nighttime honeybee behavior

Jun 12, 2007 00:07

i have a nest inside the wall of my garage, which is part of my house (they enter through a hole in the siding). beekeepers came early in the week with some machine and now there's some kind of yellow-mesh over the hole, but the honeybees are still around. my landlord is dealing with the issue and i don't really know what's next; i think they're planning to come back for the hive and take the bees to an orchard? anyway, i just went to my kitchen and found about seven honeybees. i had left the garage door open for the cool air, and i think they must be coming inside that way? i saw one hanging onto the windowshade in there. i closed the door rather quickly, so i don't know if there are lots more in the garage or not. regardless, i found plenty in the kitchen on the inside of the screen door and closed the sliding glass on them. i wish they would crawl around to the other side of the screen and find the way out, but alas insects never seem to find the easy exit we want them to take. moreover the bees seem quite sleepy as it's nighttime. they do seem pretty calm. i'm wondering if you guys know anything about nighttime bee behavior. like, if it's fifty degrees and dark outside, do i have a chance to get stung? can i just go out there, open the sliding glass door gently, and then open the screen gently and maybe they'll be okay finding their way? can i go in my garage late at night and see how many are in there without getting stung? i heard they can't navigate at night, but i'm not sure if that's true.

honeybees do good and they aren't aggressive, like yellow jackets (die die die). i don't want to hurt them (i did, however, kill the one sitting on my floor because i freaked a bit when i saw it). but i'm scared of them. this whole experience of having to walk past their hive-space everyday has calmed my irrational fear a bit, but the thought of opening that glass door makes my heart pump very hard. help.
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