With the nest right next to the front door I'm thinking he'd better have a good homeowners fire policy.
Wasps: Spray at night and leave the nest up for a week. Keep spraying if needed.
Hornets: Call the pro's. Its cheaper than a doctor bill.

Looks like hornets to me, I am VERY scared!!!! They are MEAN in a bad way!!!

Once the visitors are removed, repaint the area sky blue. Sky blue, they will not re-build the nest.

Brake cleen kills them in under 5 seconds.

This shot is looking down from above on the top of the "roof" over the bay windows.
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those are honeybees. call a beekeeper. they may want the bees.

Man Grant, that is a lot of bugs. I would imagine you might get some water damage there. Can you hear them buzzing in the wall? Try doing the old drinking glass on the wall trick. That inside the wall thing, I don't know what you do, but it needs to be sealed up, maybe some flashing.

I always spray, leave the nest up until I don't see signs of life for a few days before taking it down.

Tishabit
+1. Wall is full of honey...and lots of bees and at least one queen.

Just pulled a dead one from the windowsill... looks like you guys are right, fuzzy body and appears to be a bee, not a wasp. Some ex boyscout I am :rolleyes:

Is the approach for eradicating these guys the same? This location is four stories up, so I frankly don't want to open myself to the liability of inviting a beekeeper to access the area unless they have some sort of trick of which I am unaware...

No

a beekeeper will lure them into a hive, then smoke out any stragglers

then... then you will have to tear the wall apart to get the honey & comb out

in a way it is not as bad as hornets...

Honeybees are disappearing at high rates. Just dying off, vanishing.
Don't kill 'em.

I am in fact getting some water damage in that area, so I would like to seal the crack regardless of the presence of the bees. In theory I would be happy to cohabitate with the bees, but I don't see how this situation will work out for the both of us... it's a brick building, so I'm not sure about the feasibility of sealing and weatherproofing the area while still providing egress for a bee hive. Not looking forward to removing the honey and comb.

I have a good friend who is actually a local beekeeper, so I will contact him in the AM and see what he has to say.

126coupe, sorry for hijacking your thread!

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ok, I can't use this one too much!SmileWavy

Sometimes you gotta destroy the village in order to save it.

Co-worker's father-in-law died last week as a direct result of a bee-sting (anaphylaxis...PEA...resuscitation....big neuro and end-organ hits...done)...very rare but bee careful!!

Did some reading up (haven't heard back from my buddy the beekeeper yet) and sounds like this is a critical step... from the sound of it the bees are no big deal, but their hive is. Apparently if you get rid of the bees and not the hive their hive is going to melt and start seeping honey through my walls and ceilings.

So no matter what I do with the bees themselves, I'm going to have to rip out and replace a bunch of sheet rock. Great :rolleyes:

But at least you'll have honey :D

in my area, some beekeepers will trap them for free. good luck with them. my neighbor had huge honey bee colony up in his home. they had them transfered to some beekeeper boxes in the backyards. i jog past them everyday, and everyone is living happily ever after. bees, we NEED them, without them we are in a world of hurt.

This is true. It happened to my next door neighbor a couple of years ago.

Call your insurance agent before you start.

I guess you live far enough north to be sure they are not Killer Bees.