Bee's Nest - How Do I Get Rid of it?

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My mom’s garage has a active bee’s nest on the top of the garage facing the entrance. It’s up very high and hard to reach. What’s the best way to get rid of it?

Do I…

Get a long pole and try to knock it down and run?

Spray it with a hose to try to knock the nest down and run?

Get something from the hardware store and spray it and run?

What’s the best way to handle it and not get stung?

Thanks.

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Are you CERTAIN they are bees? If so, google “beekeepers” and your town or county and someone will likely come and get it. Bees are good valuable creatures and the beekeeper will be glad to have them.

If it is wasps or hornets (far more likely), call a pest control company and have a professional handle it. Do not spray it or hit it unless you want a kajillion stings.
 
kage_ar said:
Are you CERTAIN they are bees? If so, google “beekeepers” and your town or county and someone will likely come and get it. Bees are good valuable creatures and the beekeeper will be glad to have them.

If it is wasps or hornets (far more likely), call a pest control company and have a professional handle it. Do not spray it or hit it unless you want a kajillion stings.
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If it is wasps you can get some of the spray that shoots like 20-25 feet and hit it, but WAIT UNTIL IT IS DARK. Wasps do not fly at night. If you spray it during daylight, yes, you will get probably get stung, but not so if you wait until dark.

google.com/images?q=tbn:PidCkDp0U8oUCM::www.cirrusimage.com/Hymenoptera/paper_wasp_nest_.jpg If it looks like this, it is a wasp nest. Get some wasp and hornet spray that shoots far.
 
Whatever you use, be very, very careful

Wasps and Hornets nests are gray and paper like. Use a chemical spray from about 10 feet or so (most have the distance listed on the container) and then get the heck out there.

Wear long pants, a long sleeved shirt, take all dogs and little kids inside. Spray it and run like your being chased, because you will be.
 
Rascalking said:
Whatever you use, be very, very careful

Wasps and Hornets nests are gray and paper like. Use a chemical spray from about 10 feet or so (most have the distance listed on the container) and then get the heck out there.

Wear long pants, a long sleeved shirt, take all dogs and little kids inside. Spray it and run like your being chased, because you will be.
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This is true ONLY if you spray during they day. If you spray after dark, you will not be chased. Wasps do not fly after dark.
 
I am thinking about waiting until night time and driving up to the side of the garage in the car. Then holding a hose outside the window of the car, get a good hard stream going, then aiming it at the nest for a few seconds hoping it will fall to the ground, then dropping the hose and roll up the window to the car right away.

Do you think this is a good idea or not? Will it work?
 
PLAL said:
I am thinking about waiting until night time and driving up to the side of the garage in the car. Then holding a hose outside the window of the car, get a good hard stream going, then aiming it at the nest for a few seconds hoping it will fall to the ground, then dropping the hose and roll up the window to the car right away.

Do you think this is a good idea or not? Will it work?
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I don’t think it will work. Those wasp nests are glued on TIGHT. I seriously doubt water from a hose will, even with a hard stream, will be strong enough to knock it down. Just get the hornet spray and be done with it. And I repeat…they WILL NOT fly at night.
 
PLAL said:
I am thinking about waiting until night time and driving up to the side of the garage in the car. Then holding a hose outside the window of the car, get a good hard stream going, then aiming it at the nest for a few seconds hoping it will fall to the ground, then dropping the hose and roll up the window to the car right away.

Do you think this is a good idea or not? Will it work?
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don’t use water; it will not kill the wasps or hurt the nest and will just seriously tick them off. There is a really good chance you will get stung if you spray them with water hose.

Go to the hardware store and buy some good wasp spray and stand about 10 ft away and shoot them. The wasp spray kills them in about a second and then knock the nest down with a broom. Trust me I do this all the time 👍
 
PLAL said:
My mom’s garage has a active bee’s nest on the top of the garage facing the entrance. It’s up very high and hard to reach. What’s the best way to get rid of it?
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How long as the nest been there?

I ask because sometimes, bees temporarily colonize in one spot for a few days, and then the swarm moves on. In these cases, it’s best not to do anything. My folks had a swarm that lived in one of their front yard trees for 48-72 hours, and then poof! Gone.

If it’s been longer than a few days, I agree with Kage_ar… Call a beekeeper and/or pest control company. 👍
 
Unlikely water will knock it down - unless you have one serious heavy duty pressure washer sprayer. A hose won’t do it. Even with a pressure sprayer - you won’t kill them.

Night time and appropriate spray… Or call an exterminator…
 
dontknow said:
Unlikely water will knock it down - unless you have one serious heavy duty pressure washer sprayer. A hose won’t do it. Even with a pressure sprayer - you won’t kill them.

Night time and appropriate spray… Or call an exterminator…
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The reason the water plan is bound to fail is because of a disturbing lack of fire in that plan.

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I work very good with bees, they don’t bother me much. I like to even pet the bumble bees since they’re so soft. Honey bees are soft too, but they hold still for me. Smart thing to do would be to call animal control and let them handel, especially if it’s a large nest. Now I would probably just knock it down, but only because I like doing risky things like that. 😃

Wasps on the other hand are really agressive, they’ll chase you down and sting+ bite. This is from experience. I always spray them with Wasp spray. Works from several feet away and kills pretty fast.
 
Call a professional! Where I live, they are likely to be Africanized “killer” bees. I would never take them on alone!
 
I guess we still don’t know whether they’re bees or wasps?

If they’re bees, try to find a beekeeper. One of them will gladly remove the whole swarm for you, and without killing the bees, which are useful. I have captured them myself, and it’s pretty simple if you know what to do.

If they’re wasps, those long-range sprays will do. The best wasp-killer, however is gasoline. Wasps will live long enough to fly off and sting you if sprayed with wasp killing insecticide. If they’re hit with gasoline, they just freeze where they are. If it’s up high, though, delivery of gasoline is a problem. If it is up high, the long-range sprays will do just fine. I have hit wasp nests with those, with gasoline and even with short-range sprays. With the sprays, they fly off randomly, and if you back up quickly, you’re extremely unlikely to get stung.

But again, I would want to know whether they’re bees or wasps. One very clear indicator is the numbers. Bees swam in the thousands. No wasp nest I have ever seen holds more than a few dozen. Hornets are more plentiful, but they build those paper nests very quickly, which are distinctive. In any event, hornets come nowhere near a swarm of bees in numbers. The photo above with the swarm on the swing set is clearly a swarm of bees. They clump like that in a ball around the queen.
 
Catholic90 said:
If it is wasps you can get some of the spray that shoots like 20-25 feet and hit it, but WAIT UNTIL IT IS DARK. Wasps do not fly at night. If you spray it during daylight, yes, you will get probably get stung, but not so if you wait until dark.

google.com/images?q=tbn:PidCkDp0U8oUCM::www.cirrusimage.com/Hymenoptera/paper_wasp_nest_.jpg If it looks like this, it is a wasp nest. Get some wasp and hornet spray that shoots far.
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I would second this idea. Wait until dark, then spray. Even though they’re not supposed to fly at night, I would still run like heck afterwards…just in case… 😉
 
So hornets/bees fly at night?

Does it matter if I spray hornets/bees at daytime or nightime?

PLAL
 
Sorry to hijack this thread but I have a wasps nest between the base of a laurel and a wood pile (I live in the UK) would the suggesstions given here help me as well?
 
PLAL said:
So hornets/bees fly at night?

Does it matter if I spray hornets/bees at daytime or nightime?

PLAL
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Yes, it matters. Always spray at night. Never spray during the day. Unless you don’t mind getting stung. 😉
 
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