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What does the term “bee control or removal” mean? The action of eliminating and/or addressing a bee infestation is referred to as “bee control or removal.”

Let us go over this in more detail.

When individuals discover a swarm or colony of unwanted bees on their property, they frequently seek the services of a beekeeper, pest control firm, or bee removal company to remove the swarm or hive. So, what does “bee removal” entail? A bee removal can be done in a variety of methods and with varying degrees of success.

Ways:

    1. Attempting to complete the task on your own. Depending on the size and age of the hive, you could be dealing with anywhere from 10,000 to 60,000 stinging bees. When dealing with an established honey colony in a structure, hiring a professional bee control or removal firm or an experienced bee keeper is the safest and best option to get rid of bees. Removing honey bees from a structure is time-consuming, involves a great deal of expertise, and can result in a lot of stings if done incorrectly.

    A one-week-old bee hive in the floor joist with 20,000 bees.

    1. To get the bees to go, use soap, water, and other “deterrents.” These are ineffective at persuading honey bees to leave their current hive. Even if you’ve only spotted the bees for a day, it’s unlikely that you’ll be able to persuade them to leave.
    2. Spraying the entry point with three or more cans of wasp or bee controller or killer. Although spraying the entry hole may kill a few hundred bees, the majority of the nest (up to 60,000 bees or more) is inside, hidden between insulation, walls, and floorboards. The chemical will most likely not reach far enough back to harm the bees. Even if you killed all the bees, there could still be a lot of honey comb and bee larva in the nest, which will cause a mess unless it’s removed.
    3. Seal Access Point

    Seal the access point for the bees and handle bee control. All this does is bee control from freely coming           and going. Outside, you won’t see bees, but they’re still alive and well, with plenty of food and air to last           a long time. The bees will start hunting for new methods to escape. They will frequently begin to enter               the house. We’ve observed bees stay in a house for over 8 weeks after their access point was sealed up.

    1. Try to get rid of the bees by smoking them out. This has been tried before and failed. Beekeepers who work with their own home hives will enjoy smoking bees. Smoking bees in a house, on the other hand, frequently drives them deeper into the house. Another issue with attempting to smoke bees out of a house is that it is potentially deadly. You do not want your house to catch fire. I saw a burned-out shrub against a house, which had been destroyed by someone attempting to smoke out bees in an overhang above it.
    2. Remove the honey comb, kill the bees, and restore the access area. Isn’t it true that the mission was completed? Certainly not. The pheromones left by the original hive will attract new colonies in the future unless the area is adequately sealed. It’s extremely likely that bees will return. When the bees returned to one residence for the third time (in around 5 years), the homeowners chose to hire Southeast Bee control or Removal instead of removing it themselves. Southeast Bee Removal, by the way, offers live honey bee removal and relocation as part of their services and recommends attempting to save the bees as a first option.

Prevention and Bee Control

During the winter, bees will try almost anything to keep alive. They’ll break in through every small opening they may locate in your house. Here are a few things you can do to keep bees out of your house or company.

Make certain that all entry points are sealed. Look for any flaws or gaps in the screens. Remember to check for rotten areas under your siding, under your windowsills, and in your attic.

Remove anything that emits a nice aroma that attracts bees. The more chances you have to get them to leave your house, the better.

Bees like sugar, especially in the fall, so if you have any juice or soda sitting out, dispose of it ASAP. Bees are less likely to try to enter your home if you maintain it clean.

Trash and recycling must be disposed of properly. Keep bees out of your outdoor trash cans by covering them with a lid.

Removal of live bees (without pesticides)

This method of bee control or removal can be deceiving. Although the bees are technically taken alive, this does not always imply that they will survive. Unfortunately, some people in the industry deceive the public by claiming to undertake live bee removal when they don’t genuinely save the bees. Shop vacuums are frequently used by these businesses (or vacuums that are not modified to be gentle). Regular vacuums have the disadvantage of injuring bees as they are drawn up into the vacuum chamber. Only a small percentage of the bees survive, which means the colony will eventually die out. These businesses are not deceiving the public in any way. Although it is technically a live removal, it is far from compassionate.

Removal of live bees (capture and release)

The third sort of bee control or removal is when the bees are removed alive in a compassionate manner, but they are not necessarily cared for or looked after afterwards. Companies that handle this type of bee removal frequently lack a suitable location for the bees to be placed. Maybe it’s because they don’t have enough land or room to build hive boxes. These companies take the effort to humanely extract the bees, but then illegally dump them, typically on someone else’s land.

Live Bee Removal (with Relocation)

This sort of bee control or removal involves a company or bee expert not only humanely removing the bees, but also relocating them to a hive box. In other words, the bees are not deposited in an unplanned or illegal manner, but rather in a designated area, ideally in a bee hive box. The difficulty with this method of bee elimination is that it leaves the bees without enough food and water. To control aggression, they are frequently not re queened. To put it another way, they are simply left to their own devices to develop or thrive. There is no effort made to secure the colonies’ existence. Although this sort of bee removal is preferable to the previous two, the following type is the one that everyone should look for when looking for a humane bee removal firm.

Removal of live and humane bees (including relocation and care)

The final form of live bee control or removal is concerned with long-term sustainability. It is the purest type of bee elimination that is both live and humane. The bees are taken alive and in a compassionate manner in this sort of bee removal. Bees are then brought to an apiary, farm, or beekeeper to be looked after. They are cared for in this scenario (usually at least bi-weekly). The beekeeper will inspect the hive on a regular basis to ensure the colony’s health. Most people imagine this when they think of live bee removal, but it is unfortunately not very frequent in the bee removal industry.

In this way you can easily handle bee control.

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