Backyard Bee Keeping

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Backyard Bee Keeping

Backyard Bee Keeping

Has Anyone Heard Of Using The Toilet Bowls Hangy Things To Keep Bees Out Of The Backyard?I heard someone say the other day that if you hang toilet bowl hanging things in the Backyard around the perimeter that bees wont come into the yard! Has anyone tried this does it really work? [ Read More ]

Bees How Much Backyard Do I Need?I am buying my first house and have thought about getting into beekeeping as a hobby. I don't know if I should keep bees in the same Backyard that my son will play. How big should my back yard be for one hive? [ Read More ]

Is There Anything I Can Hang In My Backyard To Repel Bee's?Are there any scents that bee's don't like? I hate bee's and was wondering if there is anything to keep them away. [ Read More ]

How Do I Keep Away The Bees From My Backyard Just For One Day?We are having a party on the 15th and I don't want the bees all over the food that day. They've done a great job with our plants this year and I don't want any permanent remedy, just that day I want them to be away. Do you have any suggestions? [ Read More ]

Bees In Backyard, Cats Keep Getting Stung!?My next door neighbours have 2 Bee hive thingy's right next to our fence. I have ragdoll cats that love to chase them. In the last two days I have had trips to the vet and it's quite costly and the poor things are being kept in doors now because I'm too worried to let them out. Does anyone have any ideas how to deter them from our yard. Exterminating is not am option because they actually belong to someone. We don't have any plants etc that necessarily attract them I would say they just come over because our yard is in their flight bath. Please help!! [ Read More ]

How Can I Keep Bees Away From Backyard. Dog Allergic And Stung Already. Any Advice? [ Read More ]

How Do You Tell A Queen Bumble Bee From A Worker If There's No Worker Around To Compare Size?Here's my problem: I think a queen bumble Bee is digging a hole in my Backyard for her nest. I watched her for about five minutes and she kept coming up and going down into the hole. But I can't tell if she's a queen or if it's a worker. I also have cats. And I'm wondering if this is a nest what the heck I should do - I don't want to kill it. Queen or worker? Let be or kill? [ Read More ]

How Can I Keep Bees Away From My Hummingbird Feeder?I see a lot of hummingbirds hovering over the feeder in my Backyard but there are lots of bees that scare the hummingbirds away because the bees are trying to drink the nectar from the feeder. Is there any way I can keep the bees away from the feeder? [ Read More ]

Carpender (sp?) Bee HELP?These bees keep running themselves into our windows at our house. They are single-pain windows and it's pretty annoying. There must be 20 of them in our backyard. Does anyone know of something that will get rid of them? Also, my dog tries to catch them. Anyone know if this is dangerous to her? Thanks! [ Read More ]

How Do I Keep People From Jumping My Wall In My Backyard?In my girlfriend and I's back yard we have a wall seperating our house and 'the hood'. People keep cutting through our yard to get to a main Rd in Orlando rather than having to go around the hood to get to it they cut through our yard. We wouldnt mind but now they are stealing things. We've tried thorny bushes..they get trampled. The police tell us there is nothing we can do (of course). Does anyone know of something good like that sets off an alarm or someting that would scare them off? And no, barbwire isnt legal..If law enforcement or firefighters got caught in it..not good. Any ideas out there world? And no African Bumble bees is not a good idea. And no my girlfriend wont allow a dog to live outside..That is the true answer..but if anyone has some other ideas we'd appreciate it..thanks! [ Read More ]

I Have A Problem With Some Type Of Bees Maybe Yellow Jackets And They Seem To Have A Nest Or Something,?Ok ive been noticing there are more bees in my Backyard then a normal Backyard should have and lately ive been seeing bees or Yellow Jackets fly into this hole going underground at the corner of a step which leads to the upper part of my backyard, and they just kept flying in and in and in and sometimes one would fly out after the others are comming in and i was suprised becuz i have never seen that many bees or Yellow Jackets in a minute or 2. Out of all that went into the hole like 2 came out and so i went inside. How do i get rid of them because i can barely get to the top of my Backyard without walking like 1 ft. away from the hole. I think they are a type of Bee but not sure becuz they are yellow and white stripped but they dnt look like wasps or bees but from pictures i've seen they look like Yellow Jackets. [ Read More ]

Bumble Bee Problem?Ima be goin on a trip soon, so im tryin'ta tie up some loose ends before i goes yknow? ma problem is that i gots a bees hivin in my posts in ma backyard. now, its not jus one or two of em, but a whole family. couple litt'l ones, a big one or two. so what i decided to do was shoot em with ma rifle!! blang blang dead! that was the whole idear anyway. i missed since its been so spanking long since i fired a rifle at anything. anyways, yall need to help me with this bumbles bees that keep ona botherin the chil'ren and uh, ma grandpappy! should i burn it? should i burn the litt'l critters out of them holes? how do i get close enuff to set the suckers on fire without getting stung - mind you, these are huge honkin critters! the devil 'imslef wouldnt get close. so whats do i do? s.p. -in the meantime yall, ima go out back and try to shoot them critters again. heh! i remind myself of elmer fudd, 'you siwee wabbit! twicks are fer kids!!!' heh heh heh sound jus like that sombtch. [ Read More ]

How Can I Keep Bees Away From My Door And Stairs Outside?I am really scared of bees because I got stung a few summers ago and my hand was extremely swollen for weeks. Is there something that can be bought, my neighbors have a whole bunch of flowers in the Backyard and so do my landlords. Everytime we go to sit outside by the side of the house or even to sit and have a smoke they always start coming close and I start freaking out. [ Read More ]

Active Bee Colony In Big Plastic Trashcan 2 Yrs--now Heavy With Honey.How Can I Salvage Honey Organize Bees?Old idle trash container beside house attracted swarm 2 yrs ago. I slid it to rear of Backyard provided a sturdy double loose cover on top for rain shelter. Now the container is distended with honey. I'd like to harvest honey move the bees into a formal standard wood hive. Can't find beekeepers around here interested. I've had distant past experience Keeping bees, but I'm rusty on the procedures. At the time I had a more commercial beekeper friend who always did the extracting. [ Read More ]

Backyard Bee Keeping