Advice needed on huge bee and ant invasions in my yard.

[alfie]

1. Did the bees or ants sting or bite you?

Yellow jackets and fire ants are my only enemies of those two groups of critters. When ants get somewhere I don't want them, like my kitchen, I spray the area lightly with orange oil and they leave. I don't see a bunch of dead ones, they just seem to go away. Yellow jackets I just have to to try and avoid. If your bees are honey bees, a beekeeper might be glad to come and get the swarm. The ants may well be helping clean up the debrie from last year's weeds. I used orange oil on my pea trellis when ants were herding aphids on them one year and it did the job without harming the plants.

Don't know if that helps you...hope so.