What's the buzz today? Well, I'd like to share with you how I solved my problem with bees...and it was easy, free, and so stupid I know you think it won't work. But, it DOES work! My back porch had borer bees, so many I couldn't get out the back door without getting dive-bombed. Inside the dog's outdoor kennel, there was some kind of bee that tunnels down into the ground and was driving the dogs crazy. Today, voila, there's no more bees in either of those spots! Yippie:-) How'd I do it without chemicals...and for free to boot?
Take a brown paper bag (lunch sack size works well), and blow it up into a ball shape. I take old newspaper and cram it inside, and make it look football shaped. I tie off the end with a twist tie, and then hang it in a visable spot where the bees can see it. I usually thumb tack it into a building corner because that's where hornets like to build their nest. By day 2, most of the bees were gone, and by day 3, all of them. Three weeks later and I'm still bee free in both areas. I do get a lot of strange looks and questions because I have a paper bag in the corner of my porch, but hey, I'll be pleased to look like a whacky old lady if it does the trick!
Why does it work? Well, bees are all very territorial creatures. If they think another colony of bees, or species of bees, has moved in close to them, they will high tail it out of there and go build somewhere else. Why can't they tell that that's only a paper sack? Uh, who knows?! Maybe it's because of the way their eyes work. All I do know is it's a good chemical free way to get those bees, and best of all, it's free. One friends husband said it was too stupid and it'd never work...and he just HAD to try it to disprove it. He tried it, his bees left, and she said he was amazed something so easy could work.
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