then remove the box. They will all be in there. P.s. She's the one with a crown
No one in my family will go close enough to look for a crown. We all hate to get stung.
Do it at night after dark
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Bees cant fly in dark.....and they cant sting you if you hold your breath......good luck
Can't see the color blue. Wear jeans and smoke a cigar. Hear it works every time
I wouldn't take the chance on doing it myself ... at least not without a bee keeper suit on, day OR night. Too much chance of the bees being Africanized Honey Bees ... and they don't "play" !!
Officials are ready when Africanized bees arrive | Mississippi State University Extension Service
I cant wait to hear about the outcome of catching the queen thing!
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I'm with Lowe, let's do this thing... maybe a bee suit is in order.. every queen has to have a king.
Just call the fire department and tell them they can have the shed to burn down for practice and training. If you don't like that idea call a pest control company and pay two hundred bucks and get over it lol
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There are no Africanized bees in Mississippi.
Take care of our bees please. We were spraying some stuff that was shown to be harmful later on. Just didn't show up in the earlier research. Gotta get the populations back up to where they need to be. A lot of us have opened up our farms to any keeper that wants a spot. We make sure nothing harmful is sprayed for miles around. Everyone is helping out in the area
Learning a lot about bees online and from beekeepers.
Poisons will kill the bees. Got to remove every trace of the hive afterwards. Other bees could find the hive and carry poisoned honey back to their hive, which could kill it. All material removed would have to be burned or washed and poisoned so other pest won't damage the building.
What do bees do during the winter? If safe, could wait till then.
call Phil on duck dynasty he loves honey
Ok this has gone on long enough I didn't want to say nothing but Big C is a certified Bee keeper you may want to pm him.
Cane give me a call I can take care of it:901-485-3527
Dude you must have forgot, you got that new phone and number yesterday that old one don't work no more new # is 9012624921Quote:
Originally Posted by Big C
No the first number is my personal number,the other is my work phone.Quote:
Originally Posted by slabin
Lordy, got me confused with numbers, already have that number on my phone for someone else.
Checking online for a suit, gloves, smoker and scrapper I can get them for about $100 and about 30 days shipping. Looking online with about 5 days shipping they will cost $200 to $300. My son will have them for further bee removal. He has all of the scrap wood from his new to be house, building some hives won't be a problem.
My son and family went to the farm yesterday to see how the new house was coming. My grandson was on the tractor cutting grass. The 2 granddaughters were playing on the swing set close to the barn. Ava is 6, she had a bee get in her face and she went to running. It tagged her on the butt. My son said get rid of them now.
I placed an ad on craigslist last night, 5 minutes later I got an email reply. 2 young guys were there at 11:30 am. I had about half of the ceiling down when they arrived. I would get a panel down, look around and bees were everywhere. I would step out so they would calm down. That was about 10 am to 11:30 for 6 panels.
They needed electricity. We had 1 8 ft 115v 15 amp to 30 amp adapter. 4 30 amp camper cords, 100 ft. 1 30 amp to 115 v adapter. 1 250 ft 12-2 romax. 1 75 ft 10 gauge cord, 1 75 ft 12 gauge cord, 1 100 ft 12 cord and their 1 100 ft 14 gauge cord. Ended up with about 4 ft of cord to move around as needed for their home made vacuum.
Their home made vacuum had replacement traps to hold the bees. Looks like both were full to me. They collected about 2 5 gallon buckets of comb, but had it in 4 buckets.