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I have 9 bee hives boxes in the yard as a hobby. I pull about 2-4 gallons of honey a year. Not much, but fun.
Contact your local bee club as suggested for pointers to first IDENTIFY SPECIES and develop measure to safely extract the bees (safely for you, the adult bees and their brood). Since you can hear them up there…. Damn.. that's a large established colony. It's going to take a shop vac to capture the bees live and then go back to extract the brood, comb, then re- establish the colony elsewhere.
Politely ask not to use chemicals, and keep the brood and colony intact. Chemicals will work, but you'll be left with a dead colony rotting up there.
If left alone, the colony will continue to swarm and expand if there is ample room in your attic.
The colony will also attract other pests such as mites and all things that want honey or the larvae.
Be prepared for some minor demolition of drywall etc for the extraction.
The winter won't get rid of them either as they've chosen a good spot to nestle together and generate their own heat.
Sorry to hear this. I know it sucks.
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