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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThings were the same Tuesday morning, but when I came home at lunch, things had changed. It was a hot day and instead of a few bees there was a mass of them in the corner of the bathroom window outside. I updated Jim and he reached out to the bee folks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I ate my lunch, told work I wouldn\u2019t be back that day, and went to Lowe\u2019s for supplies. I got an orange cone, an orange flag, tape, fly swatters, and a Caution side. I set up the sign – labeled \u201cBEES!\u201d – at the end of the walkway and added the flag to the side. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I didn\u2019t want any amazon delivery drivers to get stung. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was taping up the inside of the windows better when the bee guy arrived. I told him I had to leave to take one of the dogs for a vet appointment at 3:00 and when the time came he moved his truck so I could get out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Things didn\u2019t go well at the appointment and it was late when Jim and I got back. The bee keeper had rigged up a ladder\/scaffold to support a bee box and had the window covered over with a mesh cone. The idea was that the bees could get out, but not back in – and the queen would soon have to leave. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He and his wife came back several times to check on the progress, but the queen wouldn\u2019t move. I took plenty of photos and kept the curious neighbors up to date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Thursday morning, I called and canceled the exterminator – figuring we\u2019d give the bee keepers more time. I saw my folks that evening and gave them the update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Friday, I was working from home and the exterminator showed up anyway. I talked to him and explained the situation – and that I had canceled – and sent him on his way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We met up with Jim\u2019s family for dinner that night and updated them as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the weekend, the bees and the box weathered a storm, but still wouldn’t budge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The beekeeper replaced the mesh cone with a plastic one and added more tape to limit the bee\u2019s access. Still no sign of the queen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not much progress through week two, but on Thursday the beekeeper was back with a jury-rigged bee vacuum. He worked for a while on that, made some adjustments, and said he would come back the next day. Before he left, the neighbors next door stopped by and their little girl asked if I knew how to make an origami bee. I said I didn\u2019t, but that I would give it a try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today is Friday and the bee keeper is back with an improved vacuum. I\u2019m off today for a holiday and while he was working I learned how to make paper bees. He got a lot more bees this time and thinks by either tonight or tomorrow he\u2019ll be able to get the rest of them. I gave him a bee and then delivered one next door – and I\u2019m now waiting for the wrap up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If only that queen hadn\u2019t gotten into the walls of our house, this problem would have been done by now. I\u2019m a big fan of bees, but not as room-mates. Also, Jim is allergic – though it takes few stings before it gets bad for him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ll update this as we go along and hopefully get it resolved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It started on a Monday. I was working from home and left to go run a short errand – 20, 25 minutes tops. When I left, I went out the front door. When I came back, there was a swarm of bees blocking my way. I studied this for a moment, then went around the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n