How can we get bees out of a birdhouse without hurting them?

Unless it's a Purple Martin bird house, it wouldn't be large enough for a colony of honey bees, so you probably just have a "foul tempered box of buzzy and stingy things". If your bird house is tight, you might be able to sneak a cork in the entrance at night and move them. What I really want, is to video and upload to You-Tube one of these 'answerer's' trying to smoke them, it would be hysterical and painfull !! Smoke will only calm an otherwise healthy happy colony of domestic honeybees anything else is going to be really pissed-off !! One more thing, when you remove a queen for any reason or if she dies of natural causes the worker bees just make a new one. RScott

Can't you just cutdown / remove the birdhouse if it's possible (i.e. is it one of those port-o-birdhouses?). If that's possible to do so, then just call a pest specialist and give them the bee-infested birdhouse and they can take care of the rest. If you want another birdhouse just build one again... but make sure to eliminate anything that caused the infestation in the first place (i.e. sweet substances like sugar / honey, etc.)

Second option is to place a bowl of vinegar (?) near the birdhouse for a week and a half (I'm not quite sure to what extent of efficiency this plan works but it was my mothers method before). And hopefully the bees will move on to another nesting location.

Good luck.

Carpenter bees? The heck with pollination. They don't give a darn what realestate they ruin so I'd get rid of them pronto!

However, smoke calms bees so that hey can be handled and their hive/queen moved but i don't think you should try this if you don't know what you are doing or lack the protective gear in case wood isn't the only thing they like to chew on. be careful !

warning! do no longer try this at domicile! Get a quart of ammonia and a quart of bleach. united statesa. each and each yet bypass away them capped tightly. Get a shovel full of airborne dirt and dust. Have all of those close adequate to the hollow to be reachable, yet a techniques adequate to be secure-ish...approximately 15 feet. placed on long pants and a hoodie jacket with the hood tied tight. Wrap a damp towel around your face, overlaying your nostril and mouth. Pour the bleach down the hollow. Now, appearing rapidly & with out respiratory, pour the ammonia down the hollow & then cover the hollow with the airborne dirt and dust. in case you are attempting this interior the night, numerous the bees would be interior.

Get a bee keeper. They'll take the queen bee away and all the other bees will fallow. No harm done.

pump smoke into the birdhouse. this will calm them down and basically put them to sleep. you can then very gently remove them. it would be a good idea to keep the smoking source nearby tho, just in case they start to wake up

Smoke will make them sleepy. Cold will also put them to sleep. I would move the birdhouse, and get another one.

Smoke them out. It seems to drive them out, without making them aggressive.

Good Luck!

Smoke them out.But be careful

I wouldn't even try to save them. You never know when one sting will kill you.