Murphy Bee Hive

Hal and I think it's so funny that here we are spending dollars to remove and be rid of bees while Julie is spend dollars to purchase and make a very nice home for bees.

Soon after we moved into our new home bees started buzzing around inside the house.  With the grand kids we felt we needed to determine what type of bees we had and how to make them go away.  We had Little Giant Beekeepers come out to assess the situation.  Jeff the bee man said they were just scouts and not to worry.  Well one evening this year when it first turned warm we had hundreds of bees swarming our front porch and several made their way into the house via the can lights.  After one of the bees stung Hal it was time to call Jeff back out.  Jeff found the dormant hive in just a few minutes.  No real problem as it is dormant but we must remove it soon as this is swarming season these  bees are trying to build a new hive.  They can remove it (for a fee) or a handy man can do the job.  Guess who got the job?

BE WARNED as some of these pictures are totally gross.

You can just barely see the honey seeping through on the bottom.

 Good news / bad news in that it was a cold wintry day.  Good news is that the bees were not swarming, bad news is that it was cold.  Hal was all suited up and ready to attack.

 Here come the dead bees.  Hundreds of them.

 The soffit (the piece of wood under the roof overhang).

  TaDa....the dormant hive.

 Oh no...there's more hive.

 AND MORE hive.

 After hours of scraping and scraping filling a huge contractor trash can full of dead bees, honey and the hive we are ready to power wash...Where is John Ingle when you need him?

 Power washed and sprayed with Clorox.  Now it must dry really well. 

 All dry and ready to insulate and put back together.

Looks just like new!  Good job babe!  That little project just saved us $1K