{"id":2120,"date":"2018-11-04T14:52:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T20:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2018-11-04T14:52:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T20:52:04","slug":"valley-ranch-bees-in-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/?p=2120","title":{"rendered":"Valley Ranch Bees &#8211; In the wall!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This removal &#8211; though fairly straightforward &#8211; had the <em>potential<\/em> to go VERY wrong The wall stud-space was not insulated &#8211; I suspect because there was a vent-stack as well as electrical lines in that portion of the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Care MUST be taken when cutting into any unknown void (i.e. drywall) to ensure that no electrical, plumbing, gas, etc. lines are damaged. These bees were very docile &#8211; and I suspect they had been in the space for well over 2+ years &#8211; even though a neighbor just recently noticed bee activity outside. The comb was a very dark brown color &#8211; indicating some age to it.<\/p>\n<p>After the bee removal was complete, I was able to caulk the entrance the bees were using &#8211; from the inside &#8211; then filled that wall-space with insulation. In this case, the homeowner has a neighbor that is performing the drywall repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the video!\u00a0\u00a0 Please DO subscribe to the channel, and click the &#8220;thumbs up&#8221; button.\u00a0 Comment and let me know your thoughts on the work as you peruse my videos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gOCLHPw4ngk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This removal &#8211; though fairly straightforward &#8211; had the potential to go VERY wrong The wall stud-space was not insulated &#8211; I suspect because there was a vent-stack as well as electrical lines in that portion of the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Care MUST be taken when cutting into any unknown void (i.e. drywall) to ensure that no [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[98,99,84,15,104,107],"tags":[191,209,767,506,765,364,764,766,533],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beekeeping","category-bohemian-utopia","category-construction","category-harmony-hollow-apiaries","category-rescue","category-texas-master-beekeeper","tag-dallas","tag-electricity","tag-gas-line","tag-irving","tag-plumbing","tag-richardson","tag-valley-ranch","tag-vent-stack","tag-wall-bees","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot_2018-10-21-10-59-59_sm.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ze45-yc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions\/2124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bohemianutopia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}