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Is the house just wooden clapboards? Easy peasy! Just pry them off carefully (number them with a pencil to know what order they came off in), do a cut out to remove the colony, stuff the void where the colony was with pink insulation, and replace the boards. That is a very difficult place to try to do a trap out (plus they can take many weeks!). If you have already caught a few swarms from this hive, they have been there too long to simply smoke out. I too, vote for the "let them bee". They will likely eventually swarm themselves to death, leaving nothing behind but spent comb. (ps...if you go this route, don't do it for free! If your carpentry skills aren't great, agree that they will have a carpenter finish the seal up job)
 
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