How do I get rid of bees in a planter box?
If you do want to get rid of them, here are tips from FAQ Farmers: * It’s hard to get rid of bees because it’s sometimes hard to find the source. Here is a great bee trap. Take a plastic pop bottle (16 or 20 oz. will do) cut the top off and insert it in upside down. put a couple oz.’s of mt.dew at the bottom. The bees will go straight to it and leave you alone on your porch. Make a couple of them and empty and change pop once a week. * Instead of drawing them closer with a soda bottle filled with yummies, drive them away. Simlpy place a handfull of mothballs in a kneehigh or pantyhose of sorts. Hang it in your yard. You may need to put up more than one if it is a large area. * Our local hardware store sells a chemical spray that normally is used for other bugs it’s called spectracide and if you look on the back of the label you will find that it kills bees. It works and it only cost about $7.00. if you don’t mind mixing it yourself you can get it for about $5.00. * Try calling some of
The Raid® Disposable Yellow Jacket Trap is an effective and easy way to lure yellow jackets away from your family and keep them from ruining your outdoor fun. The trap is pre-filled with a powerful non-toxic attractant so you can capture and kill aggressive yellow jackets before they get you. Or get a exterminator. http://www.stingshield.com/2003news.htm Tow, TX- LLANO COUNTY QUARANTINED FOR AFRICANIZED HONEY BEES Llano County was added today to the state quarantine, restricting the movement of commercial bee operations following the detection of Africanized honey bees. The addition makes 150 counties in Texas now quarantined for Africanized honey bees, according to the Texas Apiary Inspection Service, a unit of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. A sample from a colony of bees in a building was sent to the Texas Honey Bee Identification Lab in College Station, according to Paul Jackson, chief apiary inspector.
