Bee removal from eaves

[summersetretrievers]

I thought I would change my topic from help to bee removal and maybe I would get some more input. We had bee's swarm about 2 weeks ago. Seems they have decided they want to live with us and have set up house keeping in the soffit (eaves) of our home. They are 2 stories up at the roof edge. They are going in and out in a v shaped area between the wood and the brick. There is a triangular shape of wood that looks like it might be able to be removed to get at them. I have been doing a lot of searching in the archives and finding information on cone traps, bee vacuums, etc. It doesn't look like a cone trap would work so far up. There was also some postings on drilling a hole and putting in bee quick (is there something else to use if you don't have bee quick?). I would like to get them out and not have them go back there. I would also like to be able to start them as another colony in a hive. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. We are very new at beekeeping and the only suggestions I have received from people around here is to poision them.
Cindy

[All Organic Bees]

summersetretrievers,
Take a look at this post. http://www.beesource.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=006024

[iddee]

I sent you a PM.

[peggjam]

If you do this you will want to look into either scaffolding or a bucket truck. That's way to high to work off a ladder. Your going to have to open the entire cavitey that they are in, and clean it out completely, and then seal it up tight when your done. If you can't open it enough to clean it out, then I would trap them out. Iddee can give you more info on trapping than I can, I like to just cut them out, it's faster.

[summersetretrievers]

Thanks so much for your replies!!
Cindy

[buz]

I just finished with a similar situation. You mentioned Bee Quick--is that a smelly liquid like Bee Go?
Mine was on a porch eaves--removed a few wood shingle where the activity was centered--shot the Bee Go in and they sure came running out.
I hung a nuc box where a hanging plant had been--
used lemon grass and sugar water to bait. Next day they were on a nearby pinetree. Seems they had visited the box--as reported by the homeowner-but didn't stay. I collected them off the tree and into the box. Queen must be with them as they are now content with the box.
Sorry your project is so high off the ground.

[Michael Bush]

>is that a smelly liquid like Bee Go?

Only if you think marachino cherries smell like vomit... ;)