AIBee-ing Unreasonable?
YABU - calm down, pay again and trust the beekeeper
YANBU - get a second opinion
Any bee experts here?
We had bees in our roof a few weeks ago. They were going in through the tiles and building comb between the tiles and the membrane. Paid over £1000 for scaffolding and bee removal. The nice beekeeper man put the tiles back on the roof for us.
Unfortunately, he didn't finish cementing up the tiles on the side of the gable (right at the apex of the roof), leaving a fairly decent-sized hole (I think 30cm across and 4cm high).
We noticed last Friday that we had a lot of Scout bees going in and out of this hole. We tried covering this hole with a towel but bees were still able to go in through there, but were now also trying to get in through vents (which have got grills on the other side to prevent bees getting into the loft) and between our roof tiles.
By Sunday, the whole swarm had returned. On Monday, the beekeeper came and said there's no rescuing these bees. He cemented up the hole and put poison in the vents.
It's now Tuesday and there are still a lot of bees trying to get in by any means. What started as them trying to get in through a gap left by the beekeeper/bee remover man, has ended up with them trying to invade by any means necessary.
The beekeeper man has said he'll come back and put down more poison and put grills on the outside, but now I'm worried: have these bees left us open to more swarms coming back?
Questions for any bee experts:
Will the remaining bees be building honey comb that could damage our house?
Will the bees have left bee pheromones that will attract more bees to come to our roof?
We've only just moved in but if we're on the hook to spend £1k a month on bee removal, we'll have to sell up.
Is this our cost to carry, considering this new swarm initially made their home in the hole that he left, even though they are now trying to get in through other ways?