You sure have honeybees! If you want to take them out alive the siding have to be removed to get axes to the hive. See if a bee keeper is willing to do the job and how much..$ Konrad

You guys are not particularly helpful. Or nice. My best guess, and this is only a guess, would be that it's a maple tree. In the second picture, to the right of your ear, there's a scale of bark separating from the top side that looks thin (which can make climbing hard). When a scale of maple bark separates it can be relatively thin like that, whereas other common trees, oak or walnut, usually have thicker, bark that doesn't scale as much. On the flip side, it doesn't look as scaly as I would expect from say cherry. Without more info I'd guess maple.

Hopefully am correct but when you make a post there are a set of icons/commands just below the area where you enter text. One of the icons is "photo". When you click on "photo" explorer opens up and you should be able to navigate to the place on your computer where the photo(s) that you would like to upload are located.

Thank you for the advise tj. This is the first time I posted anything, do you know how I can add insect forum?