Around May 23rd or so (date pretty foggy there) I was out working in my garden and thought I heard bees buzzing by. I looked around but didn't think anything of it.
May 26th I was out in the back yard again and knew I heard bees. I looked around and saw that we had bees who had decided "su casa es me casa!"
I love bees but I know that hubby is highly allergic and while having bees in a hive is awesome (honey!) having bees in your wall is not awesome. So right off I contact a friend of mine who keeps bees who upon hearing that the bees are in my wall has me contact John, who has me contact Stuart. Stuart says he has an opening on June 2nd...do I want it? um yeah!
Today Stuart opens up the soffit
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| hive after opening up soffit |
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| after vacuuming off most of the bees |
Funny, at first the bees were flying mostly around where the hive used to be, but after a while they figured out where the queen was and stayed by her...some fanning her with their wings.
After lunch, vacuumed out the rest of the bees in the soffit, and started putting it back together. now the soffit is all sealed back up and the bees are on their way to a new home...I don't know where. But Stuart said that last year he had to provide his own bee removal service because one of his swarms had decided to move into his own house. :D I hope this swarm behaves better for him.
oh no honey in our hive...so no honey for anyone.
I didn't realize they vacuumed them! That is so interesting. And very thoughtful of your bees to give you a front row view of the proceedings. :)
ReplyDeleteI watched a lot of bee swarm removal videos online and I know that not everyone uses a vacuum for them, but some do. It didn't look like the set up was all that complicated.
Deleteall that comb only fit on one frame.
and yeah we thought it was very cool to have that great view. A friend at church was worried about us getting stung, but we weren't outside much...and even then these bees were pretty calm.