![]() If you dig the nests (with the surrounding earth) you can possibly destroy a part of them. Moving a whole aggregation is hard to do. Individual nesting females fly for a certain time in the season and they die but an aggregation as a whole is perennial - new generations of bees nest in the same place they developed. Is the nest a single hole in the ground, or is it aggregation of individual nests (small holes)? If the latter, then your neighbour has an aggregation of solitary bees (or social sweat bee nests but their life cycle is often very similar). So if it really comes down to moving them by force, does anyone know how I would go about doing so with the fewest casualties? ![]() We had a little nest of a tiny unknown bee ( this was pre-iNat for me) and I thought they would be a mainstay under my stoop, but it was just a one-year thing. Should I advise her to just wait it out? I was under the impression that they create new nests every year and will probably move on. My other thought is that we probably only have another month or so before we get a frost. I am guessing the fruit luring method is just to attract individual bees away? ![]() But I can’t imagine a whole nest of bees moving to where the fruit is. I think the neighbor would be willing to do this - she doesn’t mind the bees - just doesn’t want them next to the path. There are some websites that say to lure them away with fruit little by little. I’d happily relocate them to my yard to avoid killing them if I had any idea of how to go about doing so. Someone in my neighborhood says they have a “sweat bee” ground nest near their walkway that they want moved.
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