Bees in chimney
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See if you can locate a bee keeper near your area.
Jon P
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Look on Facebook for local small holder’s association, may be local bee keepers on there. The trouble with bees, if they start making combs / honey - even when they have gone , more will arrive due to remaining scent. We have bees removed from a wall of stable block annually by local bee keeper as new swarms keep arriving.
John Gryphon
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Chimney? Light a fire.
Worried about wax melting and igniting and catching chimney alight
John Gryphon
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A reduced fire, with lots of smoke. They will move.
Len the dog
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Go down to your local allotments and ask around, there is usually a beekeeper or two on most sites.
Overlay
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No easy fix mate
See how far they are down, usually between 2 and 10 bricks down if you strike lucky - scaffolding up get a bee keeper / brickie and reduce bricks to colony place combs in 3-4 buckets that will tell you where the queen is, clean of any residue in the chimney, the ones out foraging will disappear over a few days, brick all back up and make doubles sure you have no access points left
One point to make sure of is that they are not using the out of use stack as a main entry point into a roof void check from inside out
If you are not going to use the chimney anymore EVER get a queen bee excluder fixed on top in stainless if she can’t get in nothing else will go in either
You can’t just kill them off and leave the comb in situ with insecticide other bees are great robbers and will come and clear it out and there’s your secondary poisoning factor which is a great concern over to bees just dying out and then the cause found by insecticide
In certain circumstances you could destroy and to be still within the law seal it in 100% but as it breaks down that 100 pound of water will or could cause a secondary problem
Best way - organically remove brick up and seal find a home for the colony, occasionally you get a good en you can keep if needed using cleaning type biocide after removal to further attracted smells to the area
If you could wait until the colony is at its lower head count in the end of the main time spring into summeron a warm day would be probably the best good luck
See how far they are down, usually between 2 and 10 bricks down if you strike lucky - scaffolding up get a bee keeper / brickie and reduce bricks to colony place combs in 3-4 buckets that will tell you where the queen is, clean of any residue in the chimney, the ones out foraging will disappear over a few days, brick all back up and make doubles sure you have no access points left
One point to make sure of is that they are not using the out of use stack as a main entry point into a roof void check from inside out
If you are not going to use the chimney anymore EVER get a queen bee excluder fixed on top in stainless if she can’t get in nothing else will go in either
You can’t just kill them off and leave the comb in situ with insecticide other bees are great robbers and will come and clear it out and there’s your secondary poisoning factor which is a great concern over to bees just dying out and then the cause found by insecticide
In certain circumstances you could destroy and to be still within the law seal it in 100% but as it breaks down that 100 pound of water will or could cause a secondary problem
Best way - organically remove brick up and seal find a home for the colony, occasionally you get a good en you can keep if needed using cleaning type biocide after removal to further attracted smells to the area
If you could wait until the colony is at its lower head count in the end of the main time spring into summeron a warm day would be probably the best good luck
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John Gryphon
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Smellydog
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John, put that video of you killing them wasps filmed from your truck with the window down, the end bit is hilarious and I still chuckle to this day...
devon deer stalker
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Overlay
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Yus
Unfortunately it comes with the job SD. ive got one roofer/ brickie who is the only one who will come up on a roof with me, his PPE I supply is better than mine, I’d be stuffed without him he’s a diamond builder turns his hand to anything
I never get silly over access scaffolding staircase with platform all round for work and easy escape if it goes tots up
You get somewhere with shock a ladder ain’t gonna help him
John Gryphon
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This one?John, put that video of you killing them wasps filmed from your truck with the window down, the end bit is hilarious and I still chuckle to this day...
Smellydog
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Yeah, where did they get ya?
John Gryphon
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I dont think that time resulted in a sting. Another time filming one got me on the thigh the dirty ****ing little ****.I got the fright with the bastard in the ute with me.
Siggy
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^^^ what he said is spot on - its a job for a professional and it ain't going to be cheap. soz
N
No it really isn’t. Soz
John Gryphon
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Yep.
