Loads of bees!!!! Arghhhhhhh

cjb02

Well if they are in some one else's garden. there is nothing you can do about it apart from speak to your neighbour. However if the neighbour is unwilling to get some one to murder those sweet little bee's, then ringing up the council and playing up on any allergies as one poster suggested, wont do any good. Possibly addressing your phobia might be the best solution in this case.

ixwood

Phobias can be cured. Thinking they can't isn't very positive. The change MegansMum had in that thread when she got a new determined positive attitude was amazing. Have you read it?

AJS71

cjb02 wrote: »

Well if they are in some one else's garden. there is nothing you can do about it apart from speak to your neighbour. However if the neighbour is unwilling to get some one to murder those sweet little bee's, then ringing up the council and playing up on any allergies as one poster suggested, wont do any good. Possibly addressing your phobia might be the best solution in this case.

The council won't kill bees - they will smoke them out which will force them to look for a new home, the suggestion about allergies was to get a quicker response rather than being fobbed off. It is wasps that they kill as they are so vicious when disturbed.

RAS

Hi

Bees prefer to fly south east. If there is something high in their route, they will fly upwards and then continue on their journey.

Could you wait until very late at night, then install a high barrier inside your garden which forces them to gain height. As long as you do it when they are asleep they will learn very quickly to maintain height on the return journey until they reach the right place, then drop down to go throught the bush.

Just keep out of the garden for the first day or so.

or find your local bee keeper's association and they will find out what sort of bee and move them if possible.

buxtonrabbitgreen

I sort of know how you feel. I am petrified of cows. Luckily you don't find many in the garden. I do like walking in the countryside and well detour many miles to avoid a field with a cow in.

chez22

buxtonrabbitgreen wrote: »

I sort of know how you feel. I am petrified of cows. Luckily you don't find many in the garden. I do like walking in the countryside and well detour many miles to avoid a field with a cow in.

Don't you believe it, the cows in the field behind my mum's house fancied a party in her garden and broke in! A whole herd of bullocks. And that was pretty much her reaction when she saw the destruction they'd left behind!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Perhaps you should visit your GP and explain how this phobia makes it impossible to function normally - there are treatments available on the NHS nowdays for such debilitating psychiatric conditions.

I'm not scared of anything animal related. However, I want to run away when faced with bog standard circus clowns. It's not a nice feeling, but I can keep on top of it as a result of meditation (ie, breathe slowly, thinking this will pass) so I'm not unsympathetic even if I sound so.

Davesnave

As RAS has said, if you are that concerned, it's up to you to install a bee proof barrier on your side of the fence. e.g. fine netting on a frame. You no right to control what happens on the other side, so the people suggesting that you can, may be wrong.

I'm sure the bees will then take the next best route, but bees will be bees.

Wkdwill

Sorry ive only just got back to this thread, I seem to be glued to the ebay one at the moment.

We have put a "barrier" up actually, the same day I started this thread, its one of those bamboo screening things, we have it all the way round our garden now but only got round to doing that side this week. It has stopped most of them from being able to get through the bush from our side but they dont seem to be interested in just going away, they seem to be hanging about in our garden now.

Luckily its not been nice enough to be out in the garden for a few days but I can still see them hovering about by my living room window, im sure they are doing it for my sake, either that or they are watching the tv.

I have actually been to my GP about it in the past, but I was just fobbed off and told people have phobias, get over it, very proffessional of him. I supose it will be harder to sort when its not just bees, its wasps, flies, spiders, the lot of them really. They dont seem interested at my GP's but im sure ill have to go again, I cant be having these phobias when I have kids, they will only pick up on it and end up acting the same.

Im sure everyone around me finds it amusing though, I was once taken to a Butterfly garden (before I knew how bad I was) and I ran out screaming. An ex never took my fear of spiders seriously, until one day he put a dead one in front of my face and I punched him, it was just a reaction to what he did, I dont go around punching people. I once spent a weekend on the sofa because I saw a spider run across my bed.

Yes I read the thread, thanks.

KimYeovil

If you are scared of insects why did you move to a home with a garden? You could move to a city centre flat (although cockroaches and silverfish..) Let your partner and child enjoy their garden.

It is incredible the number of people who want to destroy things. Church bells, pubs, farms, trees - if you don't like churches, don't buy a house near one; if you don't like pubs or music, don't buy a flat above one; if you don't like the smell of manure, don't live by a farm; if you don't like electric lighting, don't buy a house near trees.

If you don't like insects, then you can't enjoy gardens. Don't destroy a garden just because you are unable to address your phobia.