Usually with most type of bees there is a look out bee, a bee that is hanging out on the nest, on or above the entrance. That is the bee that sounds out a signal to attack any threat, if you take out that bee or bees that are near entrance, then rest of bees wont know what to go after. I once came across a nest that was the size of a watermelon, the bees themselves where the size of peanuts (bull faced hornets?), anyway getting stung by one of this gigantic bees would be painful. Took all of em out with dursband TC. Biggest hive, and biggest bees, I've ever seen. They were the same size of a humming bird to better describe them. Then recently took out a hornets nest which was next to my mud bog in a stump, used some pyrithiums on them. I rarely see honey bee nests, but do see them on my propertry from time to time. It's the yellow jackets and hornets, and wasps I keep an eye out for.
I remember one client many years back, called up and said she had bees in her house. The yellow jackets entered through a bottom of a gutter and made a huge nest inside the walls of the house. After dosing it with pyrithiums and using a microgen, then some lethal powder, we got em all. We then took apart the wall and to our dis belief, the hive was 6ft tall by 4 ft wide plus. Must of been well over a million hornets in that hive.
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