Bee Gone! I Say!!!!!

The bee guy was gonna charge us an arm and a leg to remove the hive, so we decided to do it ourselves. Here is the place where the panel was that you could see the honeycomb behind. Peter took off that panel and started to remove the honey from there. He soon realized there was much more than we thought so he went up on the roof.

Peter attempted to scrape the honeycomb off the roof here, but decided he would have more success if he took off that part of the rood instead...so that's what he did.

WOW!!! Can you bee-lieve all that?!
I love how the honeycomb is lined up in rows like that. I had no idea it would look like that. I guess i don't know enough about bees and their hives. Towards the right, you can see where they built some new comb, but hadn't started to use it yet. This is such a beauty, and a wonder, that I almost hate to see it go. But we were warned that if we didn't remove it, we would get all kinds of critters looking to get at that honey.

This is the after shot...hive removed.

Can you believe all the bees here? WOW!

Here's what's left of the hive. But the bee guy said we needed to remove all the honey and the hive. The bees can smell the pheromones so bees from another hive may come and work on it here it we don't get rid of in all and seal up the holes.
Here's a piece of the new stuff that we kept for a souvenir.

Now that it's all piled up on the floor, it doesn't look so impressive. Kinda sad really.