Updating post from Reddit.
This guy? (it appeared like that in reddit!).
But in seriousness, let the landlord know as i would think it comes under the 'property repair' aspect which they are responsible.
My understanding is that if you had just moved in then it would be the Landlords responsability, otherwise pests are the tenants responsability to deal with in a "tenant like manor".
However Bees? Do a bit of googleing, their are people that come and remove them for free if they can have them.
I had bees at my house, I just ignored them and now they are gone. They are seasonal and go about there business often not bothering anyone (unless the person gets flustered and hits them)
> unless the person gets flustered and hits them)
This - when a bee is crushed or injured, it gives out a smell that makes all the other bees angry. Just don't crush them and you'll be fine.
Spot on - we had a swarm start up in a tree right outside and we called the local apiary society and a guy was round within an hour.
He was making £200 from it as there was another guy he knew who wanted a new queen and they arranged a deal.
Said this on another comment but thought I'd put it here too:
"I had bees at my house, I just ignored them and now they are gone. "
Please don't do this - ignoring a feral hive in a house can be a recipe for damage to your home. If they stay there and set up a hive they can (and almost certainly eventually will) then succumb to varroa mites which are endemic to the UK now. The remaining bees then abscond the hive potentially which leaves a big old empty hive full of honey for various pests to make merry hell with.
It's a nightmare that can do a massive amount of damage to a house. Wax moths eat the wax (they always find their way in), letting out the honey that can then drip through the house attracting all sorts of other things.
They were somewhere in the garden decking not in the house.
How interesting, it's obvious now I know.
Oh fair enough then!
Find your local bee keepers. They usually have some sort of club or association going. Whoever's near & in need of bees will come, identify their queen, put her in a sort of little plastic prison, put that in a box & let the bees come into the box around her, and then transport it away to a hive where they can live happily. Don't call in pest control - bees are in decline in the UK & once they're gone, most of our food is gone, and then we're gone.
Ignore them and they’ll disappear when it gets cold. Report them and they’ll be killed.
Please don't do this - ignoring a feral hive in a house can be a recipe for damage to your home. If they stay there and set up a hive they can (and almost certainly eventually will) then succumb to varroa mites which are endemic to the UK now. The remaining bees then abscond the hive potentially which leaves a big old empty hive full of honey for various pests to make merry hell with.
It's a nightmare that can do a massive amount of damage to a house. Wax moths eat the wax (they always find their way in), letting out the honey that can then drip through the house attracting all sorts of other things.