Many people think that pest control is all about killing things, this saddens the Pest Interceptors because this opinion is simply untrue, especially when it comes to bees. In fact on our website we have a page dedicated to removing Honeybees and rehoming bees. There are links on our website page that explain why killing bees is now pretty much always an illegal act in the United Kingdom, and why killing the honey bees is a futile and pointless thing to do. WE SIMPLY WILL NOT KILL BEES!!! For more information and to read these blogs: www.pestinterceptors.co.uk/bees
You will also see on our KZfaq channel lots of examples of us saving Bumblebees and saving Honey Bees as well as lots of Honey Bee and Bumblebee relocations.
So, here is part 2 of 3, of our epic, EXTREME KILLER HONEYBEE EXTRACTION series.
We started the videos off with part 1, in which you see how a honey bee extraction, or honey bee removal from a house should go. The Pest Interceptors love to relocate bees, whether they are honeybees or bumblebees, no matter if the bees are in attics, bees in chimneys, honey bees in facia boards. No matter where the bees get, we will get them out and save the bees! Part 1, like I say, is how things should proceed. We save the bees, we extract all the gorgeous honey, we find the Queen, everything was going to plan, but then.....
Part 2 shows how honey bee extractions from buildings can turn into bee meets man nightmares! I have been involved in pest control for over 10 years, in all that time, I've never experienced anything like what we encountered in Part 2!!! From the outside, both colonies of bees seemed identical. They were even in similar parts of the building, although on opposite sides of the house. Oh how different the two bee colonies were! We are convinced that the second colony of bees we extracted from the house were Africanised Bees! (Many decades ago some scientists crossbred the European Honey Bee with the African Honey Bee, the idea being that the cross breed would provide huge amounts of honey, like the African Bee, and be nicely tempered, like the European Honey Bee. Sadly, and rather painfully for us, this didn't happen as planned!!!). These bees were super vicious!! They chased us 300 feet away on more than one occasion! You will see how they even made the builders jump off the roof (they were working on another part of the building). At one point I was getting so heavily bombarded by killer bees (yes, that's what I am calling them from here-on in, unless someone can convince me otherwise!) that I could hardly see through my bee suit veil. It was a truly scary situation. The killer bees were on a different level of determination and aggression!!!
Usually we will have an entire colony removed from a house in a day, but these honey bees were not leaving without a fight!!! 15 full on stings (not including the 100'0s of partial stings where the bee stings you, but thanks to the bee suit, can't get the barbed part of the sting into the skin) on day 2, more stings on day 3!!! It was a bee relocation nightmare.
These bees were so aggressive that I couldn't have them in my garden, well would you?!? So I asked a lady called Sue, she was actually my first ever customer over a decade ago, if we could keep a few of our hives at her smallholding. She said yes. But I felt it only fair and right that I explained that I didn't want them in my garden because I thought they were killer bees. Sue keeps rare breed sheep on her smallholding, so she asked us to build something to put some distance between her sheep and our bees. So we spent a day building, what we now call, our Bee Zoo.
In Part 3 of the series you will see us removing the last of the colony of killer bees, putting the building back together, the respect we had garnered from the house owner after he and his wife had watched our epic battle with the killer bees, the new Bee Zoo, and the releasing of the honey bees.
This is where things get sad.....
I don't want to spoil things, so I will try not to, but if there are any other bee removers, beekeepers, or any other bee experts out there that could explain what happened, please feel free to comment.
Thank you for reading this, thank you for watching, and thank you in advance to anyone who can work out what went so horribly wrong at the very end.
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Christan Hems (Chief Interceptor)
Ricardo Hems
The Pest Interceptors
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