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    Removing Bees!

    Yikes!

    We have a swarm of bees attached to our mooring lines (right by the edge of the deck).

    Any ideas on how to get rid of them? They appeared yesterday.....


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    Hire a bear?


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    MI07, I can't help you exactly, but you do need the services of an apiarist (a beekeeper).

    Since a queen has decided to my your home her home, the workers have followed and you have your own hive

    Unless you get rid of the queen, the rest will stay. So a beekeeper needs to come and collect the queen and a workers will follow. But, I am not sure of the legalities of beekeeping in Hong Kong or who you can call. There must be someone - you need someone that can search the local cantonese websites.

    Sorry, can't help you any more than that.
    (but thanks for keeping them away from me!)


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    you could also call the environmental protection dept. they came to our place to remove a hive...


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    Phew.

    Emergency has passed.

    It was a swarm (I now realise from some internet research) ... Mr Movingin07 and a friend decided to try detaching the mooring ropes from the boat (and thus dropping the swarm into the water) ... which I did not approve of as the internet said that a swarm will move away all of it's own eventually ... anyway, they were moving ropes about and suddenly the whole lot of them upped and flew!

    Wow - it was incredible - thousands of bees buzzed around the boat for a few minutes (hubby and mate hi-tailed it down the dock leaving me inside with all the doors shut!) ... then they flew off. Just like that.

    Case closed.

    Abit more excitement for a Sunday morning that I had bargained on!

    Hoping a photo of the swarm is attached but I struggle with attachments.....

    Last edited by MovingIn07; 14-03-2010 at 12:30 PM.

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    wow! that's amazing! glad i wasn't around... i'm allergic to bee stings.


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    Quote Originally Posted by carang:
    wow! that's amazing! glad i wasn't around... i'm allergic to bee stings.
    I am allergic too!

    Bees and snakes - two things that I don't want anything to do with.

    Glad all is back to normal in the MI07 residence....

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    Quote Originally Posted by carang:
    you could also call the environmental protection dept. they came to our place to remove a hive...
    Its true. call 2824 3773 Headquarter of Environment Protection Dept.

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    of course it's true! do you think i'd come on here and lie about them coming to remove our bees? (at least that's who our l/l told us it was)...


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    Thanks for the info - that was what I thought we were going to need ... until they upped and flew away! Completely outside our areas of expertise and NOT something we thought we'd need to deal with on a boat!


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