Easiest (safest) way to get rid of (read: kill) bees?

Hossenfeffer

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There's a pile of carpet in the alley behind our house. Wanted to "help out the neighborhood" so I went and grabbed the top piece and drag it to a dumpster. Came back to find... lo and behold, a small cloud of bees. Turns out they started a hive in and amongst the carpet fibers. There's a pre-school just across the alley with kids always playing outside. I don't want to see em stung.

Would like to get rid of them. Whether that be an all-out Terminator mission or some passage to a kindler, gentler alley, I dunno.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Experience?
 

silverpig

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Get a can of that spray bee killer. It shoots like 20 feet. Do a few passes and they'll be dead.
 

crab

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Just ask them nicely to leave, I'm sure they'll work something out. Why the violence?
 

dxkj

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Originally posted by: Chumpman
Originally posted by: dxkj
Use the bomb! I dont think bees live through a nuclear blast.

What about cockroaches ...?

Yeah i heard about those guys. My one female friend found one in a dish and tossed it in the microwave for a while. She said it was just crawling around on the tray. Weird...
 

Ryan

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Originally posted by: Hossenfeffer
There's a pre-school just across the alley with kids always playing outside. I don't want to see em stung.

WTF? Dude, just leave them along. Stop trying to justify your fear with compassion.

 

Hossenfeffer

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Originally posted by: rbloedow
Originally posted by: Hossenfeffer
There's a pre-school just across the alley with kids always playing outside. I don't want to see em stung.

WTF? Dude, just leave them along. Stop trying to justify your fear with compassion.
What if I justify my compassion with a new pair of stretchpants?


(note to self: when you're tired, please... PLEASE don't try to be "witty" or spew the first thing that comes to mind)
 

Crucial

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They should just leave after awhile. Might take them a few days to regroup and find a new home.

If you don't want to wait just douse with gasoline, throw match.
 

Soybomb

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Originally posted by: csaddict
They should just leave after awhile. Might take them a few days to regroup and find a new home.

If you don't want to wait just douse with gasoline, throw match.

See we've come full circle back to my suggestion...its a sign, go do it. Pics too.
 

Azraele

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I'd let them be. Or contact a beekeeper to have them safely removed.
 

jw791

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Originally posted by: Bv3
Soapy water works on bees.


I agree. I keep a spray bottle of 1/4 Dawn detergent 3/4 water in my backyard and it greases their wings so they can't fly. You would need much more than a spray bottle for a nest that size, but soap + water does do the trick.