California Gardening: Bee Rescue Hotline, 1 by Kelli

Kelli wrote:
If you're like me - perish the thought! ;-) - you sometimes have a swarm of bees take up residence on your property. I know that a lot of you have real property, but I just have the ol' tract home lot and the bees build in weird places anyway, like the compost bin. Anyway, if you live in the Los Angeles area and you have a swarm of easily-accessible bees that need to be removed, you can call the Los Angeles Bee Rescue Hotline and they'll send someone out to relocate them. http://beehuman.blogspot.com/2010/02/bee-rescue-hotline.html (I haven't tried this, but I have written down the number and stuck it on the 'fridge.)

As for the bees in this picture, a swarm in the compost bin is almost an annual event. I just leave the lid off and they go away. They are incredibly docile at this stage. I just lifted off the lid and leaned it up against the bin and the bees didn't care. By the time the sun went down they had moved on.