Showing posts with label honey bee removal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label honey bee removal. Show all posts

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Bee Hive Removal Jacksonville

These are the things you need to look at when seeking Bee Hive Removal Jacksonville. First of all you probably don't have a “bee hive” you have a Swarm or you have a Colony of bees, but it is not likely you have a bee hive.

Bee hives are the boxes that beekeepers keep bees in, A swarm is a ball of bees that show up up one day in your yard or in your house and a colony of bees a when the bees have established themselves.  Usually when the bees are there for a week or more there is going to be some honeycomb and then later comes the honey and later still will come the bee babies or larva. 


So, now that you know about bee hive removalJacksonville, which one do you have?  If you see a big ball of bees don't assume that you have a colony, look closer, do you see Honeycomb? Something the size of a basketball can show up in a hour and leave in the next 15 minutes. People will often call and tell me they have a colony of bees that have been there for some time and I will go on to give them counsel on what options are available to relocate their bees. But then after talking with them a while and learning there is no honeycomb present  or finding out they only “assumed” they were they longer because the ball of bees was so big!  If your own eyes have not seen the bees in their present location for more than three days then you should wait until at least three days have passed before you do anything. This is because a swarm is a nesting mother queen and a group of bees following her. She may not have decided on the location where they landed, she might be only resting or maybe her plan didn't work out. This is especially true if they location is near the ground as a bee swarm near the ground is mostly likely going to move on because they are not comfortable near the ground.

Bee Catcher Orlando

So you have a bee issue and so you go online and you check out “bee catcher Orlando” to see what you might find. You are probably thinking of a Bee keeper or someone  who actually “catches” bees not just kills them. That's good, good for you!

The problem is that a bee catcher Orlando is hard to find, at least a beekeeper who is skilled in the area of removing bees from structures, they don’t normally have that skill set. If you find bees on a tree branch or something then a bee catcher Orlando might be a place to start but here is the other thing; bee catchers do not advertise much, its too costly and the value of bees, wild bees of an unknown variety, only have a street value of around $25 bucks. Who can afford to hit the road with insurances for a $25 item? If that is your situation try contacting your local beekeepers association they can be found on a Google search using that term along with the name of your county and state. There you might find someone who needs some free bees.


But if you have bees going into  wall, roof, floor or other structure then you need someone skilled in the trades who can diagnose your problem based on two skill sets a) knowledge of bee habits and b) knowledge of construction.  This is because you have to open structure in order to remove the bees that inhabit them and you need to do in such  way as to not cause a lot of destruction.  Some who knows bee habits and can test for where there are can find them with no more than a small hole or two drilled into the area or they can use heat sensing devices. Then the skilled person can make a surgical cut right where the bees are, catch thebees, remove honey comb, clean it and close it. Anyway, thats wha we do at Eco Bee Removal.  So you can see its more than a “bee catcher Orlando” that you are looking for, you need a Bee Removal Technician skilled in the area of Honeybee infestations.

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Honey Bee Relocation

Many people ask what is the difference between honeybeeextermination and honeybee relocation. The difference is night and day. Extermination , no matter how it is performed usually consists of a chemical applicator arriving on the scene and the deciding what sort of toxic chemical is necessary for killing the insects. This service is usually performed by spraying the chemical directly into the hole where the bees are entering. If the chemical is strong enough this can kill all the bees in the colony. 

But  if the colony has been in the structure for more than a few weeks you must expect that there will be honeycomb in the wall. This is before we get around to discussing the ethics of saving bees versus killing bees. The economics of your decision entirely have to do with the presence of honeycomb. The extermination is cheaper generally but like I said it does not deal with the fact of honeycomb in your walls. 

HoneyBeerelocation compaines are more effective at dealing with the honeycomb found in the wall. Most honeybee relocation companies also go to great extremes at cleaning the structure of all honeycomb wax. But just because someone does a live removal and even goes to the length of cleaning your structure of its honeycomb you still need to make sure to get someone to close the structure and give you a warranty too. Eco Bee removal does honeybee relocation only and we do it all.