Re: Ground nesting bees?

Posted by NC Wayne on April 02, 2007 at 19:12:33 from (64.12.116.14):

In Reply to: Ground nesting bees? posted by Mike in Ind. on April 02, 2007 at 17:22:44:

Not sure what they are either, except that they are not yellow jackets, but we've got the same kind of bees here. Like you said they look alot like honey bees and they show up about this time every year and make their little mounds down at the end of our shop. They've been digging for 6 or 7 years now at this particular spot, after moving from the other end of the shop after one or two seasons. They seem to come in and dig hard for a week or two and then calm down and simply hang around for a month or so and then their gone. Unlike a previous post suggested the ones that we see don't seem to be a bit agressive. In fact the spot they chose is at a corner where we routinely walk through them and I've yet to have one even act like it was gonna sting me. Not saying it won't happen but in the 8 or so years they've been coming around it hasn't happened. We simply let them alone since they don't bother us but I can understand wanting to get rid of them in a camping area. Judging by the way they do I'd say get something like Diazanon, or whatever it's new environmentally friendly version is, and spray into and around the burrows with it. Other than that I can't think of anything else to do. I've used the gas and diesel trick on yellowjacket nests before and that works great for them since they have an actual underground nest for the whole bunch but these little guys seem to be loners with one to each burrow so I can't see trying to get them that way. Good luck with whatever you wind up doing. I don't know how or why they come back but be prepared to do the same thing next year.

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