Whats the best way to keep bees off your fruit trees? Neem oil?

Just to step out on a limb here.....may I ask why would you WANT to keep bees off your fruit trees? Without them pollinating, you won't get any fruit. they won't harm your fruit at maturity, but birds certainly will. If you tie reflective tape or ribbon with long enough tails on each end to flutter with the wind, it will help. Also, putting an owl decoy amongst the branches will also deter The rascals.

Seriously ,fruit trees need pollination.No bees no fruit

Yikes! Bees pollinate your fruit. You do not want to harm them.

Agreewith above comments.

Not sure the author is talking about pollinators. We have yellowjackets and wasps that eat our plums, pears and apples. Perhaps author is trying to keep those pesky out of her fruit.

Navymom, please describe the look of the "bees". You sure want bees to pollinate your fruit trees, but maybe you are talking about wasps that eat your fruit ?

neem oil to keep beatles off fig tree

Not bees then. Those are wasps!

Seriously how many people on here have had a fruit tree. Yes we like bees to pollinate we don't want to kill them, except maybe the yellow jackets, but once the fruit begins the bees start devoring the fruit. Yellow jackets mainly. Its a good question to ask, I have had nearly a whole crop destroyed by bees, they bore a hole into the apple and just keep going.

Everyone I know that has apples has the same problem, most of them just have a lot more apples than I do. I'm so frustrated with watering and spraying all year, and as soon as I stop spraying in preparation for harvesting, the bees are already having their way with my apples!