My county won’t help do nothing except harass you with code enforcement. Probably come write me a ticket for having bees without a permit or something. lol
I had someone lined up several times to come relocate them but they never followed through. I keep hoping they will swarm someday and move on to another location.
Someone told me that if I build a hive box and park it close they might move into it on their own at some point. Then they would be easier to move.
When/if they swarm, they always leave behind a fertile queen and about a third of the hives bees. If its established it will take intervention of some kind to get them to leave.
To get them to move into a hive box enmass can be done but involves tricking Mother Nature (rarely successful and entails risk.)
Yep. Your a bee keeper.
....and if the hive has been there for several years there is a YUGE store of honey in there. If the bees leave and dont maintain the honeycomb, it will eventually collapse and fall and the honey will ooze everywhere below the hive. Best to keep them flourishing and keep the ‘mess to a minimum. You dont want a coupla hundred pounds of honey leaking from the abandoned hive.