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I was reading about how to get rid of bees when I saw that one of them said to suck about 5-10 of them up with a vacuum and they won’t come back. I just wanted to know if it worked before I tried it so I didn’t ruin my vacuum cleaner.
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As social insects, bees divide labor between the members of the colony. In general, each bee is designated to a specific feeding area. The more food in that particular area, the more bees are recruited to feed there. It’s actually the scout that locates the food source that indicates its size, and determines how many individuals need to collect from it.
In theory, if you suck up the bees that feed from your feeder it will take a while before the food source is rediscovered by scouts and bees start feeding there again. So really, it’s a pretty temporary solution. If you provide flowers near the feeder, they will often prefer the flowers and leave the feeder alone.
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