Have successfully move into a new house (as in 'Nice Victorian house, not bad nick but plenty of DIY') in the flatlands of Cambridgeshire.
Anyway, Monday it looks like some local honey bees moved in as well.
A swarm of Honey bees appeared around our chimney stack yesterday afternoon (quite impressive buzzing sound). A quick Google indicated best course of action was to leave them and they'd probably move on.
However, a few hours later most of the bees had gone, but it looks like they have moved it, as I can see a few flying about and disappearing into an old flue.
The flue in question is a little odd, it's sort of stuck on the side of the chimney stack - it appears it was a flue for some sort of heating/stove in the conservatory. You can see a piccie here of the swarm on the outside of the flue:
Not sure if this should bother me or not, they are well up out of the way of people, but assuming I do decide it isn't a good idea to have a bee nest set up here.
Suggestions seem to be to contact a local beekeeper who may remove it.
However I'm not sure that they will be that interested anyway, access is not that easy for starters. 2 story house, with 11 foot ceilings, and this nest is right near the top of the chimney stack, so I guess a good
30 foot plus up? and how would they get them out anyway.I did think about smoking them out - there is an open end of the flue near ground level. But if it worked would we just end up with a load of angry bees in the garden or on the village high street (we live right in the middle of the village)?
Any experience of this?