Coming to this thread late – but this is the nugget you need to know.
[quote=captcha]The queen bee won’t stay out in the open exposed to elements. It will move in few hours.[/quote]
We had a hive form in our firewood stack. My husband would go out in the early morning – wearing gloves/long sleeves etc… his face wrapped in a scarf, and remove the wood around the hive. As soon as he’d disturbed the hive enough to wake the bees he’d scurry back into the house. It took 3 mornings of this, but eventually the hive was exposed enough they relocated on their own.
