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Old 09-09-2024, 03:27 PM
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In your backyard you have a:

- transformer
- internet cable plastic dome to house the internet cable
- telephone plastic dome to house a landline connection

While weeding in the yard I looked at the 20 year old internet cable plastic dome and it was covered with bees. Maybe about 300 bees. They had made a hole in the plastic and were darting in and out.

Who is the company that owns this plastic dome?
 
Old 09-09-2024, 03:42 PM
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Anyone have the name of the Bee whisper, that can save the Bees and help out OP
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In your backyard you have a:

- transformer
- internet cable plastic dome to house the internet cable
- telephone plastic dome to house a landline connection

While weeding in the yard I looked at the 20 year old internet cable plastic dome and it was covered with bees. Maybe about 300 bees. They had made a hole in the plastic and were darting in and out.

Who is the company that owns this plastic dome?
If you're referring to a Century Link box, don't even bother trying to get in touch with them. After two days of trying, I finally got a real person on the other end of the call. Their English was horrible, they didn't understand what I was telling them about a broken box in my yard. They kept telling me I don't have service and they can sign me up for whatever deal they were offering.

After 20 minutes of nonsense I hung up, grabbed a pry-bar and a screw driver and fixed it myself. It was just literally broken, the side wall had snapped off the box and I had to dig some weeds and a dead frog out so I could snap it back into place.

If they are honey bees, call a skep. If they're wasps or hornets, just wait til winter when nights drop below 50°. Wasps abandon their nests in the winter. You can just pull the hive out at that point.
 
Old 09-09-2024, 07:47 PM
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In your backyard you have a:

- transformer
- internet cable plastic dome to house the internet cable
- telephone plastic dome to house a landline connection

While weeding in the yard I looked at the 20 year old internet cable plastic dome and it was covered with bees. Maybe about 300 bees. They had made a hole in the plastic and were darting in and out.

Who is the company that owns this plastic dome?
Who is your internet supplier, I would start there. Next if you do not have internet (by cable) ask your neighbors who they use, these boxes tend to be the same supplier, and call the cable company to explain the problem.
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I would vote if they are not bothering you then don’t bother them? I would be surprised if any company you called that owned the equipment would even care, IMO.
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Old 09-10-2024, 04:40 AM
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In my experience with bees over the years, that many bees outside the box would suggest they have just swarmed, or part of the existing hive is about to swarm.
 
Old 09-10-2024, 06:11 AM
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It's not your problem. That company certainly doesn't care, why should you? Those bees aren't going to hurt you.

I had a compost bin at my old place in Texas. I removed the lid one morning to throw in some yard debris, and discovered it had been colonized since the last time I opened it. It must have looked like a ready-made hive to a bee.

But even as I a stood there, looking down into the hive, holding the lid with honeycombs still attached, not a single bee thought to attack me. They were all just freaking out over their queen, which I could plainly see on top of the pile, next to a comb that had fallen from the lid. I carefully replaced the lid and left them alone.

A couple of days later, I decided to buy a hive and try to give them a proper home. So I went to check on them (before I laid out the bucks -- hives aren't cheap!). They were all gone.
 
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You might try to contact The Villages Beekeepers Club. If yours are honey bees, there's probably a local beekeeper who'd appreciate adding them to his hive(s).

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Leave them Bee....
 
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If you're referring to a Century Link box, don't even bother trying to get in touch with them. After two days of trying, I finally got a real person on the other end of the call. Their English was horrible, they didn't understand what I was telling them about a broken box in my yard. They kept telling me I don't have service and they can sign me up for whatever deal they were offering.

After 20 minutes of nonsense I hung up, grabbed a pry-bar and a screw driver and fixed it myself. It was just literally broken, the side wall had snapped off the box and I had to dig some weeds and a dead frog out so I could snap it back into place.

If they are honey bees, call a skep. If they're wasps or hornets, just wait til winter when nights drop below 50°. Wasps abandon their nests in the winter. You can just pull the hive out at that point.
noun: skep; plural noun: skeps; noun: skip; plural noun: skips
a straw or wicker beehive.
archaic
a wooden or wicker basket.
"three skeps of vegetables"
 
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Call Beekeeper Jake at 352-348-2276 and will come get them.
 
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Yard service ran into my cable box tower and cracked it. A snake took up residence in it. I called Xfinity to ask them to come out and replace the cover but the guy on the phone could read an English script but couldn't actually understand English. He kept asking me to reboot my set top box. I finally got passed to a supervisor who understood what I was asking. He said they'd come out but I had to take care of the snake myself. They never showed up and I fixed it with some 100 mph tape (duct tape for you civilians).
 
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It's not your problem. That company certainly doesn't care, why should you? Those bees aren't going to hurt you.

I had a compost bin at my old place in Texas. I removed the lid one morning to throw in some yard debris, and discovered it had been colonized since the last time I opened it. It must have looked like a ready-made hive to a bee.

But even as I a stood there, looking down into the hive, holding the lid with honeycombs still attached, not a single bee thought to attack me. They were all just freaking out over their queen, which I could plainly see on top of the pile, next to a comb that had fallen from the lid. I carefully replaced the lid and left them alone.

A couple of days later, I decided to buy a hive and try to give them a proper home. So I went to check on them (before I laid out the bucks -- hives aren't cheap!). They were all gone.
That’s pretty cool.
 
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I would vote if they are not bothering you then don’t bother them? I would be surprised if any company you called that owned the equipment would even care, IMO.
Here in The Villages I RARELY see a honey bee and those bigger bumble bees that you see up north - I may have seen ONE in 20 years. The Villages sprays to kill mosquitoes and, apparently, must kill off a lot of bees. So, if I had any bees in our yard, I would leave them alone and HOPE that they survive.
 
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