Honey Bee Swarm Removal (no fee for Kalamazoo and surrounding towns)
Honey Bee swarms occur in nature during the warmer months of spring and summer. The swarm usually appears to be hanging from a tree limb or clumped under a bush. Sometimes they cluster under the eve of a porch or overhang of a roof structure.
They often form a ball of bees that can cascade all the way down to the ground.
A problem some folks encounter, is that the honey bee swarm have found their new home and are planning to move their hive into your house or out buildings.
Swarms seem attracted to old structures and will attempt to inhabit old nesting sites.
Under no circumstances, try to move them along using methods that will disrupt the hanging cluster. Bees are very unpredictable and may decide to defend their colony from an attack of any sort.
Please contact a professional bee remover to help relocate any honey bees that become a problem for your home or business. Please do not endanger yourself and your neighbors by using a someone unfamiliar in their habits and special handling.
All honey bee swarms are live captured and relocated to a safer environment.
We have numerous apiaries separated from populated areas where they can live and reproduce safely.
Most swarm removals near Kalamazoo and require no fee.
Please contact us by phone for swarm removals. We will try to get them before they invite themselves to stay for good . We are available 7 days a week.
Honey Bee Removal From Structures (fee required)
Bee colony moving into roof
Honey Bee removals from homes and building structures are our specialty.
As a Michigan licensed builder, we have years of building knowledge under our belt. This allows us to preform a specialized extraction, with a minimum amount of repairs.
Our goal is to remove the bees and get you back to normal living as quickly as possible.
When honey bees relocate, they carry honey in their stomachs for their new hive.
As soon as a bee colony moves into their new home, they start building wax comb to store that honey and raise new bees. When that comb is filled with honey, it is then capped with a thin layer of bees wax. The bees use the capped honey to feed themselves when no food sources are available. All is fine and dandy, until the homeowner or pest company decides to apply insecticide to kill them off.
The real problems start after the bee colony is exterminated. The remaining comb and honey stores are still in the space where they lived, now without the bee colony to protect it. When left unattended, the honey and comb draws pests to the cavity. These pests include ants, roaches, carpet beetles, and even rodents.
These pests uncap the honey and start a feeding frenzy destroying the comb.
As the honey is uncapped, it runs down the cavity until it reaches something that stops it. Normally the top of window or the framing structure of a house wall.
After pooling there, it usually saturates and stains the drywall or plaster.
Honey staining on the interior of the home will result in costly replacement of the damaged wall board material.
At this point, honey is just one of your problems, you also have to deal with dead and decaying bee brood left in the comb. The smell becomes rancid, if not removed from the now abandoned cavity.
A planned hive removal starts with locating the main colony in the structure.
Next step is to carefully open the cavity and remove the bees and the honey comb. Before closing up the cavity, we install a filler material into the void. This helps to deter any new honey bee colonies from making a new home there in the future.
Your satisfaction is guaranteed with our warranty program for removals.
Our service is based in Kalamazoo County.
Please contact us for a free consultation on all your honey bee removal needs.
External Colony
Basement window
Bees in soffit
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