How To Get Rid Of Bees In Swimming Pool
The top basic needs of bees are pollen grains, nectar, shelter and water. That is why you can usually find a bee hive near a garden or a meadow with abundant foliage and water resources. If you have both a flowering garden and a pool in your home, you might be a perfect home for honey bees. Bees regularly fly from one place to another in search for their new home. If your location can provide all their basic needs, chances are you will be visited by the bees.
If you are a homeowner of a house with a pool on your backyard, during this swarming season, a bee swarm may have paid your pool a visit. If the number of bees that have arrived in your home is just a couple of them, then this can represent two things. First is that they are just hovering around and may not be staying long. Second is that they are signaling for other bees to come to your home. 
The first sight of bees does not mean that they would automatically form a hive near your pool. Before you start to do some action, just leave them for some time and check every now and then if their number is growing. Once you hear some wild buzzing sound, first thing you should do is to secure the people and animals at your home away from the coming swarm. Let the bees settle first before you start to shoo them away. Otherwise, they may not feel your warm welcome and even sting you.
When you see honeycombs forming on the swarm of bees, that is a big sign that they will be your neighbors. If the bees have really settled in your pool for good, then you are quite safe to come out and do some tricks to remove them from your pool. Here are some simple guides that can help you get rid of bees in your pool.
The best thing you can do is to drain the water in your pool. Bees need water and if the pool is filled with clean water, there is lots of supply for the bees’ survival. If you drain the pool of water, there will be no more resources for the bees. Once they realize this, they will be discouraged to stay in your pool.
If you cannot let the water go away, another trick you can do is to create pool waves. Bees like tranquility and if the water in your pool is not still, the bees will not like it. If you have jets in your pool, simply turn them on and it will disturb the swarming bees.
You can also opt to simply put a cover on your pool. Just be sure that the bees cannot really have access to it. If they do not have access to water, they will find a new place to build a hive on.
Pouring some chemicals on the water can shoo those bees away too. However, this is not the safest and you might also need to drain your pool of water even after the bees have gone away. Just pour some chlorine, vinegar or some other solution that will make the water taste undesirable for bees.
If bees have settled in other parts of your home, you can read getting rid of swarms without killing bees for more information.
Regarding bees around a swimming pool (CY-KICK):
Last summer my mom had a problem with bees constantly stopping over to get water for their hive out of her pool. She lives in Phoenix, AZ on a lot that backs up to some desert open space. At first there were a few bees here and there maybe every hour when you were out enjoying the pool which is typical no big deal. Then one day my mom called me and told me there were hundreds of bees constantly swooping down for water. I couldn’t believe this because I have never heard of this. Sure enough when I came by her house a few days later there was a steady stream of bees flying in and out with at least 100 at a time if not more all around the back side of the pool. It was so bad you had to wait until evening to go swimming because they were there from sun up to sun down. So we were told by our pest control guy that they had just found a new water source and should only be there short term maybe a few days and move on. Nope. Weeks went by. I tried soap and water. Waste of time. I tried wasp spray that you can get at the local hardware store. Sure it worked for those that where there, but after those died more bees just kept coming. I didn’t know what to do outside of hunting down the hive. Good luck with that right. Then one night it occurred to me. Why not treat the Pebble Tech walls and the cool decking the bees were landing on with the same stuff I have been using for scorpion control around my house? CY-KICK! Guess what? It worked!!! I went our early in the morning before the bees started coming out and sprayed around the pool. That same day the bee numbers drastically decreased to only the odd few and within a couple days they were gone. Either they picked up a chemical signal that the pool was no longer a safe place or those that tried the pool ended up dying and couldn’t tell the rest of the hive about the water source anymore. For those of you that think killing bees is a terrible thing I do agree as they certainly serve a purpose, but when they are Africanized bees within close proximity to humans and pets they can be quite dangerous. I didn’t want to mess around I just wanted them gone. I hope this helps someone else that encounters this issue because it sure solved my mom’s bee problem around the pool. As for the scorpions at my house the CY-Kick seems to be helping in that area too. I highly recommend the product. Good look and I hope this post helps someone else out there.
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