Thanks again everyone for your thoughts. Today's update is that I
went home at lunch and killed a total of 4.

#1 in the dining room above where the nest is - he was quite slow and
dazed.

# 2 was on the stairs down to the basement - he was quite lively but
didn't escape my duct-tape/newspaper smacking stick.

# 3 was dazed and floundering on the floor in the basement.

#4 dropped down from where the nest is - not dazed but I got him when
he landed on the floor.

From the dining room when I put my ear to the floor I could hear what
I can only describe as a "crunching" or "munching" sound from the nest
- like someone chewing popcorn with their mouth open.

I'm half-tempted to drill a few smaill holes in the drywall around the
nest and blast it with raid or that Sevin dust people were talking
about, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not, given that the
exterminator already put in some Ficam D.

I'll keep you posted.









(mike60510) wrote in message . com...
I had a similar problem with a nest next to my patio door. The nest
was under the siding and the entrance was close to the ground. I
placed the suction part of my leaf blower at the entrance to the nest.
The leaf blower would suck them up before they came back in or just
after the left. After about an hour my patio was filled with bee
parts. It took about three days with one hour at a time, by the third
day the bees coming out were very small. I'm not a bee guy but I
guess they started to pannic, sending any capable bee out to see why
no one is coming back. Good Luck