At the height of the summer period, the vital processes of various insects are activated. The bees belonging to them begin to actively collect nectar from honey plants. Despite their peaceful nature, if their life is threatened or if they choose a secluded place in the garden as a shelter, aggressive behavior towards humans may appear. Therefore, you should know what ways you can scare away uninvited guests.
What are bees afraid of? There are many ways to kill bees on your property. Methods vary from growing herbs beneficial to humans to using specialized toxic substances. The choice should be based on the individual capabilities of the gardener.
The benefits and harms of an apiary located next door
Bees flying to the site from neighbors help cope with the invasion of beetles, caterpillars, flies and other pests that harm cultivated plants.
However, the harm may be more significant, since insects:
- are carriers of intestinal infections;
- feast on fruits and grapes, damaging the harvest;
- they sting people, which is extremely unsafe, since if there is an allergy to them, a person begins to suffer from headaches, weakness, difficulty breathing and fever.
To maintain friendly relations with your neighbors, you should try to solve the problem peacefully.
Who are they bothering?
Bees in a neighboring area are dangerous if:
- You or your loved ones are allergic to stings. This is truly life-threatening.
- You have small children. Insects do not attack themselves, but through negligence a child can provoke a bite. Roaring, swelling, itching, maybe even fever are not the most pleasant consequences.
- You often celebrate in the garden. Bees cannot stand the smells of alcohol, tobacco, perfume, onions and garlic. To protect guests and the holiday, it is better to hold it away from bee territories.
In most other cases, a bee sting is even beneficial to health; there is an official method of treating bee stings - apitherapy .
Earth bees that have taken a fancy to your garden bed are not dangerous to the crop - they can only bite out of fear when their nest is suddenly dug up.
Carpenter bees damage wooden buildings and walls in the house, conscientiously gnawing labyrinths for larvae, but they bite extremely reluctantly.
Discussing the problem with neighbors and finding a joint solution
Unfortunately, most novice beekeepers do not realize that placing an apiary requires installing high three-meter fences around the territory. This allows insects to gain altitude in flight and, bypassing neighboring areas, go towards flowering fields.
This is why it is important to discuss the problem of nuisance bees with your neighbor and try to reach a compromise. To make the conversation more convincing, you should warn that if the problem is not solved, then bait will be placed around the area. In most cases, such an argument allows you to quickly solve the problem.
Discuss the problem with your neighbors
Enough honey for everyone
The Moscow region authorities decided to create the region's first breeding bee reproducer. “It is being created to breed the most valuable populations of honey bee breeds,” said the region’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Andrei Razin. According to him, the loudspeaker will be based on the consumer cooperative “Bear”, created by beekeepers from Yegoryevsk, Volokolamsk and Kolomna districts. The cooperative plans to have an apiary for 1.5 thousand hives and produce 100 tons of honey per year. Project documentation is currently being prepared.
Humane methods to drive bees away from your property - discuss with your neighbors
First of all, you should use more humane methods to cope with annoying insects and maintain friendly relations with your neighbors.
The question of how to get rid of bees on a property without killing them is often asked by summer residents. The most humane methods of getting rid of bees include:
- construction of a continuous fence along an area whose height exceeds 2.5 meters;
- discuss with your neighbors the change from aggressive to peaceful insects;
- moving hives from the house to a distance exceeding 40-50 meters;
- change of queens;
- planting bushes from the side of the hives;
- raising the hives higher to change the flight path of insects;
- placing hot pepper on the site, which bees really don’t like;
- diluting sugar in jars of water so that when insects fly to the site, they gather in one place.
A high fence is a salvation from annoying insects
An excellent solution to the problem would be to play audio recordings of bird calls for several weeks. This allows you to effectively repel insects.
What smells do bees dislike?
No less effective ways to control bees are presented below:
- The vinegar solution is poured into cut-off plastic containers. For every liter of water you will need 7-8 ml of vinegar. Traps are hung along the fence on nails.
- Bitter almonds , or rather its essential oil, are used to treat scraps of old fabric. The rags are hung on nails along the fence near the apiary.
- What else are bees afraid of, and what smells do they not like? Of course, the aroma of spices ! By planting basil along the fence of the territory, which is used as a spice, you can get rid of the swarm forever. Honey plants cannot stand its aroma.
- You can also plant lemon balm, lavender and mint , which grow quite quickly and are easy to care for.
Measures to protect and prevent bites
What are cows afraid of?
As a rule, a bee sting does not have serious consequences for human health. However, acute pain, swelling and redness cause a lot of inconvenience. In addition, it is possible to develop an allergic reaction to bee waste products (honey, propolis, wax).
Do not crush attacking bees
How can you protect yourself from bees? To protect yourself from bee stings, you should follow some rules:
- Wear clothes that do not have folds that could trap insects;
- Use of light colors of clothing;
- Do not make sudden movements in attempts to scare away the insect;
- Do not crush attacking bees. Why can't you kill bees? The crushed body of a bee releases substances that provoke other bees to behave aggressively;
- It is not recommended to use strong scents of perfumes or shampoos;
- After swimming in a pond, you should thoroughly wipe the moisture from your body;
- If attacked by bees, you should run towards the shelter, pulling your clothes over your face.
A legal way to solve the problem is the rules for placing an apiary
How to get rid of bees in a legal way is a question that often worries summer residents. Before you start fighting bees legally, you should study the Charter of the Gardeners' Association. It is in this document that you can familiarize yourself with the provisions of the rules for breeding and keeping bees.
According to the law, an apiary must be registered regardless of the number of hives on the territory. After registration, the owner of the apiary receives a logbook and a veterinary and sanitary passport. The journal is stamped by a beekeeping inspector, indicating that instructions have been given that allow the beekeeper to provide emergency assistance in case of stings. In the absence of such a seal, you can go to court, having an undeniable advantage.
In addition, the law obliges the owner of the apiary to fence the area with a high fence (more than 2.5 m) and place the hives from the neighboring area at a distance of 3-4 m. It is very important to measure this distance while being in the territory where the apiary is located.
To collect evidence, you should take photos and videos of the apiary, recording the moments of insects entering your area. In the event of an insect attack on you, it is important to consult a doctor as soon as possible, who will examine the fact of the bites and issue a certificate regarding the reason for visiting a medical facility and the health status of the victim.
Next, you should start drawing up an application to the local authorities of the horticultural society in two copies. One stays, and the second goes to the organization. In addition to the application, you should send a copy of a certificate from a doctor who examined the fact of the attack and any evidence of insects entering someone else’s territory.
Extreme but necessary measures - how to poison bees
How to get rid of your neighbor's bees if you don't have the time or desire to do everything according to the law? When bee control methods fail, property owners can take extreme measures. In cases where insects sting and behave extremely aggressively, this method of solving the problem will be completely legal. How to poison bees so that they do not interfere with a full life:
- You can start the fight by using saline solution . Salt, which is more than 2.5% in food, will lead to the death of the insect.
- We build traps from bottles. Filling containers water-salt solution and add honey. Plastic traps are hung along the fence.
- An extreme method would be to use insecticides diluted in water and mixed with 150 ml of honey. For 25 liters of water you will need only 3 ampoules. The toxic mixture is poured into traps that are installed throughout the site.
What else are bees afraid of and how to get rid of them? This question worries many summer residents:
- Of course, anti-mosquito lamps . The principle of operation of the lamps is to emit ultraviolet light, which attracts insects. As soon as a bee lands on the repeller, it receives an electric shock and dies. It is advisable to install several anti-mosquito lamps on the side where the hives are located.
- Ultrasonic repeller . The operating principle of the device that repels bees is to create a magnetic field that repels and kills insects. The repeller operates from an ordinary or solar battery. A significant advantage is the extensive radius of influence. The disadvantage of the device is its high cost.
Best time to fight
Honey bees rarely attack humans , but in some cases there may be periods of aggressive behavior. The optimal time to start a “war” with bees is considered to be the end of winter or the beginning of spring, when insects become active and begin their flight.
Sometimes aggressive behavior coincides with unfavorable weather factors. Maliciousness is also characteristic of certain breeds, so you can use repellents and traps in warm, non-rainy weather, when the flight of insects is especially active.
How to drive away wild bees
Wild bees, wasps and hornets behave very aggressively towards humans, and it is impossible to predict their behavior. If they appear in the yard, it is important to drive away wild insects as soon as possible. Quite often, specialists from a pest control service are hired for this purpose.
However, you can solve this problem yourself. Below are tips on how to kill wild bees:
- First of all, you need to go in search of an insect nest, which may be located on the roof of the house. It is very important to protect yourself by wearing gloves and a beekeeper’s protective uniform.
- Catching a wild swarm should begin in the evening, as soon as the bee colony returns to its nest for the night. It is worth considering that when trying to destroy a half-empty nest, the wild swarm will become aggressive and attack with redoubled force.
- Let's start smoking out the bees. Using a store-bought smoker, we fumigate the room until the swarm completely loses activity.
- We treat the nest with a large number of chemicals such as Mosquitol, Dichlorvos and Actellik.
- After a day, the treatment is repeated. The nest is thrown out into the street and set on fire.
Bees flying into a property become a real problem for the property owner. However, don't panic. It is best to start solving the problem by talking to the beekeeper. Quite often, at this stage a compromise is found and the problem is eliminated. In other cases, you can safely use effective methods of controlling insects.
Why do bees appear in the wall of a house?
Wood bees, also called carpenter bees, can often be found not only in the forest, where they settle in old trees. These insects often choose wooden houses to live, gnawing passages inside structures and destroying logs and beams.
Tree bees, unlike honey bees, do not provide any benefit to the environment
Carpenter bees are very different from honey bees and do not provide any benefit, that is, they do not produce honey or other bee products. They chew on wooden surfaces and leave larvae inside the logs, thereby attracting birds, which further destroy the walls of the house.
Bees are attracted to old structures that are not painted or impregnated with antiseptic solutions. An old dacha or woodshed can attract “carpenters” who will move after some time to a new house. A neglected, leaking shed roof can also become a “magnet” for pests.
You can save an old wooden house from insects by treating the walls with bioprotective impregnation.
To protect a country house, it is worthwhile to paint all wooden surfaces in a timely manner, and dismantle and burn unnecessary old buildings.
Female insects sting even more painfully than honey bees - one sting leads to severe swelling, and for small children or pets it can be fatal.
Therefore, as soon as unusual dark insects appear in the garden, it is necessary to find their habitat (nest) and understand how to kill bees, which very quickly destroy the walls of wooden buildings.
