I’m not a fan of using a lot of pesticides and insecticides.
Some of these chemicals are carcinogenic and could get troublesome after repeat exposure.
I surely wouldn’t want to think that I gave myself cancer by choice because I was too lazy to figure out ways to remove weeds and bugs from my yard. My grandparents used to spray those bug killers in their yard with shorts and flip flops on. Whenever the wind would change direction, the mist of insecticide would go upward and blast their entire body. I hope that the cancer that killed them both had nothing to do with these chemicals, but if there is even a sliver of a chance that it did, I don’t want to follow down the same path. When I have bee hives that are starting to get invasive in my garage or basement, I don’t reach for a can of bug spray to kill the bees. Instead, I always call a local bee removal company and they relocate the bee colony to a honey farm. They look for the queen in the hive and carefully remove it using a glove. Once the queen is placed within a trap box, the drones follow the queen and swarm into the box. After all of the bees have filled the box, the bee relocator shuts the lid and takes it to a honey farm. This way no bees are harmed and instead are simply taken to a location where they can thrive and create a product that we all know and love. I am happy to pay for bee relocation knowing the environmental benefit opposed to chemical extermination.