Bee hive smoker - looking for one to borrow
Posted by Vicki Mercer on October 3, 2019, 8:10 am
Does anyone have a bee hive smoker I can borrow? I need to get rid of a hive. I want to smoke them out and then remove the hive. | ------------------Re: Bee hive smoker - looking for one to borrow
Posted by Vicki Mercer on October 3, 2019, 8:11 am, in reply to "Bee hive smoker - looking for one to borrow"
Should have provided my email. Mercer.vicki@gmail.com | ------------------Re: Bee hive smoker - looking for one to borrow
Posted by Patrico on October 6, 2019, 10:39 am, in reply to "Bee hive smoker - looking for one to borrow"
Vicki be careful.when you smoke a bee hive the bees don’t all leave.they will stay and try to remove honey or protect the hive.They will become calmer and can be brushed back onto the hive so the keeper can remove honey from the hive.if it’s a wild hive they no place go so they remain with their food source and protect the queen.Wild bees are much different than domestic they can get very angry. 2913985 | ------------------Re: Bee hive smoker - looking for one to borrow
Posted by Debbie W on October 6, 2019, 1:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Bee hive smoker - looking for one to borrow"
Thought Civil Defense would remove them. The same folks who burn the grasses before rainy season and give us beach guards. | ------------------Re: Bee hive smoker - looking for one to borrow
Posted by Vicki on October 6, 2019, 9:37 pm, in reply to "Re: Bee hive smoker - looking for one to borrow"
I understand they will come and kill them. My intent was to give them a chance to live. | ------------------Re: Bee hive smoker - looking for one to borrow
Posted by Vicki on October 6, 2019, 9:34 pm, in reply to "Re: Bee hive smoker - looking for one to borrow"
Thanks. I smoked them out by holding a lit egg crate carton under the hive for about an hour. It was a small hive. I put on protective clothing and a hat with a see-through scarf draped over my face and neck. After smoking out as many as would emerge, I stuck the smouldering carton into slots in the hive. I did not think I had succeeded because I expected more bees to emerge. But it seems I did succeed. Later that day, my husband went up to spray the hive with chemicals before he knocked it down. He did not see bees and thinks I had rendered the hive no longer attractive. He saw a few dead bees but not many. My objective was to get the bees to vacate and build their hive elsewhere. Perhaps they were able to do so or perhaps they died. The world needs bees. They are disappearing in many places and the situation is considered to be disastrous for agriculture. However, a Mexican friend told me yesterday that there are more bees in La Manzanilla now than there were before. It would be great if anyone knows a local beekeeper for people to call on to capture bees when they build hives in places that are hazardous to people. If that is not a viable option, people will be inclined to kill the bees.
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