| Phil Scott 2005-06-27, 6:25 pm |
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"Scott Dudley" <scott@sdudley.com> wrote in message
news:u8Kje.11057$z_.3867@attbi_s71...
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> We live in a two-story home in the Arizona desert.
Discovered this
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> morning to my dismay that a hive of bees have moved into a
section of
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> soffit. Due to the fact that we live in the desert and have
no lawn to
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> mow or manicure (I love that fact), I don't traverse the
perimeter of
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> the home often and as result, they've had ample time to
produce a comb.
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> Wife pointed out to me that there's honey dripping from
the seam
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> between two sections of soffit.
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> My brother and I had a couple of hives as kids but I've
long-since
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> forgotten everything I knew about beekeeping. I'd like to
remove these
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> myself and would appreciate any pointers. I'll need to use
the sawz-all
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> to free this small section of soffit. This would prove a
much more
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> relaxing scenario for myself if said bees were in a very
"relaxed"
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> state. :-)
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> I'd prefer not to poison or otherwise kill them. I've
contacted local
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> beekeepers and they all want hundreds of dollars for this
type of
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> removal er go my decision to do it myself.
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> Many thanks.
Put a pail under the drip and be thankful the daily gift. or
call a beekeepers supply, search it on google, buy some of
their smoke producing pellets and aparatus and smoke the bee's
out for a few days ..long enough for them to give up on the
homestead.
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