Bee Removals

   Wild bees are valuable to the environment because they pollinate gardens and fruit trees. But, they have little monetary value to beekeepers. Beekeepers buy hybrid queens and bees that have been bred for high honey production, gentleness, resistance to disease and mites and no tendency to swarm. Wild bees' qualities are a big unknown and commercial beekeepers don't want to invest their time with them. The amount of time spent removing a swarm and installing it in a hive box, could be used to make fifty or more splits of  colonies with known pedigrees. So, catching swarms is a poor use of time to beekeepers interested in making money. Wild bees have the tendency to swarm which is a negative trait. Although honey brings a high price in stores its wholesale price is so low, due to cheap foreign imports, many beekeepers are leaving the business, or concentrating on pollination services with big agriculture.
    My removal business has overhead expenses, as any business --phone, advertising, insurance, equipment, vehicles, gasoline, wages to helpers,  etc.. So, in order to provide this service to people and the environment I must charge a fee. 

We relocate the bees and then place them into a beehive with frames and relocate them to one of our bee yards near Lockhart Tx.  

This can vary significantly based on factors such as location of the hive, size of the hive, how easy it is to access and tools required to remove. 

We are not a licensed pest control company and do not offer extermination services. If you opt to go this way you should do some research on what happens when you kill a beehive and fail to remove the comb. This tends to create significant problems in the future to include, ants, roaches and mold when the comb/honey starts to melt from inside the walls. 

A group of bees, typically led by a queen bee leave their original hive to establish a new colony. Swarming usually happens in the spring,  or early summer and can be triggered by various factors such as overcrowding, in the original hive or the presence of a new queen. During a swarm the bees fly together in a large buzzing crowd as they search for a suitable home to make their hive. Swarms can be quite intimidating but are usually not aggressive. As the bees are focused on finding a new home rather than defending themselves. It's best to leave them alone and call a professional beekeeper if you need assistance.