By spraying a pesticide which you can buy at Lowe's Hardware or Home Depot. Bees are very important for pollination and I saw a program that the U.S. and Canada are experiencing a severe drop in bees and Beekeepers are finding dead bees in their hives. This is more serious than society can ever imagine. Phone a Beekeeper and have them take the problem away.
The answer will not only kill ground bees intantly, it will kill you too if you are not upwind. First, pour in some ammonia. Only after recapping the ammonia and rechecking the wind direction, only then, open the bleach, pour it in and get out of Dodge. The bees are extremely prone to chlorine gas as they breath through their skin. The only problem is that human lungs are equally prone to permentant damage. I have found this remedy to work 100% of the time for over 40 years.
Given the current bee crisis - and the huge reduction in bee populations across the country - many beekeepers will come get the bees/beehive for you. You just need to call them.
The first rule is do not do anything until it is dark, when the bees are back in the hive. The second rule (daylight) is do not wear yellow... they are attracted to it. The best color is light shades of khaki, and the other obvious things, such as no sugar drinks, etc.
Don't swat them, but just slowly fade back. If you swat and kill one, like many of the flying stinging pests, they emit a chemical "alarm" that brings others to the "rescue." If you get chased, generally speaking, they fly in straight lines, so zig-zag as you run.
Just pick a safe spot, and watch where they are all returning to locate the hive in the ground, log, etc. If it is off your property, like a ditch behind the fence, etc., you are on your own. If you call a private exterminator, they will not come unless it is on your property. If you call the park service, they usually will not come either.
The Environmentally Safe and Sane Way to Eliminate the Ground Nest
Make sure these are the black and yellow ground-dwelling social wasps (these are not bees) that are very aggressive and not "bee wolves" that hunt wasps (or the rusty-tinged cicada killers). The social vespid yellow jacket wasps are most dangerous in late summer, so if you are near a nest, find someone to deal with the nest who is not likely to have an anaphylactic reaction to being stung.
Wait until dark, when the bees are back in the nest. If you need to mark it, leave an old rag (neutral color) near the nest. Come back at dusk with a scrap of window screen and a pot of boiling water (a small electric water pot will do). Put the screen over the nest entrance and pour in the hot water. Most of the bees will be cooked, these bees do not like wet ground. Check for activity in the morning and repeat if necessary.
A friend, an ex-city employee, shared this info:
Make a big torch - just like all the movie stars use in the movies when they are exploring the cave. Approach the entrance to the hive (with your red filter over the flashlight, which is less alarming to bees), with your match ready to fire up the torch. Yes, rags with kerosene or other fuel that will last awhile after you light it (gasoline not a good choice). Light the torch, hold it down right over the hole entrance to hive, and when the bees come flying out, they burn up. It takes a while, but the hive will empty. Primitive, but effective.
Most bug spray ideas do not work. The torch does, and you will look like a hero to your kids or wife....If you have lots of bees flying "your way" - such as when you are out on the deck during the day - you are probably on the "fly-way" path of the bees. They use markers to navigate. If you move your deck furniture, or umbrella or all bright-colored items off your deck (or to different location on the deck itself), sometimes they will at least use a different route.
Other comments from WikiAnswers contributors:NOTE: Just to be safe, after you dump the bucket, RUN. You have about 10-20 sec. to leave the area before the bees will attack. Or, in other words, don't stay around to see the bees come out! Be sure to keep the soil soaked all times around the nest and entrance because the bees hate wet soil. And, the entrance should cave in from being wet, therefore, trapping the queen and most bees inside. the bees that are trapped outside the nest will eventually leave.
Also, bees hate mothballs. You may put them down the entrance hole and scatter them on top of the land right around the opening. You can also put the moth balls in a pantyhose or sock and hang it above the entrance. Also, you can also hang, at night, a bug-zapper above the entrance and run an extension cord to an outlet, but don't plug it in yet, plug it in in the morning and it will take a day or two, but it should work.
Smoke is usually used or an environmentally safe solution. I had these wasps burrowed under a huge English Ivy in my rockery and my husband and his friend went out in the evening (this is when wasps are at their most dormant time in a 24-hour period) and they used smoke canisters and then stuck a hose in and drowned them. Yes, bees and hornets can drown. However, I wouldn't suggest this and it's best to get an expert in to get rid of them once and for all.
I went back at night with a Coke bottle full of gasoline. Stepping lightly, I got next to the hole and stuck the inverted bottle in the hole and ran like hell. (I guess, if you have multiple holes, get friends and do it at the same time AT NIGHT.)
It is extremely important to do the above AT NIGHT when the colony is back in the hole!!! If you do it during the day, you are wasting your time because many of the bees are outside the nest, not to mention you are risking getting several stings (and believe me, they do hurt, not so much right away, but later on, they make up for it). Again, WHATEVER YOU DO TO KILL THE NEST, DO IT AT NIGHT!!!
Another fun one if you only have one bee nest; pour gasoline in hole, then throw M-80 or similar large explosive firecracker into hole, sit in lawn chair and watch the show
If, on the third day, there are still a few bees left, again, wait until night, then lay the garden hose next to the hole, turn the water on - low to medium flow - and let the hole fill up with water. Bye-bye, bees!
Contributors share information on what *NOT* to do to get rid of underground bees:
first, gasoline is EXTREMELY flammable at low temperatures... it's the vapor state that actually ignites and gasoline will vaporize at low temperatures!!!! So if it's a warm day (or night) and you pour gasoline down a hole, put down the can, light a match... you might be surprised as the surrounding area around the match ignites!!!! (no, it probably won't explode like on TV). If you needed to use a flammable, I suggest kerosene or some other flammable that does not vaporize so readily at room temperatures.
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most insectiside will but before you kill them remember bees are good for your garden. Why would you want to kill bees?
Bees kill other bees to protect the hive or to steal honey from other hives through a hole in the hive.
will cold weather kill carpenter bees
no carbon monoxide will not kill bees. It does slow them down though.
Yes, they are carnivore's, bees, mosquito's..
No, but some bumble bees do. In the wild honey bees would be in natural cavities such as holes in trees.
Most bumble bees live in suitable holes, such as abandoned mouse holes in the ground or in soil banks.
There is no laws that make it illegal to kill honey bees. However, the bees are getting endangered and they should not be killed.
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