honey bee question

[JB3]

ive got this problem with a new place im moving into. The previous owners were bee keepers, and some time between then and now, the bees moved their queen and hive into a crack in board along the roof, and essentially I have a hive up there thats thriving partially in the attic.

I don't want to just try and kill them because of this world wide die off going on with bees in general. Is there any way to move the nest without huge disruption to them?

[tbomachines]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9zTbxVuQ0I

I feel like you might like this

[elchivito]

There are professional bee keepers who can remove and relocate the hive without hurting them. Some beekeepers will do it for nothing, others charge. In either event, you get the honey.
I had a big hive in my barn for years but had it moved finally, it was doing damage and I'm allergic to bees. You don't want them in your attic. You might find someone listed in your local directory or ask your county's agricultural extension agent.

[JB3]

Originally Posted by tbomachines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9zTbxVuQ0I

I feel like you might like this

lol, thats all I need to have happen

The realtor did admit that one day over the winter he found hundreds of dead bees in the bedroom. Now we know why, must have died when they couldnt find their way back through the house to the attic hive. This is a problem id like to not have.

[JB3]

Originally Posted by elchivito

There are professional bee keepers who can remove and relocate the hive without hurting them. Some beekeepers will do it for nothing, others charge. In either event, you get the honey.
I had a big hive in my barn for years but had it moved finally, it was doing damage and I'm allergic to bees. You don't want them in your attic. You might find someone listed in your local directory or ask your county's agricultural extension agent.

Good call, after reading this I looked up to see if there were any local honey bee people, and there are at least a dozen that will come and remove the hive and "swarm", then take to their bee farm. The damage to the house will be worth getting them out of here

We also have at least 30 black locust saplings planted by the previous owner to facilitate the honey bees.

Ill see if the bee people want any of these young trees as well, that are thriving. Im planning to remove all of them.

[Botnst]

After you get them out you must completely seal all possible reentry points because the aroma of the honey and hive will attract other bees to take up residency.

[cmac2012]

^ Not to mention bears.

[Skid Row Joe]

One way to deal with a nuisance bee hive in the out-of-doors, is to blast it with high pressure water, then run the fallen bees over by repeated passes with a car's tires.

[JB3]

Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe

One way to deal with a nuisance bee hive in the out-of-doors, is to blast it with high pressure water, then run the fallen bees over by repeated passes with a car's tires.

this is actually a major problem, the die off. Just think of how many plants use bees to cross pollenate.

Honey Bee Die-Off Caused By Multiple Factors Including Pesticides | Blog, News & Notes | BillMoyers.com

[spdrun]

Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe

One way to deal with a nuisance bee hive in the out-of-doors, is to blast it with high pressure water, then run the fallen bees over by repeated passes with a car's tires.

You'd do this to environmentally helpful, generally harmless creatures? BTW, my family's neighbors in the country are beekeepers. Here's a picture of their hive swarming in a tree...

The brown thing is a mass consisting of thousands(?) of honeybees surrounding a queen bee.

[Botnst]

I rasied bees back in my return-to-the-land hippie days. I really felt sort of privileged when bees started recognizing me as "hive". Or maybe "non-threat". My bees were racists?

[John Galt]

Two widely used neonicotinoids -- a class of insecticide -- appear to significantly harm honey bee colonies over the winter, particularly during colder winters, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The study replicated a 2012 finding from the same research group that found a link between low doses of imidacloprid and Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), in which bees abandon their hives over the winter and eventually die. The new study also found that low doses of a second neonicotinoid, clothianidin, had the same negative effect.

... other studies have suggested that CCD-related mortality in honey bee colonies may come from bees' reduced resistance to mites or parasites as a result of exposure to pesticides, the new study found that bees in the hives exhibiting CCD had almost identical levels of pathogen infestation as a group of control hives, most of which survived the winter. This finding suggests that the neonicotinoids are causing some other kind of biological mechanism in bees that in turn leads to CCD.

The study appears online May 9, 2014 in the Bulletin of Insectology.

"We demonstrated again in this study that neonicotinoids are highly likely to be responsible for triggering CCD in honey bee hives that were healthy prior to the arrival of winter," said lead author Chensheng (Alex) Lu, associate professor of environmental exposure biology at HSPH.

[elchivito]

Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe

One way to deal with a nuisance bee hive in the out-of-doors, is to blast it with high pressure water, then run the fallen bees over by repeated passes with a car's tires.

Yeah, there you go.

[Txjake]

get a beekeeper. they can help. don't kill honeybees

[daw_two]

I was a beekeeper a long time ago. I should post a pic of my most successful honey crop. I had as many as 4 or 5 hives as I recall.

Don't kill the honeybees. As has been posted, a local beekeeper will probably remove them free of charge. The beekeeper will want to keep all the honey that is in the house.....he will cut the comb and tie it up in the frames. It's usually a whole day process to remove bees from a wall. I've done it. Give the beekeeper free reign to remove boards as necessary. At nightfall, all the bees should go into the hive he placed on a ladder or platform near the current opening.