just-wait
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My stable block has been colonised by some lovely bumble bees. Not the really large ones, but the small ones. I think they have two nests behind the boards in two of the stables. It sounds like you are in a bee hive when in the stables. But the horses are not at all bothered and neither am I. I have a few liveries and a couple of them look really worried when in the stables although they haven't said anything negative about the bees, but it is clear they are frightened of them. I don't want to get pest control in to destroy the bees as I think they are essential for our ecosystem, and they are not in the slightest bit aggressive. The horses are totally chilled. I intend to wait until winter and then block up the holes, but would I be shutting them inside? Would they be hibernating in there? Just don't know what to do. If I didn't have liveries, I wouldn't do anything TBH. The horses are out 24/7 in the summer in any case, but when they came in the other night due to the awful rain, they were totally cool with the bees. WWYD? We are talking about a maximum of 3 bees flying around a stable at any one time.