Honey Bees in House

frankenyoter

frankenyoter

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It just keeps getting better... I have recently started having honey bees in my windows, buzzing around lamps, watching tv, etc. Not many of them, just a few a day. I fear they have moved into my house and set up shop. Haven't been able to confirm this assumption, but is seems they enter the house near the window adjacent to my wood stove. It is a north/east facing wall. Later to day I plan on getting a stethoscope from CVS and getting my detective on.

Has anyone experienced something like this? What was the course of action? I have been reading up on it. It seems if you can manage to kill the hive, you still have a rotting honey comb to deal with. This may lead to ants, rodents, etc.

I have had quarterly pest control for years. They don't cover bees. Kinda pisses me off.

I don't know the extent of the infestation, but it is there.

I am trying not to perform an all out drywall removal and create another unplanned project, but I'm not scared of it either. I

I have a 7 month old daughter and I need to keep her safe.
 
Call a bee keeper. If they are honey bees they might want them or get them out for free.

Might be worth a shot.

Honey bees are usually docile.
 
we had them living in our basement once. We dont use the basement too much and didnt notice till they started getting in to the upstairs. There were a ton of them down there, but I cant remember exactly what we did with em. I think they had an obvious nest set up that we sprayed down. I lived in an apartment 3 years ago that became overrun with wasps, only in my room though. They were getting in through the vent in the bathroom. Had people come out over and over to spray but since the vent wasnt the main entrance, it didnt stop em for long. I ended up duct taping the entire vent closed.
 
:poop: canned the old pest control company. Contacted Terminex. They take care of bees. Super nice folks and they will be able to meet me today around 3. Giving them the quarterly pest control contract as well. Got my fangers crossed, hope it works.

As for a bee keeper, I tried that earlier today. They can do it, but don't this time of year since there is no food for them and most likely the hive will die. My response was I don't care what happens to them I just need em gone!
 
I am cheap. But I don't care at all to pay an extra fee to get rid of them. Can't have it around my daughter. Wife says she has killed almost 30 today. Needless to say the girls left the house for a while. At least it is warm and nice outside!
 
Your honey bees are watching TV????
 
I had a problem with honeybees. Exterminator told me honeybees are protected; it is against the law for them to be destroyed and that I would have to call a bee keeper. I called a bee keeper. Long story short, I took care of it myself.
 
Well I met Termimix yesterday. Come to find out they were "solitary bees" which are a little smaller. I had been burning some locust firewood and they were in it. The firewood was warming up and the bees would emerge. o_O

Very professional folks. The District Manager and tech met the wife and I on time. I changed my quarterly service over to them and will most likely switch termite too. The tech was there for almost 3 hours and did a very complete job. He was even flipping over some split rail I had stored in the yard to make sure there was nothing to be concerned about. Treated my shop as well. He gave me his cell number in case I ever had some hornets or yellow jackets anywhere on the property, even my chicken coop.

What a relief...
 
I've wasps comin in my bedroom. Built a nest in between the windows. Took care of that one and still had them comin in. Turn out a nest in the attic area and they were comin in under the eaves of the house. Lots of wasp killin spray took care of it.
 
glad you didn't resort to killing honey bees. I can't tell by your avatar where you are exactly but if your close and ever do have a honey bee problem I'd come get em for free. I'm starting on bee keeping, several generation in my family have kept them and my uncle keeps and make honey off of about fifty hives. He's got several blue ribbons from state fairs for his honey harvest.
 
frankenyoter said:
Well I met Termimix yesterday. Come to find out they were "solitary bees" which are a little smaller. I had been burning some locust firewood and they were in it. The firewood was warming up and the bees would emerge. o_O
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very interesting. my buddy has had the same thing happen to him recently. we didn't know what kind of bees they were. I'll pass this along to him. I wonder if solitary bees are the same as Arbor Bees... off to google I go.
 
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