Bee Swarm
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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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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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@Nepia you should avoid watching My Girl then!
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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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@taniwharugby BIOMASS OF PESTS IN SOUTH ISLAND BEECH FOREST
(Grams Per Hectare)
The coming swarm | New Zealand Geographic
Every summer, a plague of wasps gathers, ruining picnics, harassing trampers and disrupting ecosystems. Wasps outcompete bees for food, costing New Zealand about $130 million each year in loss of honey and pasture crops. Where wasps abound, biodiversity suffers: butterflies disappear, songbirds...
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On a related note I suggest you mofo's check out the Brave Wilderness youtube channel
Dude with the pretty lame name of Coyote Peterson gets purposely stung by the nastiest fuckers on the planet. While his name is lame this guy rocks cast iron nuts. His pain tolerance must be off the charts, some of the things that have bitten and stung him would kill lesser folk!!
Definitely think this guy is into some kind of BDSM kink lol, although he'd be earning sweet coin with 13 million subscribers!!
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@Paekakboyz said in Bee Swarm:
On a related note I suggest you mofo's check out the Brave Wilderness youtube channel
Dude with the pretty lame name of Coyote Peterson gets purposely stung by the nastiest fuckers on the planet. While his name is lame this guy rocks cast iron nuts. His pain tolerance must be off the charts, some of the things that have bitten and stung him would kill lesser folk!!
Definitely think this guy is into some kind of BDSM kink lol, although he'd be earning sweet coin with 13 million subscribers!!
My eleven when through a phase of watching this guy, thought he was hilarious.
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@Paekakboyz said in Bee Swarm:
@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!
I think so, I was pretty young at the time like maybe 7 years old. Must have been terrifying for the old man, from memory he just wrapped himself around me and kind of crouched down, at that age I was pretty well versed in what a bee sting felt like so when dad said how important it was to remain still I listened.
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@Kirwan I love how he can manage live commentary when he's pretty much dying of pain. I can see why kids would absolutely love watching him!
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@Paekakboyz said in Bee Swarm:
@Kirwan I love how he can manage live commentary when he's pretty much dying of pain. I can see why kids would absolutely love watching him!
He's nuts, I was panicking with just a 100 or so around me.
