A couple of months ago I removed a honey bee hive out of a building. The bees have moved into the soffit and had been living there for about three years. They were getting into the soffit by going through a gap in the wood. The picture below shows where the bees were getting into the soffit through the gap.
The way that we removed the bees was with a vacuum and a bucket. First we started vacuuming out the bees as you can see in the picture below and then proceeded to remove the honeycomb.
Starting to remove the soffit.
There was still lots of bees to go. It took a couple of hours to remove all the bees and honeycomb. Once we started removing the honeycomb the queen bee was spotted. Almost all of the honeycomb have to be removed before we there able to catch the queen bee.
Below is a picture of the bucket with the bees in it. By the end of the day, we had around 8-10 pounds of bees that were trapped and removed.
