Hi Ian:
What ever you do, use as the very last resort the opening up of the wall
on the inside of the house.
 
Good Luck,
 
Bob Neely
Goose Creek, SC USA
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On Thu, 22 May 1997 12:49:32 -0400 Ian Watson <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>Hi all
>
>I was called the other day by someone with bees in their house.  They
>appear to be going in through a small opening in the corner of the
>brick at
>the top corner of a livingroom window.  I went inside and used the
>highly
>scientific method of holding a drinking glass up to the wall with my
>ear at
>the other end and listened to the wall to the side of the window and
>heard
>buzzing in quite a large area.  I'm not sure if that was bee noise
>from
>higher up being carried lower by the plaster wall, or that the bees
>had
>filled the entire area between the studs (I am leaning towards the
>latter).
>So far I have learned that there are a couple of options at this
>point: 1)
>attach a cone of screening to the colony entrance and attach a brood
>box
>with top, bottom and a frame of brood, very close to the cone and wait
>for
>the bees to emigrate; 2) take off the Facia which is right above this
>window and hope that the bees are really in there and not the wall
>below;
>3) remove the plaster wall and take out the comb, bees, etc that way.
>I'm sure this has been the topic of Bee-Line at least once before, but
>I
>was wondering if there were any points I have missed?
>Thanks,
>Ian
>
>Ian Watson
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>