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This morning (rather early, actually) I called the DPI, and a little while later received a callback from the on-call pest person (I think that was the title) with the name of three local apiarists to contact.

I rang an apiarist called Peter (who is also listed on the Bindaree page), he came over this afternoon and removed the swarm for us, gave me a heap of information about bees and how to handle them, and also some advice about what I could do to help bee-proof our house. Really great bloke, if we ever need bees removed again I'll certainly call him first.

While he was working, our next-door neighbour got home, saw what we were hanging around in the front yard for, and mentioned that they'd got some pest eradicators in to their place yesterday afternoon .... because they had bees in their wall cavity. By an amazing coincidence, that's about the time when I noticed we had a swarm of bees in our front yard. Hmmmmmph!

While Peter was working I took a few photos (Canon EOS400D, 75-300m EF 1:4-5.6 IS):

I've got a few things to acquire from our local Temple Of Home Renovation tomorrow, and then I'll be up on a ladder during my lunchbreak to deal with some gaps around the place. Fun!