After my last swarm adventure, I was becoming firmly convinced that I can make anything difficult.
Today, I got two calls, both from people who watched me remove the hive at the college a couple weeks ago.
One was a swarm on a removable planter box on the side of someone's house. I put a cardboard top on the planter, taped it in place, and took it home, where I dumped it in a hive. All done! (I just have to return the planter.)
The hive is in the muffler and tail pipe of a junk car. At first I thought it was just a swarm, but I shined a light down the tail pipe and it is all burr combed and propolized and when I thumped the muffler, the buzzing sounded just like a hive.
So, tomorrow I am going to go remove the muffler (the guy says I can have it) take it home and cut it up. It is old and rusty, so I imagine it will come apart pretty easily. I can't imagine what it will look like inside. I'll take pictures.
Sounds like fun!