Here is yet another response to misinformation claiming Hot Pepper will kill honey bees. First of all, you cannot believe everything you read on the Internet with so many sites are nothing more than someone's opinion.
Second, hot pepper (capsaicin) does not kill bees. Capsaicin as a spray seems to act like an insect repellant, however, locked into a cylinder, capsaicin is not going to affect anything except for mammals attempting to eat it.
Acaricidal composition and use thereof in disinfesting treatments!
https://www.google.com/patents/US5227162
(Treating mites in Honey Bees by using capsaicin. Acaricidal refers to mites.)
