{"id":1234,"date":"2016-04-12T08:40:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T13:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2016-04-12T08:32:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T13:32:38","slug":"chimney-cap-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=1234","title":{"rendered":"Chimney Cap Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received a call about honeybees in a tree – (a swarm) that had emerged from a known colony in a chimney.\u00a0 \"Dscn2789\"<\/a>I arrived and got the swarm settled into a box – then evaluated the cause of the problem…\u00a0 The chimney bees….<\/p>\n

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Thie chimney was capped with cement.\u00a0 The plywood backer underneath had rotted and sagged over the years – creating a gap for the bees to enter the space between the flue and the outer chimney bricks.\u00a0 (for size reference, the chimney bricks are 6 feet wide)<\/p>\n

\"IMG_20160401_191047\"<\/a>I carefully removed a 3-foot wide by 2 foot section of the cement chimney cap, and slowly cut the plywood to reveal the hive within.<\/p>\n

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This colony had an initial HUGE population.\u00a0 The supporting worker bees created comb in this chimney space that was 4 feet wide, by 4 feet tall (the largest piece that I pulled out).<\/p>\n

\"Dscn2796\"<\/a>The comb in this picture is NOT the largest.\u00a0 This comb measured in at 3 feet tall.\u00a0\u00a0 The largest was 4 feet tall, and 4 feet wide.\u00a0\u00a0 (I cut them into manageable sizes to remove from the chimney and carry down the ladder).<\/p>\n

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Once the removal of the bees was complete, I repaired the chimney cap by placing several rods of re-bar across the width of the chimney – to support a cement backer-board (instead of the original plywood) – then I used a support grid of 6″ square metal mesh (thin re-bar) as a reinforcement for the cement.\u00a0 In all – (3) 60-lb backs of cement were mixed, then carried to the top of the chimney to finish the job.<\/p>\n

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I received a call about honeybees in a tree – (a swarm) that had emerged from a known colony in a chimney. I arrived and got the swarm settled into a box – then evaluated the cause of the problem… The chimney bees….<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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