"alazar" wrote in message
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I've got ground (miner?) bees in the backyard. Generally there not a
bother as they seem totally uninterested in my family, but they are
expanding their range and digging up my lawn. I really just want them to
go elsewhere.

Any ideas on you to get rid of them?

My local garden store said to use an insecticide, but my wife does not
like that idea with the kids and I don't really want to kill them, just
get them to move. I was thinging of pulling up the whole lawn are and
mixing in some DE in with the topsoil (amending the soil a good deal at
the same time), and then reseeding the whole space. Man, that'd be a bit
of work tho.

I had the same situation last year. I'm not into killing everything that
moves, so I left them alone. Unfortunately, towards the end of the season,
they got rather aggressive. I forgot about them TWICE and flooded the area
with water. They came after me with a vengeance and I got stung all over my
arms and legs. I might be more likely to exterminate them if they took up
residence again in an area that I had to water or cultivate. If I had small
children, I would also consider getting rid of them.