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Honey Bee Swarm Season has arrived!
It’s an exciting time for the public and the beekeeper when a honey bee swarm is spotted!
One of our favorite things about collecting a honey bee swarm is the level of amazement and curiosity that comes from people who have never seen one. It’s fun to talk about the swarm and answer questions regarding them.
Do not fear, when honey bees swarm they are not aggressive as they do not have a hive to protect. They are focused on finding a new home for their colony and reporting them to the beekeeper will allow them to be placed in a hive where they have more of a chance of survival than they would otherwise. What you don’t want is them to find their new home in the eaves, pillars, chimney or walls of your house or place of business where removal becomes a big deal and can cost you money.
Reporting a swarm that has clustered benefits both the public and beekeeper! This service is provided for FREE when the bees are naturally in a cluster as you see in the pictures on this page. All the pictures you see were taken by Bee to Zee LLC and are examples of all the places that honey bee swarms will land when they are resting before they go to their next location in search of a new home.
We’ve caught swarms on fire hydrants, cars, picnic tables, trampolines, chain-link fences, shopping carts, stop signs, lampposts, mailboxes, inside garbage cans, compost bins, metal pipes and outdoor grills, and natural places like bushes and tree branches.
Please review the picture examples, if you have found bees that look like this in a cluster, we can remove them for FREE. If they do not look like this, we do not collect them. We do not give advice on other species of bees, wasps, hornets and do not remove hives from inside of structures. If the honey bees are coming in and out of a hole in a tree where a cavity may exist, we do not collect those bees as that is their natural environment and a hive exists inside of it.
