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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 257275" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Um... possible bad news here. If there is any honey left behind, you risk another swarm finding it and setting up house.</p><p></p><p>We had a hive in a difficult place in the building where I used to work. It was an old Gothic-style sandstone building with a large chimny that strwtched from the basement to the roof, through all floors. We couldn't light fires in it any more because all along the chimney laboratories had used the chimney as an exhaustfor fume cupboards. and somewhere just below the roof line, three metres below the exit to the sky, the bees had built their hive.</p><p></p><p>We called the exterminators in - our laboratory was three floors down and people were getting stung. The exterminators killed the bees and we were fine for another year, then the bees were back. or to be more precise, new bees had moved in and said, "thank you very much" for all the honey.</p><p></p><p>I don't work there any more. husband works in the building next door. He heard how just last year they finally got in an apiarist group to remove the hive, honey and all. It was a big job, but worth it. Even if you have to kill the bees first (a pity, but if it's inaccessible...) then you still need to remove the combs.</p><p></p><p>Sorry about that...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 257275, member: 1991"] Um... possible bad news here. If there is any honey left behind, you risk another swarm finding it and setting up house. We had a hive in a difficult place in the building where I used to work. It was an old Gothic-style sandstone building with a large chimny that strwtched from the basement to the roof, through all floors. We couldn't light fires in it any more because all along the chimney laboratories had used the chimney as an exhaustfor fume cupboards. and somewhere just below the roof line, three metres below the exit to the sky, the bees had built their hive. We called the exterminators in - our laboratory was three floors down and people were getting stung. The exterminators killed the bees and we were fine for another year, then the bees were back. or to be more precise, new bees had moved in and said, "thank you very much" for all the honey. I don't work there any more. husband works in the building next door. He heard how just last year they finally got in an apiarist group to remove the hive, honey and all. It was a big job, but worth it. Even if you have to kill the bees first (a pity, but if it's inaccessible...) then you still need to remove the combs. Sorry about that... Marg [/QUOTE]
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