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So John came back again to repair the broken downspout drain on the balcony.
He began opening up the wall. Immediately, bees began flying out. Obviously they were not gone yet. Luckily they are not aggressive. They just fly around and make me nervous. Once the wall was open we got the idea to use my camera to take a picture up inside the wall to see what we had. Here is that picture.


Yikes! We definitely need a bee removal expert.

When the bee guy came he explained that he needed to get the queen and then the other bees would follow. The next picture is him breaking the wall open. Even when he pounded on their wall they didn't attack. They just flew around.



Once the wall was open we could see the honeycomb on the upper right side.



Next, he used a metal scooper to put the bees into a box. Then he carefully inspected the swarming bees to find the queen. Unfortunately she was nowhere to be found. Either she flew away or was killed during the demolition. In this case he took the bees that were in the box and then sprayed the whole area with something that would cause the remaining bees to go away. So, no more bees but a very interesting afternoon.