Removing Bees from a House

Photographer Larry Chen noticed that honeybees were living in a wall of his house. They weren’t coming inside, but who wants bees living in the wall? Instead of calling an exterminator, he contacted a beekeeper named Mike.

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Mike managed to remove an established hive and contain almost all the bees without harm. There was some wall repair to do, but it was a nice squared-off hole, so it shouldn’t have been too difficult. Highlights of the 5-hour process were recorded for your edification and amusement. In other words, this is fascinating. -via reddit


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My dad was a master beekeeper for over 30 years and there were many times that he would get calls from homeowners to come and remove a hive of bees in their attic. Lots of people would actually have yellow jackets or hornets instead of bees. The great thing was IF they were bees he would relocate them to his property or a farmer's pasture so they could pollinate the flowers and make some fabulous honey. My dad passed away 3 weeks ago today. Caring for his honeybees was one of his greatest joys in life.
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They put all sorts of animals in their liquor bottles over there. They think they can drink the animals characteristics or some jazz like that...
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It's incredibly common in those cultures. There's a video of the foul mouthed TV Chef and one of the Top Gear guys drinking the stuff. I posted it over on my forum; let me see if I can find it.

Here it is:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=VKEPPw5Jd2M

I'd love to try the stuff just to say I had, but the quality of the liquor is I'm sure absolute crap.

The REALLY fowl stuff (pun intended) is some nordic or icelandic or inuit cultures (apologies, I don't remember which) actually put birds into bottles. That's very dangerous - much higher likelihood of contamination. The other animals aren't really that big of a deal.
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Dude! That's 3 Snake Wine! An ex-boyfriend of mine found some of that when he was doing a moving job for a Chinese restaurant. The proprietor told him it would make him sexually attractive and so he drank some of it. Maybe it worked, I sure thought he was hot.
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I love how we're not supposed to reuse plastic water bottles because the chemicals will leach into the water, but RATTLESNAKES... that's just fine.
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They sell this type in China too. I had the opportunity to try snake wine (because how badass does it sound to say you've drank snake?) but I had to decline for the rat one.. that was.. wrong to say the elast.
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Oh yea, we were told by the older Vietnamese guy that he has a glass every morning because it makes him stronger, but the rat wine - that's only for special occasions!

It is absolutely foul by the way!!
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It is correct, that you find snakes in rice wine in about every shop in Viet Nam. The monkeys are harder to find though:
http://www.plan-b.in/22-February-06.81.0.html
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=bZZXcRFpFAg

I had some of the stuff, a friend has a neighbor that is from Vietnam, he had a few bottles of it. They poured the shot before I got to see the bottle, it was pretty potent stuff.
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