Our Services
Swarm Removal
Swarming is a natural part of the honey bee life cycle. In a healthy colony the number of bees living together under one “roof” rises throughout the spring and summer. When conditions become too cramped the queen bee will gather together nearly half of the population and take them on a quest to find a new home. During this time the majority of the bees clump together around the queen while a select group of scout bees explore the surrounding area and report back their findings to the group. This deliberation process can take a few days and if you see a swarm of bees hanging from a tree limb, or your car’s bumper, or your deck railing, this is probably what they are up to. Once they find a suitable spot they will life off and fly there as one. Once at their new home they will colonize the space and begin building comb to store honey and raise another generation of bees.
If a swarm appears one day give us a call and we have the skill and expertise to entice them not to choose to take up residence somewhere unwanted. We will happily collect the swarm and give it a home built specifically with their health and wellness in mind.
Hive or Colony Removal
If you notice bees regularly coming and going from inside your attic, vents, shed or other location, but you don’t see a huge mass of bees out in the open. Then you probably have a colony. After swarming the bees chose to take up permanent residence inside your property! You should consider this high praise since the survival of the whole colony depends on having a safe, dry home and they thought that you could provide that for them
However, you may not want them there! We understand that desire and would love to help. For a colony removal, we like to set an appointment to come out in person and make a removal plan of action. Because of the ways bees like to tuck their hives inside protected cavities hive removals often require some amount of destruction of the area around them. This might be peeling back some of your siding, cutting out a small piece of your attic or digging an access hole under your deck. We do our absolute best to avoid unnecessary damage to your home and always make sure that you understand and are on board with the plan before we start prying, cutting or peeling.
Bees themselves do not typically damage the area they inhabit. They will remove insulation but they do not eat or otherwise alter wood, brick or other common home construction materials. We’ve never performed a removal that put the integrity of a structure in danger. And we never would if we had concerns that it might.