If you find that you have honeybees living in your house, barn, tree, or she-shed, you call me for a removal estimate. I will also remove Bumblebees!

What to expect if you reach out to me about removing honeybees from a structure

• I will ask you to send me photos and video of the honeybees to verify that they are, in fact, honeybees. I will also ask that you share where the colony is located, how high up they are, and how long you think they have been there.
• If it is determined they are 100% honeybees I will come to your home or business to conduct an inspection to determine where the bees have made their home.
• I use FLIR technology which allows me to find them with thermal imaging. I do not recommend you allowing someone to charge you a lot of money to remove bees if they are only using their best guess to tell where they are at. I’ve seen removals gone wrong when someone tries to go into an area of a home where they “think” the bees are since their entrance is nearby. I can almost guarantee you that the bees are not where you think they are.

• Once the colony is located, we will discuss removal costs. This varies depending on hive location, size, how difficult it is to get to, how long it would take to remove it, etc. I prefer homeowners to be there when I do my assessments so they can see and hear the process so that there are no questions or surprises come the day of removal

Removals can take anywhere between 3-8 hours and it doesn’t end when we leave your home. There is more time spent gathering equipment, driving to our apiaries, placing bees in their new hive, observing them, making sure they are healthy, giving them probiotics or mite treatments. There’s a lot to it behind the scenes!

Tips For Homeowners

• Not all beekeepers specialize in or have done removals. Just because the person is a beekeeper doesn’t mean he or she has the skills needed to remove honeybees from structures
• If you contact your pest control company about killing the colony you need to realize you will still have living organic material in your walls that can attract other insects and rodents. Honey from comb can melt in your walls. If you do not properly seal the entrance to the hive, another colony could smell the hive and move in
• Make sure the person coming to your home to give you a removal estimate uses a tool with a heat sensor that shows where the colony is or else the structure could incur undue damage
• I cannot remove bees if they are located in the State of Georgia. Some Georgia folks have monoplozed removals because they realize the potential for charging someone lots of money. They did this under the guise of being helpful for homeowners but what I have discovered in the last five years is they’ve actually made it harder for homeowners to save these feral colonies. Unfortunately you will have to contact someone on Georgia to ask about quotes.
• One more thing before I go…do you expect someone that likes to work on cars to work on yours for free? Do you expect an electrician to do a job for free because they like what they do? Do you expect to go to your job and get paid for it? I thought so. Don’t expect beekeepers to remove a colony for you because we like bees. We are trying to make a living, just like you.

I try to keep costs low because I want to make sure all colonies can be rescued. If you want to learn more about why it’s not a good idea to let honeybees build their home in yours, checkout my blog.

Contact me today if you have removal questions 423-994-7687