Bee Swarm
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Thanks for all the really helpful advice....
So yesterday I left the aircon going full bore on its coldest setting thinking that if I make it uncomfortable for the little buggers they might just fuck off.
Got home to a massive increase in volume and about two dozen dead bees (definitely not wasps) Somehow the cunning little fuckers have worked out how to crawl through the aircon unit.
Grateful though I am for all your input - no I haven't seen Snowy, but I expect he will appear on out TV screens soon - I have done some other online research and it appears I am fucked.
Beekeepers are keen to collect swarms but not when they have nestled in a wall cavity.
Exterminators are the only option but they favour the rip the wall off to get at the little fuckers approach.
I'm going away for a few days so might try and cool them down again.
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@dogmeat back to the nuke from orbit option bro. Stink news about the update though, hope you manage to sort it without too much hassle. No doubt paying someone to clear them out will sting a bit
I reckon you should give @Kirwan a hollah, if he can duck, dodge and ummm, duck some Wasps he should be all good to take out some bees for ya.
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Thanks for all the really helpful advice....
So yesterday I left the aircon going full bore on its coldest setting thinking that if I make it uncomfortable for the little buggers they might just fuck off.
Got home to a massive increase in volume and about two dozen dead bees (definitely not wasps) Somehow the cunning little fuckers have worked out how to crawl through the aircon unit.
Grateful though I am for all your input - no I haven't seen Snowy, but I expect he will appear on out TV screens soon - I have done some other online research and it appears I am fucked.
Beekeepers are keen to collect swarms but not when they have nestled in a wall cavity.
@Paekakboyz hell no.
Why won't they take them, out of interest? Does that leave you with having to exterminate them?
I got birds stuck nesting in my passive air system in the roof, that was carnage cleaning that up. The guy that had to get up there and clear out the dead birds was stuggling not to vomit for most of it. Ended up replacing a lot of it too.
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@Kirwan beeswarm.co.nz says that once they get inside a cavity they are no longer swarming but are effectively a hive
They have a link to a recommended exterminator which they say is probably the only practical option. I have made contact.
I do have a lot of bees at my place as I have flowering trees most of the year
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@Kirwan wuss!!
But yeah nah, I started watching my Dad and our neighbour kill off a MASSIVE wasp nest down the back of the neighbours section about 25 years ago (fark me!!). I swear it was about 2m long and nearly 1m wide - my brother and I were keen to watch then noped the fuck out once shit got real.
ha ha our neighbour would have gotten along with @jegga really well I reckon. Lots of gasoline and whoosh!! oh, and heaps of running away too!
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@Kirwan beeswarm.co.nz says that once they get inside a cavity they are no longer swarming but are effectively a hive
They have a link to a recommended exterminator which they say is probably the only practical option. I have made contact.
I do have a lot of bees at my place as I have flowering trees most of the year
I know this is a silly question, why not just leave them there? You (someone with experience)could collect the honey once a year
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@Kirwan beeswarm.co.nz says that once they get inside a cavity they are no longer swarming but are effectively a hive
They have a link to a recommended exterminator which they say is probably the only practical option. I have made contact.
I do have a lot of bees at my place as I have flowering trees most of the year
I know this is a silly question, why not just leave them there? You (someone with experience)could collect the honey once a year
They tend to damage buildings they make their hive in and I guess access to the comb is next to impossible inside a wall .
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They are getting in underneath a weatherboard through a gap of about 7mm. Try getting honey out through that. I reckon the board eased off when the aircon was installed.
Plus you can hear them all the time moving around - like a crackling noise. Now they've started getting inside the room so they are clearly in the guts of the aircon. So noise and potential damage as jegga says with absolutely no upside.
If it is possible to remove them without killing them that would be my preference for sure but they are becoming very intrusive
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You know if this house mysteriously burns to the ground in a dodgy insurance scam we are all potential witnesses..
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They are getting in underneath a weatherboard through a gap of about 7mm. Try getting honey out through that. I reckon the board eased off when the aircon was installed.
Plus you can hear them all the time moving around - like a crackling noise. Now they've started getting inside the room so they are clearly in the guts of the aircon. So noise and potential damage as jegga says with absolutely no upside.
If it is possible to remove them without killing them that would be my preference for sure but they are becoming very intrusive
Completely understand!
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You could just leave them . If left untreated , verroa mites will kill the swarm in a short period of time .
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Only slightly related to this thread, when I was a kid I was sick one school night so my Mum let me stay with her in the lounge rather than lie in bed by myself. She was watching a drama (it was kind of Little House on the Prairie style era but not that show) where one of the characters got killed by a bee swarm. That, was the scariest thing I'd ever seen in my life - it haunted me for years, way more than seeing Omen when I was waaaaay to young to be watching it. Oddly, it never translated to me being afraid of bees in real life, just the memory of that when I was trying to go to sleep.
Well, that was a good therapy session.
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@Paekakboyz said in Bee Swarm:
@Nepia you should avoid watching My Girl then!
Hahaha, I saw that and it didn't bother me too much, must be due to Culkin's punchable face.
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Anyone else been caught in a bee swarm? It's happened to me twice which from I understand is pretty rare. First one I was a young kid flying a kite with my old man on a rugby field and this swarm came through, he just told me it was really important that we just stay calm close our eyes and mouth and wait for it to pass very strange experience hearing thousands of bees flying around you. The second was at my grandparents when I was early teens, I managed to get inside for that to watch the whole thing thousands of bees, banging into the windows, freaky stuff. Thank Christ those fuckers are dying off eh!
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@Rembrandt aren't you meant to lay down or something. Was it an NZ ODI or test match overseas when a swarm crossed the field? You did well to stay still, that'd be terrifying!
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@Paekakboyz think it's been mentioned before, but Wasps are cnuts, most pointless organism on this planet!
Thats big, the ones I have dealt with were about 1.5ft by 1ft, and that was scary enough, they will chase you if you piss them off enough.
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