How do I safely remove a bees' nest from my house?

[Tapster]

I have a bees' nest in a storage room to which I need access. The nest is at the door and if I walk past there are a lot of bees showing interest, so (reluctantly) I have decided to remove the nest.

 

The nest is approximately the size of a soccer ball and there are hundreds of bees all over it. At night they seem to sleep in a massive huddle on the nest with none of them flying around.

Therefore, I think it's best to spray the nest at night with some sort of insecticide, run away quickly and come back the next night to check it and maybe spray again.

 

What's the best insecticide readily available from HomePro?

 

What's the best technique for killing the bees and removing the nest?

 

In an ideal world, I'd much prefer not to kill the bees but I know that a pest company will kill them all anyway, and I don't have the bee suit, nor the skills to move the nest.

 

Thank you for any helpful suggestions.     ????

[sometimewoodworker]

If you live in a village, ask around and there will be someone who will do it for you 

Edited May 1, 2019 by sometimewoodworker

[Tapster]

Thank for the reply.

 

I live in Phuket and there are many firms here who will remove it for me.

 

I was hoping to save some money by doing it myself.    ????

[Kinnock]

If they are honey bees, a local beekeeper (if you can find one) will remove it for you.

 

[colinneil]

Insecticide? why we need bees in  this world, many parts of the world having problems due to the lack of bees.

Get out ask your neighbours, one of them will surely sort it for you.

Last year we had a bees nest on our balcony, wife asked a local man, 5 minutes job done.

[Kwasaki]

The nest that was in our shed we got rid of by smoke, they have to have a way out.

[bankruatsteve]

If it has honey in it (some wasps make honey), for sure there will be a village bloke who will take it away at no charge.

[tifino]

a couple of aerosol cans... not insecticide, but some super tacky spray.

I have used 3M CraftSpray - works perfectly

 

simply envelop the nest in a deluge of the tacky mist

any bees trying to evacuate, to enter... will all immediately be stuck to the nest, to each other

nothing escapes

 

the nest over the following hours will get very large! and will continue so, until there aren;t any free bees left

 

through all this, feel free to keep sparying even more

 

 

and when you have finished... this 3M stuff burns quite well

[Chrisdoc]

Why do you want to kill them. As someone suggested light a small fire in the room and the door open they will probably fly away. If not find a local person who will take them .

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[jvs]

Make sure thy are honey bees,if so no need to remove them they will never attack you.These small honey bees are very docile.They will move on in time,we have nests here often.

Some other poster mentioned already get a Thai to take them if you want to have them removed,

If they are wasps then you may want to remove them but without using anything poisonous.

[NotYourBusiness]

I've seen Thai guys smoke a cigarette and blow the smoke over the nest, and after a few minutes of that, move it fearlessly. Give it a try before killing them.

Edited May 1, 2019 by NotYourBusiness

[JWRC]

No need to kill them, try what the other posters have suggested regarding smoke and/or someone to remove them. I can never work out why people just want to kill everything.

[mike787]

call the Thai navy ????  if they can remove a "seastead" they can remove a beestead...????

[Tapster]

Thank you everyone.

????
So the "local guy" option seems best.

 

I'll see what I can do regarding local help. It sounds like it's quite a common problem so maybe someone will do it for me.

 

Leaving the nest where it is isn't an option. We're clearing out the store room and there will be a lot of human activity. Even docile bees won't like that.

[sammieuk1]

The safest way I found was to get someone else to do it????

[Golden Triangle]

Please do not kill the Bees, I can understand your problem ref the storage room, but when the world has no Bees left we will have no food basically.

 

Please try these people or Google Bee keepers in phuket

 

http://travel.khiewchanta.com/archives/phuket/big-bee-farm-phuket.html

[Lacessit]

Call a beekeeper. Next.

[Tapster]

@Golden Triangle

review of Phuket Bee Farm:

 

Review of Big Bee Farm

Reviewed 17 December 2015

We are UK beekeepers so were really looking forward to going here. 
Firstly they were surprised we were there on our own and not as part of a tour. This seemed to throw them a bit. So they allocated is a guide who after a brief stop at the bees tried to take us straight to the shop. But we wanted to see the beehives. 

They keep Italian bees which are incredibly docile. They have two hives neither of which were set up to produce honey. Plenty worker bees no male drones. Well we spotted one to the surprise of our guide, who immediately despatched it. 
No brood that we could see there was a queen not marked. 
When we eventually went to the shop I asked for honey produced there at the farm. I thought maybe they had working hives in another part of the grounds. I was told no only honey from other places in Thailand. 

Interesting if you like honey. But as a beekeeper disappointing.

 

I've Googled Phuket beekeepers, etc. and there's nothing. I'll look locally.

[Just Weird]

39 minutes ago, Chrisdoc said:

Why do you want to kill them. As someone suggested light a small fire in the room and the door open they will probably fly away. If not find a local person who will take them .

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"...light a small fire in the room..."

Brilliant suggestion.

[bankruatsteve]

Chances are they are not bees but rather the small wasps that seem to be everywhere.  They will build nest in the strangest places and are usually not aggressive. BUT, if you happen to get in the way (like fanning your hand) they give a real bitch of a sting.  My wife managed to step on one and got jabbed.  The swelling and pain goes away after a day or two but very not fun.  FYI:  simple bug spray will wipe out the nest in minutes.

[Puchaiyank]

Please take some before...and after pics of the event...not of the bees nest...but of you...????

[eyecatcher]

Its my understanding that they move along very quickly and look for a new place to build.

I had a swarm on the move looking for somewhere new, in my gardening cupboard literally 1m from my front door.

We were in a bit of a panic thi king they had set up inside but after two hours they were off to pastures new

[Tapster]

This is the nest.

 

It looks like they're staying for a while!

 

 

[dotpoom]

As they were often heard to say in the old "Wild West" movies...."smoke 'em out".

[Pogust]

That is Apis Cerana, the asian honey bee. They are wery flighty and will move out by themselves if you make it uncomfortable for them there. Use smoke, some old rag that's smoldering will work. Move slowly and deliberatly around them and they will not sting you. No fast movements, especially not against them as they will feel a threat. They will all abscond to a better location in a swarm when they realize your house is a bad place to stay. Then you can eat the honey :-). But take all comb away at once when they left or you get a big ant invasion...

[sometimewoodworker]

15 hours ago, Tapster said:

This is the nest.

 

It looks like they're staying for a while!

 

 

I had better not show that to SWMBO as she would want to get it to eat.

 

all you need to do is tell the village that it's there, show them the pictures, tell them they can have it and you will have to fight the volunteers off with a stick

[1FinickyOne]

My father in law rolls a big cigar and blows a lot of heavy smoke at the nest and then takes it down... but, yes, let someone else do it... 

[dinsdale]

Thais think it's good luck to have a hive in your house.

[RBOP]

If they are honey bees a local bee keeper will take them for free. Don't be tricked into paying someone. 

[Tonyt00]

If they are the small honey bees, they wont bother you, and actually, they bring good luck! At least that is what the wife says. Anyway, they dont bother you, if you dont bother them. There is enough poison in Thailand, dont need to spread more. Some members here, even want to kill Geckos, the most harmless animal in Thailand!