I grab my new copy of Blender and head for the bathroom for a well deserved BM. I look down at the toilet and see it covered with black bits. This happened when I moved in and I was pi$$ed because the apartment managers were supposed to have fixed whatever was in the vent right over the toilet.
I grab the camera to take the pic above when I hear buzzing. WTF? I look at my light and see 2 bees in it. Wow. How'd they get in there? I look at the vent and there are more coming through! I scream like a little girl and slam the door, stuffing a towel at the bottom to block any from getting out.
I head outside with a wimpy can of bug spray to get them out of my vent. I saw this. They were building a frigging hive in my vent!!! :|
I've paged the apartment emergency pager a few times now. If I don't get a call back I'm going to Home Despot to get a bomb of some kind. I'll bomb the bathroom and the fan in the vent will suck it out and hopefully kill the bees (especially the queen) in my vent.
Man this sucks. Thanfully I have another bathroom in this apt. Whew!
Edit: Fixed second pic.
UPDATE:
Went to dinner while waiting for maintenance to call back. Fscker never did, so I called the property management company and used THEIR emergency number. Got a call in 5 minutes. Said they were sending "The Bee Man". Turns out, he really IS The Bee Man (name of his company). We went into the bathroom and there were dozens of dead and dying bees! :Q But they were still swarming around the outside vent. BeeDude said it was a combination of my spraying crappy bug spray and them dehydrating themselves trying to get back up the vent (with the fan on...)
He said he's spraying Pyrithione (sp?) gas and it's safe and non-toxic to humans, and will dissipate in 5-10 minutes. I sent the family to go shopping while I stay with BeeD00d.
UPDATE #2:
Well, while my wife was arguing with me about leaving, B D00d sprayed the gas in through the outside vent. Apparently the bees were just getting started building a hive between the joists around the actual vent pipe. The ones in my bathroom were just exploring.
Couldn't smell the gas at all. He came back to the door and said to turn the fan back on. We did, and no bees came out. He cleaned up the dead bees (hence no pics, sorry) and explained where the bees really were. He said they're probably completely gone now, but suggested I wait until the following afternoon to make sure they're completely gone. If they're still there... call him back. He said not to seal up the vent (what I wanted to do to make absolutely sure they don't come back in) because the vent with the fan on is making sure the gas is expelled outside instead of hanging in my house.
I'm not using that bathroom at all until I'm absolutely sure there's no more bees!
UPDATE#3:
CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bees are back. I went to the swap meet this morning and come back to see bees swarming around my vent again. :|
Calling BeeD00d...
FINAL UPDATE!!!
All gone. Apparently those bees were ones that were gone when the BeeD00d sprayed my vent. They hung around for a coupla hours then split. Whew!
I grab the camera to take the pic above when I hear buzzing. WTF? I look at my light and see 2 bees in it. Wow. How'd they get in there? I look at the vent and there are more coming through! I scream like a little girl and slam the door, stuffing a towel at the bottom to block any from getting out.
I head outside with a wimpy can of bug spray to get them out of my vent. I saw this. They were building a frigging hive in my vent!!! :|
I've paged the apartment emergency pager a few times now. If I don't get a call back I'm going to Home Despot to get a bomb of some kind. I'll bomb the bathroom and the fan in the vent will suck it out and hopefully kill the bees (especially the queen) in my vent.
Man this sucks. Thanfully I have another bathroom in this apt. Whew!
Edit: Fixed second pic.
UPDATE:
Went to dinner while waiting for maintenance to call back. Fscker never did, so I called the property management company and used THEIR emergency number. Got a call in 5 minutes. Said they were sending "The Bee Man". Turns out, he really IS The Bee Man (name of his company). We went into the bathroom and there were dozens of dead and dying bees! :Q But they were still swarming around the outside vent. BeeDude said it was a combination of my spraying crappy bug spray and them dehydrating themselves trying to get back up the vent (with the fan on...)
He said he's spraying Pyrithione (sp?) gas and it's safe and non-toxic to humans, and will dissipate in 5-10 minutes. I sent the family to go shopping while I stay with BeeD00d.
UPDATE #2:
Well, while my wife was arguing with me about leaving, B D00d sprayed the gas in through the outside vent. Apparently the bees were just getting started building a hive between the joists around the actual vent pipe. The ones in my bathroom were just exploring.
Couldn't smell the gas at all. He came back to the door and said to turn the fan back on. We did, and no bees came out. He cleaned up the dead bees (hence no pics, sorry) and explained where the bees really were. He said they're probably completely gone now, but suggested I wait until the following afternoon to make sure they're completely gone. If they're still there... call him back. He said not to seal up the vent (what I wanted to do to make absolutely sure they don't come back in) because the vent with the fan on is making sure the gas is expelled outside instead of hanging in my house.
I'm not using that bathroom at all until I'm absolutely sure there's no more bees!
UPDATE#3:
CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bees are back. I went to the swap meet this morning and come back to see bees swarming around my vent again. :|
Calling BeeD00d...
FINAL UPDATE!!!
All gone. Apparently those bees were ones that were gone when the BeeD00d sprayed my vent. They hung around for a coupla hours then split. Whew!
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