4-6-12 Outside Wall

This colony had been in this wall for a couple of years.

The odd looking square cut in the siding to the right is where a door use to be. It had been removed and the siding placed over the opening.

This is the wall covering that was under the siding. You can also see the door and old door opening in the picture.

4-3-12 Bay Window Roof

The fellow on the ladder is Jacob our newest helper. He's working out quite well so far this year. The colony despite the looks is absolutely HUGE! The bees/hive just kept going back into the roof. We ended up using 2 baskets to collect all the bees and I put them into a double deep hive when we got back to the bee yard. I'd easily say there were 40 - 50 thousand bees in this newly established colony.

3-29-12 Siding

Here is a somewhat small (15,000 or so bees) colony in this concession stand wall. There were several thousand dead bees inside the building.

2-27-12 Bay Window

There is plenty of room in bay windows. Here is a new colony that just moved into the bottom or floor of this bay window.

3-14-12 Wall

Here is a typical wall removal. I also included the finish of the job. We don't do finish work (sanding/painting). The home owner will have to come back after the joint compound or "mud" dries and sand the joints. They will then need to reapply some more joint compound and sand again. The last thing they will need to do is paint.

3-14-12 Bee Tree

Bee trees really stink. I generally give an honest effort to remove honey bees from trees but today was a little too much. On the upside the colony swarmed the day before.

In the photos below you can see my tallest ladder which is 40 feet long! I had it extended as far as she would go and to be honest it would have been better if it was a few feet taller.

3-12-12 Removal

This colony didn't do a great job of picking their new home. The dryer vent pipe inside the wall had slipped away from the flapper/opening. The swarm was planning on using this to gain access into the floor system. I'm not sure why they didn't move into the floor system (may be the queen missed the opening). Anyway, they had already built a small section of comb and were working hard to start a new home right there in the open. Thanks Amanda for taking the pics and sending them to me!