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A neighbor has bees flying in and out of a hole in her wall. Do y'all think these are scouts or residents?
As luck would have it, the left-most thingy in that cluster of lights is a Ring camera, and the first motion-triggered video from yesterday or today is this, from about an hour before I took my video:
https://ring.com/share/6807881102445360882
In this case, the motion trigger was the homeowner coming out to look at the bees.
Is it reasonable to think that a full-on move-in event would have triggered the motion detection.
I'm going to work on the assumption that I got there in time, and that these are still scouts. I used the last of my Bee-Quick on an eviction a few days ago, and my new bottle hasn't arrived from amazon yet, but I was able to put a few drops onto a rag and stuff it into that cavity, but 1) it's not nearly enough for an eviction, and 2) I'm not sure that I got it "behind" wherever the bees are, if it's a colony, because I can't see into the wall.
Anyway, I've put a baited box as close as possible to that hole, and I do have a few drops of Bee-Quick in that wall now, so I'm hoping they're scouts, and I'm hoping they choose my box instead the wall.
They're right around the corner from where I live, so I'll return after sundown and seal up that hole with some clear plastic and duct tape. If there's a colony in there, I'm assuming that I'd see 10,000 bees on the plastic tomorrow morning, no?
What do y'all think?
As luck would have it, the left-most thingy in that cluster of lights is a Ring camera, and the first motion-triggered video from yesterday or today is this, from about an hour before I took my video:
https://ring.com/share/6807881102445360882
In this case, the motion trigger was the homeowner coming out to look at the bees.
Is it reasonable to think that a full-on move-in event would have triggered the motion detection.
I'm going to work on the assumption that I got there in time, and that these are still scouts. I used the last of my Bee-Quick on an eviction a few days ago, and my new bottle hasn't arrived from amazon yet, but I was able to put a few drops onto a rag and stuff it into that cavity, but 1) it's not nearly enough for an eviction, and 2) I'm not sure that I got it "behind" wherever the bees are, if it's a colony, because I can't see into the wall.
Anyway, I've put a baited box as close as possible to that hole, and I do have a few drops of Bee-Quick in that wall now, so I'm hoping they're scouts, and I'm hoping they choose my box instead the wall.
They're right around the corner from where I live, so I'll return after sundown and seal up that hole with some clear plastic and duct tape. If there's a colony in there, I'm assuming that I'd see 10,000 bees on the plastic tomorrow morning, no?
What do y'all think?