Vacuuming the bees
Thursday morning as Ryan was going outside to do some work he discovered a huge ball of bees right by our front door. There had to have been at least 300 of them and there were many more flying around. We called a beekeeper who said he would come in the evening to remove them. Well, since they had all day to do it they managed to get inside the soffit and by the time he arrived there weren't many left on the outside. He got all his equipment set up and removed the boards so that he could locate the hive. Instead of removing them right then he decided to come around 6 the next morning so it would be cooler and he wanted to catch them before they began their work for the day. Before he left he mentioned that we might have a few robber bees come around to try and get the rest of the honey. When I got up the morning of the removal and I was shocked to discover hundreds more bees. I don't know what his idea of a few is, but mine is 3 or 4, not hundreds! A few minutes later the kids started screaming about a bee in the boys' room. Ryan went in to kill it and discovered two more in there as well. Throughout the course of the day we killed 11 bees that somehow found a way in to their room! Around lunchtime Ryan discovered they had attached themselves to our bricks not far from the first location. Another call to the beekeeper and he came late in the evening and removed the second swarm. He mentioned yet again that there might be some robber bees, but this time he made sure to say there could be up to 100 of them. So far this morning I only see my idea of a "few" which is 3 or 4. While we enjoyed watching them from the windows, I am thankful to say it looks like they might be moving on. On a positive not, we might have found a good place to get some local honey. I will let you know how the jar of honey is that he left us on our porch! |
That's a LOT of bees!
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