Over the weekend we took a call from a person who during the summer had a swarm take up residence in his electricity meter box.
The electricity company owed him some money so he needed to take a reading but as you can see the meter was covered in comb.
Although late in the season we removed the colony, housed it in make shift frames in a Nuc box and currently it is located next to another nucleus so that once established on proper frames the two colonies will be united before winter sets in.
The size of the colony is much smaller than the amount of comb indicates it should be, the assumption is that the swarm had swarmed again once it became too big for the box, leaving this small but friendly colony.