Death to the bees.

Noones offered any way to rescue my shed from the bees, and I've done
loads of searching on t'web with still no idea. It's got so bad now I
can't go in the shed without "being encouraged to leave".

What with the wasps keeping me out of the pool as well, I'm getting well
pissed off.

They'll all just have to die.

 

just smoke 'em out of your shed.

And make some honeytraps for the wasps.

In A.'s lesbo friend's Finca a few miles south of your place, she'd
arrange a few can-get-in-can't-get-out pots around with (literally)
honey[1] in them, which were full of dead and dying wasps, but we
weren't bothered by them.

[1] this is an in-joke, that you can't get, but I'm mentioning it
because it amuses *me*

 

Right. I'll have a go at that. I'll try and find some hessian or summat,
damp it down and probably end up buring the entire contents of the shed.
Trouble is, it's *full* of stuff I want to keep. Including the pump and
lots of electrics.

Tried that last year with expensive wasp bait. They ignored them. Haven't
tried with honey though, but I have a suspicion that you may be talking
about some non-standard "honey". Thing is, the wasps are here for the
water in the pool. They even ignore beer! Although I did have to spit a
bee out once last year.

Perhaps your friend will come and help?

 

Corrugated cardboard is what you want

 

Preferably the stuff that hasn't been treated with fire supressant. SWMBO is
doing a bee keeping course and they told her a lot of cardboard nowadays is
treated.

--
Malc

Rusted and ropy.
Dog-eared old copy.
Vintage and classic,
or just plain Jurassic:
all words to describe me.

 

Did you see my post? Did you check if they are Mason Bees? If so, any
reason why you can't leave them alone?

Why not encourage them to move on, by getting a wooden fence post or two
and drilling holes into them.

 

The number is increasing. They go in looking like bumble bees and come
back out looking like Kate Moss. When I go in the shed, they seem to get
agitated. Their presence doesn't bother me per se, but I'm worried that I
might upset them accidentally and then they'd all attack. I see not much
use for the pressure washer for a good while.

Oh, also there's another colony under my work vise, so I can't use that.

Perhaps next year. Also, the only shade on my patio is in the shed. I
assume that's why they're in there.