The Bee Hunter

This summer we noticed that bees were flying in and out of a nest that was somewhere behind the siding at the corner of our house. We basically ignored them; they left us alone and so we left them alone. That is, until we started seeing a few bees inside the house. Izzy spotted them and, of course, chased them. We decided it was time to do something about them. First, Paul bought some sort of bee and wasp spray and tried spraying it in where he saw the bees going. He went through three bottles of the spray and still bees were coming and going. So.... not to be outsmarted by bees, Paul came up with a plan to suck them up as they entered and exited the hole. He set up an old vacuum cleaner with the wand right up to the hole where the bees were flying in and out. He held the wand up there for about an hour before "tying" it to a ladder. You could actually see the bees getting sucked into the wand. Unfortunately, while we were at work, the old vacuum motor burnt out and whatever bees that were still alive when the vac. died, marched right out of the top of the wand. The next day, the bees were back to flying in and out as though nothing had happened.

P.S. Paul is not finished yet. Today he started again with another old vacuum, only now he turns the vac. off while we are away and tapes up the end of the wand. To be continued......!