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Right now it is Peak B season.
CBS's Ariana Cohen followed
a guy known as Bee Man Dan,
who shows us how to rescue
and rehabilitate these.
Rather than exterminate them,
it's peak B season here in San Diego,
I spoke with Bee Man Dan who showed
us the process of how to safely
remove bees and some home remedies.
B Man Dan has been a bee Wrangler as
he likes to call it for more than 15
years I've been strong and sometimes
I put on the bee suit to learn how
to safely rescue and remove bees.
Rather than exterminate them,
it's hard to find the
queen right, so potentially in this
hive there could be 30 to 50,000 bees
and for myself it's like watching.
It's like playing where's Waldo where
everyone's Waldo with with with a queen
that doesn't even have a crown a little bit
closer. I'm on top of the roof.
Now with the man Dan,
and we're using a smoker to calm the
bees before we safely remove them.
Helps chase them off
because as soon as they move,
first move in, they want that.
If you can display some,
make them feel uncomfortable.
They're like screw this.
We're out here.
This process is pretty involved,
so we have to take apart her roof tiles.
Cut open the plywood,
and then reveal the hive and
then from there sounds horrible.
But we kidnapped the babies and
that's how we get the bees to move
from her roof to one of our boxes.
We kidnap the babies, the bees.
All the babies the Queen
eventually follows the
bees. This is the first
step of the removal process.
We found the bees inside the roof
and now we will safely remove them.
Bee Man Dan also has some home remedies.
You can try to remove these from your
home which include using a smoker,
essential oils, diluted bleach solution
or vinegar, but the fumes of the of
the vinegar is just. It's just like us.
If you puff vinegar in your face,
you're like yeah, but this thing
is a hot sticky. Yes, since
bees pollinate what we eat.
Dan says it's important to
keep them alive and eventually
bring them to a new home.
If we've rescued every single hive that
we've ever showed up to, because it's
always possible. If you find
yourself with a bee problem,
we have bee man dance
contact info on our website.
Ariana Cohen, CBS a.
