Luckily (or unluckily) these hives were a completely different type.
A few weeks ago Jake and I kept hearing what sounded like rain on our roof when we went to bed. Rain or even like someone crinkling cellophane. We found that the sound was coming from the SE corner of our roof. We went outside to investigate and I saw bees bees bees. (you can hear them well between 5-10 seconds).
We called an exterminator - you have to find one that has special bee training. When the bee guy came he told us that the raining sound we heard was the yellow jackets eating our dry wall. They will eat through all the way to your paint, but they won't eat the paint. The homeowner will think there is water causing discoloration so they poke it and the bees swarm in the home. YIKES!!!! Luckily we called when we did!
The guy went to our roof and found the hole they were sneaking in. Luckily they weren't honey bees - there's a shortage of honey bees right now so they have to take their hive with them alive. Since these are yellow jackets they don't need to save them. He pumped in high pressure toxic dust. Jake was inside our room when he was working and he said you could hear all the bees get really loud. After a minute or so they were supposed to be dead. They went in our room and the bee guy used a stethoscope to listen to our ceiling. He heard the bees still in there, meaning the hive went further into our house then his dust could reach. So he poked a hole in our ceiling and sprayed them from inside. Now we have a piece of duct tape on our ceiling - much better than a hive of bees swarming in our house!
This past weekend Jake installed a drip hose into our flowers. Not really blog worthy you say? That's where you're wrong! I have such a hard time remembering to water these silly things. I have had to resuscitate them several times. The flowers are soooo thankful for their new water supply and I'm glad I don't have to worry about keeping one more thing alive!
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That's weird and horrifying. So glad you called a professional to come in and remedy the situation. Now you have to repair the wall? Watch out for falling bees when you do so!
As Jimmy Fallon would say, "Ew". We had a big yellow jacket hive in our eaves for a couple years. It was crazy how many dead ones would come falling out every time I sprayed. We didn't get rid of it 'til the professionals came. And the water! I can't tell you how many planters full of flowers I've killed! Every year I see my neighbors dutifully watering theirs and I convince myself I can keep them alive. Then I go on vacation, or refuse to leave the house for a month and forget they're in the back yard and they die. Every year. Same problem with remembering to fertilize the vegetables. I know it's not hard so I plan on doing it and plant peppers, and every year about now I realize I never fertilized and that's why the look and taste terrible. That's a long way of saying, "Hooray for getting your water figured out!"
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