Bees in our electric fireplace. Please help!?
For days, bees have inhabited the exterior portion of our electric fireplace (the place that says Hot Caution!) Today, they managed to come to the interior part of the electric fireplace. They cannot come into the living space of the house because there is a glass covering.
I don’t know what to do…please help!!
5 Responses
Irv S
08 Feb 2010
Spunk
08 Feb 2010
leave that fireplace on allll night and roast them alive.
as Bear Grylls would say… "Bees are an excellent source of protein!"
tim m
08 Feb 2010
start it up for a few minutes.
Adam
08 Feb 2010
turn it on and burn them out or around dusk spray the crap out of them with be spray.
mike p
08 Feb 2010
Locate the hole they are using to fly in and out of. Turn on heat and have the end of a shop-vac secured at he location where the bees are comming in and out of. When you got as many of the bee’s traped as possible, plug up suction line of vac. Move bees to another locaton.
Cycle the fireplace on & off quickly to make it a bad nesting place,
and cause them to leave, hopefully taking the queen along
so you don’t kill the colony. They are used to dealing with fire, and
have an instinct to evacuate in the face of smoke and heat.
If you can find the entrance they’re using blow smoke into it,
or into the front of that fireplace.
Ordinarily, I’d say just spray them and plug the entrance they’re using,
but bees are threatened recently, (Colony Collapse Syndrome),
and ecologically valuable, so try to evict them without destroying the colony.
A local bee-keeper, if you can find one, might be happy to ‘adopt’ the colony, removing it for you.
He has the skill and equipment.