How do you get rid of bees?

Colleen Cerny
by Colleen Cerny
  3 answers
  • Why? They are pollinators in the garden. You need them and should be thankful they are there. Anyone allergic should just have an EPI pen handy. Bees don't sting unless threatened. Leave them alone and they just go about their business. We have a serious bee shortage globally and should do what we can to keep them around. I specifically grow certain plants just for the bees.

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    • Exactly! Many beekeepers will come remove a hive for free or at least low cost. And are a friendly lot, and typically love to educate others on their role in the ecosystem. I had an issue once and called my local honey farm and they came and helped me, and were grateful that I called them and didn't want to harm the bees or use chemicals. Not everyone has a beekeeper down the road, yet easy to do a Google search to find one.

  • Kd Kd on Oct 06, 2019

    Call a bee keeper we need to save as many bees as possible

    NO BEES NO FOOD🐝

  • J. Jacobs J. Jacobs on Oct 06, 2019

    Many people call yellow jackets bees. They need to educate themselves. Honey bees, mason bees, and bumble bees will generally mind their own business...they

    die if they sting you so there's nothing in it for them

    Yellow jackets however like to make pests of themselves and sting you for no reason and keep on stinging as it doesn't kill them. However they are food for many birds so do serve some purpose and they also clean up carcasses of dead animals. There

    are many ways to keep them down to a minimum including soda bottles with a bit of soda, beer or juice put in the bottom to pheromones hung away from your property that will attract them. Cooking meat always attracts them. They are veracious carnivores.

    If you have a honey bee nest (look on the internet to see what they look like) there are usually local people who will come and be more than happy to remove them.