>I can stand within 3 feet of
>where they are entering and exiting, and they will ignore me.
Why not leave them as they are maybe they'll bring you good luck
>Of course I don't want them on my property.
Why not what harm are they causing?
>I called a couple of beekeepers and they said they would be glad to come
and kill them -- for
>$250.
What kind of goddamn beekeepers want to kill honeybees? Those are not
beekeepers, maybe they told you that. Those bees are in the boxed in
****tions of your eaves. They're easy to remove with damage caused. All the
bees and their combs can be removed and relocated to a hive with frames. I
do it for $200.00 and up.
>I'm trying to be environmentally friendly on this I know that bees
pollinate, etc, etc and
>don't really want to kill them.
You're to be applauded for this attitude unlike the so-called beekeepers.
>But what else can I do? Killing them out may be my only option
Forget that, you can't really 'kill them out' unless you go in and remove
the comb. Besides you should consider this: when you poison the bees you
poison yourself and your family. Cancer rates in this country [USA] are
approaching 50% in an average lifetime, [rhetorical question] what do you
think is causing this: it's pollution.
>...since I'm a good 15 miles from really open country.
Bees don't thrive in 'open country' in fact bees kept in sizable towns are
doing much better than bees kept in flying distances of agri-business
concerns. I remove a lot of bees from properties in and around Amarillo
and
Canyon Texas I can assure you the bees are healthy and doing well in
these
somewhat 'artificial' environments.
>If I drive them off, they'll
>just take up residence in somebody else's home.
You cannot drive them off without killing them, they have made comb and
have
brood and they're busy building up more. Try to consider yourself lucky
and
live harmoniously with them. Plant a cantaloupe vine in your backyard and
watch how many cantaloupes you get. As you have not stated where you live
it
is possible you will never have the concerns over Africanized honeybees
they
do in places down south and parts of Arizona. If this is the case I would
think you have less concern of being attacked by these bees than being
killed driving around in your car. It's like Texans, the sonsa*****es have
to kill every Rattles**** they see but statistically you're more than 700
times likely to be killed by lightening than a Rattles**** bite. Reason
doesn't come into it, it's something more primitive than that.
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