O.T. bee hive

flying belgian · Aug 14, 2016

So one of my renters calls. Bee hive in tree right outside her front door and her daughter is allergic to bees. She said it is about the size of a basketball. This house is right in middle of town. Asks me what she should do. Call fire dept.?, call police? I told her I don't know if you need to do anything. They will probably be gone in a day or two. She then calls both pd and fd which told her they couldn't do anything. So she called pest control and they told her she needs to have owner of house call them tomorrow. This is a new one for me. Am I responsible for having that hive removed and how would you even do it?

JDNewbie · Aug 14, 2016

Call a local beekeeper.

David G · Aug 14, 2016

It is your property.

A lot less hassle than getting sued for negligence.

Steve@Advance · Aug 14, 2016

Is it a hive or a ball of bees?

If it's just a ball of bees, they will move on.

If it's a hive the size of a basket ball, that didn't get there in one day!

There are bee keepers that will come get it, but they charge a fee. If you do have a hive, and call to have it removed, be sure to call a bee keeper, not an exterminator. The exterminators have very misleading ads out there, be careful.

Dick2 · Aug 14, 2016

Yes, you are responsible for removing the bees. Call a beekeeper; he might removed the hive for no charge just to get the bees. Some beekeepers might want to charge you - it varies.

old · Aug 14, 2016

Sounds like a simple swarm and the best thing to do is find a local bee keeper and if it is not to late would be happy to take care of them. But good chance that it is a swarm that is moving some place and will not hang around for more then an hour or 2 unless the tree is hollow. Back many many years ago my dad loved it when he got a swarm call we would head out as fast as we could to get another hive set up. Now dayd a good swarm if worth over $100

TomA in CA · Aug 14, 2016

It is a swarm. A hive is a box they live in. Once established they become a colony.

flying belgian · Aug 14, 2016

Oh, I need to add, this is on the city boulevard tree. Technically not my tree. The city planted it maybe 10 years ago. They took out a dizeazed one and put this one in. Does this change responsibility?

caseman46 · Aug 14, 2016

I doubt that they are bees-they usually swarm in the spring. To many people any insect that is not a butterfly must be a bee. What your renter describes as "it" is probably a hornet or yellow jacket paper nest that are often round, gray and hang in trees,hidden by leaves. The insects spend all summer building their nest never noticed by anyone until fall when leaves die and drop.. A beekeeper won't be interested in saving hornets. Here is an easy plan to remove nest (if that is what they are).
1. Get aerosol can of insecticide from garden or hardware store.
2. Enlist brave person to spray contents up into hole at bottom of nest ( after dark-all occupants will be inside). This should kill them all. These nests a saved by many to adorn their office, store or den.
If to be saved, gather large plastic garbage bag and lift up and around and over top of branch from which nest hangs (like putting a pillow slip onto pillow) and clamp shut with clothes pins or spring clips.
3. Remove limb with prune shears, store everything for several days so that everything is dead. I have removed a few and not gotten stung.

old-9 · Aug 14, 2016

NO Problem Just call these guys. Bee Busters, hope you don't need to save the tree.
hornets nest gone

Billy NY · Aug 14, 2016

If its a white faced or bald faced hornets nest, you had best be careful, they can and will fly at night. There is always a sentry near the nest, get that pheromone on you from one sting and you will be in a world of....!

The one good thing about them is they are not aggressive when left alone, you can stand in their flight path, and they'll go around you. Bump that nest, well see the link below. Right at 1:58, that's one place you don't want to be !

Given the situation, and the potential like in the video, its too close and needs to go, just use some care when contemplating how to do it.
White Faced Hornet

Bonnan · Aug 14, 2016

By all means, locate and call a local bee keeper. If it showed up in a one day they are valuable honey bees. google local keeper etc.

RobCons · Aug 14, 2016

Just had a honey bee swarm in a neighbors yard. Late in the year but they will still do it, establishing a new hive this late they probably will not be able to put up enough honey to overwinter. Try searching on line for a bee keepers association in your county. One of their members will come get them. Have to be quick, they are searching for a new home so they will probably leave in the shortly.

K Effective · Aug 14, 2016

Just today, I noticed some kind of flying insects around the kitchen window. Sure enough, they are entering and exiting a small hole in the mortar between two bricks right on the window trim. Have not gotten close yet, but they are really small, mostly yellow. Not black like bald faced. Will take a picture of one to try to identify them. Wishing for honey bees, expecting wasps of some sort. We found wasp nests inside the walls back when we remodeled.

Spudm · Aug 14, 2016

My neighbor just died from a bee sting. He was in a peach orchard. The memorial was today....

K Effective · Aug 14, 2016

Spudm- was that Kalvin Higbee? My wife told me today he passed from a bee sting. Tragic.

47fivewindow · Aug 14, 2016

This may sound overly redneck, but when we were 20 something our elderly neighbors discovered a paper hornets nest in a about 30 feet up a tree outside their front door. They were terrified. Four of us loaded up our 12 gauges with #8 birdshot and on the count of 3, cut loose. No surivors

Richard from SE AZ · Aug 15, 2016

I have been fighting bees for a week. First, they were trying to hive in the part of the shed, room attached to the garage, shop. Indoor bug bombs solved that. Next they were hiving between the walls in another shed. Water laced with malathion poured into the wall from the top at dusk took care of that. Then they tried to hive in three different spots under our home at three different times. Kept splashing them with water malathion mix and at dusk, sprayed insect spray into the areas underneath the house, took care of that. Then they tried another part of the back shed. Same process took care of that. OH, during these times they swarmed in large clumps on three different trees. A bucket of water, malathion mix got rid of most of those. Haven't seen any for a couple of days. ALL the bees in this area are Africanized. A couple of years ago, a couple about 1/2 mile from our home that had a large hive in a shed and that they had been ignoring were attacked, The woman died.

ss55 · Aug 15, 2016

Unless the tenant did something wrong to bring in the pests (fleas, cockroaches, rats, etc.) it is the landlord's responsibility. If you haven't bothered to look at it yet, I would follow up with the pest control company ASAP before the excited tenant has your tree cut down.

1948CaseVAI · Aug 15, 2016

It is your property and it is a hazard. Why in the world would you think you are not responsible for having the hazard removed? If she discovered an open cistern or well would you question your responsibility?

It makes NO difference that it is in the city "parking" (as it is called, although you cannot park there).

sotxbill · Aug 15, 2016

If it is indeed a city planted tree on the city right of way... it does make a huge difference. BUT.. you need to tell the city that it is on a city tree in a city right of way. They will not respond to a report of a swarm on private property as they have no responsibility or way to handle it.

Either way a bee keeper would love to have the swarm....

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