HONEY BEE REMOVEL
5 removal types
- Inside Buildings – ceilings, walls etc…
- Outside Buildings –soffits
- Specialty Removals – requiring special service or equipment
- Inside Trees
- On Trees – swarms
INSIDE BUILDINGS
DESCRIPTION: A colony can be as large as 50,000+ bees or as small as 20,000 bees. Typically we find them somewhere in between this number. Most are reachable with a ladder. This removal includes the following ;
- locating the exact area of the house the colony is residing.
- Providing a method to keep the honey bees from entering other area of the home.
- Removing drywall to access the colony
- Live removal of the bees, and all their comb.
- Bee proofing the hive location
- Replacing the original drywall and other boards or decor
- Moving the colony of honey bees colony safely to a hive box in one of our Chicago area apiaries
- Feeding and nursing the bees until they have recovered from the removal.
OUTSIDE BUILDINGS
DESCRIPTION: A colony can be as large as 50,000+ bees or as small as 20,000 bees. Typically we find them somewhere in between this number. Most are reachable with a ladder. This removal includes the following ;
- locating the exact area of the soffit the colony is residing. This is typically in a soffit.
- Removing the soffit board/s or other building trim.
- Live removal of the bees, and all their comb.
- Bee proofing the hive location
- Replacing the original soffit and other boards or decor
- Safely moving the colony of honey bees to a hive box in one of our Chicago area apiaries
- Feeding and nursing the bees until they have recovered from the removal
SPECIALTY REMOVALS
DESCRIPTION: This removal may include one or more of the following, equipment rental, specialty labor, or is located in a sensitive area (i.e. hospital, school, airport etc…)
- The removal and bee proofing are similar to other removals;
- The special circumstances and costs are addressed as needed.
IN TREES
DESCRIPTION: A colony can be as large as 50,000+ bees or as small as 20,000 bees. Typically somewhere in between this number. Most are reachable with a ladder or ladder jack assembly. This job is a multi visit process. It often requires from 3 to 6 visits for completion. The job details as follows;
- Closing off all entrances into the tree other than the primary hive entrance.
- Assemble and attach a double hulled cone at the hive entrance using #8 hardware cloth. (Bees leave but can’t figure out how to re-enter. The screen allows them to smell the hive through the entrance. The double hull makes it so they cannot pass resources from the outside to the inside.)
- Provide an alternative hive box near the entrance. This alternative hive box will contain a virgin queen or queen cell, hive resources, some brood capped and uncapped, and some nurse bees.
- One or more return trips to check on several possible events. The bees discovered a way back into the tree, The cone gets plugged with dead bees, the cone or hive box becomes detached, etc…
- Several return trips to check on the success of bees accepting the exterior hive.
- Return trip to close up the hive entrance and take the full hive box to one of our apiaries in the Chicago area.
