bee hive under shed

[YoungJo]

I have a bee hive under my shed and want it removed, but obviously don't want the bees removed by pest control. Can anyone help? I have tried bee keeper search.

Thanks Jo

[Jennys]

The British bee keepers association should give you the name of a local beekeeper who can come and move the bees to somewhere more suitable. We did this some years ago and the bees we discovered were moved to an allotment area in Honor Oak.

[It's me again...]

Hi Jo, you could try Capital Bee or the London Bee Keeping Association.

www.capitalbee.co.uk

http://www.lbka.org.uk/contact_us.html

[almost peckham]

There is a bee-keeper with hives on their plot up at the Rosendale Road allotments. Maybe try emailing the allotment via their website to be put in touch?

[lizbells6]

Could you try to identify what sort of bees they are from the BBKA website photos before you call out a beekeeper? Beekeepers collect honey bee swarms or colonies which can be re homed. If they are under a shed, they probably aren't honey bees, which build comb downwards.

[Mallard Von Hannover]

Whatever you do, don't allow them to die! British bees are in a large shortage, in fact it is endangering our food supplies!

[first mate]

Why not post a photo? It would help other i/d it. I am wondering if it is a wasps nest?

[keane]

Hi there we had a bees nest last year In a compost bin in front of our shed which couldn't be moved because there was no base, they were wild bees not honey bees & beekeepers wouldnt take them so it's inportant to identify them if you can. I didn't want them to be killed by pest comtrol so in the end we decided to leave them alone & just told the children to keep a bit of distance from their entry point & after about 5 weeks they just moved off of their own accord. Whenever we were near the bin they didn't seem bothered they just went about their bee stuff so it was ok in the end.

[Jennys]

Our bees were bumble bees but the beekeeper still rehomed them, although we did pay him for this.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Lovely village Beehive Under Shed.

[dimples]

I'm good friends with a local bee keeper who will help if they are honey bees so if so pm me so I can pass on each other's details

[ponderwoman]

Non honey bees do not survive over the winter as a colony. They make lots of queens which will hibernate and start a new colony somewhere else in the spring. As summer goes on and they have produced lots of queens their colony breaks down, so if you can hang on in there they will disappear of their own accord. Good luck.

[YoungJo]

Thanks for all the helpful replies. Desperately trying to get a photo of the bees for the London Bee Keepers Association. who were really helpful. I may wait and see if they dissappear. I won't kill them.

[apbremer]

We have bumble bees nesting in our roof. The bee keepers are not interested as apparently bumbles are lazy little devils and produce very little honey. Our advice was just to leave them as they only make small nests and are are not aggressive nor do they chew the rafters as wasps (ugh) do! They should disappear at the end of summer to that great hive in the sky.