Bye Bee Bye

So apparently the way to remove a bees nest without destroying it is to get your hands on giant joss sticks that burn for hours and pop a couple underneath the nest. The smoke is not dangerous to the little fellas, but they don't like it and think that they are in danger so they eat the honey and vacate to set up home elsewhere. It apparently takes about 8 hours for them all to leave, but if you do it early enough in the day then it gives them plenty of time to send out a squad to find a suitable spot to rebuild. So with that in mind, we spent all of yesterday scooting around Dubai looking for giant joss sticks. Could we find them? No.

Sadly, time ran out for the colony today. Security organised pest control without our approval and they were waiting on our doorstep when we came back from the mall this morning.

Despite arriving with a smoke-type machine, they claimed to not want to kill the bees either. Wearing nothing but rubber gloves for protection, one guy wrapped the nest in a bag and the other cut it down. He said he was going to release them all once he was out of the range of people & homes. I'm not 100% convinced that the smoke-type machine wouldn't get fired up as soon as they were outside, but hey-ho lets home I'm wrong.

Because all this happened late morning, there are a whole load of forager bees out doing their thang, coming home, somewhat confused. We've had to spray the wall with a bug spray to get them to move on. Hopefully they will find an existing nest to join and call home.