How to get rid of bees in a wooden house wall

Bees are beneficial insects. But not all people are happy when a wild family builds a hive in the wall or in the attic of the house. It will be interesting to find out how to solve the problem, if something like this happened.

Bees in the wall of the house

Wood bees most often equip their homes within the walls of the house. It is very difficult to drive these insects away. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to follow the recommendations of those who have previously encountered a similar problem.

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Before looking for an answer to the question of how to get rid of bees in the wall of a wooden house, you should make sure that we are talking about these insects, and not about wasps or hornets. The methods of dealing with them differ significantly.

You should start looking for a way to effectively smoke bees from the wall of the house at the end of the winter season. During this period, it will be easier to do this, since the size of the colony is minimal.

Bees in the wall of the house

Starting measures for the expulsion of bees, a number of self-defense measures should be taken:

• do not smoke near the hive;
• do not drink alcoholic beverages;
• do not use perfumery products with pronounced odors (it is better to give up perfume and cologne altogether);
• wear tight, light-colored clothing;
• put on a protective mesh over your head;
• put gloves on your hands.

If ordinary bees build hives in secluded places and various recesses in the wall, removing the bees will not be difficult. It is enough in the evening (when insects are inside the hive) to remove the hive, pack it in a tight bag and throw it away (it is better to burn it).

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It will be much more difficult to get rid of the so-called tree bees. These insects got their name due to the fact that they make the honeycomb of their inhabitant directly in dead wood, where they cut through complex multi-level nests with a huge number of cells, in each of which the larva will then develop.

When planning to get rid of these insects, it will be helpful to know a few important facts about them:

• only female wood bees sting, their injection can be dangerous to health - in fact, you should definitely seek help from a doctor;
• bees should be disposed of as soon as they were discovered, otherwise the wooden house will suffer significant damage due to the violation of the integrity of the array;
• the reproductive system works well in wood bees (one sexually mature female is capable of reproducing 6 thousand larvae during the warm period).

Effective methods

When it comes to wood bees settling in the walls of houses, the standard methods do not work. There are several methods that can help expel insects from your home walls.

Play loud music with quality bass

Practice has shown that the best way to get bees out of the walls of a wooden house is associated with sound vibrations. The tree bee is incredibly sensitive to noise. In some cases, in order for the insects to fly away and never return, it is enough to turn on loud music with high-quality bass in the immediate vicinity of their place of residence.

If the described event did not work, you can hang up sticky traps for flying insects. This method will be effective exclusively for single fishing.

You can resort to "heavy artillery". Guaranteed to eliminate insects by injecting gasoline or carburetor cleaner into the hive.

As a more fire safe option, you can try to control bees with boric acid, carbaryl, or other special pesticides.

Bees under the roof

Bees under the roof

If the bee family has settled under the roof of the house, you can drive and remove the bees in one of the following ways:

1. Early in the morning, before the bees scattered about on business, in full outfit (beekeeper's suit, mittens), carefully lower the nest hanging under the roof into a bucket of water. Insects will wet their wings, and they will not be able to fly away. As a result of the described actions, the whole family will completely die. Despite the fact that the method is quite effective, it is very dangerous, therefore, personal safety measures should be given the utmost attention.
2. A similar popular method of getting rid of a bee hive under a roof involves using a plastic bag. The difference with the previous method is that this technology is somewhat more humane. The bees placed in the bag remain alive. If they are not killed (drowned or burned), then, if desired, the insects can be released far away from the site.
3. If the nest is located directly under the roof covering or in some other hard-to-reach place, you can try a tool such as polyurethane foam. In this case, the most important thing is to make sure that all the entrances and exits to the hive are completely filled with foam. After the composition hardens, the bees will die from lack of air.
4. If not so much the roof as the attic has suffered from the dominance of bees, the question of how to get the bees out of the house may have a very simple answer - with the help of an ordinary household vacuum cleaner.
   

   Ordinary household vacuum cleaner

   The procedure is also recommended to be performed in the morning in order to catch the whole family in place. This is done as follows: the pipe of the household appliance is directed into the nest, the bag with the bees is carefully removed. What to do with the bees next (kill or release), each homeowner has the right to decide individually.

Conclusion of bees from a wooden house with folk remedies

The owners of wooden houses are most often affected by wild bees. Insects often choose human dwellings to build hives. Since a similar problem existed centuries ago, there is a sufficient number of effectively working folk methods to expel unwanted neighbors. Some of them are especially noteworthy.

So, for example, if the nest is on the facade of a building, but goes outside, it is usually fumigated with smoke. To do this, you should purchase or make a smoker. Grass, wood chips, paper are put into it and set on fire. Exposure to smoke causes bees to have a natural instinct to leave their homes and save honey. When flying away, insects, as a rule, press the sting to their abdomen, thereby depriving themselves of the opportunity to sting a person. It is recommended to carry out such work in the evening. After the bees leave the hive, to be sure, it should be burned or covered with boiling water.

Abandoned hive

To prevent the bees that have settled in a wooden house from flying into living quarters, cloves or peppermint should be laid out in the rooms (you can also use aromatic oils with the listed aromas, which can be found on sale without any problems). These smells scare off bees, they will try to stay away from their sources.

The described methods will quickly solve the problem of how to most effectively get rid of bees in the house.

Bees on the balcony

Bees can occupy not only private wooden dwellings, but also standard urban apartment buildings (although, in fairness, it is worth noting that wasps are still more common in urban settings). Here they often choose loggias and balconies as a place for a hive. Such roommates do not please either the owners of the balcony or their closest neighbors. After all, the likelihood that bees will fly through open windows into the apartment is very high. As a result, the question of how to quickly expel the bees from the balcony turns out to be relevant.

Bees on the balcony

Burning nests in this case would be a violation of fire safety requirements, therefore the most appropriate and reasonable method is to seek help from the appropriate department of the sanitary and epidemiological service. Professionals will cope with the task in a short time and rid the balcony of unwanted insects.

If the hive is located in a place that you can easily reach on your own, you can try the method with a vacuum cleaner or a plastic bag. But in this case, it is not recommended to show humanism and try to safely deploy the bee family to another place. Better to kill the swarm right away. Otherwise, in the absence of experience with bees, the likelihood of being bitten is too high. Perhaps, if you are surrounded by beekeepers, you can delegate the issue of resettlement of bees to them.