Be sure they are bees first and not wasps. Bees are fat with either black/brown strips on a yellow/orange body. Wasps are long, slender and different shades such as soft yellow to medium yellow, amber colored or black and brown. Bees seldom sting unless you hit them or sit on one. They usually fly lower than wasps. Wasps will sting you! If you have sweet smelling shrubs or flowers around your waterfall or pond then this attracts the bees which pollinate. That's great! If it's a particularly hot days bees will fly around shaded and cool areas. If this is really a bad problem and you have several then I suggest you get a professional in to find the nest and remove it. Sometimes a professional will remove the hive with the bees and give the whole thing to someone that raises bees which is a better idea. Good luck Marcy
I have had many garden ponds over the years with no wasp problem at all. However, after moving to a new neighborhood just north east of Toronto, we have been inundated with wasps coming for the water. We can only feed the fish late in the evening when the wasps retreat for the night. During the day, there will be no less than a couple of hundred wasps all getting water. Even if we sit back well from the pond, the traffic is much less than peaceful. I have tried to follow the route the wasps are using on their return flights to the nest, but to no avail. We have had no other choice but to cover the pond with fine mosquito netting, which is less than appealing to the eye.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Cheer!
See solutions on this page. http://www.fishpondinfo.com/insects/sting.htm#wasp Some of the other suggestions like 2 & 7 look comletely harmless to the fish. Lenny Vasbinder Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com (Links to any articles referenced in above reply are listed on the right side, alphabetically under Labels and also under Archives by Year, Month)
The response is in the explanation for why they go to the lake in any case. They are searching for water. Since honey bees take after the same pathways every day you have to watch them long enough to figure the course they are hailing from. At that point you can put a water basin or other compartment of water so they come to it before they get to the lake. Keep the water crisp and they will incline toward it.
Fold a piece of aluminum foil into a cup shaped 'bowl'. Fill it with ground coffee, and place a few lit coals on top of the coffee. Not only does the smoke turn away bees, it repels flies as well.
The smell may bother you a bit, but its worth it ;).
Rifle, poison, dynamite, or a backhoe.
Please don't kill the bees at your fish pond. They are drinking there because there is no other suitable water supply nearby. Bees are essential for the environment and are having enough problems surviving without having people deliberately killing them.
How do you want to get rid of them? If your pond has fish that you enjoy, or if garden birds and other animals are in the area, I advise you are better to keep the cranes there. Otherwise, don't taint the water by trying to kill the birds with poison and the such.
it can kill some fish or all of your fish if not treated right away
To Put A Fish in the Pond: You hold a fish standing next to the fish pond, then press A to drop the fish in the pond To Take a Fish out of the Pond: Stand in front of the brown sign at the pond. Press A and it will ask you what fish you want. Select the fish and you will be holding it.
If they are in a pond, then having trees that are taller away from the pond should help. If they are in an aquarium, you should use a surge protector
You could put a fence around your pond, just high enough so that you can get in but the raccoon can not . Or you do it the other way, which is to keep your fish out of the pond until the raccoon goes away.
No, not really. But if it eats you fish put it in a pond far away from you because it'll come back. Some may eat you fish but unless it looks big, and dodgy, it's okay.
Pond frogs mostly eat insects such as mosquiets flys and bees
There are many places to purchase pond fish. A local home improvement or garden store will be the easiest place to find pond fish. Also online retailers will offer pond fish.
An important person. "A big fish in a small pond" is someone who is only important compared to the people around him because there's not much competition.
in a lake/pond
If the pond is not deep, the fish can leave the pond. It is important to take good care of them or they will be tempted to leave.