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Demo Pest Control offers:
- One-time or as-needed extermination of honey bees and wasps at your home, business, or property
- Technicians who wear protective clothing so we can get right up to the nesting site and therefore use minimal, and often, no pesticides
- Preventive treatments at favorite nesting spots or potential nesting spots
- Sealing of entry points and potential nesting spots
- Capture and relocation of honey bees when requested
- Removal of siding, drywall, flooring to remove bees and wasps and hives
*replacement of siding, drywall, flooring after removal is customer responsibility
- You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
- Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
- Between 20,000 and 60,000 bees live in a single hive.
- Worker bees will fly p to 9 miles to find pollen and nectar, flying at speeds as fast as 15 mph.
- A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar.
- On an average day, a queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs.
- Honeybees navigate using the sun as a compass, even when it is hidden behind clouds - they find it via the polarization of ultraviolet light from areas of blue sky.
- Out of 20,000 species of bees, only 4 make honey.
- Wasps eat caterpillars, flies, crickets, and other pests.
- Bees only feed on nectar for the carbohydrates and on pollen for protein. All available on flowers.
- Wasps and bumble bees can sting you more than once; honey bees die after stinging once.
- Treat stings with things like ice, vinegar, honey, meat tenderizer or ointments.
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