This is when you just hire someone to drive into the pole and knock it over so you can just put up a new light pole and fixture lol.

Needs a can of jet stream wasp & hornet spray on it.

Well I assume the lamp doesn't work because if it did, that nest would go up like a roman candle.

Someone should attack it and ruuuunnn

I suppose the electric company could just borrow a bee keeper's suit and then replace the fixture wearing the suit. My M-250R out back has a super-browned-out refractor in it now. Hopefully it doesn't break and hopefully I don't end up with this. At first I had though the refractor melted or something.

Yeah the lamp must be not working, but maybe still some warmth from the ballast making the nest cozy. They feel right at home literally with the "buzz" of the ballast at night.

I hate wasps...
That should be burned!

I get this from time to time at work but usually on the door not the lens. I just unload a can of bee spray on the nest and go about business as usual.

wasps! eeeeeek!!!!

I would rather have to destroy an old cobrahead than have to deal with those wasps to be honest...

If it was a wood pole I'd probably replace the entire arm. Since it's a metal pole maybe pay someone to "knock it over" lol.

A flamethrower doesn't seem to be a bad idea in this situation either.

Or, to save the fixture, remove the pole and transport it to a large boiling vat of water and dunk the cobrahead in the water. Them bees will be dead and the nest will decompose in the boiling water after a few hours. TBH though I'd say it's not worth it unless this was 50 years in the future when these 60s GEs are as rare as a medium pressure mercury lamp. Then it would probably worth it at all cost.