20 years ago, a colony made a nest at the external side of my window. As I
was a young boy at the time I much enjoyed it watching them through the
glass of the (closed) window. My mother was suggesting to spray them dead,
my father insisted on finding a beekeeper to catch it.
Luckily, my fathers decission was carried out, we caught the swarm, put it
in a hive at our garden, and there it was.. Year by year, they gave me new
swarms and I now try to keep five of them (used to have 10 but it was too
much work for a non-beekeeper by profession) that give me more honey that
I
can eat.
"Wayne W" <wayne1932@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:GdMek.29494$co7.17147@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I live in a suburban area and I have a swarm that has set up housekeeping
> in an low hanging area of my roof. They are apparently very
> domesticated, they are not overagressive, I can stand within 3 feet of
> where they are entering and exiting, and they will ignore me.
>
> Of course I don't want them on my property. I called a couple of
> beekeepers and they said they would be glad to come and kill them -- for
> $250. I told them I can do that for free. I'm trying to be
> environmentally friendly on this I know that bees pollinate, etc, etc
and
> don't really want to kill them.
>
> But what else can I do? Killing them out may be my only option since
I'm
> a good 15 miles from really open country. If I drive them off, they'll
> just take up residence in somebody else's home.
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