Bargain Bee Hunt

Ok, so we have had a MAJOR bee problem, and every spring it gets worse! We have bees, wasps, hornets and carpenter bees...Last year Alex was stung four times in a row, and so I decided this was the year to get rid of the bees!

The carpenter Bees were easy to spot, but would take some serious work to get rid of. They would make their nests in the peaks of the roof, so it would require some dangerous tall ladder work.(And Dale's grandma made it clear that she didn't want him on the ladder) The wasps and hornets were a different story. Easy to kill, but I couldn't locate their nests! For those two reason, I called in a professional pest control company.

The estimates they gave were several thousand dollars (yes I said several THOUSAND dollars) and he seemed to know very little about pests, in particular, the bees. Once again I decided it would be much better, not to mention a WHOLE lot cheaper for Dale and I to do it ourselves, so thats what we have been doing for several days now.

After working on the carpenter bees, Dale on the 20 foot ladder (Don't tell grandma) and me doing nothing at all except entertaining him, I saw a hornet fly under the railing...I looked under the railing and didn't see anything, so I was perplexed why they kept flying under there. Dale had told me last year that they lived under the railing, but I could never see them! The sky was such a bright backdrop that they were hard to spot. I went and got an old compact, used it to look under the railing, and then it came into focus, a nest! With the compact I saw a BUNCH of them...I made a little video so you could see the crazy number of bees that have been living here!! The best thing is, now I know where the hornets are, I can kill them myself! for under a 100 dollars we are doing what the professionals were going to charge us THOUSANDS to do!