Yesterday, a professional came to remove the honey bee colony in my walls. It was fascinating. He looked at the colony entrance outside, but then came inside and did all his work there.
He used a thermal imaging camera to find where the bees were, and then cut a hole in the inside wall of my house. It was higher up than I thought:
The colony was young, so it wasn’t very big – only two combs about a foot square each.
The technician used a vacuum to suck up the bees:
After the initial vacuuming, things got serious, and he took off the hat.
The bees didn’t attack him at all. They trusted him.
After the bees were all safely in the vacuum box, he scraped out the rest of the wax from the wall, then sealed it up:
He also plugged the hole outside:
During the day, I had a long phone conversation with someone from the company and asked him what they did with the bees they rescued. He said there were various ways the bees were taken care of. He said mine would probably go to a big bee-keeping operation near San Diego that uses their bees to help pollinate agricultural crops.
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