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Are you sure they are honey bees and not wood boring bees? The wood boring bees are a little smaller and instead of being yellow/black/yellow they are black/yellow/black. I'm pretty sure neither of the two actually sting but they bite and it hurts even worse lol.
I always get stuck dealing with bees cause I never seem to get stung. I remember dealing with Cicada Killer Wasps once - those things were about 3" long. I just stuck a Blockbuster by the nest.

If you use starting fluid or brake parts cleaner on the nest, you can stun them for a little while. I am 99% sure starting fluid doesn't harm them and brake parts cleaner only seems to harm them if it hits their wings.


And I am not sure about the smoke thing. I've never tried smoke but I have tried one of those chemical fire extinguishers and that didn't work. It made them angrier haha.