My husbands aunt who died left us her house. Bees had been going in and out of the bedroom wall for years (per the neighbor)through the electric meter. There were 80000 bees between the walls. We had a bee man come out and he used a vacuum to remove the bees which he took away plus many 5 gallon buckets of honey. He said that the recycled honey would be used to feed other hives and the queen would be used to start a new colony. Very interesting process. Hats off to the bees and the bee men and women.