Advice for the advisor

[SixFooter]

Had a phone call from a work colleague whose mother knows someone.....
Anyway someone somewhere had a chimney full of honey bees and they seem to have died out. In an unused upper room by the chimney, honey is coming through the wall.

My advice, to pass down the line, was they get a local beekeeper to put a hive (or two ) nearby, in the garden so that the bees rob out the honey from the chimney.
Is this a good idea bearing in mind that the people must be OK with bees as they were happy to have them in the chimney? Presumably, as the bees died, there may be some disease lingering in the chimney.

 

[E1M]

Hi Sixfooter,
Sounds like a good idea to me, seems nobody else has any better idea!
Sure it's honey coming through the wall?
Sounds odd.
What's it taste like?

 

[Phayze]

Just a thought but if there is disease in the dead colony and possibly the honey they wouldnt want this spreading to the bees robbing out the honey

 

[enrico]

I would sweep it too! If anyone lights a fire in it one day, unused now maybe but...., they would be in for a big surprise when the wax catches light!