When I first spotted this hive it was much smaller and I checked it a number of times and but never found any bees near it so I let it go. Now when we step out on the deck one usually dive bombs us as a warning shot and then they leave us alone. The hive has grown to about twice the size and there are wasps coming and going all day. They run around this thing in a clockwise direction while others fly inside for a few seconds and then they take off. Who knows what goes on inside this thing. I know I have to deal with it before it gets out of control so I’ve been thinking about mounting the garden hose machine gun style onto something and turning it on from a distance and blasting this thing into oblivion.
We had ground bees last summer in the front and we let them go until someone told us that could die if they got stung so had to deal with it. I pounded there holes with a sledge hammer, hosed the heck out of the whole area and they just kept coming back. They dug new holes and must have hooked up with underground community because they would not be run off. They were there until the ground froze.
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good luck
I’ve done a lot of battle with bees over the years. It’s always fun. The underground bumblebees are the toughest. If you can’t get rid of them, Wes Fox is your man. He’s got the special concotions and knows how to use them…..
Good luck with that hose thing- could you video it please? Make a good blog post.
I hate ground bees- you have to mow the lawn at night.
Could you please stop mowing your lawn at night? We can hear it all the way across town.