up until the last ten years or so, the general procedure for leak detection on R-12 refrigerant systems was to use a propane torch. when the flame turned green at a leak, you not only found it, but produced enough phosgene gas to make you ill.

When the bees are getting in the house by the dozens per day, then it's a problem.
Gentle persuasion doesn't help.
Finding the dead bodies of their (not kidding) 40 comrades on the floor below them doesn't help.
Somehow their digging through the walls and getting trapped inside. I have no idea where they are getting into the house but I know where the hive is located under the roof.
Nothing I can do about it except remove the hive.
I know how important bees are, they're super pollinators and pretty cool dudes once you get to know them.

I'm with *FD* on this one. I know that this is supposed to be in humor, but the solution found has all the sophistication of our solution in Iraq. The original poster of the pics stated "I'm so proud to be an American". That fits because it seems so typically American. All smoke and destruction - no forethought. Note that the swing set is ruined. Now that goes in a landfill. WTF? Seriously, the bees posed no trouble in the first place. This was another unfounded preemptive strike with lots of pollution along the way.

Go ahead. Call me a hippie. That's the usual response.