The neighbours have been doing some landscaping in their back garden for the past couple of weeks. When they started digging out the garden they disturbed a bee hive that was underground, behind their garden wall.

 

They weren't very pleased but seemed to move on without a lot of fuss.

 

Guess where they've found a new home.......

In my fookin chimney FFS :headvswal

 

Noticed a couple of bees drop down over the past few days but thought no more of it. Got a call at work today, saying I'd better get myself home, as half a dozen had just dropped in to the living room from the chimney.

 

What do I do?

 

I put the gas fire on full tits, to see if the heat would chase them. After a couple of hours I turned it off.

Half an hour later, they started dropping again.

Not huge numbers, maybe about another half dozen.

Fookin big ba^tards as well mind you, they look even bigger when bees aren't you favourite insect. :D

 

Just a bit of a pain when you have two small children in the house.

:eek: :wack:

Bumble bees are no threat whatsoever...

Please remember that all kinds of bees (and many other insects) are valuable for pollination. Never destroy them needlessly.

Source: Environmental Health

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my mum and dad had bees nesting in the loft for years, bee keepers woulod come and remove them but for some reason they kept coming back.

 

oNE DAY THEY SWARMED INTO THE HOUSE THOUSANDS OF THEM EVERYWHERE, VERY DANGEROUS, I WOULD GO get the yellow pages and ring any beekeepers or look on the net for some local ones, they will be able to tell you what to do and will more than likely be willing to try and sort it out for you.

Tell them to Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz OFF........... :slap:

You could have saved yourself £20 by just shouting up the chimney I'm a mod "YER BARRED" :D

to quote a very famous film "the trouble with bee hives is it's full of bees, so if we cant flush them out we'll breed them out" could give you hours of fun :D

Good news on the Bee front:

 

Got a pest controller out yesterday and he reckoned the Bees were Bumble Bees and not Honey Bees.

He said if they were Honey Bees, I'd be lloking at between 30 and 50 thousand, whereas Bumble Bees live in very small colonies, more like 100 ~ 200.

He sprayed a shit load of powder down the chimney and told me to keep the fireplace sealed up for 3-4 days.

Only charged me £20 as well, so that could have been worse also.

Suppose all I can do now is wait and see what happens.

chances are mate iff they where nesting at ground level they will be bumble bees and anyway i dont care how protected they are iff theres kids about they have to go

;) (post 7)

I know this post is a bit late but, have you contacted your council?

They removed two wasp nests from my house/loft a few years ago and it cost me nothing.

 

It might be worth at least giving them a call.

 

Cheers - Dave

Ive got wasps inbetween the tiles and the felt of my garage, they are not inside the garage. Anyone know if the council will still remove them? I heard they have stopped doing it now.

Ive got wasps inbetween the tiles and the felt of my garage, they are not inside the garage. Anyone know if the council will still remove them? I heard they have stopped doing it now.

I rang the council, as in our area they still do this sort of thing FOC.

However, as soon as I mentioned the chimney, they said NO.

They said they simply haven't got the funds or the eqipment for this sort of job. All they do is remove hives from gardens, trees etc.

sorry did i read that right, £30-£50 THOUSAND :shock:

 

lol 30-50,000 Bees in the coloney

Ive got wasps inbetween the tiles and the felt of my garage, they are not inside the garage. Anyone know if the council will still remove them? I heard they have stopped doing it now.

you can either put up with them for 1 season as wasps migrate after 1 season or call the council and depending iff they deem them a hazard they will remove or you can try yourself with a couple of cans of spray,iff you can get the chemical into the middle of the coloney via a length of 15mm copper pipe then you will kill the nest,as stated in a earler post ime getting these fvkers all year from april to october being a roofer and have become a bit of an expert :D

ps,this years wasp count has been very low on account of the cold damp weather but that usually means they last well into late aut or even earlly winter iff its a mild one again

Tell them to Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz OFF........... :slap:

 

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Best advice yet!

 

You could try wrapping yourself in a net curtain and getting in there with a fly swatter! :D

 

Bumble Bees usually nest in holes in the ground but having said that I once got them in a bird box in my garden.

 

Did you know its a scientific fact that aerodynamically a Bumble Bee should not be able to fly, but they definately do LOL

my advice - go down your local plumbers merchants and buy a smoke bomb - light it under them and goodby bees

 

regards,

 

alex