Dave is great. His uncle was a master beekeeper.. did you know they make about $30k per farm they deliver bees to?? Now THAT’s baller status. Dave did a little walk-around and found the trouble outside. Apparently if you can fit an eraser head through a hole it’s big enough for a bug (or bee) to fit through. If it’s as big as a nickel a mouse can fit through it, and if it’s as big as a quarter a RAT can fit through. Yikes. I had a few holes in my room from where we had hung some curtains, and the bees were attracted to the light in my room. The best thing to do at that point is turn off all the lights in your house and open the blinds so the bees fly towards the window. Since bees aren’t too bright, they spend about 8 hours trying to get out through the window and then they die.

Since the bees were attached to the house, Dave chose to distribute a powder substance that is used to poison the yellow jackets and dry up their environments. The chemical is poisonous to bees, but does not harm animals or humans, which is good since we have so many pets around! After spraying a significant amount of the powder on the outside of the bee holes, he checked the drywall to make sure the bees weren’t chewing through. Dave says bees like to keep their hives at about 85 degrees, so you can feel a warm, soft place in the drywall if they’re about to come through. He also said there can be from 500 to 5,000 bees in a nest at one time. That’s a lot of bees! Fortunately he didn’t find any of those warm spots in my room, so that was a relief. Mom had him check their bedroom since they had originally found the bees in there. Dave found a soft spot and went to poke his spray through the spot when it caved in and a few bees came in and stung him. That has to be a rough job! He says he only gets stung for about 4 months, then he does a lot of winter sports 🙂 After patching up the holes and giving us the ok, we walked outside and were given an opportunity to see a few of the nests he had collected earlier today. Some of them had bees actually hatching out as he was showing them to us! All in all, I give an A+ for friendly service and (hopefully) a job well done. Bee Be Gone 🙂 Thanks Dave!!

A collection of insects he had gathered for educational purposes

Nests he had collected that morning.. some were hatching while we were talking!

The spot in my parents bedroom where the bees came flying out.