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Safely Removal and Relocating of Bee Swarms

Bees can move into any cavity from washing machines, air vents, under baths, and ceilings. Smaller swarms have lower aggression than larger swarms. Important to know is that when bees are docile for years they are very aggressive and they will have a major attack when feeling threatened.

It’s very important to keep the bees calm when removing them when they are not calm it’s difficult to remove them and they become aggressive and can attack at any time! We will place bees and their combs in the box to take to our nursery so they can get special attention to ensure they have enough resources to rebuild their colony inside a proper bee hive. When established they are moved or sold to hobbyist beekeepers, they can grow in numbers inside the box up to 40000 bees, this can take from 3 months to a year to reach this size. Now it is called a production swarm and only then can effectively produce good amounts of honey.

Selling of Beehives and Swarms

As a natural outflow of bee removal – we sell bee swarms. We also supply Langstroth Hives for hiving the swarms. When you prepare a site to place your bees – you need to keep the following in mind.

At least 20m away from people and animals.
Not too secluded to prevent vandalism.
Ensuring sufficient draining or something to keep hives away from rising water like tires or drums if the area is subject to running water and heavy rainfall.
The quality of flowers in a 6km radius – throughout the year will directly impact the swarm’s well-being and results in honey production.

We help with harvesting the honey provided there are enough hives to be harvested.

Selling of Honey

Our honey is usually a multiflora honey when bee removal resulted in excess honey. Multiflora honey’s color can change from light yellow to almost black – depending on the area and time of year! We also produce honey from our hives resulting in multiflora of single-source honey. We deliver our usually raw honey to your doorstep, it comes in 500g glass jars.

The most common practice with supermarket honey is to heat the honey to 70 degree Celsius and pass honey through microfilters to clear out all pollen particles to the honey is clear and not cloudy, by heating it the crystals that might exist in the honey is broken down to prevent the honey from crystalizing too quickly – making the product more sellable. We do not have a pasturing machine resulting in honey that may have pollen and wax particles in some of the bottles.

In most cases, bees move into the double wall of chimneys. The air brich on the outside of bathrooms is another popular place and bee swarms can usually be removed safely with a one-way trap. Municipal water meters are popular among swarms on the move. People usually leave the nests too long and they become too large to remove safely, which is the case in most nests inside the roof area. If a nest is sprayed [not the ideal] with a degradable insecticide, other swarms in the area will benefit from the decreased competition for nectar.

• However, all nests leave an odour that tells swarms on the move that it is a suitable place for a nest.

• For this reason, we provide people with a treatment schedule to decrease the probability of new swarms moving in, or at best, prevent it altogether.