Safety guidelines to consider while waiting on the bee removal.
As beekeepers, we are fully aware of the risks of bee poison to the human body - especially when working with a hive that typically has between 30 000 to 60 000 bees. What about you, your family or your clients? What can you do to keep them safe?
Keep away from the area where they settled:
Permanently stationed at the entrance of a hive are guard bees.
Any movement or sound that they perceive to be threatening – are investigated. And when needs be, driven away through stinging.
For the safety of your family or your clients, rather cordon off the zone make sure no one moves in the “flight path” of the bees – or are in line with the visibility of the entrance where the bees land.
Do not attempt to kill the bees:
The Cape Honey Bee is a protected species.
Attempting to kill them can result in terrible legal consequences – and not just that, trying to unsettle a swarm of bees is not just risking your own life, but also the lives of those in the immediate area:
After agitating them, you might be able to run or get away with one or two stings – but once agitated, the bees will pick on people in the area, passers by, children, elderly with no where to escape while being attacked by angered bees.
If the bees sting someone who is allergic to bee poison – it can be fatal.
