I decided to try a honeybee rescue from inside of a house. A few things:
1. Ben (homeowners son) is 11. He was so excited to be in the video. Funny kid
2. I used a scope through a small hole in the ceiling. I included a clip from the scope. Kind of a neat tool for $30 that links the picture to your phone through an app
3. In the video, you see where I get popped with two quick stings on the hand. I wear a veil, but my gloves, shirt, pants are not stingproof. When I am handling comb, it is so soft that it is hard, even with thin gloves to not squish/damage. In total I got stung 4 times, which if you think about, I completely dismantled their entire house, with 3,000-4,000 bees (very small colony). That shows the low probability of getting stung and I got stung because I wasn't being gentle enough, and the bees teach you when you are wrong 🙂
4. Toward the end of the video, I show what my right hand looks like. I am allergic to bee stings. My hand was pretty swollen several hours after, but it kept getting bigger and eventually swelled half way up my forearm (four stings on the finger...)
5. Because it was inside the house, we had to catch every bee. Used the bee vaccuum, continually catching the bees, including the dozen or so that would fly to the windows whenever I took out a piece of comb loaded with bees.