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Ground bees (help)

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#1 ·
Best way to kill ground bees that are under the deck. :(
 
#11 ·
If they are bees, call a beekeeper and they will remove them. If they are wasps, then if you can get under the deck, find the hole and mark it. Come back in the evening with a window screen and boiling water. Put screen over the hole and then pull hot water into the hole.

If you can't get under the deck, you can just try to flood them. soak the area and it will eventually collapse their nest, killing the queen inside.
 
#18 ·
If they are bees, call a beekeeper and they will remove them. If they are wasps, then if you can get under the deck, find the hole and mark it. Come back in the evening with a window screen and boiling water. Put screen over the hole and then pull hot water into the hole.

If you can't get under the deck, you can just try to flood them. soak the area and it will eventually collapse their nest, killing the queen inside.
They are bees not wasps.

I can get under there, but don't know how fast I can get out if they attack......:sonicjay: so I am not going under there.
 
#50 ·
ORLY? Cause I got these big mammer jammers nesting in my front yard.

All I had was some wasp and hornet killer so I sprayed it into the opening of their hive. There are now a dozen of them at the hole in the ground but not going in. I thought they only lived in wood.
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#20 ·
What I did to kill the nest I had in my yard is this.
1. During the day very slowly and cautiously place a stake marking the entrance hole so you can easily find it at night.
2. Then in the middle of the night slowly walk up and cover the hole with a clear Tupperware container or clear glass bowl. Whatever you use must be clear.
3.Seal around the edge of the bowl with dirt or sand so they can't just crawl under it.
4.Let it set for a couple weeks and the colony will be dead.
If there is more than one entrance you will have to cover them all and leave it covered longer because the hive is obviously big. What happens is since the bees can see daylight they don't realize they are trapped so they won't dig their way out and eventually die of starvation.
 
#35 ·
I did this for some yellow jackets or hornets or wasps or whatever they are that created a nest in the wall of my house. They want $250 for one trip out!

I bought powder of boric acid and have been shooting it into the opening of the hole over the past 3 nights and the hive is dying. Not dead totally dead yet but that's only because I can't get the powder directly onto the hive.
 
#31 ·
Do you have a block foundation? I remember as a kid having 'giant helicopter sized bees' living in the ground. In reality, their nest was in the block , one course down into the ground, and 3 blocks high in total. The opening for their nest was a couple feet from the house, underneath some shrubbery. I remember my old man had to remove the shrubs, and cut some holes in the sill plating to apply their medicine.
 
#44 ·
I combined ideas this morning.

Identified location of all holes yesterday when they were active. Three holes within a ten foot diameter area. Marked locations with sticks. Set out a full can of foaming insecticide and a gallon of old gas for predawn assault.

Set alarm clock for 5:30am. Got up, suited up with jeans, boots, coat, bandana over face, hat, and gloves. Grabbed my wife's three favorite Pyrex glass bowls. Recovered liquids of mass destruction from garage.

Located holes in the dark, initially covered all holes and observed for a minute. No activity, but I could see "guards" in the two largest holes. Put a third of a gallon in each hole and recovered. Observed for another minute, nothing. Capped off each hole with a third of the can of spray. Left covered for the day. I can't wait to get home tonight and see the carnage.

The body count coming in and out last night was astonishing. Easily 50 per minute, but they were not coming out at the same pace. I'd love to dig it up just to see it, but I'd rather just put more gas down the pipe and light it.
 
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