What do you do if you know there's bees in a tree?

[TiersonB]

What do you do if you know there\'s bees in a tree?

I was wondering what you can do if you know you're climbing a tree that has a big bee's nest? I mean, suppose you have to block down a big oak with a huge nest in it? You've got to stop them on the way up or they'll sting you during a lot of the job. But what's the best way? I've tried the stuff you buy at the hardware store and it's not effective. I've tried gasoline but it's hard to apply and dangerous. I've heard of people who can harvest the bees to be used elsewhere, but how exactly it that supposed to work?

Any thoughts?

 

[tomthetreeman]

Re: What do you do if you know there\'s bees in a tree?

Honey bees can be valuable to the right people, and they are starting to diminish in population, so I wouldn't recommend killing them. In most cases I would imagine that their hive would not be too far up, so harvesting them should not be that difficult. I think they need to remove the queen and relocate her, and the rest follow. My bro has a hive right in inner city Providence, and they don't bother anyone. They are pretty docile for the most part.

Hornets et. al. are another story. Spray'em or smoke'm out!

-Tom

 

[KyLimbwalker]

Re: What do you do if you know there\'s bees in a tree?

We've begun a removal and postponed the removal of the log with the nest (i.e. remove what you can, and wait a few days to remove the rest.) The hive in question swarmed and left, which was a good thing.

 

[Blinky]

Re: What do you do if you know there\'s bees in a tree?

Well, first thing I'd do is raise the price!

It's going to take some time and creativity to either relocate or eradicate them. Hopefully they're honey bees and not hornets. If they ARE hornets, you may want to talk to a pest control pro to see if they have advice or can solve your problem.

I've sprayed small hornets nests with OTC wasp killer, the sort that makes an accurate stream. Did that once on an ivy covered tree, worked like a charm... then I was bitten by a brown recluse a few minutes later. That was a job from hell.

NoBivy has experience dealing with honey bee hives.

Good luck.

 

[KyLimbwalker]

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. Hopefully they're honey bees and not hornets. If they ARE hornets, you may want to talk to a pest control pro to see if they have advice or can solve your problem.



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Wussy.

 

[shovelhead]

Re: What do you do if you know there\'s bees in a tree?

We relocate them. Find a bee keeper with a vacume. They come out and vacume all the bees and relocate them. We just relocated a log with a hive in it to our shop...they are doing great. Good luck

 

[Blinky]

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. Hopefully they're honey bees and not hornets. If they ARE hornets, you may want to talk to a pest control pro to see if they have advice or can solve your problem.



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Wussy.

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Just trying to keep the appearance of professionalism.

We'd give a pest guy a lot of grief for trying to take care of trees.

 

[KyLimbwalker]

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. Hopefully they're honey bees and not hornets. If they ARE hornets, you may want to talk to a pest control pro to see if they have advice or can solve your problem.



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Wussy.

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Just trying to keep the appearance of professionalism.

We'd give a pest guy a lot of grief for trying to take care of trees.

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True. After this thread runs out, let us make fun of SZ.

 

[Blinky]

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True. After this thread runs out, let us make fun of SZ.

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Why wait? Have you noticed that he has no sense of image aspect ratio whatever?


..take THAT Stephan!

 

[easyphloem]

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Have you noticed that he has no sense of image aspect ratio whatever?


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My image aspect is in a perfect ratio. I spend a lot of time aspecting my images to be in such a perfect ratio.

I'm not surprised that you are not nuanced enough to recognize that.


SZ

 

[Blinky]

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I'm not surprised that you are not nuanced enough to recognize that.


SZ

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The hell you say! I'm nuanced, I'm more nuanced than you, your brother or anybody else you might happen to be acquainted with... I'm VERY nuanced.

...and your aspecting could use a lot of work, actually, you need an aspect ratio makeover. Send me your avatars from now on and I'll pimp your ratios along with their concomitant aspects... nuancingly of course.

 

[Blinky]

Re: What do you do if you know there\'s bees in a t

Wait... was this the bee thread?

 

[easyphloem]

Re: What do you do if you know there\'s bees in a t

Where the hell's No_Bivy?





SZ

 

[familytree]

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True. After this thread runs out, let us make fun of SZ.

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Why wait? Have you noticed that he has no sense of image aspect ratio whatever?


..take THAT Stephan!

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You know..... There is a club formed that does this daily. Your more then welcome to join.

 

[easyphloem]

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You know..... There is a club formed that does this daily. Your more then welcome to join.

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Too bad no one ever shows up to the boring club meetings.


SZ

 

[jeffswede]

Re: What do you do if you know there\'s bees in a t

Bees sleep at night,it is easy to get rid of them in all kinds of ways. Get it done the night or two before.
Jeff (bid it in)

 

[treemann]

Re: What do you do if you know there\'s bees in a tree?

I have sprayed expandable foam in the opening of the hive at night and I have had to wear a bee suit before.

 

[knudeNoggin]

Re: What do you do if you know there\'s bees in a t

Speaking of bees.

(Which newly nested nearby, and raised some questions I'd not thought
about:
1) How does a swarm navigate--all to the new place (and esp. the
queen)? (Asked one bee guy but he didn't know.)

2) Just read one book-review (re bees) poster's assertion that it was
shown that the supposed flower-location dance isn't that at all, but
just shaking off pollen (if not navvy-savvy, then do bees tell all?).

3) That these treasured and struggling honeybees are in fact not
native to N.Amer., but were imported long ago (like the house finch
--not a true "sparrow"-- & starling)!?)

voici attach'd pic -- me, poking the (very retreating, then) bees!

*kN*

 

[knudeNoggin]

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Here's one taken w/flash one warm night,
so there was a big crowd out at the lower
half of the 20"? opening to the tree (which
shows hard whitewood immediately within,
on which the bees crawl up and around to
surely some bigger space). Bee guy had in
fact checked the tree, and guesstimated 30k
or so.

On a cool night it was quite impressive to feel
the HEAT being emitted at the BOTTOM of the
slot (where the bees tend to congregate), not
at the top (heat rises, so it must be some special
fanning of the bees).

*kN*