antoniahk
New Bee
- Joined
- Oct 18, 2011
- Messages
- 22
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- Location
- Hong Kong
- Hive Type
- Other
- Number of Hives
- 2
(I'm in Hong Kong, dealing with Asian Honeybees)
Having a bit of a panic - we brought our new bees and hive home just over a week ago and the bees seemed perfectly happy when we looked at them on Saturday. Today the hive is almost empty of bees, the remaining ones are angry, and an old tree stump (outside our house, on a busy path) is covered with bees. There has been no obvious swarm, but the bees seem to be going into the tree truck. Problem is that if they stay there someone will call pest control and they will be killed. Is there anything we can do? Can we chuck water on the tree to try and get the bees to leave and move somewhere safer (even if not back to the hive, there are other places they could move to without being sprayed and killed)? It's our first bees...
Any ideas? Thanks!
Having a bit of a panic - we brought our new bees and hive home just over a week ago and the bees seemed perfectly happy when we looked at them on Saturday. Today the hive is almost empty of bees, the remaining ones are angry, and an old tree stump (outside our house, on a busy path) is covered with bees. There has been no obvious swarm, but the bees seem to be going into the tree truck. Problem is that if they stay there someone will call pest control and they will be killed. Is there anything we can do? Can we chuck water on the tree to try and get the bees to leave and move somewhere safer (even if not back to the hive, there are other places they could move to without being sprayed and killed)? It's our first bees...
Any ideas? Thanks!