Ground bees are non-aggressive pollinators, and they only nest during spring/early summer so they should leave of their own accord soon. Watering the area regularly apparently encourages them to move on if you want them out sooner rather than later.

You could also see about contacting a beekeeper to come and remove them, or a vampire hunter if they are indeed bees of the night

Somehow, I just knew you'd say that...



Only one I've used was photobucket, and that was some time ago.

Come to think of it, I´ve seen ground bees at the cottage too. But I ignore them as they seem quite non-hostile as hazmick said.

Well, I gotta split. Laptop battery's running down, and it's too hot in here to charge it while using it.

Later

It was, until someone sprinkled ground bees over it.

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Okay, whatever is building those ground nests is not bees; because I just covered the nests with borax and didn't see a single bee out there the whole time! So whatever it is; it builds nests the same way ground bees do, but the hole is much smaller that they go in and out of and they didn't act disturbed at all when I poured the borax in the nest holes. (meaning they are probably deep down in a tunnel, not near the surface entrance)

I hope to heck this is not termites or something; because it is right up alongside the house.

Also, in the middle of a bunch of the small holes was one huge hole; like for a fairly large snake or something. (I put almost half a box of borax into it)


I HATE BUGS AND SNAKES !!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe you have a vampire gopher, too! Use whole garlic for those.

Thanks, Hazmick! I'm really not sure if it is bees; I think the inspector was wrong. I didn't see a single bee out there in the yard while out.

I mean, I know we have a nest of bees on our deck, but I don't think these were bees making these holes in the ground. It looks like ground bee nests with the cone of dirt; but the hole is very tiny; and they must go very deep because it didn't disturb anything when I sprinkled borax on them. And the big hole by the house was most def deep. That one looked like a snake hole though...except it was in the center of a bunch of the little holes. Urk.










SPEW !!! With my luck I'll just end up with a gopher with bad breath,

But wait, the "snake" hole wasn't big enough for a gopher! That would be a snake the size of an anaconda! It was more like the diameter of a cucumber or something. And not one of those obscenely large cucumbers; just a regular one.

What!!!?? Vampire cucumbers?


(Now there's a flavour for ice cream! )

This post has been edited by ghastley: Jul 21 2016, 04:26 PM

Vampire .... Cucumbers?

Kenkeh

What's the about vampire cucumbers lmao

I don't know, but maybe that explains why cats get so freaked out by them?

KOBBY!!!!


I like your new signature,







Cats get freaked out by vampires or cucumbers? Or only vampire cucumbers? My cat gets freaked out if you wear a dress instead of jeans; or go into a room he doesn't think you should be in.











This post has been edited by mALX: Jul 22 2016, 04:08 PM

Oooookey, so evicting the wasps was not as good an idea as I thought. Now they´re basically everywhere around the cottage and in the outhouses


Thankfully Dad was up today and did a raid and he killed a few apart from spraying some poison foam here and there. I couldn´t have done it becasue if they sting me I might attract a slight case of death.

Oh no! So in the future, you won't do anything like this again, right?


Your poor Dad! Tell him to sprinkle garlic powder around or burn citronella candles and the bees will leave his property and go somewhere less offensive.

Don´t think we have vampire wasps over here but one can´t be too careful, right?


Where I did wrong was, I should have done it in the fall instead when they´re about to die off anyway. Then they wouldn´t go look for a new place to stay. Oh, well. Live and learn

I've heard garlic powder kills them on contact; so if you have a fogger fill it with garlic powder and "fog" them away. What doesn't die will leave from the offensive odor of the garlic.


... (and then let me know if it works and I'll try it on my deck!)









This post has been edited by mALX: Jul 22 2016, 05:36 PM

Dad did a raid yesterday afternoon and evening and got rid of most nuisances, though not without getting stung. Continued today and we killed and disturbed most who are still there. At the very least it´s much better now and I´m actually able to walk to/from the car instead of running


Will do another raid this evening but don´t tell them about it!

Mirocu, can't you just use a fire spell? Seems like that would work well on both regular and vampire wasps. Using careful short bursts should be lethal on wasps while limiting collateral damage.

I thought perhaps a frost spell might be helpful to slow or even freeze them but I'm concerned that, given where you live, they might be Nordic wasps and have high frost resistance.