- 1). Follow a few bees and locate their primary nesting area.
- 2). Dress in sweats and wrap the limb openings tight with tape to keep the bees from stinging you and crawling into your clothes. Sweats are effective because their thickness makes it harder for the bee to sting through to your skin. Place a see-through mesh cloth over your head to protect your face and put on some heavy duty work or gardening gloves to protect your hands.
- 3). Make the bees more docile by producing smoke near the hive with a bee smoker. According to bees-and-beekeeping.com, bee smokers make bees more docile by masking the pheromones bees produce to send alarm signals to the other bees. The smoke from the smoker also triggers the bees to start gorging on honey--since they instinctively know that smoke means fire is near, the hive is at risk and they'll need energy to start a new hive.
- 4). Spray the hive with an insecticide designed specifically for flying insects. Use an insecticide sprayer if you can't get near enough to the nest with a regular spray can.
- 5). Blow some Drione or Delta Dust into the entrances of the hives with a hand bellows duster. The bees will get covered with the poisonous dust and carry it back deeper into the hive. In a pinch even borax will work, according to getridofthings.com.
- 6). Repeat Steps 2 through 5 until it is clear there is no activity in the nest.
- 7). Remove and dispose of the nest. Burning the nest is an effective disposal method if you're absolutely sure there are no live adult bees left in the nest--burning kills eggs and larvae while destroying comb.
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